Truth and Realism

George Zimmerman could have and should have been convicted under Florida law. We know that there is plenty of evidence of the Sanford vigilante was guilty of aggravated stalking, which is a felony in the third degree as shown by Florida law. He committed the predicate crime of stalking. Therefore, Zimmerman was responsible for the outcome of his actions. If he was charged and convicted of aggravated stalking, he would also been guilty of first degree felony murder. So, we know that a man willfully followed another unarmed person down the street. Zimmerman had a malicious intent to profiling an innocent teenager named Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was murdered and the justice system refused to give some criminal offense towards George Zimmerman. Juror B29 expressed her real views on the Trayvon Martin trial. She was right that George Zimmerman was guilty or got away with murder. She made an error for saying that the law couldn't prove it. There is a Florida law that could have convicted George Zimmerman. In Florida: "A person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows [or] harasses ... another person and makes a credible threat to that person commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree." Fla. Stat. § 784.048. “Willfully [and] maliciously” are evidenced by Zimmerman's own words to the police dispatcher. The word "repeatedly" is not defined in the Florida statue. But the statute does define the similar term, "course of conduct," “[which] means a pattern of conduct composed of a series of acts over a period of time, however short, which evidences a continuity of purpose." So "repeatedly" as used in the statute might simply mean "continuously" or "sustained." George Zimmerman (who assaulted a woman, the police, and he is accused of sexual molestation) did sustain his following of Trayvon Martin over a period of time. He targeted Trayvon Martin's legitimate and legal right to walk in the neighborhood. He repeated his following of Martin even after the dispatcher told him he did not need to do that at all. Zimmerman wanted to stalk Trayvon Martin in an attempt to bully him, to harass him, etc. Zimmerman intended to threaten a 17 year old who was in the street alone at night. That is a felony in Florida. Zimmerman knows about these laws. There is an Ohio law that deals with menacing by stalking. In Florida there is a very strict felony murder law that is designed to address just that concern, that when life is unnecessarily lost, even if unintentional, there should be heightened responsibility. Felony murder laws assure that if Zimmerman started something unlawful – namely felonious stalking – that got out of control for whatever reason, resulting in loss of life, he must take some responsibility for that loss of life. A civil law suit can come. Ironically, in real life, many law enforcement folks stalk minors all of the time and stereotype them as potential criminals all of the time. We know obviously that the justice system is racist and it is unfair also against the poor. If you are poor, you have to struggle to receive strong legal representation. The reactionaries scapegoats blacks all of the time while ignoring that whites commit about 85% of all DUI vehicular homicides in USA. That kills just as much if not more human beings that are murdered by guns. The white supremacist system obfuscates truth. The same neoliberal system is propping up NYPD Chief Ray Kelly (who advanced the stop and frisk policy in NYC when it harms mostly innocent citizens) as potentially being the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. The racist Wall Street bankster Mayor Mike Bloomberg recently said that Blacks and Hispanics are not stopped and frisked enough (when 90% of those frisked are humans of color) and whites are too frisked (when barely 9% of white people are stopped and frisked. Whites are 2 times more likely to be carrying illegal weapons and/or contraband when stopped). So, Bloomberg is a notorious racist authoritarian. In the 1930's inside of Berlin and Paris, innocent Jewish human beings were unfairly stopped and frisked by Nazis and now he wants my people to experience the same injurious, wicked treatment. It is a shame and a scandal. Zimmerman murders an unarmed black teenager and he walks while Sister Marissa Alexander is spending over 20 years in prison for not even shooting her attacker (whom she had failed a restraining order against) in her own home. Even Florida's Stand Your Ground law has the initial aggressor exception. As Zimmerman was the initial aggressor, it is what it is. SYG should still be gone, because of it ambiguous nature and advancement of vigilantism though. I blame the prosecution more than the jurors, because the prosecutors can bring in more charges from 2nd Degree murder, 1st degree manslaughter, aggravated stalking, etc. Jury B29 or the Afro-Puerto Rican woman should not be made the total scapegoat of the total corruption of the injustice against Trayvon Martin indeed as the Sister Trojan Pam eloquently wrote about. So, we are at war with the system of white supremacy. We have the right to defeat the system of white supremacy and replace that system with JUSTICE.



 

There has been a Dow record high and a job report that outlines stagnation in the American economy. The U.S. so-called recovery has not been comprehensive at all. The U.S. economy added 162,000 net jobs in July according to the Labor Department. This is the worst job figure in four months. The jobs total was lower than the economists' projections. It is well below the number needed to have an impact on mass unemployment. We have a stagnant economic slump since the 2008 financial crash. Over the past four months, the U.S. economy averaged only 173,000 new jobs per month. This comes in spite of the fact that the working age population is growing by a monthly average of 184,000. The official unemployment rate dropped by 0.2 percent in July to 7.4 percent, mainly because 240,000 people left the labor force. The U.S. only recovered about six million of the 8.5 million jobs lost during the 2008-2009 recession. The end of the recession came about in June of 2009. Now, we see that since then, the working age population has increased by six million. That means that the gain in jobs relative to the population growth has been essentially zero. The share of the U.S. population that is employed remained at 58.7 percent in July. This comes largely unchanged from what it has been since 2009 and down from 62.7 percent in December 2007. The labor force participation rate meanwhile dropped 0.1 percent to 63.4 percent, near its lowest level in decades. We have 8.2 million folks working part time for economic reasons last month. This was up from 19,000 from June. The total number of people who are unemployed or under employed was 22 million. The majority of the jobs created last month were low wage or part time positions. These are mainly in sectors such as food service and home health care. "Over the last four months, we've created 4.2 part-time jobs for every one full-time job. That trend is not going in a good direction," Burt White of LPL Financial told CNBC. The food service sector added 38,400 jobs last month. The typical food preparation worker receives $9.18 per hour or $19,100 per year according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Private education and health services added 13,600 jobs, including 3,900 in home health care services, mostly consisting of home health care aids that have a median pay of $9.70 per hour. The federal government cut 2,000 jobs and the state government lost 3,000 jobs. There have been sequestering budget cuts causing a furlough of hundreds of thousands of federal government employees. This lost pay up to 20 percent of annual salary. The jobs report comes after the Commerce Department on Wednesday reported that the economy grew at a rate of only 1.7 percent in the second quarter of this year. At the same time, the government downgraded its estimate of economic growth for the first quarter to a rate of 1.1 percent. The U.S. economy has grown at an annualized rate of only 0.96 percent in the span of the past three quarters. These figures do not indicate a massive government recovery. Many economics in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and in America are suffering. We are growing only one-sixth of the post-World War II average. The U.S. growth rate of 3 to 4 percent was considered modest at one time. Anything under 3 was considered small. A growth rate below 2 percent was deemed to be disastrous. We know that the ruling class has no policies for job creation or economic growth, except for the super-rich. We know that they love assaulting the working class' social safety net. Even with the White House's job program including tax cuts and subsidies for business and incentives to slash the wages including the benefits of workers (under the guise of growing U.S. competitiveness). This can allow transnational companies to shift jobs from foreign cheap labor locations to take advantage of near poverty wages in the U.S. Austerity policies from the GOP will harm economic growth as well. Obama wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 28 percent with a 25 percent rate for manufacturers. He wants the government to partner with the private sector as a means to provide infrastructure, social services, and education. Yet, the White House refuses to bailout Detroit via federal assistance. Detroit is using the bankruptcy plan to slash retirement benefits of 20,000 city workers and privatize the city's assets including the world famous collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The Federal Reserve Board said that it will continue its $85 billion-per month money-printing operation and near-zero interest rate policy for the foreseeable future. The contrast could not be starker: virtually unlimited funds are made available to finance the enrichment of the financial elite, while there is “no money" to pay the legally-mandated pensions of Detroit workers. We have record rallies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500. There are still huge profits among the banks of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo (some of the largest U.S. banks). JPMorgan made $6.1 billion in the second quarter, up 32 percent from a year ago, while Wells Fargo took in $5.27 billion, up 20 percent. JPMorgan Chase is expected to make $25 billion in profits this year, equivalent to the gross domestic product of Afghanistan, a country with a population of 30 million. There was an analysis made by Equilar Inc. for Wall Street Journal. The analysis found out that the CEOs of 200 U.S. companies with revenues over $1 billion saw their pay swell by 16 percent in 2012 with the average hitting $15.1 million. The U.S. ruling class is continuing neoliberalism in spite of our economic crisis. We see the boosting of profits in major corporations and the wealth of the super-rich expanding. Yet, there is impoverishment of the majority of the population.

There is still a conflict in North and South Korea. There are still those fighting for real peace in that part of the world. There is a call for replacing the armistice agreement with a peace treaty. Such an action would reduce tensions in Northeast Asia. It can create an environment that can be beneficial to improving inter-Korean relations. Having a peace treaty is long overdue. The United States can have a central role in beginning a real peace treaty process. Northeast Asia can be greatly served with the establishment of a peace treaty. North Korea has been encouraged by the West to have denuclearization. Some in the U.S. do not want an immediate peace treaty, because they want to have their geopolitical interest of tension in the Korean Peninsula (as long as events can be controlled). No peace treaty can be instituted without strong negotiations. The extremists want North Korea to denuclearize first before any peace treaty negotiations can come about. This has been used to rule out any form of dialogue. The USA and South Korea want the unilateral implementation by North Korea of its obligations under the Joint Agreement of September 2005 (as a precondition for talks). This is while America has not executed its obligations under the agreement. There is the promise to take steps to normalize relations. The United States undermined the 2005 agreement within days of its signing. The U.S. Treasury Department told American banks to sever relations with Banco Delta Asia. That is an institution which North Korea held accounts that it used in foreign commerce. The Treasury Department sent letters to banks across the world. It warned them to not conduct business with the bank. This action resulted in a run on reserves and a freeze on North Korean accounts. Those accounts were unfrozen as North Korea's condition for joining the next stage of Six Party talks. Relations have gotten worse. Even with the new administration, dialogue has not between strong among the West and North Korea. Now, the U.S. continues to pile on more sanctions upon North Korea. The U.S. has sanctioned and pressured other nations to sanction North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank, that nation's primary conduit for financing foreign trade. There are sanctions on the Daedong Credit Bank and the U.S. has promised to squeeze North Korea via further sanctions, which is sick and perverted. So, North Korea must dismantle its nuclear program for the U.S. to have negotiations with North Korea for a peace treaty. There are the Six Party talks. There is the debate on implementation of negotiations. Aside from regime change, there is no conceivable scenario in which the United States would agree to normalization of relations at this time. If the North Korean economy does not offer a welcoming environment for U.S. investors, then U.S. policy will not change. Cuba is a relevant example of a nation at peace with the U.S., yet subject to unrelenting U.S. hostility. Back when Germany was first reunified, then U.S. military forces remained stationed in Germany. NATO soon transformed itself from an ostensibly defensive organization into one that conducts offensive out of area operations. This is similar to the U.S. and South Korean military alliance trying to influence the future of the Korean peninsula. South Korea now signed with NATO including Australia. They are in league with NATO goals. U.S. forces are using South Korea to advance the Asian dominance agenda. The U.S. military occupying South Korea grows American economic interests to ensure the free flow of capital. Economic liberalization is all about the access of American businesses and investors to foreign markets. President Barack Obama wants to play a huge role in shaping Asia and its future. There is the U.S. military presence and the testing of anti-ballistic missile system in Asia. The good news is that there is still populist fervor in Korea. Korea has a strong democratic spirit. A peace treaty can be historic in the region. Also, South Korea should be encouraged to not advance interventions for the sake of advancing the wicked war on terror.

In terms of sports, you can't talk about sports in relation to the Cold War without discussing about Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali is a famous, strong figure of human history. He was a very charismatic boxer. Today, he is more beloved now than any time when he was in the ring ironically. He worked all throughout his life. In the black community, he was always loved whereas many in mainstream America did not like him back in the day. He suffered injustices and threats to his livelihood by many quarters. Yet, he remained strong and tough to advance not only athletics, but human rights in the world over. So, he is not only a champion in the ring, but he was a champion for human dignity and religious freedom outside of the ring. Muhammad Ali's actions are known and some of his actions are hidden. Muhammad Ali represented the revolt of many black athletes against mainstream America's expectations of how black human beings ought to act. Muhammad Ali acted confident as a means to psychologically and emotionally express his blackness or express the truth that Black is Beautiful. We have to remember that Muhammad Ali was hated much more back in the 1960's than now. Before Ali, there was Jack Johnson who was the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of 1908 (including other champions like Joe Lewis, Sugar Ray Robinson, etc.). They had many differences. We know the differences. LOL. Yet, they were similar in understanding that racism and bigotry are evils that must be eradicated in humanity. All of them were outspoken and act unafraid of opposition from racists. Muhammad Ali came up in the Black liberation struggle era from the 1950's to the early 1970's. Muhammad Ali talked a lot as a means to express his personality and to make boxing matches more interesting. He predicted the rounds that he would win. He was political. He joined the Nation of Islam in the early 1960's and allied with Malcolm X. As he said, "Cassius Clay was my slave name. I don't use it because I am no longer a slave." He was close friends with not only Malcolm X, but with Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and others. The moderate, establishment wing of the civil rights movement early on criticized him with folks like Roy Wilkins. Reactionaries criticized him for his views on race and the Vietnam War. Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 and Muhammad Ali to this day regretted not being able to totally reconciling with him over disagreements on the character of Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad Ali said that his greatest mistake was turning his back on Malcolm X. The deal was that Muhammad Ali's politics evolved from being more conservative, yet radical to being more independently radical. Ironically, younger generation of civil rights leaders in the 1960's loved Muhammad Ali, because he actively opposed American policy and desired to anger mainstream white America with his views. Muhammad Ali loved the Black Power ideal. Muhammad Ali opposed the Vietnam War as immoral and we know that the draft discriminated against blacks and the poor. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. allied with Muhammad Ali as means to stand up against the Vietnam War. They both realized that the black people and the Vietnamese people were victims of the same system of oppression. We all know who the oppressor is no doubt. Dr. King and Muhammad Ali were friends. Muhammad Ali told Dr. King that he is with him 100 percent. Muhammad Ali joined Dr. Martin Luther King in fighting for fair housing in Louisville, Kentucky. Many Brothers and Sisters were assaulted by brutes for advocating freedom, justice, and equality in housing back then in Kentucky. He won his religious liberty right to disagree with the Vietnam War. Track star John Carlos was also victimized for his protest at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. Ups and downs were in Muhammad Ali's life, but he is right to disagree with poverty, to disagree with evil wars, and to advocate humanitarian efforts.



The enemy of us is white supremacy. It is a real system that has been talked about from human beings from across the political spectrum. Authors have written about it like Dr. Claud Anderson, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Neely Fuller, the Umoja team, even Cornell West, and so many others. White supremacy is an evil system where the real elites advance a system where major social, economic, religious, and political infrastructures are unfairly dominated by certain white people (and this system executes injustices against non-whites, especially blacks worldwide). This system in its modern incarnation has been around since the Maafa. This reality is not in my imagination. It is a historical fact. Solutions can be solved among black people for many reasons. One reason is that for centuries we have made civilizations and advanced cultures among ourselves for thousands of years. When we created autonomous communities, white racists harmed those communities in Tulsa and Rosewood. So, any human being can form communities with effort, strength, and noninterference from the enemy. I call white supremacists in the 1 percent as the enemy. All other white people I do not have intense hatred of. I just do not have romance with them or extensive communication with them in a hardcore level all of the time. I like to be around my own black people and I love black women. People commit crimes, but many racists to blame us for the ills of America from Bill O'Reilly to Rush Limbaugh including other racists. That is a fact. Some are right that the rich elites have done massive evils to communities in America. What they do not get is that the rich elite use racial discrimination not just class oppression as a means to cause divisions and tensions in society. In communist and capitalist nations, darker skinned humans are treated more harshly than lighter skinned humans. This is a product of racial bigotry not just class oppression. The mainstream media causing much of the racial discord is accurate. All black people have the right to call for justice. Many white human beings suffer mistreatment, but they never have suffered as black people have suffered. Many blacks have prejudice, but in a white supremacist system, blacks never oppressed whites on a massive scale spanning continents over more than 5 centuries though. We as blacks can call for justice by boycotts, using our money to fund our own infrastructure, improving our health, having more Black Unity, and fighting for the end of the system of white supremacy. Allowing black people to define their own destinies in a positive direction is never racism no matter what others say. Racism is the belief of the inferiority of man based on skin color (including ethnicity) or unjust hatred of another human based on race. I subscribe to neither view. I love to use pretty words since I like to be eloquent. LOL. That is me. All of humanity in some form or another have suffered indignities, but blacks have suffered the brunt of white supremacy more than others. Racism now is not mostly media enhanced. The death of Aiyana Jones, Sean Bell, etc. was not media enhanced. These evil actions were done by brutes and evil human beings. Racism is an extensive injustice that must be eradicated. When Brothers and Sisters are being shot in code blood or when police brutality is in epidemic levels, then that is not media enhanced. These are stone cold truth of the world order now. I believe in independence (of black human beings having the right to develop their own infrastructure, businesses, and systems of living in a positive fashion) not Jim Crow segregation. I believe all humans should treat each other with respect, but we can never have a system of justice without white supremacy ending. It is as simple as that. I will treat my fellow person with respect irrespective of skin color, but I will not submerge or eliminate my black ethnic identity for the sake of being politically correct. I will never sellout my blood. Now, some wanting to end class oppression is fine with me. Economic justice is great and I support that wholeheartedly. Having universal education, universal health, and ending tax breaks for the rich are things that I agree with. We should get along, but many of our differences should be appreciated. If we were all the same, then the world would not be as dynamic as it is. I respect my similarities and differences within the human family. Wanting to end wars and use money to build the environment or to have safe energy solutions are great. I believe in the Savior, but even the Savior gave us a brain to fight for justice and to end white supremacy (We have to end it).

 

By Timothy