Gross Contrasts, Contradictions.

Jacqueline Kennedy was a rare, but striking beauty hard to categorize, inaccessible, and definite about purpose, cause and effect! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/31/18 

Ivanka Trump photo with son sparks backlash over separations at border

by Tom McCarthy for the Guardian

May 28, 2018

An online backlash greeted Ivanka Trump on Sunday, after the president’s daughter tweeted a picture of herself cuddling her two-year-old son at the same time widespread news reports detailed children being taken from their mothers by US border agents.

Related: US to stiffen border rules and separate children from parents

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The comedian Patton Oswalt was one of thousands to draw a connection between the tweet and the separation of families at the border under policies pursued by the Trump administration.

“Isn’t it the just the best to snuggle your little one – knowing exactly where they are, safe in your arms?” Oswalt wrote. “It’s the best. The BEST. Right, Ivanka? Right?” 

Outraged reaction to Trump’s tweet included responses by many mothers who asked the first daughter to contemplate being forcibly separated from her child.

“You’re a mother of 3,” wrote a user with the Twitter handle @litbrit. “So am I. Imagine someone in an ICE uniform takes away your precious baby, and you never get to see him or her ever again. This is what’s going on, thanks to your Dad’s policy. DO SOMETHING.”

Brian Klaas, a fellow at the London School of Economics and former Democratic strategist, wrote: “This is so unbelievably tone deaf, given that public outrage is growing over young kids being forcibly ripped from the arms of their parents at the border – a barbaric policy that Ivanka Trump is complicit in supporting.”

Previously, families suspected of crossing the border illegally were allowed to stay together until their cases were resolved. In early May, attorney general Jeff Sessions announced a “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration.

A Department of Homeland Security official told Reuters: “Those apprehended will be sent directly to federal court under the custody of the US Marshals Service, and their children will be transferred to the custody of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement.”

On Friday Laura St John of the Florence Project, an Arizona nonprofit that provides legal services to migrant families, told Chris Hayes of MSNBC the policy had been in effect for months, directing border agents to separate children as young as one year old from their parents.

In April, a New York Times report concluded that “more than 700 children have been taken from adults claiming to be their parents since October, including more than 100 children under the age of four”. The Times also reported that the Department of Health and Human services had lost track of almost 1,500 migrant children placed with US sponsors after showing up at the border alone.

In a tweet on Saturday, Donald Trump, who as president guides the application of immigration laws, blamed Democrats for the separation policy.

“Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there [sic] parents once they cross the Border into the US,” he wrote.

The reasoning by which the president held Democrats responsible for a policy announced and followed by his own administration was unclear. 

Ivanka Trump, her baby and insensitivity to the plight of her father's beliefs and policies separating children from parents at Mexican border.  9:08 AM - 27 May 2018 

A Lady We Revere, Remember.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy sits with Vice President Lyndon Johnson

in San Antonio on November 21, 1963.

Lady of the First.

Jacqueline Kennedy on the White House lawn as First Lady.

First Lady Mrs. Jacqueline Lee (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis "Jackie" (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994). She is remembered for her contributions to the arts and preservation of historic architecture, her style, elegance, and grace. She was a fashion icon; her famous ensemble of pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat has become symbolic of her husband's assassination and one of the lasting images of the 1960's. - anon  

WHAT WE DENY

Jacqueline Kennedy enchanted Americans as the First Lady. She gave a sense of royalty to a population proud of their renunciation of royalty, but like children enamored by and never over it. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

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Jaclyn Betham portrayed Amanda Cryer on Tyler Perry’s most successful show to date, ‘The Haves and the Have Nots.

Jacqueline Kennedy

 

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Woman wearing a Map chiffon skirt and a Johnny suede crop.
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"A woman's energy body changes through circumstances and lifetimes. How it changes is dependent upon circumstances, intent, deeds and desires connected to the Dream of Self." © Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Jacqueline Kennedy portrait

the Illusion of a Golden Era

Protest has always been a part of the Black Experience from day one on these shores!
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In many ways whites viewed their time in the 1950's and the Kennedy family the same as Colored folks, but the differences in the perception of the decade, and the Kennedy family parted down racial lines because millions of whites were prepared to justify killing Negroes to maintain the status quo of the era. Freedom and rebellion meant two different things to whites and Negroes as illustrated in their cultural and thematic heroes and their reactions to certain things in the culture.

After the second World War white and Negro soldiers returned home with two rays of hopes and separated at the airports into the reality of their women working 'men's jobs' and the divisions of race and class. Jim Crow waited and laughed welcoming back home Colored soldiers at airports and bus stations around the country because he was law, not fairness or respect for Black men's manhood! 

For the most part whites didn't feel the angst of Colored soldier's reality after experiencing the warmth, and the respect, and the appreciation of Europeans for who they were as men, and soldiers. Many a Black man left babies in France and Germany with their mothers. They couldn't bring back their families to the U.S., nor could they talk about the way the hope they inspired in European women was reciprocated in a culture that discriminated in terms of culture rather than race. The love and the union between a white woman from say Germany and a Colored man would not thrive or survive anywhere in the States. I picked Germany because German Americans were instrumental in slowing down the American response time to the atrocities in Germany. See the contradictions? They are intertwined and seemed endless. 

Back in the States white people were mean and shifting through their 'shit'. In those days for Negro activists to find and relate to 'good' white folks was not without its dangers, but relations with good whites was a survival skill for 'Members' (that's what Black folks called each other back then) and strategically sound thinking. White soldiers adjusted to civilian life through their war sickness and rage in motorcycle gangs, their families, and the feeling of Jimmy Dean movies and being welcomed back home with acceptance, reverence and respect for their services rendered during the European conflict! 

On the surface this is what America looked like and felt like. You can hear it in the music and the movies, news articles and photographs, if you have ears. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.30.14

A rare photograph of Ethel Kennedy, left, Jackie Kennedy and JFK from Dave Powers’ private collection ~ 19543 hrs 

Pre-Camelot Jack Kennedy & Jacqueline Bouvier first met in may 1951 1951 

  

"... an interesting time to be Black and Indian in the 1950's, The perceptions of time and relationship with whites was strained to the hilt in terms of illusion, fear and hope..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.30.14





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Jackie Kennedy & her husband the President set a tone for the United States between excellence, civility, diplomacy, change, elegance and promise. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

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