Late January 2019 News

Many news are existing now. the Senate will vote on dueling bills to end the shutdown. Today is Day 33 of the shutdown. This situation is unsustainable, because the shutdown has harmed airports, IRS workers, other federal workers, and the lives of regular people. Many Coast Guard members and lawyers have to go into food areas since they don't have the money to buy food. Folks are starving. The shutdown is very dangerous. In the West Coast, Los Angeles teachers have ended their historic strike and negotiated a deal. The agreement included smaller class sizes and higher wages for teachers. Trump is representative of the corruption, the ruthlessness, and the selfishness found in capitalist oligarchs. Trump revealed that racism didn't originate from him, but it is part of a long system of oppression stretching back centuries in America. Rudy Giuliani is a Trump spokesman and lawyer who has expressed contradictions, lies, and deceptions throughout his time defending Trump. We know that the NRA spent $30 million dollars in trying to get Trump elected. Mueller is investigating the NRA situation. The Trump campaign has known ties to the NRA. Trump is a billionaire habitual liar with links to the Mafia and convicted plus indicted people who were once a part of his administration. Right now, we have a global trade war along with Trump administration leader Bolton preparing a war against Iran. The Trump base are filled with racists, sexists, and xenophobes. Trump wants limits on legal immigration too, so his rhetoric about immigration is overtly fascistic. Undocumented immigrants are entitled to equal human rights just like anyone else.

He is a DJ, a record producer, an actor, and a comedian. He has toured the world to spread music and the love of the arts. His name is Brother DJ Jazzy Jeff and it was his birthday yesterday. He is now 54 years old and he was born in Philadelphia. He is famous for joining Will Smith in promoting hip hop records from Summertime to Parents Just Don't Understand. He and Will Smith won the first rap Grammy. Back then, the Grammy harbored hatred of hip hop music. Today, hip hop music is found throughout the Grammys ironically. Jeffrey Allen Townes has been on many avenues to express his gifts earnestly. Jeffrey Allen Townes married a great woman named Lynette Jackson. I wish Brother Jeffrey Allen Townes more blessings.

A lot of events are going on in the world. Oxfam has further documented the growing economic inequality in the world. It found that 26 richest people on Earth own the same amount of wealth as the wealth of the 3.8 billion of the poorest people on Earth. While the rich are doing fine, you have the poor and middle class in many cases struggling to survive. We see the stock market going down. We also are witnessing a trade war, the American shut down, refugees being scapegoated, and other issues. While this is going on, Trump is obsessed with the wall when many things go into ports of entry beyond the U.S./Mexico border. The immigration issue is very complex and requires a comprehensive, compassionate solution. The shutdown is causing the FDA to delay food inspections and delay law enforcement authorities to do their jobs. Also, many federal workers, who are furloughed, have no choice but to get foods from soup kitchens including charities to live on. Trump's words represent the worst of what these bigots stand for. Trump is a clear enemy of democracy and freedom. There is no other way to put it.


Regularly, we celebrate a hero who sacrificed his life for our freedom. Also, we celebrate the countless human beings globally who are making a difference now in seeking justice too. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appealed to the moral conscience of America in order to make America witness its errors and make the right changes. In that way, liberation can exist prominently. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife, Coretta Scott King, was a revolutionary too. She protested, wrote literature, and organized movements for social change from Atlanta to Charleston, South Carolina. Substantial change never comes unless grassroots people demand it and activate the unity to fight for it. Dr. King articulated the message that nonviolent resistance can engineer a change in policies away from the status quo into true progress. Today, after 90 years after his birth, we express our continued commitment to social justice. Yes, nothing will turn us around.

It is certainly important to make known my views on the Native American elder who was confronted by teenagers in Washington, D.C. The truth is apparent. The teens had "MAGA" hats on which showed that they believe in the agenda of Trump. Trump is a notorious white supremacist and racist. These kids were from an area near Cincinnati. Everyone knows that Cincinnati and areas surrounding it has a known history of racism. Also, the teenager who said that he did nothing wrong is truly full of it. He could have easily walked away from the Native American, but he didn't. He had a smirk on his face while he starred at the Native American since he wanted to intimidate the elder. Also, many teenagers mocked the Native Americans (with them showing mock tomahawk chops) and said other words. There were also fringe Hebrew Israelites (who are known to use profanity, slander women, etc. These folks aren't representative of all Hebrew Israelites) in the vicinity who used slurs and other disturbing language that I don't agree with. I don't believe in calling any human slurs or vicious invective. I do believe in calling a person mean, a liar, a traitor, etc. if the shoe fits. Yet, those words are different from overt slurs. What the teen did was use the slick tactic of deflection of blaming the fringe Hebrew Israelites (when the vast majority of Hebrew Israelites aren't shouting at random people in the street, but they are law abiding, peaceful people) as an excuse to justify his action. It is as simple as that.

By Timothy