Conclusion (Winter)
One of the most critical issues in America is criminal justice reform. This issue has support among those who are liberal and conservative because it is a common sense issue. Many people, who have nonviolent offenses, struggle to gain regular employment even after they paid their debts to society. Some good news is now more people can vote in Florida, yet we have a long way to go. Criminal justice reform isn't just about laws being changed to make the criminal justice system fairer (since cases are so costly that many poor people struggle to afford to pay for them). It is about the transformation of the person in the system so he or she can be a productive member of society. Punishment alone doesn't work. You also need rehabilitation and giving people tools for progressive living. That entails that those who left prisoners need educational services, jobs, and some sense of hope for the future. For decades, many reactionaries lectured others on law and order, but there is no law or order with a non-compassionate attitude toward those who desire a better life after time served. Therefore, something should be done about mandatory minimum sentencing, the War on Drugs (which has ravished poor communities, black communities, and communities of color for decades), and other vicious policies of the corporatization of prisons. There should be a ban on solitary confinement which sociologists and other researchers document its reprehensible psychological damage to people. Laws must be changed, and the structure of society should change too. This endeavor is righteous.
Emmanuel Marcon is a false liberal for many reasons. With the recent yellow vest movement, he has been reluctant to advance revolutionary views. Also, his deplorable comments about Africa outline his nefarious agenda too. He said that racist comment that Africa has "civilizational" problems when tons of African locations have elevators, advanced transportation, great housing, and other technological developments. He ignores the fact that French colonialism and imperialism harmed many Africans for centuries and people have the right to reject paternalism plus embrace self-determination to achieve their own destinies. It is not secret that many Western elites advocate massive African population decline in trying to control Africa since Africans are increasing their populations. More flourishing African populations is a blessing along with technological developments. Africans need respect not radical population reduction. It is ironic too since many Europeans have low population growth, but some of these same Westerners want to falsely scapegoat Africans for their own problems. Marcon said that he wants to stop African's population growth which is his call for the evil anti-African growth movement. Marcon is a total enemy. We believe in total, uncompromising black liberation.
Once again, Mike Rappaport has been caught being disrespectful. Recently, he apologized to Pete Davidson for making insensitive remarks about his mental illness. Rappaport is known for this. Recently, he never apologized for his racist remarks about Kenya Moore when Moore is a mother, a wife, and a very talented human being. Kenya Moore has acted and modeled for over two decades. Mike Rappaport disrespected other black women. Some want to support Mike Rappaport (his role in Higher Learning was too good) and try to justify his racism, because he made a documentary about A Tribe Called Quest. No, just because you claim to be down, doesn't mean that you're truly down. Rappaport is only down for profit and cultural exploitation of black people. Rappaport doesn't support NFL Players protesting peacefully on 9/11. He has disrespected Janet Jackson. He has cursed out Spike Lee on the issue of gentrification in New York City. He is known for calling black women out of their names. Yesha Callahan and Monique Judge (who are great black women journalists) were also disrespected by Rappaport in vulgar terms. Rappaport would never use such language against white people because of the obvious reason.
If a man disrespects black women, then that person is an enemy of mine period. The sick thing is that still many black people support this disgraceful male. Those black people who support him have a slavery mentality and some of them believe in the myth that a white man has social superiority over black people. We will defend black women and black people in general. That is what we will do and Mike Rappaport is the same as Bill Maher (who makes generalizations about Muslims) and the rest of those pseudo-liberals who talk down on black people who disagree with them. Maher has been accused of domestic violence against black women and he said the N word on his show. Maher is a disgrace too. I don't bite my tongue. I will call it as I see it. So, the struggle continues. Our cause is justice and we believe in freedom for black people.
Also, we have a long road ahead of us. Right now, Trump is trying to get rid of environmental regulations that protect the air, the land, and the water. We have a male in the White House promoting a wall that won't work and is immoral (along with the fact that many refugees have experienced tear gas in Tijuana when they are escaping war zones). The shutdown is harming lives right now. It has harmed Coast Guard workers, federal workers, and people who need health care and other resources. Trump has bragged that he loves a shutdown because he's a callous xenophobe. The shutdown is causing a cutoff of funds for Indigenous nations whose treaties called for federal money for education, health care and other services, in exchange for vast territorial concessions. So, we shouldn't be neoliberal centrists. We are unapologetic progressives.There is no question that Trump should be impeached for numerous reasons. Also, we have to question authority. Pay as you go is no long term economic fix. A total restructuring of the economic is a necessity. War mongering and austerity are antithetical to freedom, justice, and real democracy. Also, individual efforts isn't enough since collective uplift is a prerequisite for true human liberation.
Centrism is basically something that I don't believe in ideologically because of the obvious reasons. Every social moment in human history never got anything done by centrism or being a moderate. Frederick Douglass said that there is no liberty without a demand and he wasn't a moderate on the issue of slavery. He wanted slavery abolished completely. Malcolm X was definitely not a moderate since his speeches condemned the policies of America constantly. Malcolm X traveled the world, promoted self-defense, and wanted America to be brought up on charges by the United Nations for violating the human rights of black Americans. Malcolm X criticized numerous Presidents and he forthrightly opposed the Vietnam War long before 1965.
Even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't a moderate. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s revolutionary views have been downplayed in some quarters. Yet, this is a new generation and we know of his progressive views more and more from his advocacy for reparations to him exposing health care disparities in America. Dr. King criticized capitalism. Dr. King said he wanted no nuclear weapons on the Earth. Dr. King also praised democratic socialism and wanted a radical redistribution of economic and political power plus he opposed the Vietnam War. So, Dr. King was never a moderate. Ella Baker wasn't a centrist and neither was Septima Clark. Not only is centrism wrong. It's obsolete and has no place in the 21st century or any century for that matter. Also, I believe in Black Love (I will always love black women) and Black Liberation too.
By Timothy
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