Tim Scott holding a sign saying "keep yo money" is not only racist by the Republicans. It shows the hypocrisy of them. The GOP political leaders have used people like Herschel Walker and Tim Scott in trying to save face from their racist, xenophobic, and bigoted agenda. Mocking black people with that sign show their callous leadership. The Republicans claim to be more morality and family values, but most of them support Donald Trump. Trump is one of the most corrupt, immoral Presidents in American history. The Republicans claim to be against Big Government, but they want to use the government to whitewash racism in the classroom, suppress the voting rights of Americans, harm the rights of other minorities in America, and promote race baiting, anti-black propaganda. For the record, I wholeheartedly do believe in a strong federal government to protect the environment, to protect our civil liberties, to enhance our civil rights, to advance our health care, and to protect justice including equality among all. They claim to promote free speech, but they want to end the free speech rights of progressives who stand up against racism and any form of injustices. Many of them supports laws that restrict peaceful protests against police brutality, and many of them hate anyone just making a knell to protest racial injustice in the world. These are outright contradictions. The Republican leadership is dominated by special monied interests, and they believe in the lie that certain people deserve equality and justice. The truth is that all human beings are deserving of equality and justice.
Tons of events are going on in Ukraine. Russia is continuing its new phrase of the invasion of Ukraine with their bombardment of the city of Mariupol. There is an increase of Russian forces attacking Donbas. It shows that Putin is a hypocrite to claim to care about residents of Donbas, but his forces bombed civilians in Donbas plus all over Ukraine. Many civilians at Luhansk have been told to evacuate. Also, Malcolm Nance is in Ukraine now carrying weapons to fight Russian invading forces. A humanitarian corridor has been formed at a location in Ukraine, but Russian forces have not only bombed civilian targets. They have destroyed schools, hospitals, and many Russian troops have raped Ukrainian people too. All of these actions are war crimes. Any apologist of Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine (which includes far right extremists, fake leftist "anti-imperialists," and numerous Hoteps) is not a traitor to democracy and freedom. These types of people are evil and sick. Many civilians are rapped in the Azovstal steel plant too. Now, Zelensky has filed an application in paperwork to try to join the European Union. While this is going on, America still has to deal with high oil prices and high inflation. Yet, one man or any human being can never control every aspect of the economy singularly.
Now, we are witnessing the new bloody era of the war between Ukraine and Russia. We are clear that Russia initiated an unjust invasion of Ukraine. Today, Russia is issuing their counteroffensive against Eastern Ukraine. Zelensky, who is the President of Ukraine, is continuing to fight the Russian imperialistic invasion. On Monday on April 18, 2022, Russia fired 4 missiles in the western city of Lviv. At Lviv, at least 7 people were killed by the missiles. Putin has not only committed war crimes in Ukraine (that some omit). He has also shown cruelty by wanting Mariupol to surrender or die. They have attacked the Azovstal Ukraine steel plant. So, now, Russia has intensified its strikes in order to save face from their defeats. Russia is a lot weaker not militarily than months ago. Russian forces now control the eastern Luhansk region city of Kreminna. About 100,000 people remain at the city of Mariupol. The battle for Donbas is another chapter in this long war for Ukraine's survival. Putin is a far-right authoritarian who only cares about power. That is why Putin passed laws that harmed the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, and the right to protest.
There is a recent situation of texts among Mike Lee, Mark Meadows, and Chip Roy. These text messages were obtained by the House select committee investigation the January 6th insurrection. Mike Lee is a Senator from Utah, Rep. Chip Roy is from Texas, and Meadows was the former Chief of Staff under Trump. The text message show that Republicans like Lee and Roy were willing to support Trump, and they wanted evidence to promote their cause. They wanted Trump to meet with lawyers like Sidney Powell and John Eastman. Lee and Roy were frustrated with Meadows about how Meadows didn't find evidence to promote the lie that the 2020 election was a fraud. Roy privately didn't want Trump to use wild speculation, but Trump did it. These people should be experiencing an investigation. For all 3 of these far-right extremists to promote the big lie shows what they are. They are antithetical to the tenets of democracy and freedom.
Some sad news is that on April 17, 2022 (or Resurrection Day of 2022), DJ Kay Slay passed away. He was in the hospital for months fighting COVID-19. He was 55 years old. For decades, he has been one of the greatest and famous DJs of hip hop history. Before he passed away, he organized dozens of hip hop artists in doing freestyle songs and music videos with freestyles in them. He released 4 albums. He was born in New York City. As a youth, he was involved in the hip hop scene as a graffiti artist being featured in the 1983 hip hop documentary called Style Wars. Keith Grayson was his name. His nickname was Dez. Kay Slay learned how to DJ from the best like Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Kool DJ Red Alert. He was raised in East Harlem, NYC. He helped to bring Amerie into another level of prominence. He worked with Nas, Foxy Brown, Raekwon, Lloyd Banks, and a who's who of hip hop musicians. As a legendary DJ, he didn't want patronage. He just wanted to live with respect and dignity. He belongs to the ages in the history of music in general.
Rest in Power Brother DJ Kay Slay.
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