The Ukraine information, etc.

The events inside of the Ukraine are known greatly in the world. The working class and the poor are suffering there. There has been the failure of the Ukrainian opposition and its Western supporters to overthrow President Viktor Yanukovych. Some want to replace his regime with an EU friendly government. There are armed fascist gangs being mobilized to achieve that same aim. There have been bloody clashes in Kiev since the protests began this week. 26 people including several policemen were killed. There were 1,000 or more injured when gangs armed with paving stones, guns, and firebombs engaged in violent street battles with the government security forces. Even when most Western mainstream media outlets support the opposition, some of them admitted that many of the violent protesters are ultra-reactionary forces. The Financial Times reported, “Some demonstrators wearing camouflage clothing, military helmets and bullet proof vests responded with what appeared to be hand guns.” The same newspaper wrote: “Right Sector, one of the most militarized protest groups, urged citizens with guns to join the encampment.” German news channel N24 reported that the “radicals of Right Sector have hijacked the protest movement.” Noting that the group consists of “supporters of ultra-right-wing organizations across the country,” it added, “With their faces hidden behind masks or helmets, they attack the police in Kiev with batons and iron bars.” The U.S. and German government are supporting directly or indirectly these paramilitary neofascists group as a means to pressure Yanukoych and his government. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung expressed this bluntly. It “no longer matters if it was radical opponents of the regime or the security forces who first resorted to violence on Tuesday,” the paper stated. “Now only one thing can help: the rapid resignation of Yanukovych.” On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warmly received Ukrainian opposition leaders Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Vitali Klitschko, but turned down their call for sanctions. After the bloody riots in Kiev, she reversed herself and expressed support for sanctions against the Yanukovych government. In a joint appearance with French President François Hollande, she denounced the security forces in Ukraine for brutality. The U.S. government has made similar governments in trying to call for the Ukrainian government to withdraw its riot police. “There will be consequences if people cross a line,” President Barack Obama threatened. The big picture is that America wants Ukraine to submit to Western not Russian interests. The West wants brutal austerity policies in the Ukraine and want replacement of the regime of Yanukovych (under the guise of the rule of law and democracy). This is also the aim of the opposition led by Klitschko, Yatsenyuk and Oleh Tyahnybok, whose Svoboda party openly celebrates the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera and espouses anti-Semitism and racism. The West and the EU want to rule over Ukraine, so Russia is furthered isolated. The power of NATO and the EU is growing. Ukraine has a network of energy pipelines, military bases, and heavy industry, so that is a target of Western imperialism. That is why the Germans and the Nazis invaded Ukraine in WWI and WWII. The Nazis massacred millions of Ukrainians. Berlin, Washington, Brussels, etc. want the Ukraine to be under their influence. The reactionary and fascist groups are in the opposition movement, but they are not representative of all opposition people though. We should reject imperialism and make sure that Ukraine is a progressive society.

When you have the status quo, radical politics are in order to make a difference in the world. Many people are tired of the corporate dominated political system. So, they want solutions. Some politicians in Newark, Jackson, Seattle, and throughout the nation are fighting for change. Today, we know how bad the GOP is. Also, there is still a new class of young right wing Black Democrats that love austerity, privatization, school closures, and other items of reaction. Corporate money has propped up Cory Booker and Harold Ford into national prominence. Many mayors of many colors are workers of corporate power. Yet, folks are still fighting. One new city councilperson Kshama Sawant in Seattle is trying to make a difference. She is forcing her Democratic colleagues to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour (and she wants the rich to pay for an overhaul of public education and transportation). In Jackson, Mississippi, 66 year old Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has worked for selfless dedication to social transformation for decades. He was an activist in the Republic of New Africa. He worked as a lawyer and one of the founders of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He is the mayor of Jackson, MS now. He wants to encourage a cooperative economy to build “wealth equity, economic democracy and self-determination in Jackson,” the South, and the nation. In Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker is known for his corporate educational experimentation, city councilman and high school principal Ras Baraka is running for mayor. He is the son of the late poet and activist Amiri Baraka. Ras Baraka opposes recent school closings and promises to bring economic development to the neighborhoods. These people want self-determination among the human beings in their respective communities. Many people want a distorted view of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr as a means to advance a reactionary agenda where the rights of immigrants, women, black people, and other minorities are submerged or suppressed. We all know that Dr. King was a revolutionary and a democratic socialist. He utilized spiritual imagery and political words as a means to appeal to a wide spectrum of Americans as a means to make society a humane, progressive society. His words impacted human beings globally. You can see how he loved Africa and wanted liberation for the colonized and neo-colonized peoples of the globe. That is why he celebrated the freedom of one African nation from European imperialist oppression. That nation was Ghana as he visited Ghana in 1957. His embrace of Personalism was key to him believing that all human life has dignity and worth (he respected the massive power of the human personality). He offered critiques of Stalinist communism, but he never rejected the necessity of Social justice. I also respect how Malcolm X promoted gender equality (just before he was unfortunately assassinated) and gave women leadership positions in the OAAU. Malcolm X said the accurate words (one of my favorite quotes of Malcolm X): "...But in every backward country you’ll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed it’s because the women don’t have education. So one of the things I became thoroughly convinced of in my recent travels is the importance of giving freedom to the women, giving her education, and giving her the incentive to get out there and put the same spirit and understanding in her children. And I am frankly proud of the contributions that our women have made in the struggle for freedom and I’m one person who’s for giving them all the leeway possible because they’ve made a greater contribution than many of us men..." At the end of the day, we need unity with AFRICA. Our liberation is tied to Africa. When we develop our cultural, economic, and political ties with Africa, we are morally, spiritually, and socially enriched. That is why in real life when I study Africa or listen to African music, I feel better. I feel more happy and joyful in my life. Also, in this process of pan-Africanism, we can never mimic the acts of the oppressor. We have to care for the environment, we have to care for the dignity of labor, and we have to advance real human rights. We are over 1 billion people globally. When we are truly united, we are A POWERFUL FORCE.

Interesting questions about life deserve answers (in dealing with social justice, etc.). Now, I will take this one step at a time. Social justice is a type of justice. Justice is a broad goal of liberty, respect, and great opportunities sent to people. Social justice deals with making systems of the world or institutions beneficial to humanity, especially to those who are dispossessed or extremely poor. In essence, social justice is about the creating of a just society via legitimate changes in the economy, labor, the environment, etc. It deserves its own ontological category since there are diverse concepts in the world and these concepts sometimes can’t be pigeonholed into one world or one phrase. Human liberty is a real ideal. There is no other liberty, but human liberty. Yet, black people have the right to affirm their heritage in the world. Power must be redistributed, because power has been unfairly and unjustly utilized throughout the ages. For example, the serfs in Russia were oppressed by the CZARs. The serfs rose up to make power more redistributed among them despite the unfair power grabs done by the czars for centuries in Russia. The slavery in America gave undue power to the slave owners and select corporate interests. The Civil War ended overt slavery and caused power to be redistributed from former slave owners. Many Africans redistributed power stolen from European imperialists after WWII in Ghana, Nigeria, and other nations. So, REDISTRIBUTION is not evil in every circumstance. Our wealth has been stolen by the military industrial complex, the FED, Wall Street, and other entities to be sent to foreign banks and multinational corporate interests. Wealth redistributed that has been stolen by SELECT interests is not immoral. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted an ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS, wealth sent to the people that funded the Vietnam, an agency to deal with poverty, a guaranteed annual income, the funding of black institutions, and other solutions to handle this issue of oppression (with redistribution of wealth, fair taxation, ending unfair tax allowances, the ending of the Vietnam War, etc.). Human liberty is important, but liberty is not nihilism. See, reactionaries claim to want liberty, but they want the MARKET to lack accountability and to lack morality. See, they want to lecture us on family values, but refuse to promote boundaries in the conduct of economic interests. You can’t do what you want, so the markets can’t do what it wants. There should be boundaries on POWER and revolutionary solutions in the world. There is nothing wrong with saying Black is Beautiful too and there is nothing wrong with fighting for my black interests in the world too. The Poor People Campaign of 1967-1968 had legitimate aims. It was worked on by the Sister Marian Wright Edelman too. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. courageously fought for the Poor People Campaign as a means to fight poverty and create revolutionary social change in America. We need economic empowerment and self-determination, but we should also need a radical redistribution of economic and political power as the late Brother Dr. King said. There can be no true equality and freedom without economic justice. It is as simple as that. This struggle is for UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE and for QUALITY EDUCATION. It is for a clean environment and an end to imperialism or militarism. We are all fighting for BLACK LIBERATION, which BLACK PEOPLE are doing 24/7 365. Every day, I think about the poor and the oppressed. Every single day of my life, I will always fight against poverty and I will fight for human justice.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an eloquent spokesman for social justice and human liberty. He expressed revolutionary statements during the duration of his life. In his 1967, THREE EVILS IN SOCIETY speech, he stated the obvious that the ghetto is a domestic colony and that power must be redistributed as a means to give the poor (both black and nonblack) the just means to control their own destinies. In that same speech, Dr. King was right to say that: "...We cry out against welfare handouts to the poor but generously approve an oil depletion allowance to make the rich, richer..." The call for economic justice and the defeat of plutocracy is the great calling of our 21st century generation. We should never forget other heroes who stood up for justice too like Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X (who by 1965 critique capitalism and he started to condemn the great evil of sexism), Septima Clark, and other brave human beings that expressed sacrifice not submissive to the status quo as a means to confront the powers that be. Ella Baker was a Sister that was a great organizer and she was the Mother of SNCC literally. Ella Baker was just as important in the struggle for human justice as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood a firm stand in recognizing the truth that BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL. So, Dr. King loved black people, he loved Africa, and he wanted black self-determination to be one concept ingrained in the social consciousness of all those of black African descent. He was a strong religious leader, a socialist, a family man, and a man with great courage & great strength. It takes strength to take blows and a rock without retaliation. It took great strength to handle offensive criticism and to press on. So, we ought to express courage too in our lives to advance the ideal of the BELOVED COMMUNITY. His last campaigns were the Poor Peoples Campaign and the Memphis Sanitation Workers' strike. Each of those campaigns was about the common people to fight for economic justice, fair wages, and the true defeat against the corrosive conditions of poverty in the world. So, we will never give up. We never gave up when we suffered the Maafa. We never gave up when the capitalist instrument of Western slavery oppressed our ancestors and we never gave up when reactionary brutes used dogs and water to assault our Brothers and our Sisters. So, this fight for a cooperative society continues on. I will maintain my core convictions of truth and creating a humane world. Martin's story is an eye opener. One of the interesting points that he said is that he followed his extreme passive attitude about things when learned to "turn the other check" (which is a theological concept that has been distorted by some as a means for evil folks to justify the wickedness in the SYSTEM) from white private school conditioning. That gave me a thought in my mind. White supremacy always promotes immoral passivity among black males as a means for some to attempt to make black males tolerate the injustices in society (and we know how society glamorizes black males acting weak, malleable, brutish, and evil). The truth is that we should never tolerate injustice and we have every God-given right to let our voices heard and to fight back legitimately. We should inspire black youth to be STRONG BLACK MEN and to never be ashamed of their masculinity, of their strength, and of their human dignity at all. Also, bullying is evil and this story documents the negative side effects that the victims of bullying experience physically and psychologically. Bullying is an abomination. So, we should fight against bullying and we have to mention that there is nothing wrong with a black male standing up for himself. Aggression properly applied is not immoral. That is a good thing. Black people want a black man to be a MAN and never allow RELIGION to be used as an excuse to be submissive to a nefarious system. We have the responsibility to stand up for a Brother or a Sister that is suffering too. We are our Brothers' and our Sisters' keepers. We hope the best for Jonathan Martin.

Well, Brother Marcus Garvey is of black Caribbean descent. I have black Caribbean descent on the mother side of the family (and I am not ashamed of my Caribbean roots). Black Caribbeans have direct involvement in the black liberation struggle in America spanning a long time. That is just a historical fact. Our struggle is an international struggle against injustice, white supremacy, and oppression. We have to think about our people in an international Pan-Africanist fashion not worship America as God since America is not God. America is a nation not a deity. Brother Kwame Ture, WEB DuBois, Malcolm X, Shirley Chishlom, etc. have black Caribbean blood. So, we are one BLACK PEOPLE. There truth is that tons of black Americans that are down for the cause and there are tons of non-American blacks that are done for the cause of justice too. WE ARE ONE BLOOD, WE ARE ONE PEOPLE, WE ARE ALL AFRICANS, AND WE ARE ALL BLACK PEOPLE REGARDLESS. We should never play the game of divide and conquer based on our nationality. We all came from Africa. We all love our families and our people a great deal. We are still fighting the same oppression in the globe; therefore we should unite with all Diasporan black people and all those of black African descent in the world. Michael Dunn is a murderous piece of work. He has no respect for human life. No genre of music should be blamed for the actions of a murderer like Michael Dunn at all. Also, hip hop music is very diverse and many progressive, honorable human beings love real hip hop. If he didn't like the music, he can easily either deal with it, turn the windows up, wear earphones, drive away, and do a multiplicity of other options excluding murdering Jordan Davis (and putting other lives in risk of death. See, he also put other unarmed lives in risk too). He is superior to no one while claiming to be someone's superior that we must obey. We should never obey him. KARMA is coming for him. We all care for the family of Jordan Davis and we should always remember why we do this. How dare Michael Dunn portray himself as a victim when he victimized the lives of others with his abhorrent action. We do this (of fighting for justice and believing in PROACTIVE SOLUTIONS) for Jordan Davis and his family. We do this for our people and we do this for the CREATOR AND THE ANCESTORS. Certainly, we are from a strong people. Many Brothers and Sisters need to remember that. We came from people who endured unspeakable events and still we survived and became doctors, lawyers, scientists, theologians, political leaders, etc. So, we have nothing to be ashamed of at all. We are fighters and our ancestors were fighters too. All of all of Africa is not monolithic. Africa today has issues. Also, Africa has great intelligent human beings. Africa has industry, communication services, technology, educational services, transportation, and other amenities of modern society. Following the peaceful elections in 2013, Kenya seems to have become one of the hotspots for investments and growth in Africa. The creative industries are among the most rapidly expanding sectors across the globe. According to the United Nations' (UN) Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), the sector has a growth rate of 13.9% in Africa. Namibia has seen growth as well. Namibia rejoices in smooth transfers of power and has witnessed economic growth of 3.5% – 5.8 % in the last decade. The reactionaries ignore and omit (like their type always does) the war crimes committed by the barbaric, nefarious, and evil white supremacist apartheid regime of South Africa from the Sharpeville Massacre to the Soweto massacre. There are many Brothers and Sisters who fought against apartheid heroically like Steve Biko. Winnie Mandela being physically abused in prison has no justification at all. Detroit has been harmed by deindustrialization, corporate exploitation, austerity policies, and other reasons. It has nothing to do with black genetics (when black people are filled with geniuses and other dynamic human beings). There has been an overall decline in the crime rate nationwide in America (even among many metropolitan centers). So, AFRICA IS THE MOTHERLAND OF BLACK PEOPLE. I WILL TREAT AFRICA WITH RESPECT AND EVIL FOLKS CAN NEVER STOP THE POWER OF BLACKNESS AT ALL. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL AND AFRICA IS BEAUTIFUL TOO. I BELIEVE IN BLACK POWER AND BLACK UNITY INCLUDING BLACK LOVE.

By Timothy