As peace talks continues in Turkey among Ukraine and Russia, Russia still launches new attacks. Russia claims that it was scaling back, but its further attacks on Ukraine shows Putin's lies plus hypocrisy. Zelensky wants security guarantees in the peace talks. The peace talks could be successful. Ukraine will accept a neutral status in exchange with Ukraine's entrance into the European Union but not into NATO. At the end of the day, the war should end, Ukraine should have its independence (not being a puppet of the West or Russia), and the truth must be shown to the people. Also, the new New York City mayor Eric Adams has ordered the dismantling of homeless encampments. It started on this Monday under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Many homeless people are ordered to pack up their tents and other belongings within 24 hours or have then destroyed by the city's sanitation trucks. That proposal in my eyes is cruelty. Maya Wiley would have been a great mayor of New York City if she was elected. She is a progressive, a great scholar, and an activist at the same time. There are over 60,000 homeless people in NYC. Homeless shelters don't have enough facilities to house the homeless. Adams made no plan to build a massive amount of housing first. You build housing first to give people an option, not destroy every homeless encampment. Vagrancy laws are unconstitutional and have been used back in the day to oppress black people during Jim Crow. Mike Adams is not progressive or moderate. He is conservative acting as the "law and order" type instead of being heroic to call for revolutionary change. Homeless human beings need not only affordable housing, but good paying jobs, public serviced, health care, and real education.
On March 29, 2020, it has been a historic day. President Biden signed the Emmett Till anti-lynching bill into law. It is the first federal anti-lynching law finally passed in the history of the United States of America. It has been a long time coming, and finally, this legitimate law has been in existence now. This law was proposed more than 100 years ago. Emmett Till was an innocent teenager from Chicago who was brutally murdered by numerous white racists. His mother grieved his passing, and she wanted an open casket to show the world how racists murdered her son viciously. Civil rights advocates and many black Americans were there for the signing ceremony. President Biden said that lynching was terrorism, and it was executed by people who believed in the lie that only a certain group of people are created equal. The truth is that all humans are created equal and deserving of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The new law makes it a hate crime for lynching. The previous bill was failed almost 200 times. It was introduced in 1900 by North Carolina Rep. George Henry White, the only black American member of Congress at the time. This new law is a just, historic law.
Certainly, people are still talking about the Will Smith issue. My view is more nuisance. Chris Rock made a joke about Will Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, about Jada should go on G.I. Jane 2. Jada rolled her eyes about the joke. Will Smith came to confront him, and he slapped Chris Rock. Rock was shocked at the slap. The whole world has debated the issue. This issue was more complicated than jokes. For years, Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have been the subject of innuendos, scandals, and other forms of disrespect from numerous folks. Will Smith just had a breaking point after years of humiliation and mistreatment by many forces. Some people even say that Will had no right to defend his wife. Will Smith have every right to defend his wife (who has a hair condition called alopecia. Black women go much slander and disrespect pertaining to their hair). Will Smith was right to defend his wife. He was just wrong to slap Chris Rock. You can handle a joke by your words not with your hands or fists. Will's slap has nothing to do with self-defense. It is certainly admirable to see Will's support of his wife over the years.
Tyler Perry and Denzel Washington came over to calm Will Smith down. I don't believe in the argument that Smith's actions represent the need of supporting respectability politics or it's a stain on all black people. One person's actions shouldn't be used as an excuse to scapegoat the black community collectively. Even if Will did nothing, white racists would still hate him. We don't need the support of racists to be tokens. We need to be ourselves. I certainly don't believe in the sellouts who want to cancel him when Will Smith apologized for what he did, and he later apologized to Chris Rock personally too. I think some omit that Will Smith apologized, but others want Will to grovel at the feet of corporate power. Joe Scarborough taking shots at Will is typical of him when Joe defends the act of Truman dropping atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (which are war crimes). I read white racists even calling Will Smith a thug which is a racist prerogative. Chris Rock doesn't deserve to be slapped, but Rock made many controversial anti-black statements in his comedian routines for years, even joking about lynching (during a previous Oscars. He joked about wanting to join the Klan). Will Smith gave an eloquent speech after he won Best Actor at the Oscars for the movie King Richard. Some people, who refuse to forgive Will, will tolerate Howard Stern saying racist nonsense for decades and Donald Trump. Hopefully, Will Smith can keep his award. I believe this event is a learning lesson that we should not apologize for who we are, and we should treat each other with dignity and respect.
Some breaking news is that one federal judge said on Monday that former President Donald Trump and far right attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as the desired to disrupt the January 6 Congressional certification of the Presidential election. Judge David Carter wrote that the court finds it more than likely that President Trump tried to obstruct the election of 2020. Judge Carter is a California federal judge. He ordered Eastman to turn over 101 emails from around January 6, 2021. Eastman wanted those emails to be kept a secret. The House select committee is still investigating the U.S. Capitol attack. Trump wanted Mike Pence to stop the 2020 election results, and Pence refused to do so. The decision to prosecute Trump and his allies for the conspiracy of attempted coup d'état against American democracy itself is only done by the Justice Department. The Justice Department must do the right thing and charge Trump and his allies for trying to ruin American democracy during the 2020 election. Judge Carter said that there was a draft memo written for Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to recommend that Pence reject some states' electors during the January 6 congressional meeting. The 1/6 committee is to meet tonight to discuss Ginni Thomas texts (which believed in the lie that the 2020 election is a fraud). That is why Clarence Thomas must rescue himself on any case relating to the 1/6 insurrection, as Ginni is Clarence's wife.
By Timothy
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