MacKenzie Scott Donates $275 Million to Planned Parenthood. Fact Check, Kanye: She's NOT a White Supremacist

Former Planned Parenthood CEO Faye Wattleton by Mario Sorrenti for W Magazine.

MacKenzie Scott Donates $275 Million to Planned Parenthood; Kanye West Says She’s a White Supremacist Doing the Devil’s Work

Kanye West is a big man with words. As the Remove Kanye from Coachella! petition heads crosses 40,000 on Mar 24, Kanye’s position on Planned Parenthood is on my mind — and for a good reason.

I guess MacKenzie Scott’s [formerly Mrs. Jeff Bezos] $275 million gift to Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday, March 23 warrants another call to God from Kanye’s shower. This is where Ye gets his marching orders that terrorize so many of us.

To be called a white supremacist by Kanye West, because I support Planned Parenthood, is worse than being hunted by one of Kanye’s ‘kind’, landing me in police protection for a year as this dude was seriously stalking me with a promise to kill me.

Imagine getting up every morning to a bloody, decapitated animal in a box on your front doorstep. Imagine walking out to your car at night after shopping at the local mall. There’s a noose on your door handle — matching the box of rope left on your doorstep that morning with the note “This is the rope I will hang you with, B#tch.”

That nightmare was in the past, and It’s 2022. Kanye West was running for president of the United States in 2020 — when he expressed his view about those of us who do the devil’s work. Uber religious men have a habit of calling women like me Devils.

Yes, Kanye’s presidential campaign was financed by uber right-wing Republicans — but still — knowing that Kanye believes I’m a white supremacist doing the Devil’s work saddens me. It’s not a difference of opinion or values. My own brother disagrees with me about Planned Parenthood. But he doesn’t think I’m a white supremacist doing the work of the Devil.

For us to find ourselves in 2022 where the GAP has bet the ranch on a Black dude right-wing zealot who believes that not only Anne, but Faye Wattleton [image above]. the first Black woman president of Planned Parenthood from 1978 - 1992; MacKenzie Scott, who not only gave $275 million to Planned Parenthood today, but has given more money to HBCUs in the last two years than they’ve received in history; to Melinda Gates, one of Planned Parenthood’s biggest funders internationally, to former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, who often holds the top funder spot for Planned Parenthood — we are all doing the devil’s work and we are white supremacists, well that is very sad. Read entire 2017 W Magazine Faye Wattleton W Magazine interview.

Kanye’s Supported by the NRA, But We Don’t Think He’s Working for the Devil

I don’t like Kanye’s support from the NRA because Ye supports no laws that enhance gun safety, but I don’t think he’s doing the work of the devil. Americans have four distinct visions of God, as outlined in the most impressive research done in 2010 and beyond by Baylor University, a Christian University in Waco, Texas. It’s one of the most important books I’ve ever read and while painful to read, it’s been a great help to me in navigating America’s hostile political landscape.

Of ‘America’s Four Gods’, only God #1 The Authoritarian God — the God that talks to Kanye in the shower — believes that Scott, Gates, Bloomberg, Wattleton and I are white supremacists doing the devil’s work because we advocate for Planned Parenthood.

When the book was written in 2010 and over 250,000 people including me and several friends took the online survey, about 22% of Americans worshipped God #1. They were declining rapidly but they managed to elect Donald Trump president. And they caused women worldwide to lose vital healthcare from the US government.

Melinda Gates herself stepped to close a huge piece of the funding shortfall in Africa, where Kanye’s beliefs shut down clinics serving AIDS patients, malaria patients, prenatal and pregnancy clinics and countless other health services.

Those of us who believe in Gods 2-4 know that divine, spiritual love spans a wide range of health services. Kanye worships the God of white supremacists, not us. Black people in the aggregate do not worship God #1. But these are Kanye’s money peeps. And if I wanted to stoop to Kanye’s level, I could really run with Kanye’s unique perspective on God that he shares with the very white male US Senators Cruz, Graham and Hawley who made a sordid, child-pornography circus out of the confirmation hearings for nominated Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson this week. These are the putrid white supremacists, not the Planned Parenthood supporters.

My Republican Nightmare

These authoritarian God white guys are Kanye’s posse. They all worship God #1, the NRA, Putin in the case of Kanye, Hawley and Cruz, and do not believe Ketanji Brown Jackson belongs on the Supreme Court. It was a total spectacle of decadent racism watching this week’s hearings.

GAP CEO Sonia Syngal says: “I spoke to Yeezy and he’s very, very focused on this incredible opportunity.” I’m not GAP’s target customer — very far from it. But Kanye’s current problems aside, it’s stomach-churning to watch a female CEO of a Fortune 500 company support a right-winger who says I’m a white supremacist over Planned Parenthood AND Ye is supported by the uber right-wingers and the NRA.

When Kanye runs around in his face masks, it occurs to me that the next time we have a January insurrection at the US capitol, they’ll all be dressed in Kanye’s Gap clothes and nobody will be identified cuz they all look the same.

MacKenzie Scott makes historic donation of $275 million to Planned Parenthood.

I woke up at 3am this summer frozen in bed seeing Sen. Lindsay Graham standing in my doorway holding a huge syringe. He was going to kill me. I was absolutely paralyzed with fear — obviously asleep in a nightmare — but trying to wake up.

When I first saw these Yeezy GAP images, I said to myself: these are the dudes that will put American women right where we belong. It’s the Handmaid’s Tale staring us straight in the eye. And Kanye West is the big man in charge.

That’s how I feel and based on what I know, I’m sticking to my level 10 concerns about this man. In case you think Ye swore off Trump, that’s over. Kanye’s all MAGA again. GAP’s Syngal calls it ‘edge’. I call it an American nightmare in the making. I like Dapper Dan’s pink polos for GAP waaaaaay better. ~ Anne

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TIME 100 Icons Meghan and Harry Call Global Citizens to Action in Central Park

Harry and Meghan head the list: TIME 100 Most Influential People

Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are headliners in this year’s TIME 100. Their own narrative was written by Spanish chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, a non-profit devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters.

The trio combined their activist energies in December 2020, when José Andrés and his non-profit, World Central Kitchen, became the first major charitable contribution of Harry and Meghan’s Archwell charity.

Harry and Meghan | Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweaka | UN Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield

AOC wrote about Harry and Meghan’s activist work on COVID vaccinations worldwide in our introduction of TIME 100: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization. Prince Harry and Meghan asked the question: what will it take to vaccinate the world? “Unity, cooperation and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,” is their answer.

As Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (2016 – 2020) and also AU COVID-19 Special Envoy and WHO COVID-19 Special Envoy, Okonjo-Iweala has existing skills and knowledge around global vaccine efforts.

Writing about the Trump administration’s blocking of Okonjo-Iweala’s rise to head of the WTO, we noted her close relationship with Linda Thomas-Greenfield, now US President Biden’s UN Ambassador. As we predicted, one of the very first initiatives in the new Biden Administration was to end the Trump blockade against Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Global Citizens Held Hands September 24th in Central Park

AOC’s dot-connecting came full circle on Saturday with the truly epic Global Citizen concert that ran for 24 hrs. moving around the globe. The New York City Central Park action went live post-Paris at about 5pm. An hour or two in to the concert, it was clear that someone was in the house. Cries of glee, clapping — some rock star had arrived.

Well, they are rock stars — Meghan and Harry — and it was our chance to claim them as our own. The crowd was in love with the couple — as is AOC. Are they perfect? No, for heavens sake. And who is? We are so happy to have these global activists making their home now in America. We need them here, as America tries to get our act together once again.

“My wife and I believe that where you’re born should not dictate your ability to survive,” Prince Harry said. “So Global Citizens, we ask you tonight: Do you think we should start treating access to the vaccine as a basic human right?

“When we start making decisions through that lens, where every single person deserves equal access to the vaccine, then we can achieve what is needed together for all of us,” he added. 

And then who did Harry and Meghan introduce next at the Global Citizen ? UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who they met for the first time earlier in their New York City visit.

Harry and Meghan: Glamping in Botswana to Hollywood Royalty

The Wall Street Journal wrote last week Prince Harry and Meghan Hustle to Become Royalty — in Hollywood. Like the Obamas, the couple has media deals with Netflix and Spotify and have already produced a six-segment mental health series for Apple TV.

29 Million US viewers watched Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2018 wedding, compared to 23 million US viewers for Prince William and Kate Middleton. Our own postings about Harry and Meghan’s wedding remain high in Google search results.

In fact, it wasn’t the wedding that was on my mind last week, when thinking about Harry and Meghan pre-Global Citizens Concert. I’ve always been interested in the trend towards glamping. My partner’s children thought it was hilarious that I once wore kitten heels on a camping trip and took about 100 pics of my feet.

It was then that I knew glamping, not camping, was in my future. Writing about an imaginary wedding proposal on a glamping trip — inspired by a real life wedding featured in British Vogue — triggered my memory of writing about Harry and Meghan’s third date — when they flew to Botswana in Africa.

As Harry put it: “We camped out with each other under the stars, sharing a tent and all that stuff. It was fantastic.”

In the AOC article Harry was promoting the National Geographic documentary ‘‘Into the Okavango’ . I couldn’t help thinking about Harry and Meghan and Harry’s profound attachment to Africa. Harry described his pre-Meghan relationship to Africa as one in which he loses himself in the bush. “This is where I feel more like myself than anywhere else in the world. I wish I could spend more time here….”

Writing about energy vortexes on AOC’s imaginary glamping trip to the American Southwest, I knew that Harry and Meghan would share the same enthusiasm, based on their third date at Botswana’s sustainable Meno a Kwena safari lodge.

Botswana’s sustainable Meno a Kwena safari lodge. Courtesy

Nominated for 3 Emmys, 'Misfits' Book Dropping Sept. 7, Michaela Coel Joins Black Panther

Michaela Coel photographer by Gareth McConnell for The New ork Times Magazine Best Actors Review, December 13, 2021

Michaela Coel’s 3 Emmy Nominations

The Michaela Coel show continues to roll on, with the news that the actor, director, screenwriter received three nominations for ‘I May Destroy You’. Broadcast on Sunday, September 19 on CBS, Coel has been nominated for Outstanding Directing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie - 2021; Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie - 2021; and Outstanding Writing For A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie - 2021.

In December 2020, Michaela Coel was part of an impressive creative presentation by The New York Times Magazine, with its focus on today’s best actors. The magazine writes: “With ‘I May Destroy You,’ she set out to disturb, first by making us laugh, then by going to all kinds of extremes.”

‘Misfits’ Book Out September 7

The talented creative’s book ‘Misfits: A Personal Manifesto’ is due out September 7, 2021 in British and American bookstores.

The book will focus on topics covered in Coel’s MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Festival in 2018. In her speech, which drew audible gasps from the audience, Coel spoke in astounding clarity and factual detail about the barriers and racism she had experienced as a young black woman working in the television industry, as well as her own sexual assault.

A video of the speech is embedded in AOC. The Guardian quotes British publisher Ebury saying that in the book [Coel] “makes a compelling case for radical honesty”. It will be a rousing and bold case against fitting in and a powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life.”

Michaela Coel Goes to Wakanda

Variety broke the news on July 21 that Micaela Coel has joined the cast of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’. Details of her character are in the lock box, but the actor as joined “director Ryan Coogler at Atlanta’s Pinewood Studios, where production began last month,” writes Matt Donnelly.

Lastly — for the moment — the BBC UK said in May that Michaela Coel is working on a new television series.

“It’s truly in Michaela’s head and it’s not for me to second guess that too much at this point,” the network’s drama chief Piers Wenger responded to questions about the plot’s potential ties to ‘I May Destroy You."‘ “It’s at relatively early stages, but I wanted to let the fans of ‘I May Destroy You’ know that there is a new show coming along…What relationship that show will have with the original series, [is for Michaela to decide].”

Related MIchaela Coel articles on AOC.