Late March 2022 News.

 

Now, people know of the truth about Putin. Putin is a murderer and a war criminal for his actions in Ukraine. Russian forces have destroyed a Ukrainian theater where men, women, and children have died. Many Russian troops have attacked civilians indiscriminately, even at a food storage location in Kyiv. ON March 18, 2022, Russia attacked Lviv for the first time. Lviv is in Western Ukraine near Poland. Civilians are being targeted after leaving cities. There were people killed in a bread line and markets where people are going to get food. Putin is definitely a hypocrite, a liar, and an evil tyrant. That is why many Russians are going to jail for peacefully protesting Putin. Putin is no progressive person. He is a far right ethnonationist dictator of Russia. We have many Ukrainians seeking foods and water. Many people say why care? We care because we deal with increasing oil prices, we care for human life, and we are opposed to far-right dictators like Putin who want to ruin democracy in the war. Therefore, the actions of a tyrant like Putin are not representative of all Russians. Tons of Russians are protesting Putin's war.  We know that the racist, far right Azo Battalion is not representative of all Ukrainians. We know many Ukrainians who oppose racism and oppose the unjust, racist treatment of black Ukrainians at the Ukrainian border. We know that Ukraine is right to say that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal, unjust, and morally reprehensible.

Now, anyone supporting Putin is a traitor to democracy and humanity period. Putin doesn't care about the humanitarian crisis in Eastern Europe or the people struggling to survive bombs. Putin cares about power. That is why even China's Xi have said that a peaceful resolution is necessary in this conflict. This is a war, the first war of this magnitude in Europe since the days of World War II. Russian military morale is low, and more than 7,000 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine. That's a larger number that the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Ukrainian residents have been around to defend themselves against an invading force.

Recently, Kanye West called Trevor Noah a racist anti-black slur (meaning a sellout) because Noah wanted Kanye West to get therapy for his abhorrent antics. The reality is Kanye West is real ironic using that slur against a person when Kanye West said that slavery was a choice, disrespected Harriet Tubman, supports Donald Trump (one of the most racist, sexist, and xenophobic Presidents in American history), and he seeks white acceptance constantly. Kanye West has a problem with narcissism, bad behavior, and obsessing over his ex-wife. Kanye West is a huge disappointment with as much talent he has with so much inner insecurities. Real men and real human beings don't act like that. A real man doesn't make multiple music videos where you glorify violence against a person dating your ex-wife. I don't agree with Pete on talking on another man's kids, but Kanye West should be confronted on his behavior too. I certainly don't agree with Pete making a joke about thinking about a sick act to a child. So, Pete is no role model to me. It is disrespectful for this person Pete to go around bragging to Kanye that he's sleeping in Kim Kardashian's bed when in my view, it's inappropriate for a stranger to go near someone else's kids in that fashion. A real man doesn't diminish the accomplishments of Harriet Tubman. I may don't agree on DL Hughley on his attacks on religion, but he is 100 percent right to call out Kanye on his mess. Kanye West needs therapy for real, and he needs to grow up as a man. Kanye West may fight journalists or unsuspecting people, but I have no fear of nothing on this Earth except God.

It is important to show flowers to Erma Franklin too. She was a great gospel and soul singer. She was so great that I do believe that TV One's Unsung should show an episode on her life story. She is the sister of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin too. She was born in Shelby, Mississippi. Later, she was raised in Detroit, Michigan. His father is the famous Reverend C. L. Franklin, and his mother is Barbara Siggers Franklin. She studied at Clark Atlanta University (then known as Clark College). Erna sang at New Bethel Church, which is one of the most influential black churches in the United States of America.  Erna Franklin sang the original version of Piece of My Heart. That song was a woman's anthem, and it is a very powerful song with an important message. She loved her husband and 2 children. She worked at the Boysville Holy Cross Community Center. This location is a Detroit organizaiton that helps the homeless and disadvantaged minority children. She lived to be 64, and she passed away on September 7, 2002.

It is always important to acknowledge and celebrate heroes. Yesterday was the Birthday of the living legend and hero Sister Myrlie Evers-Williams, and she is 89 years old. For decades, she has been a civil rights activist and journalist who fought to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers (a civil rights activist and a WWII Normandy invasion veteran in real life). She loves her 3 children, and she was born in the Deep South at Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was raised by her paternal grandmother, Annie McCain Beasley, and an aunt Myrlie Beasley Polk. She celebrated in church, played the piano, performed songs, and recited poetry. She attended the Magnolia school. By 1950, Evers-Williams graduated from Magnolia High School. She sang in a girls' vocal group from Mount Heroden Baptist Church in Vicksburg called the Chansonettes. On her first day of school, Myrlie met and fell in love with Medgar Evers. They married on Christmas Eve of 1951. Their love story is beautiful. Evers-Williams worked in the NAACP and became the total head of it in the 1990's being the first black American woman to head the NAACP completely. She fought for voting rights, an end to segregation, and desegregation of public universities. Myrlie Evers-Williams wanted equality in Mississippi and nationwide. Myrlie Evers-Williams' home was firebombed in Jackson, Mississippi after their organized boycott of downtown Jackson's white merchants. She moved into Claremont, California. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Pomona College. She has helped the poor and the homeless for decades. Evers-Williams helped to increase the power of NAACP after years of decline. She helped to make the NAACP to be what it is now in the 21st century. She was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal. Her books, her awards, and her wisdom are incredible. She is a role model for tons of human beings, because she kept the faith. Evers-Williams stands out as a hero in the 20th and the 21st centuries of time. Evers-Williams gave the invocation of the 2nd inauguration of President Barack Obama being the first woman and layperson to do it. We always honor her sacrifice and her late first husbands' sacrifices for our freedom. Without both of them, I would not be here to drink from where I want and to live where I want. Myrlie Evers-Williams is one of the greatest icons of human history indeed. I wish Sister Myrlie Evers-Williams more Blessings. 

By Timothy