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President Richard M. Nixon was one of the most controversial Presidents in history. What you see is what you get with him. His tapes shown what type of man he was. On tapes, we know about his paranoia, his bigotry, and his involvement in the Bohemian Grove. He was completely honest in his pettiness, deviousness, sensitivity, and his calculated motivations for power. It is important to evaluate his life from the beginning to the end, so future generations can witness what not to do. President Richard Nixon was not only complicit in war crimes in the neocolonial wars in Vietnam (and in Cambodia). He funded the FBI's domestic illegal monitoring of progressive groups and any organizations who disagreed with the interests of the reactionary establishment. Nixon made no bones about his disdain of the anti-war movement and the progressive group of Black Panthers. Nixon lived a live in massive eras from the Great Depression to the end of the Cold War. He lived to witness Bill Clinton President and the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War back in the early 1990's. Richard Nixon was constantly claiming to be some moderate, but he allied with people like Ronald Reagan who definitely weren't moderate by any stretch of the imagination. To start, Richard M. Nixon was born to Quaker parents in Yorba Linda, California on January 9, 1913. His parents were Frank and Hannah Milhous Nixon being the 2nd born of five brothers.
Later, Frank Nixon sold the family home in 1922. The family lived in Whittier, California. By 1930, Nixon was 3rd in his high school class. He won many awards like the Harvard Club California award for outstanding all around student. He earned a scholarship to Harvard University. He went to Whittier College, because even back then, Harvard was very expensive. At Whittier College, Richard Nixon was elected student body president, founder, and President of the Orthogonian Society. He joined the debate team, acted in many plays, and was on the football team. Richard Nixon met his future wife, Pat Ryan, at a Whittier Community Players tryout for the play, "The Dark Tower" in 1938. The couple married on June 21, 1940, at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. During World War II, life changed. By 1942, he worked as an attorney at the Office for Price Administration (OPA) in Washington, D.C. where he witnessed first-hand the problems of government bureaucracy. This would cause Nixon to be more conservative in his life. People know that he was a U.S. Navy officer during WWII too. Richard Nixon, when he was in the Navy, worked in the South Pacific at Bougainville and at Green Island. He opened a Nick's Hamburger Stand at Bougainville for flight crews on their way to battle missions. He knew how to play poker while on active duty. Back in Whittier, California, many Republicans wanted him to run for Congress for the U.S. House of Representatives.
In January 1946, he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Lieutenant commander. Richard and Pat Nixon's first daughter, Tricia, was on born on February 21, 1946. By November 1946, Richard Nixon defeated the five-term veteran Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis. He was part of California's 12th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. This was in November 1946. He was a rabid anticommunist. He also promoted the Marshall Plan. Nixon was so anti-communist that he was lead committee member in the investigation of accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss. Hiss was convicted on the charge of perjury as Nixon accused Hiss of being a Communist. By 1950, Nixon was elected to the U.S. Senate after defeating Democratic Congresswoman and Hollywood star Helen Gahagan Douglas. Richard Nixon soon was Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate on July 11, 1952. Eisenhower won the Presidency. Before that, Nixon gave his famous Checker's Speech to confront charges of financial corruption. As Vice President of the United States, Richard Nixon supported Eisenhower's policies. Nixon traveled into Asia and the Middle East on a goodwill tour. Nixon toured with his wife, Pat Nixon, too. By September 1955, President Eisenhower had a heart attack. Nixon had to preside over Cabinet and National Security Council meetings temporarily. By the Spring of 1958, Richard Nixon and his wife traveled into South America in countries from Columbia, Brazil, and to Venezuela. In Caracas, Venezuela, the Vice President and Second Lady narrowly escaped death after a violent communist mob attacks this motorcade.
Richard Nixon loved to debate. So, on July 24, 1959, he had a debate about capitalism and communism with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. It was done at the American Exhibition in Moscow in an event called the "Kitchen Debate." By 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon ran for the President of the United States. He defeated many Republicans in the primary and faced the U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was witty, smart, and charismatic. Nixon was smart too, but he didn't have the charisma that Kennedy had. They had one major television debate. Nixon viewed Kennedy as too soft on Communism. Kennedy wanted to show that Nixon was too rash and even Eisenhower wasn't so keen on Nixon in Kennedy's eyes. Their televised debate was the first one of its kind in American history. On the TV, Nixon was sweating and had difficulty. John F. Kennedy spoke about the New Frontier of creating a new vision for American society. Kennedy's idealism appeared to the youth. Kennedy defeated Nixon being the smallest popular vote margin in American history. The growth of the black American vote, the growth of Kennedy's popularity, and Texas heavily influenced JFK's victory in 1960. Nixon lost the gubernatorial campaign against the progressive Governor Pat Brown. That was in 1962 after he wrote his book "Six Crises." From 1963 to 1967, Nixon traveled the world and campaigned for the GOP candidates in 1964 and in 1966. By 1966, the right-wing movement (aka the white backlash) gained more power in Congress. Reagan was soon the new governor of California by the late 1960's. There were protests for civil rights, anti-war protests, rebellions in urban communities, and other issues going on. Richard Nixon ran for President again in 1968, and he won the Republican nomination. He used the Southern Strategy (which is about using policies to appear to certain people in the South to gain Republican votes) and words about "peace with honor" to promote his campaign. Nixon viewed himself as being in opposition to progressives, who he called the "shouters." His campaign focused on police deification, political polarization, and race baiting rhetoric. 1968 was the times of the assassinations of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy. It was the time of the bloody 1968 police riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in the city of Chicago, where even journalists were beaten up by crooked police officers. Richard Nixon condemned the Black Panthers and any progressive liberation movement. Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey on November 6, 1968. Hubert Humphrey almost won the 1968 election, but his call for a peaceful resolution for the Vietnam War was very late in his campaign. Humphrey was tied to LBJ and broke with him on Vietnam at the very end of the election. He also defeated the Alabama Governor in the Presidential election too. By January 20, 1969, Richard Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th President of the United States of America.
Richard Nixon wanted to be a transformative figure. He promoted Vietnamization. That plan is about funding South Vietnamese forces in the Vietnam War, so they could get enough resources to defeat North Vietnam by themselves over the course of a period of time. This policy obviously didn't work.
Nixon visited France, Great Britain, and the Vatican in February 1969. He praised Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin going to the Moon in a delayed phone call on July 20, 1969. Nixon promoted federalism or a turn from New Deal progressive policies and sent more powers to the state including local governments. He supported the FBI's harassment and illegal monitoring of the Black Panthers, anti-war groups, etc. Nixon's policies on civil rights caused many people to resign from his office. Nixon signed the National Environmental Police Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean War Act, and the invention of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. This environmental policies are things that I have no issue with. He illegally invaded Cambodia which he claimed was giving sanctuary to North Vietnamese military forces. This was on April 30, 1970 causing massive protests nationwide. Then, the Kent State massacre happened when students were shot at by the police. President and Mrs. Nixon’s daughter Tricia married Edward Finch Cox in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 12, 1970. Nixon came into the Soviet Union and China. He wanted to go to China to reduce tensions among both countries. He met with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. China and America built a roadmap to a more peaceful political deal via the Shanghai Communique. By 1972, President Nixon came into the Soviet Union and signed the historic agreement on the limitation of strategic arms with Premier Leonid Brezhnev. He became the first American President to visit the Soviet Union. He won re-election on November 7, 1972, with a large victory against candidate George McGovern. Watergate happened when far right extremists illegally came into the Democratic headquarters. Nixon at first denied any involvement. Later, we know that he was involved in the cover up and he did other immoral acts that cost him the Presidency. By 1973, the United States, South Vietnam, Viet Cong, and North Vietnam formally sign “An Agreement Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam” in Paris.
American POWs came home from Vietnam. On June 22, 1973, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States for the Summitt II talks. A Prevention of Nuclear War Agreement is signed. In October 1973, Nixon gave military aid to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Israel was preemptively attacked in that war. Nixon worked on Middle Eastern policy. Watergate was crashing down on Nixon. Nixon could have been thrown out of office by the Senate, but he resigned as President on August 8, 1974. Gerald Ford took over as United States President. After his Presidency, Richard Nixon worked with Ronald Reagan, Geroge H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton on especially foreign policy affairs. He was interviewed by Frost in the Summer of 1977 which 45 million people watching that show. He wrote his memoirs in 1978 to defend his actions of Watergate. Nixon continued to write book in the 1980's and moved into Saddle River, New Jersey. President Nixon attended the dedication of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace with four Presidents and their First Ladies, and 50,000 friends and supporters (on July 19, 1990). Richard Nixon finished his ninth book, Seize the Moment: America’s Challenge In A One-Superpower World. That was in 1992. First Lady Pat Nixon passed away at Park Ridge, New Jersey on June 22, 1993. She was 81 years old, and Nixon told her passing very hard. She was buried at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. On January 1994, on the 25th Anniversary of his first inauguration, President Nixon opened the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, a Washington foreign policy think tank based on pragmatic and principled realism. Nixon created his final and 10th book called Beyond Peace in 1994. It was published posthumously. President Richard Nixon passed away on April 22, 1994 at New York City, and he was 81 years old.
On April 27, 1994, President Nixon was laid to rest at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, next to First Lady Pat Nixon and just yards away from his birthplace and boyhood home. Presidents Bush, Reagan, Carter, and Ford attended the funeral, as did then-Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. Rev. Billy Graham officiated the ceremonies which tens of millions observed on television. In his eulogy, Senator Dole said that the second half of the 20th century would be known as “The Age of Nixon.” Richard M. Nixon lived a long life, and he had a profound understanding of foreign policy affairs. He was at his core a center-right person, but he certainly followed far right policies on certain issues. Nixon also was more progressive on environmental issues than other Presidents like Trump or Reagan. Nixon's mixed legacy is representative of many Presidents who allowed egoism to overtake their better judgments. They myth of Nixon promoting peace with honor involving Vietnam is easy to refute. Nixon allowed carpet bombing of civilian population centers in North Vietnam, even harbors. He supported Operation Phoenix in South Vietnam, which was an assassination program against suspected "enemies." Nixon supported the secret and illegal bombings against Loas and Cambodia which are overt war crimes and abuses of power. After Watergate, Nixon issued some of the most intellectual commentaries on foreign policy. Therefore, we have to show the truth about President Nixon without whitewashing or compromising.
Charleston White has crossed the line for years by saying F__ the Bible and mocking the deaths of black people (including the hip hop artist DMX). He once against crossed the line by saying that he doesn't care about the deaths of children in Texas done by a school shooter. He claims that since racists don't care about the lives lost in Buffalo, he doesn't care about kids being murdered in Texas. That is illogical and ignorant by him for many reasons. As a human being, we should empathy to our neighbors regardless of the color of their skin. I believe in black liberation, but I won't use my beliefs (in favor of black freedom) to be cruel to people who are not of my ethnic background. The Golden Rule still stands that we treat everyone of any background with dignity and with respect. Also, I believe in Black Love and black solidarity, but Charleston White has a tendency to demonize any black person who disagrees with him. Also, this coward Charleston White in an interview said that Africa stinks and F__ Africa. White is a stone-cold traitor to black people, and there is no other way around it. Anyone supporting Charleston White is a person that I don't follow at all. Africa is the birthplace of humanity with tons of modern amenities, technology, and modern developments. Africa has great, humble people too. We want black people and all people to live on this Earth without murder, and for this coward White to exploit the deaths of innocent black people in Buffalo to minimize the deaths of others in Texas shows his abhorrent character as a man. Charleston White (who loves to call himself a Texas n__a like a sellout that he is) has no character regardless of his charity work in Fort Worth, TX. He's a disgrace and an evil person. A self-hating person like Charleston White and Cynthia G are one and the same. Cynthia G (who lived in Seattle, has sisters, and talked on FOX Soul. Cynthia G is now promoting the sexist and racist debunked Moniyahn Report. Cree7 accused Cynthia G of plagiarizing her work too). We know how anti-black FOX News Channel is. Cynthia G has already admitted publicly that she is not pro-black, so she is not in favor of the interests of black people. She offers no solutions to black people. She doesn't even promote positive stories about black women doing the work, and Cynthia G wants black boys to be extinct, disrespects Stevie Wonder, disrespects the physical appearance of Fantasia (who is a mother, an outstanding singer, and a spiritual black woman), lied on Youtube persons who disagrees with her, loves to call people slurs, allies with Nylah Says plus Taz (Nylah and Taz both are profane and have lax character), and Cynthia G downplays colorism. The divesters and manosphere hypocrites hate black people. They claim to want to defend black men or black women, but they want to appease the views of white racists. They are some of the biggest haters of the African phenotype which is why they want it to be extinct. That is why it is always important for black people to reject the lies from the haters, promote Black Love, and live life righteousness. Real health information, real environmental facts, and growing institutions benefiting us make perfect sense. Only an insane soul hates every black person of the opposite sex. I will forever love black women who gave me my life literally. Anyone who hates black women collectively or hates black men collectively is a traitor to me period. Therefore, these traitors (who are Charleston White, Cynthia G, Tommy Sotomayor, Oshay Jackson, Jaye De Black, Candace Owens, Hershel Walker, Fresh and Fit, etc.) deserve to be left alone peacefully. Another extremist Wack 100 admitted to punching his own mother (who was grabbing someone) in the ribs at a DMV making him lower than low. Candace Owens rejects Juneteenth, but she doesn't condemn Hispanic History month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, or celebrations done about other ethnic groups, because Owens has internal self-hatred. Celebrating Juneteenth has nothing to do with repackaging segregation (that Owens lies about). Juneteenth is about celebrating the power, the strength, and the resiliency of black people against injustice. The views of traitors should be condemned and rejected. We need to build as black people. Black Love is a Revolutionary Act, and we should stand up for freedom and independence for black people globally without apology.
Samuel Henry Giles Jr. was the husband of my 4th paternal cousin Lucinda Cornelia Broadnax. Samuel Giles lived from April 8, 1934 to March 24, 2017 being from Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was born in Axton, Virginia whose parents are the late Peter and Martha Penn Giles. Samuel Giles lived in Bridgeport for 64 years, and he lived to be 82 years old (as a supervisor in the Bridgeport Department of Sanitation with 34 years of service). His wife, Lucinda Cornelia Broadnax, was a great woman, who lived from October 24, 1933 in North Carolina to December 18, 2001 in Bridgeport Connecticut (she married Samuel Henry Giles on May 15, 1954 at Bridgeport, Connecticut). Lucinda and Samuel Giles had these children who are: Eric John Giles (1954-2012), Kimberly A. Giles (b. 1956), Michael S. Giles (b. 1958), Peter Giles (1959-1992), Valerie J. Giles (1961-1965), Desiree Giles (b. 1962), and Marcus Giles. Marcus Giles lives in Georgia, Michael Giles lives in Bridgeport, Kimberly and Desiree Giles live in Bridgeport. Samuel has a brother named Curtis W. Giles of NY and 2 sisters. His sisters are Sarah Valentine of Virginia and Mary E. Dennis of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Samuel and Lucinda Giles have 6 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. Luncinda Cornelia Broadnax is related to me, because we share the same ancestor of George Perkins (b. 1815), who was my 4th great grandfather. Luncinda's parents were Rev. Dennis Daniel Broadnax Jr. (1914-1978) and Jospehine Robertson (b. 1917-1979). My late 3rd cousin Rev. Dennis Daniel Broadnax Jr.'s parents were Dennis Broadnax (1881-1975) and Cynthia (Luncinda) Broadnax (1885-1931). Cynthia (Luncinda) Broadnax's parents were Dennis Harris (1860-1928) and Gundora (Geneva) Perkins (1868-1927). Gundora's parents were George Perkins II (1847-1932) and Fannie Lou Blackstock (1848-1949). George Perkins II's parents are George Perkins I (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816).
Eva Broadnax was my 3rd paternal cousin who lived from May 21, 1914 at Eden, North Carolina to February 4, 2007 at Bridgeport, Connecticut at the age of 92 years old. Eva Broadnax's siblings are: Ollie May Broadnax (1910-1990), Reverend Dennis Daniel Broadnax Jr. (1914-1978), Jeneva Braodnax (1915-1974), Irene Broadnax (1920-2015), Willie Broadnax (b. 1923), Mammie Broadnax (1923-2004), David Daniel Broadnax (1925), Troy Lee Broadnax (b. 1928), Jessie Broadnax (1929-1997), and Gregory Broadnax. She married King William Turner on August 29, 1931 in Danville, Virginia. Their child was King Demarso Turner (b. 1955. He married Laverne in 1977. Later, he married Loretta Robinson on November 5, 1983 in Ansonia, Connecticut). King Turner is my 4th cousin, whose grandmother was Cynthia (Lucinda) Broadnax. We share the same ancestor of George Perkins I (b. 1815).
The late Richard Edward Wilson (1942-1980) was my 5th cousin, and we share the same ancestor of Burwell Williams (or my 6th great grandfather). Burwell Williams was a free African American who married Winifred Woodson-Bozeman. Winifred (Winny) Woodson was a Nottoway Native American whose parents were Mike Bozeman and Nanny Woodson. Nanny Woodson was my 7th great grandmother, who was born during the days of the French and Indian War. Burwell Williams made productive farms on Nottoway Native land. My 6th great grandparents of Winny Woodson and Burwell Williams had many children whose names are: Patsy Woodson-Williams, John Burwell Williams, Mary Woodson-Williams (who was my 5th great grandmother. She lived from 1811 to 1870, and she was the mother of Milly Woodson-Bozeman or my 4th great grandmother. Milly is the mother of Susanna Field Hurst-Turner or my 3rd great grandmother. Susanna married Rev. James Thompson Claud and had a child named Arthur Boss Claud who was my 2nd great grandfather), and Sally Woodson-Williams. Now, my 5th great grandaunt married Robert Wiggins. They had many children who were: Mary J. Wiggins (b. 1843), Margaret Wiggins (b. 1847), Emma Wiggins (b. 1850), John Henry Wiggins (b. 1852), Robert T. Wiggins (1852-1929), Augustus Wiggins (b. 1857), and Richard Wiggins (b. 1859).
It is important to celebrate the life of my late 3rd cousin Hester Louise Wiggins. She was born on October 31, 1927, in Sussex, Virginia, and she married Jaylynn Morrison in February 1952 in Newark, New Jersey. She passed way on October 21, 2016 in New Jersey at the age of 88 years old. We share the same ancestor of Burwell Williams. Her parents were Charlie Lively Wiggins (1881-1961) and Nannie V. Lanier (b. 1895-1963. She was part of Plank Road Baptist Church). Charlie Wiggin's parents are Robert T. Wiggins (1852-1929) and Millie Smith (b. 1857). Robert T. Wiggins's parents are Robert Wiggins and the Nottoway descendant Sally Williams Woodson (b. 1825). Hester Louise Wiggins Morrison was a greatly distinguished Newark educator. She is the aunt of Theodosia, Shirley, Arvella, Jerold, and Kenneth (who are all my 4th cousins).
I have a lot of memories involving the twentieth century. I was blessed enough to live in both the 20th century and the 21st century. Today, it is amazing to see young adults who never saw the 20th century before in their lives (as many 21 years old were born in the year of 2001). Now, it is the perfect time to reflect on the wide-ranging 20th century too. It was a century that lasted from January 1, 1901 to December 31, 2000. It was a time of massive cultural and social developments, world wars, and a sense of a change in humanity. Humanity gained massive technological access, growth of medical innovations, and a new sense of transportation. Although, the same problems of bigotry, poverty, sexism, xenophobia, and other injustices continued to plagued the human race like it always have been. During the 20th century, I was a child and teenager. I was in my adulthood by the 21st century. By the end of the 20th century, I was a teenager, but the 20th century defined my life in many ways. The 20th century is the most important century in human history, because it saw massive decolonization (which saw Nigeria, India, Ghana, and other nations see freedom from imperialism), the defeat of the Axis Powers by the Allied Powers during WWII, the end of legalized Jim Crow apartheid in America, space exploration, the growth of nuclear weapons, the end of South African apartheid, Middle Eastern conflicts, and the end of the Cold War. It made us aware of how wicked some human beings can be, and it showed the breadth of compassion and empathy that tons of human beings do possess. I lived in the last few decades of the 20th century, and my memories of that time then are as vivid as my memories of the 21st century now. When I was in the 20th century, I lived through Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Columbine, The Million Man March (when not a single person in that march stormed the U.S. Capitol back in 1995), Tupac, Biggie, Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston, Waco, the OKC Bombing, Michael Jordan, and so many other occurrences. After all of these years of me living on this Earth, I firmly realize that the 20th century was a one of a time era of the overall human journey.
By Timothy
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Friday, May 27, 2022
Reflections.
The national tragedies of gun violence in Buffalo, California, and in Texas reflects not only the extremist rhetoric of some who worship guns as deities. It also involves a powerful lobby of the NRA and other far-right extremists who believe in a lie that nothing can be done. Nothing can be done are words used by extremists who want inaction instead of real action to confront gun violence. The deaths of elementary school kids and teachers in a Texas elementary is beyond just about mental health matters. It's about evil. It is about the evils of complacency, being neutral, the glorification of military weapons of war being used by unstable human beings, and being politically correct on the matter of gun violence. Reasonable gun control measures have nothing to do with infringing on the 2nd Amendment. There are limitations on freedoms. You can't slander a person, and you can't murder anyone. Therefore, we need background checks, the targeting of the illegal, underground gun market, and investments made in conflict resolutions. Also, we need more gun control laws to save human lives. The murderer shot his own grandmother. Also, we have to address economic inequality that has grown for decades in America. Justice not only is about words. It's about change in policies that go against the agenda of the obstinate few who want the status quo. Now, President Joe Biden is signing an executive order on policing (to require new use of force rules for federal law enforcement and encourage local police departments to make similar changes). The order will make a new database to record officers who were fired for misconduct, require the use of body cameras by federal officers, and have restrictions on federal transfers of military-grade equipment to local police.
The GOP response to the epidemic of gun violence is basically wanting nothing to happen. The lie is that we must do nothing. If we can bring humans to the Moon, we can certainly create solutions to gun violence. There are tons of things that people can do. We should have federal background checks, we should ban disturbed people from owning military weapons of war, we should more gun restrictions to make sure that qualified, law-abiding people own guns, and we should treat this gun violence epidemic as a national emergency. This gun violence doesn't discriminate. It has harmed my people (black people), Asian people, Christians, Muslims, Jewish people, Hispanic people, white people, Jain, and people of every background in the world. People are researching how some police responded to the tragedy. Also, the Uvalde community certainly wants answers. The gunman was out for an hour in the area before legal authorities can into the elementary school building.
There is news about Beto O'Rourke confronting Texas political leaders over the issue of gun violence in Texas. Beto just told the Governor, the Lt. Governor, and others on the panel that something must be done to address the epidemic of gun violence in American society. O'Rourke told them that they have done nothing so far in trying to end the bloodshed. One person got angry and cursed Beto O'Rourke out, but Beto stood his grown to use his free speech rights to make sure that solutions must be enacted. Beto left peacefully and told the crowd outside that action is a necessity. We won't be compromising on making sure that federal background checks and other gun regulations are passed. We have many in the Senate who have refused to do the right thing for political reasons. That ought to end. This issue is a political and moral issue. Either we care for human lives or not. One of the many great ways to care for human lives is to use legitimate regulations to make sure that lives are saved for real.
There is a global monkeypox outbreak in the world. Some want to exploit this illness to promote bigotry and hysteria. We won't. We will stick by the facts. A major case was found in the UK on May 7, 2022. Many cases have climbed into the hundreds in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Oceania. No deaths have existed in this new epidemic. The monkeypox virus was first reported in a human infection back in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is a low mortality rate in this virus as found in its DNA. Some believe that the complete lifting of all social restrictions (used to stop the spread of COVID-19) contributed to the spread of the monkeypox outbreak. That is why we realize that humans, animals, and climate have importance. We have to stop cutting down forests, invest in public health, deal with climate change, and use more progressive farming in the world.
We will never forget about George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. During these times, suffering people have every right to show their emotions of grief, anger, and reflection. Many centuries ago, my ancestors were brought into America in chains. They were given no pay, they were abused, they have split apart from their families, and they were treated less than animals. Yet, my ancestors resisted the injustice of slavery and racism to fight back against evil. Many of my ancestors are farmers, black Union soldiers, WWII veterans, and other heroes who made tons of contributions in the world society. Black people represent one large part of the cultural and intellectual lifeblood of America. America always had the contradictions of claiming to be for liberty, but many of the people in America suffered violations of their own liberties. That is why we have to confront the evil in America to make sure that justice for all is not just saying. We want to make that precept into a glorious reality. Both George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were working-class black people who wanted the best for their families and friends. They were unjustly murdered by brutish cowards. After their deaths, we witnessed activism that sparked the largest anti-racism, and anti-police brutality marches in human history. Such protests didn't just exist in America. They were found in Africa, London, Paris, Asia, Australia, and other places worldwide. The protesters were black people and people of every creed, color, and background too. In spite of these developments, there has not been massive federal legislation to confront anti-black racism, police brutality, or the epidemic of gun violence (just primarily executive orders). That is why voting matters, grassroots activism matters, Black Lives Matter, and speaking your minds matters. One person isn't going to solve this problem. We have to be part of the solution using positive, constructive methods.
By Timothy
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
The Republican Party: History Of Conservatives And Racism In America
The Republican Party: History Of Conservatives And Racism In America (africanglobe.net)
The History of Republican Racism (ezinearticles.com)
Racism has deep roots in the Republican party – The Wayne Stater
How the Republican Party Became The Party of Racism (arada.org)
How The Republican Party Became The Party Of Racism - Community | The NewsTalkers
Tradegy in Texas.
Some sad, breaking news is that there is another deadly shooting at a Texas elementary school. At least 19 children including 2 teachers have been killed in Uvalde, which is about 85 miles west of San Antonio, Texas. At least 21 people, including students, were injured, according to authorities. The suspect is dead according to Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The FBI and the ATF are assisting local police with the investigation. The murderer had body armor, and the Border Patrol agents had to go to the school to neutralize the murderer. Most of the people who were killed were minors who didn't have a chance to live a long life. Their lives were extinguished by a ruthless coward. The Texas school district canceled events after the shooting. This tragedy has happened over 60 times last year. We have an increase in such mass shootings since 2010. We have seen a 50 percent of such shootings since last year. This event shows the necessity for solutions. We know what the solutions are (like federal background checks and other policies that the vast majority of Americans support), but extremists have worshiped guns as idols instead of advancing real solutions to help the people of America.
According to the Oxfam report, millions of human beings on Earth face starvation as food giants' profits increase massively. This risk of more starvation comes from historic food price inflation and shortages. The giant companies are very few that dominate food production and distribution. They are gaining massive profits. This report from Oxfam comes during the gathering of the world's economic and financial leaders held in Davos, Switzerland (called the World Economic Forum). The inflationary food crisis came during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has grown by the war happening in Ukraine (after Russia illegally invaded Ukraine). There are about 276 million food-insecure people worldwide according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Fertilizers and other agricultural inputs have been disrupted. There are 62 new food billionaires being created in the last 2 years. The global food giant Cargill controls more than 70 percent of the global market for agricultural products. Progressive economic solutions are necessary in our times.
The GOP gubernatorial candidate David Perdue made personal attacks against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Perdue said that Abrams should go back to where she come from when Abrams lived in Georgia by the time she was in high school. Purdue accused Abrams of hating the state of Georgia too. Abrams wants to radically improve the state of Georgia. This comes after Abrams said that Georgia is the worst state in the country to live because of maternal mortality rates, mental health care, and mass incarceration. She didn't say that she hates the state of Georgia as Purdue claimed. These primaries are historic as we shall see what the future composition of the Congress and other offices will be by November 2022. We live in unique times, and there are many issues that must be discussed. There are topics of the economy, inflation, oil prices, health care, education, etc. Trump has supported many extreme candidates who even discount the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
President Biden has visited Asia for many days. This comes during the continued Ukrainian war. Also, Biden wants to invest in Taiwan. China and America have tensions too over issues of the South China Sea, Taiwan, trade, and other subjects. China is allied with Russia, but China is more strategic in how it conducts it foreign policy actions than Russia. America has a Quadrilateral Security Dialogue among the U.S., Japan, Australia, and India. Biden met with Finnish and Swedish leaders to discuss both nations' plans to join NATO. After that, Biden went to Seoul in South Korea. Beijing at times wanted to be a mediator in the negotiations to end the Ukrainian war conflict. Biden is overt in his agenda to counteract China in Asia. Biden and South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol want to continue joint military exercises to grow South Korea's military power. No rational, logical person wants a war with China, but extremists desire that.
Days ago was the Birthday of Brother Avery Sunshine (Denise Nicole White), and she is 47 years old. She is one of the most talented singers of our generation being a singer, songwriter, and pianist. Chester, Pennsylvania is the city of her birth. As a leader of R&B and soul music, people great love her inspirational talent. By the time when she was 8 years old, she played the piano. As a child, Denise White loved to study classical music, read hymns, and use jazz. Sunshine loved to perform in churches of many denominations, including the AME Church. She sang in her high school choir. She graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1998 from Spelman College in Atlanta. DaiseyRew was the gospel and R&B singing duo with Maia Knenge Wilson. They were friends at college. DaisyRew performed in churches and clubs around the country. Avery Sunshine made many soulful songs, loves her 2 children, and loves her husband, guitarist Dana Johnson. I wish Sister Avery Sunshine more Blessings.
By Timothy
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Monday, May 23, 2022
The Times of the Past and Present.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson was one of the most important Presidents in American history. His Presidential legacy is mixed. He made great contributions in areas of civil rights, environmental protection, health care, immigration, and other areas. Yet, one of the worst parts of his legacy was not just about his bad policy of defending the Vietnam War. It was also his overall foreign policy being extremist, hawkish, and reactionary in opposition to a more progressive, sober-minded foreign policy agenda. LBJ not only aided with hawkish political leaders, but he executed reactionary policies in the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and other places in the world. To understand fully a person's life, you have to conclusively evaluate his or her life chronologically from the beginning to the end. August 27, 1908, was when Lyndon Baines Johnson was born to Sam Ealy Johnson Jr. and Rebekah Baines Johnson. LBJ was the oldest of his siblings. By 1928, he graduated from Johnson City High School. Early on in his career, he attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now Texas State University). Later, he tutored and taught Mexican American students at a school in Cotulla. First hand, he saw racism and prejudice against Hispanic and Black Americans. By 1930, LBJ graduated from college and taught at Peasall High School and then later Sam Houston High School.
By 1931, Lyndon Baines Johnson served as House of Representative Richard M. Kleberg's legislative secretary. On November 17, 1934, he married Claudia Atla Taylor, or known as "Lady Bird" Claudia. Many people know that LBJ was a World War II veteran when he was appointed as Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1940. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt greatly respected LBJ, and vice versa. By 1941, Lyndon Baines Johnson lost to the incumbent Governor of Texas W. Lee O'Daniel in the race for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination. By December 1941, Representative Lyndon B. Johnson reported to duty to serve in the U.S. Navy. In 1942, FDR sent Johnson to the Southwest Pacific, and he reported to General Douglas MacArthur. On July 17, 1942, Lyndon Johnson returned to Washington, D.C. after he was released from active combat. By 1944, his first daughter, Lynda Bird, was born. His 2nd daughter was born in 1947, and her name is Luci Baines. Lyndon Johnson was Commander of the Navy on October 19, 1949, and he ended his time in the Navy Reserve by January 18, 1964. In 1948, there was a contested Senate. Lyndon Baines Johnson won this time around against the Republican Jack Porter. His victory exised in controversy in the Democratic primary came against Coke Stevenson. LBJ was selected Senate Majority Whip in 1951. Also, he was the Senate Minority Leader in 1952. By 1954, he was elected Senate Majority Leader following the Democrats taking of the Senate. LBJ ran for President in 1950. He lost the Democratic Party nomination to the young Senate from Massachusetts named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JFK had 806. It was a tough and, at times, personal campaign. Kennedy made him his running mate in the 1960 Presidential election. The reason was that John F. Kennedy was smart to want to gain Southern states, especially in Texas.
RFK didn't want LBJ to be the Vice President because of personal reasons. LBJ and RFK didn't like each other. It was personal as Lyndon Johnson bragged about calling RFK's father, Joseph Kennedy as an appeaser. RFK called LBJ a ruthless animal, and LBJ called RFK names as well. Vice President Lyndon Johnson always wanted to be President early on. His role as Vice President was the representative of the President's policies. He spoke and did engagements. One of his most famous speeches as Vice President was when LBJ gave a speech at Gettysburg to call for equality to black people, even before President John F. Kennedy's historic June 11, 1963 speech advocating for the same thing. After John F. Kennedy's evil assassination on November 22, 1963, LBJ was President now. He was the 36th President. On November 29, 1963, LBJ renamed the Apollo Launch Operations Center as the John F. Kennedy Space Center; the Cape Canaveral launch facilities became Cape Kennedy until 1973. In 1964, he not only defeated Republican Barry Goldwater in a landslide election. Barry Goldwater was so extreme that he wanted to stop federal civil rights legislation and possibly use nuclear weapons in North Vietnam. President Johnson promoted a plan to end poverty in America. He fought to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2, 1964. The irony is that for years before the 1960s, LBJ voted against every civil rights bill ever introduced on the Hill in favor of states' rights. He changed his mind because he could never be a Democratic President opposing federal civil rights legislation. Times were changing. 1964 was the year of the birth of LBJ's The Great Society. The Great Society was a federal government program to fund investments to help American society. He defeated Goldwater by a margin of close to 16 million popular votes. In 1965, he signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Also, he signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 being one of the most progressive forms of legislation in human history. The new law helped to expand human rights to black people and all Americans. It came after the Selma voting rights movement existed in Alabama. It was the peak of the support of the Civil Rights Movement. Afterward, the Watts rebellion happened in 1965. In 1965, President Johnson supported the overthrow in Brazil and forced out George Papandreou in Greece in 1965. These are reactionary policies. The Greek ambassador protested this development, and LBJ replied to the ambassador in these words, "Then listen to me Mr. Ambassador: F___ your Parliament and your Constitution. America is the elephant. They may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good...We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mr. Ambassador. If your Prime Minister gives me talk about Democracy, Parliament, and Constitutions, he, his Parliament, and his Constitution may not last very long," (William Blum, The CIA: A Forgotten History, pg. 244). So, it is clear, that President Johnson was a complete extremist on international issues. While, President John F. Kennedy wanted to go about promoting nationalism in Congo, Indochina, the Middle East, and Indonesia to make these nations independent, LBJ did the opposite. Kennedy was working on modes of detente with Cuba and the USSR by 1963. This was hated by the military-industrial complex. Then, you have the far-right backlash growing in 1966. Republicans gained power in Congress and in other institutions of power nationwide. The Vietnam War has grown even more during the Johnson administration. LBJ was stubborn to support a near-permanent military presence to fight North Vietnam, when a peaceful negotiated settlement is the best way to end that war.
By the year of 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court, and he appointed Robert C. Weaver to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. After the evil assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 to fight housing discrimination. By October 22, 1968, he signed the Gun Control Act of 1968. By this time, his approval ratings drop as the anti-Vietnam War movement increased. Many people want the war to end, and LBJ refuses to do so. In 1968, Hubert Humphrey (his Vice President) lost the 1968 Presidential election to Richard M. Nixon. Humphrey almost won the race, but he announced a plan for peace talks late in his campaign. By January 1969, President Lyndon Johnson leaves the White House, and in 1970, he had many heart attacks. He supports the liberal Democratic Presidential candidate in 1972, who was George McGovern. LBJ was concerned about the Democratic Party being too left, but the neoliberals would gain power later on. After 1972, the Democratic Party would shift to the right, and the Republican Party would be even more far-right. Nixon won re-election, and LBJ passed away in 1973. LBJ fought heart disease, and he continued to smoke cigarettes constantly. Lyndon Baines Johnson could have been one of the greatest Presidents in history, but his extremist foreign policy ended his Presidency rapidly. He combined many legitimate legislative reforms along with supporting a bad Vietnam War policy stubbornly.
The era of the Presidency from the end of WWI to the peak of Cold War tensions saw amazing developments. During that time, there were both working-class movements for economic justice, the decline of economic inequality, and movements for social change. Also, this time saw the far right wing backlash that wanted corporations to reverse the gains of struggle. History teaches us logically that progress only comes by human struggle and resistance against evils including injustice in our world. That time saw super anti-communist paranoia in the realm of McCarthyism that violated untold lives of human civil liberties (in contradiction to the right of free speech as found in the First Amendment). This era saw the Democratic Party reach huge power making up of black people, union workers, other workers, women, ethnic minorities, and other human beings. The contradiction of the time was that while many legitimate laws existed to help people, oppression was widespread against black people and other marganlized communities. The Cold War was so violent that near nuclear war happened between America and the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was an era of massive change like the Allied defeat of the Axis Powers during World War II, the Korean War, the rise including fall of Joseph McCarthy, and the early start of the Vietnam War. Presidents from Herbert Hoover to John F. Kennedy witnessed so much, but it would be a long way to go in seeing the Dream of human equality to be realized in America plus the world. After this era, the world saw Johnson, Nixon, and others who saw the conclusion of the Cold War. Cultural changes continued along with economic problems. Political polarization increased along with the continued progressive fight for freedom too.
We live in many uncertain times to be honest. There are stagflation and recession concerns. Stagflation is an economic reality where stagnant economic growth is mixed with high inflation. Inflation being high increases the prices of foods, homes, cars, and other items or resources. Stagflation happened in the late 60's and early 70's, and Nixon made the controversial price controls. That is why how the economy is during the late summer and early fall of 2022 will determine who will win the House and the Senate after the 2022 election. Many stakes are high. We have high oil prices too. Davos is having a high level economic meeting too, and there are more calls to advocate regulations of the new crypto market. One of the most important news is that many of us thought that the Reagan Revolution would end. It is gone which is good news. The bad news is that the Reagan Revolution is replaced by the reactionary, fascist Trump movement (or MAGA) spreading in America. About 1/3 of Americans at least are full on MAGA. This movement is overtly bigoted and racist without any pretense of tolerance. Its supporters hate democratic rights for black people, women, the disabled, and other minorities. They seek to ban anti-racism books, deprive the rights of human beings, advance voter suppression laws, endorse obscene anti-immigrant policies, and desire a theocratic, nationalist state basically speaking. Many preachers in favor of this heresy of Trumpism make a mockery of God by defending Trump (who curses out even peaceful protesters, was accused of sexual assault against women, refuse to ask God for forgiveness, involved in stirring up an attempt coup d'etat against the American government, and is a habitutal liar). We also have neo-liberal centrists who want the status quo instead of revolutionary change to help humanity too.
The opposition to Trumpism is real. The propagandists of Trump are real too with people like DeSantis, Hawley, Cruz, Gosar, and Carlson daily making up lies and seeking ruination of democracy. Many Republicans even believe in the racist replacement theory lie (which believes in a conspiracy that elites want to intentionally eliminate white people for political purposes). We have to call out racism and fascism too. This Trumpism and far right extremism are the biggest threats of our lives in our generation. There is no other way to put it.
The Ukraine war continues after Russia established an unjust invasion of Ukraine. We are in solidarity with freedom loving people everywhere. This war has brought up more extremists. There are 2 major types of these people. One type supports Putin unconditionally and the other group tries to sugarcoat the errors of NATO. Both groups forget that Ukraine should have its independence without the status quo. There is a hypocrisy among both of these extremists. The extremists, who want to minimize the war crimes of Putin, are very silent on Russia' authoritarian regime and even China's censorship of the Internet (including China's restrictive religious freedom policies). The extremists, who worship NATO, omit that many factions of the U.S. government do in fact fund the authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia, some nations in Central America, and the US/NATO invasion of Libya (that was not only unjust but harmed many of the black Libyan population of Libya). Many in the West have more empathy for Ukrainian refugees than other refugees of color. The United States wants Putin to be tried for war crimes as he should, but many U.S. imperialists should always be placed on war crimes for their roles in the invasion if Iraq, drone strikes, torture in various camp sites, and the destruction of Libya. The West grants Ukrainian war refugees asylum in America (which is just), but some in the West refuge to give the same protections to Africans, Middle Easterners, Latin Americans, and Southwest Asian people. We are opposed to imperialism. That means that Putin is wrong for his criminal invasion of Ukraine and Western war crimes are wrong too. It is right to condemn the far right racist Avoz Battalion and the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group too. That represents moral consistency. At the end of the day, it benefits no one to have a long drawn out war in Ukraine. Economic destruction, extra food shortages, more civilian deaths, and more choas will come about. The only solution is a peaceful, negotiated settlement, and Ukraine being an independent nation without being a client state to America or Russia. In America, we must oppose the fascism by the GOP in America too.
Recently, filmmaker Oliver Stone made a film JFK: Destiny Betrayed. That is about setting the record straight about many misconceptions about John F. Kennedy made by the far right and some in the liberal establishment. The big myth about John F. Kennedy is that he was planned to expand military involvement in the Vietnam War in the level of President Johnson. We know this to be not true. We know that Kennedy was already starting to plan to withdrawal all U.S. troops from Vietnam by 1965 via NSAM 263. After Kennedy's assassination, LBJ reversed NSAM 265. McNamara admitted in the film Fog of War that Kennedy was planning to withdrawal from Vietnam. JFK wanted all responsibility for the conflict over to South Vietnam. Kennedy overruled objections to the withdrawal plan by people who are National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy and Joint Chiefs Chairman Max Taylor. Taylor agreed with the escalation of military involvement in the Vietnam conflict. LBJ objected the withdrawal plan of Kennedy by his own words. It's very clear what the truth is. President John F. Kennedy's more opened minded views on Africa and Indonesia are proven in books of JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia by Greg Poulgrain (in 2020) and Philip Meuhlenbeck's Betting on the Africans (2012). John K. Galbraith was an economic scholar who advised Kennedy to withdrawal from Vietnam as did even Douglas MacArthur. John F. Kennedy wanted to aid nations, even if they were neutral during the Cold War. John Foster Dulles didn't want this concept of neutrality at all.
By Timothy
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Friday, May 20, 2022
Late May 2022 News.
Today, it is important to show some good news. There has been a new deal that allows U.S. women's and men's soccer teams to be paid equally. The deal was announced by the U.S. Soccer Federation. It was revealed on Wednesday on May 18, 2022. For years, we know about the wage gap between men and women soccer players (and men and women workers in general). This new collective bargaining agreement will last through 2028. It is certainly a very historical development. It will give the U.S. women's soccer team $22 million in back pay. The soccer player Becky Sauerbrunn has supported his agreement too. U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone said that the agreement has changed sports forever. The House passed a bill condemning the Buffalo massacre and a bill to help give baby formula aid via WIC to low-income families. The Access to Baby Formula Act was passed in a House vote of 414-9. It relaxes restrictions on the kinds of baby formula that low-income families can purchase. Republicans who opposed the legislation are: Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Clay Higgins, Thomas Massie, and Chip Roy. These GOP members are cruel plainly speaking.
It is certainly time to expose Charleston White and Wack 100 once again. They are 2 sides of the same coin. They claim to support positivity and philanthropy (they claim to fund kids' football games, talk to youth, and do other things related to the community), but they are constantly involved in causing divisions (based on region, culture, and other matters), cursing people out unnecessarily, and disrespecting folks in the most vicious ways possible. You can't claim to be a role model and go about causing unnecessary divisions, mock people's suffering, and be disrespectful for no legitimate reason. That is a contradiction, and both of these cowards represent that contradiction to the fullest. Charleston White recently not only disrespected New York City. He disrespected DMX and his children. He disrespected another man's daughter, and he went out of his way to mock DMX's death again. He is lower than low. I have no respect for him. White is the person who said that he didn't care about the Twin Towers falling when innocent people died in that 9/11 event. He's a piece of work. He hides his hate by saying that he is from Texas (at Fort Worth). I have kinfolks who live in Texas. I know Texas (from its history to its diverse, beautiful cultures), and Charleston White is not representative of the real honorable people of Texas. Wack 100 (who is from Pacoima, California) is a vile person who disrespects people's mothers and grandmothers in the most vulgar terms like Wack disrespecting Hocus 45th's mother. Wack 100 was a track driver, and there is nothing wrong with being a truck driver. The problem with Wack 100 is that speculates on things that sometimes that he doesn't know and goes around claiming to be immune from any critique (like many of his puppets in Clubhouse act like). He also is a person who disrespected Tupac and allies with a racist and federal informant Tekahasi (who has been convicted of working with people who abused a minor. Tekahasi is a well-known troll, a disgrace to real hip hop music, and a wicked person). So, these 2 people (Charleston White and Wack 100) are folks that we should totally reject.
Wall Street continues to plunge. Many experts are warning that if nothing changes in the market, another recession could exist. We had recessions before in 2020 and in 2008. It's nothing new, but recessions harm human lives, infrastructure, jobs, and other aspects of our society. The recent decline was the biggest decline since the October 1987 massive crash. The comes with higher interest rates in the past months. The Federal Reserve wants to cut off supply to the economy, according to them, in order to slow the growth of the economy (and then lower inflation). That is why the NASDAQ index has failed by more than 25 percent this year. The Dow lost more than 1,1,00 points on Wednesday which is its worst day in almost 2 years. The shares of Target, one of the biggest U.S. retailers, plunged by 25 percent after the company had its costs rise by 1 billion dollars (via higher gas prices and transportation costs). The Ukraine war, speculation, and other events have contributed to the food crisis and other events. We have to know that many capitalist Wall Street leaders advocate for lower wages, cuts to social services, and other reactionary policies.
Yesterday was the Birthday of the late Brother Malcolm X. He was one of the most courageous, strongest black heroes of human history. He taught us about self-respect, confidence, and love of Blackness. In an age now, where some of our people have self-hatred, want to lust for white token acceptance, and racial plus economic tensions, we see Malcolm X as a leading example of how black people have every right to stand up for freedom and justice. He lived a life of massive ideological evolutions. His parents were Garveyites, as Marcus Garvey was one of the major people of the 20th century. Malcolm X was born in the Midwest in Omaha, Nebraska in 1925. He moved into places like Chicago, Boston, and New York City. After his time in prison, he became a faithful member of the Nation of Islam. Even when he was in the NOI, no one could refute his arguments about black oppression caused by the system of racism, that Black is Beautiful, and that black people must stand up for ourselves to experience true liberation as human beings.
By 1964, he left the NOI to form the OAAU or the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He rejected calling himself a Negro, and Malcolm X said that he was an African American to promote the unity of the African Diaspora. When we black Americans link up with black people globally, we grow our power and influence on the world stage as Malcolm X has accurately said. He loved his wife, Betty Shabazz, and their many children. Malcolm X also opposed imperialism and members of the liberal establishment who may talk a good game but refuse to stand up to imperialism (and racial injustice at a higher level at home). Malcolm X was certainly ahead of his time predicting the future rebellions of the 1960's, the defeat of the West in the Vietnam War, and the growth of the Pan-African unity movement. Malcolm X was a friend to many of our icons like Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Maya Angelou, Dr. Henrik Clarke, and other leaders. He passed away in February of 1965, but his legacy lives on forevermore.
Rest in Power Brother Malcolm X.
By Timothy
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
The New White Supremacist Consensus Part Two: Shootings in Buffalo Solidify the Consensus
Note by Me: I don't agree with the author's Pro-Putin propaganda.
By Timothy
More Developments of the World.
There is a lot of political news going on. Right now, the Pennsylvania GOP primary is in a tight race between Oz and McCormick. Barnette is trailing in third place after a final surge. Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman is recovering after the stroke. Fetterman defeated moderate Conor Lamb as it's a victory for progressive Democrats. North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his primary in the GOP. He was supported by Trump proving that Trump isn't enough to promote Madison (who is an extremist and a bigot). The election denier Mastriano won the GOP primary for the Pennsylvania gubernatorial primary. He will face the Democrat Josh Sapiro, the current state attorney general, in November. Shapiro is right to say that Mastriano is an extremist who wants to take away people's rights. Mastriano spent more than $3,000 from his campaign account to charter buses to Washington, D>C. to promote the Stop the Steal hate rally on January 6, 2021. The moderate Democrat Kurt Schrader voted against the American Rescue Plan, and he is facing the progressive candidate McLeod-Skinner in Oregon out west. We live in important times where we have a choice between a multicultural democratic American society or fascism. There is no other option. There are our choices. Either we have justice or not. We have to do our parts to defeat fascism worldwide as our ancestors fought back against injustices decades and centuries ago.
FOX News is lower than low including their puppet Tucker Carlson. Carlson said the lie that racism had nothing to do with the Buffalo shooting. Carlson blamed mental illness, Biden, and progressives for it. He is a disgrace. The murderer was a person who wrote a manifesto detailing his bigotry and racism against black people. He took the lives of 10 African Americans in a brutal fashion. The victims' families will suffer pain for the rest of their lives. This person Carlson wants to trivialize their deaths for the sake of promoting the known lie of replacement theory. Confronting structural racism is necessary. I do agree with President Biden that anyone silent on white racism is complicit in it. FOX News is complicit in allowing fascist propaganda to spread in the world. Many in the GOP leadership are complicit in spreading racism and xenophobia overtly. That is why Buffalo is owed more respect than the sick rhetoric from FOX News. The victims were some of the greatest men and women of our generation. They were parents, family members, and loved life. Their lives should always motivate us to do better in our own lives.
The Buffalo shooting and other events are realities. We have seen the Republican Party be not even more reactionary. It has been more fascistic. President Biden will be going to Buffalo today to speak on the fascist gunman who murdered 10 African Americans at a supermarket on Buffalo's east side on Saturday. The Republican Party is so extreme that many of its members advance racist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic rhetoric. Payton Gendron, the murderer, had a 180-page manifesto filled with anti-Semitism and anti-black racism. The words in it were heavily copied by the Neo-Nazi fascist shooter Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway. The gunman in Buffalo was never a "lone wolf," and he was part of an international fascist movement. Tucker Carlson believed in the false replacement theory view just like Gendron. Republicans like Matt Gaetz, Scott Perry, and Charlie Kirk believe in the racist replacement lie. Fascists on January 6, 2021, attempted a coup d'état against the American government. Trump agitated for the insurrection too. The GOP movement blames migrants and immigrants in general for issues in America in a bigoted way. They want to promote the anti-democratic Title 42, they have promoted the banning of books, they support voter suppression efforts, and they have whitewashed American history. Many fascists tried to kidnap or kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The act of terrorism in Buffalo, New York is a political crime, a hate crime, and an act of terrorism. The community is hurting on an extreme level. First, it is clear that the far-right white racist murdered mothers, grandmothers, fathers, and other heroes who were just living their lives. This tragedy is certainly a wake-up call that societies worldwide must confront racism, economic oppression, and xenophobia if the world seeks to realize justice for all for real. Words are needed, but words aren't enough. We certainly have to be better people in our daily lives to not tolerate hate speech, to promote laws that advance justice, and end structural injustices period. That means poor and oppressed communities need resources, institutions, and other policies that advance racial and economic justice. That means we have universal healthcare and an end to racial profiling. That means reparations for black Americans that most African Americans support explicitly. This hatred has been enabled by many GOP leaders who advance such hate speech. Even Liz Cheney is right to say this. Brian Babin of Texas promoted the replacement theory lie. Scott Perry has promoted that lie too along with Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Elise Stefanik has lied about migrant babies too.
Yesterday was the Birthday of Sister Cynda Williams, and she is 57 years old. She is a famous American actress being part of TV shows and movies. She graduated from Ball State University. Many people know her as being a prominent singer. She was born in Chicago. Williams was raised in the Pullman neighborhood of the south side of Chicago. She lived in Indiana for a while, where she sang in her grandfather's church. She was in movies like Mo' Better Bules in 1990, On False Move, and Turning Point. She loves her child. I wish Sister Cynda Williams more Blessings.
By Timothy
Monday, May 16, 2022
Cultural Facts.
There are many people on my paternal side of the family who are related to my 5th great grandfather named Benjamin Brickhouse I (b. 1750). He married a woman named Polly Brickhouse (b. 1760). Their children are Nathaniel Brickhouse (b. 1780) and Benjamin Brickhouse II (1791-1878). Benjamin Brickhouse II was my 4th great grandfather. He married Eliza Collins (b. 1805). Their children are Johnson Brickhouse (b. 1826. He was a Union civil war veteran and my 3rd great grandfather. His daughter was my 2nd great grandmother Esther Brickhouse Bailey who lived from 1862 to 1955) and Benjamin Brickhouse III (b. 1838). My 3rd great-granduncle Benjamin Brickhouse III married Mary Perkins and had the following children of: Florence Brickhouse (b. 1870) and Pauline Brickhouse (1873-1936). Florence Brickhouse was born in Northampton County, Virginia, and she was my 1st cousin. She married George Johnson (1866-1940) on February 23, 1891, in Northampton County, Virginia. Their children are Amos Johnson (b. 1889), George Johnson (b. 1893), and Lenwood Johnson (1896-1972. He married Millie Pearl Kellam White on March 9, 1969, at Accomac, Virginia). My 2nd cousin Amos Johnson had 2 wives. His first wife was Catherine Ames (b. 1892), and they both married on May 18, 1910, at Northampton County, Virginia. Their 2 children are: Donzella Johnson (1910-1978) and Edward Johnson (1916-1979). Amos Johnson's 2nd wife was Rosie S. Hanmann (b. 1900). Their children are: Edwin E. Johnson (b. 1924), Shellman Dewitt Johnson Sr. (1931-2008), Ruth B. Johnson (b. 1933), Vernon L. Johnson (1934-1982. He married Jean Hair [1937-1995] and had many children like Vernon L. Johnson and 2 daughters), Shirley Jeanette Johnson (b. 1936), Rosie B. Johnson (b. 1938), Warfield Lorenzo Johnson (1939-2004), and Cakelvin D. Johnson (b. 1941). All of these children are my 3 cousins.
On my mother's side Charles Peeples and Fannie Brown had a daughter named Lizzie Peeples (1887-1964). Charles and Fannie were my 2nd great-grandparents. Lizzie Peeples married twice. Her first husband was Thomas Spady (b. 1886) with the children of Oldin Spady (b. 1908) and Mason Spady (b. 1911). Her 2nd husband was Jessie Jones, and their children are Viola Emily Jones (1909-1958. She lived in Pocomoke County in Maryland) and John Mason Jones. Viola Emily Jones was my 1st cousin. She married Levin A. Moses Jr. (1905-1986) on October 15, 1927, in Northampton County, Virginia. Viola Emily Jones and Levin A. Moses Jr. had many children who were Ralph Ealie Moses Sr. (1927-2011) and Fannie B. Moses Brittingham (1928-2004). Ralph Ealie Moses Sr. married Lottie Polk Moses and their children are Claudis Moses (1956-2012), Victoria Handy, Brenda Dale, Virginia Borin, Patricia Moses, Timothy Moses, and Ralph Moses II. These children are my 3rd cousins. My 3rd cousin Claudius Moses was born on July 8, 1956, in Salisbury, Maryland. Claudius Moses married his life Carrie Moses of Dover for 26 years. His children lived in Dover and Princess Anne, Maryland. He lived in Dover, Delaware. He has three grandchildren. My 3rd cousin Ralph Moses II married Ophelia Moses (b. 1950), and their children are: Tiffiny N. Moses (b. 1975), Ralph Ealie Moses III (1978-2006), Myra White, and Ericka Johnson. My 2nd cousin Fannie B. Moses Brittingham and James H. Finney Sr. had the child of Theophilus Eugene Moses (1965-2021). She and Vernon Archie Hope (b. 1930) had the child of Annette Denise Moses (b. 1962). Fannie and Richard Thomas Brittingham Sr. (1929-2007) had the children of Arnelda Fannie Brittingham Redding (b. 1953), and Arvenia Viola Brittingham Saunders (b. 1954).
There are tons of Winter Olympic events that have stood the test of time. Bonnie Blair during the games in Calgary, Albertville, and Lillehammer collected six medals. She won the top spot in both the 500m and 1,000m speed skating races in 1992 and in 1994. She was one of the greatest speed skating athletes in history. Hermann Maier overcame a crash to win gold at the Olympics in Nagano in 1998. He won gold in the giant slalom and Super G games. There was the Forgotten Miracle in 1960 when the U.S. ice hockey team defeated Canada for Olympic gold. The U.S. came into the games as severe underdogs who some have said didn't have a chance against the Soviet Union and Canada. Yet, the naysayers were wrong creating one of the greatest Olympic triumphs in history. The U.S. repeated the feat in 1980. Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy swept the alpine skiing events at the 1968 Olympics. Nancy Kerrigan won silver during the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer despite being assaulted by Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
The racist terrorist attack on black people (including 2 white people) via a vicious hate crime shows us that the evil of racism must be condemned. It must be eradicated completely. The murderer had multiple 30-round magazines. The murderer had a 180-page manifesto that promoted the evil myth of replacement theory. This lie teaches the myth that there is a conspiracy by certain people to eliminate the white population from the face of the Earth. The murderers hated black people, Jewish people, and immigrants as shown in his wicked manifesto. He killed innocent people in a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday, May 14, 2022. This act was an act of racially motivated violent terrorism. His murders were shown on Twitch until Twitch banned it. Local authorities and the FBI are investigating the tragedy. A peaceful rally has existed to show compassion to the victims and their families. The Buffalo mayor is right to say that the murders are a racist hate crime period. The killer's name is Payton Gendron. He was not from Buffalo but an area many miles outside of the community. He is from Conklin, New York. Gendron used body armor and had three firearms. He has a semiautomatic rifle, a hunting rifle, and a shotgun. He had a head-mounted camera. On one weapon, there was a racial slur on it. The shooter shot 4 people in the parking out, then he shot people in the store, yelling out racist slurs at people. This proves that racism is not gone. We have an epidemic of racism in America plus throughout the world. Trump, far-right extremists, and far-right media propagandists have promoted this xenophobia, racism, and hatred for decades. Today, the biggest domestic threat in America is still far-right white racist terrorism. The police talked him down from committing suicide. Erie County D.A. John Flynn is looking into potential terrorism and hate crimes. The murderer (who threatened human lives before and warning signs were ignored) faces life in prison without parole as the maximum sentence. The worship of guns above the respect for the dignity of human life is the epitome of the philosophy of far-right extremism. The killer traveled over 100 miles to murder people because of racial hatred. That's evil. These liars even call legitimate gun regulations equivalent to gun confiscation of law-abiding citizens. That is a lie. We don't want law-abiding citizens to be stripped of their rights. We want regulations on guns, so lives can be saved. Geraldine Talley was one of the victims being only 62 when she passed. She was shopping with her fiancé. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a $2.8 million in funding for the victims and their families. A heroic security Aaron Salter sacrificed his life to save others, and he was murdered by the gunman. Also, Buffalo has a long history of racial discrimination, segregation, and economic oppression. So, we must deal with the structural forms of oppression to make Buffalo and the world better.
There are many artists in 2022. One artist was Inayah Lamis. She was a singer, songwriter, and a person who is just getting started. She worked in the singing competition shows like American Idol and The Voice. She is from Houston, Texas. In 2022, we have a new generation of artists showing their views like Muni Long's Another, Normani's Fair, Kem's Stuck on You, and Lucky Daye's Over. On May 6, 2022, Ella Mai released her 2nd studio album named Heart on My Sleeve. This album has many ballads and vocals showing her maturity as an artist. The album is about the ups and downs of love plus romance. It even has the gospel singer Kirk Franklin and the R&B legend Mary J. Blige on the album. Her songs on Heart on My Sleeve don't place love in the sense that it's completely perfect. It doesn't sugarcoat how messy relationships are, but it does have the dream that true love can be attained. It's difficult to find true love, the songs want that quest to be fulfilled massively. When she was growing up, she was a fan of Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliot. Music continues to change and grow as we continue to live in the 2020s.
Jesse Owens has always shown courage and militancy in track and field and outside of the sport. He refuted the Nazi myth of racial inferiority, and he is one of the best athletes of all time. That is why he won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. True militancy is not just saying words. It is also about using actions to form policies, programs, and institutions to benefit the people collectively. That is why Jesse Owens joined Abe Saperstein to help create the West Coast Negro League in 1946. Owens was the Vice President and owner of the Portland (Oregon) Rosebuds franchise. During one time, he didn't supported the black power salute by African American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics. He changed his mind in his 1972 book called I Have Changed. He wrote that, "I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward." When you think about courage, Jesse Owens represents total courage on the track and in real life to the fullest.
2022 in track and field is one of the most exciting years in track and field professionally in a long time. With the 2022 World Track and Field Championships coming up soon. We know tons of things going on. The 2022 Doha Diamond League results are still occurring. For the women's 200m in Doha, America's Gabrielle Thomas won gold with a time of 21.98, Shericka Jackson of Jamaica was second with the time of 22.07, and Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith won third with the time of 22.37. For the men's 200m, Noah Lyles of America won first with 19.72, America's Fred Kerley won 2nd with 19.75, and Jereem Richards won third with a time of 20.15. For the 400m, Marilediy Paulino won first with 51.2 seconds (from the Dominican Republic), Stephanie Ann McPherson of Jamaica won 2nd with 51.69, and Shaunae Miller-Uibo won third from the Bahamas with the rime of 52.09. For the men's 400 m, Alison Dos Santos of Brazil won first with 47.49 seconds, Rai Benjamin won 2nd with 47.49 seconds, and Thomas Barr won third with 49.67 seconds.
By Timothy
Friday, May 13, 2022
Friday News about the World.
Some breaking news is that the January 6 committee issued subpoenas to 5 Republicans including Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy is the Minority Leader of the House. McCarthy and the four other Republican lawmakers have rejected the panel's requests to voluntarily cooperate. If they have nothing to hide, they would have easily cooperated in a voluntary fashion. The other Republicans with the subpoenas are Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. Many people on the committee debated for months on whether to subpoena them or not. The committee desired as many facts as possible on how the January 6th event took place and if the Congressional people had involvement. We already know that Trump agitated the terrorists to committee the insurrection against American democracy on January 6, 2021. The GOP members have a legal obligation now to tell the committee about what they know. The House select committee continues to work, and prosecutors are pursuing information on Trump's Mar-a-Lago dealings.
Some sad news is that the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead while covering the Israeli military operation in West Bank. Shireen is an American citizen. Immediately, the U.S. government wanted Israeli authorities to have an investigation into her death. The Israeli government originally said that Palestinian forces killed her. When human beings exposed that as false, then Israeli authorities have called for an investigation. She was investigating and covering an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday. Abu Akleh's producer, Ali Al-Samudi, was also shot and is in stable condition. Al Jazeera has accused Israeli security forces of deliberating targeting and killing Abu Akleh, who was just only 54 years old. Israel has said that it will complete an investigation. People are skeptical about it. The person responsible for her death should definitely be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
Days ago was the Birthday of Sister Dr. Holly Hatcher-Frazier, and she is 52 years old. She loves her husband and 2 sons. She earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an expert of dance who has helped enrich the culture of human dancing for years. She earned her master's degree at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Frazier is from the Bronx, New York City. Not to mention that Dr. Frazier is the author of many books. Many human beings know her from being on the show Dance Moms. For years, she has been on the board of educational institutions and is an active member of many charity organizations. That certainly means that she is active in participating in social work. Her love of African dancing is well known, and she is known worldwide advocate for the spread of education. I wish Sister Dr. Holly Frazier more Blessings.
The war in Ukraine continues. Ukraine continues to have its counterattacks near the Russian border in Kharkiv. Moscow is scared, but they want to continue in the battles. Missiles hit two areas of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine, according to the city's mayor. The city is a main goal of Russian forces trying to push south into Donetsk region. Ukraine. The U.S. House of Representatives approved an additional $40 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine, as the U.S. intelligence community said that it believes that Putin's war is likely to be "more unpredictable and escalatory." The first Russian soldier will stand trial in the death of a Ukrainian man, according to a prosecutor. The innocent man killed was a 62-year-old man. The indictment is against Vadim Shishimrin, the commander of the military unit 32010 of the 4th Tank Kantemirov Division of Moscow region. Shishimarin is in custody now. The nation of Finland wants to join NATO now. Putin has threatened Finland if Finland actually becomes a member of the NATO alliance.
Some breaking, sad news is that Judge Hatchett (we know her as a qualified judge who has been on TV and worked in philanthropy for years) was a victim of a sexual assault by a racist Sheriff Coddy in Georgia. Judge Hatchett is a well respect elder in our community. One black man intervened to stop Coddy from going further and told him to get out of the place. Now, Coddy is being charged. We reject any harassment and assault period. No human being should be mistreated verbally or physically. We all wish Judge Hatchett the best, and we want that Sheriff to have a trial and have justice. We desire justice, as none of our people or any human being should experience such an injustice. This story refutes respectability politics. Racists view black people as objects, not as equal human beings. This low-life Coddy deserves no respect. I'm glad that the Brother stopped Coddy's sick actions. Judge Hatchett supported us via heroism and greatness in her life. We must support her with our solidarity during this time.
By Timothy
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Political and Social News.
It is ironic that Elon Musk (the richest person in the world) wants to let one of the worst Presidents in American history back on Twitter. Trump was banned not because of censorship. Trump promoted hate speech, lies, slurs, and overt racism when he was on Twitter. That is why Donald Trump's Twitter account was banned, and Twitter is a private company. His role in the January 6th insurrection on the U.S. Capitol should cause anyone to see that Trump's legacy is filled with corruption and extremism. The Republican Party is known for taking away rights. The common myth is that them taking away rights from certain human beings doesn't deal with me. The truth is that oppression against any group of people is an attack on all of us, regardless of our background. When the GOP abuses the filibuster, harms the rights of women, invades privacy, bans legitimate anti-racism books, harms voting rights, and cries about critical race theory, it shows that they aren't in favor of the freedom of speech or the freedom of expression. They are in favor of an authoritarian, neo-fascist agenda. A conflict of interest is found in the Supreme Court when Clarence Thomas's wife, Ginni Thomas, tried to overturn the 2020 election (Clarence Thomas voted to keep White House messages secret). That is a total emergency in the Supreme Court.
There are massive strikes worldwide in their fight for economic rights and working rights in general. For example, workers in Sri Lanka are trying to fight government corruption. There are medical students joined by workers protesting at Ragama, Sri Lanka on May 9, 2002, against the attack at Galle Face. There is a nationwide curfew done by President Gotabhaya Rajapakse. Mass protests have existed across Sri Lanka to demand the resignation of the president and his government. People, in Sri Lanka, are having skyrocketing prices, power outages being lengths, and a shortage of food, fuel, and medicines. In Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County workers voted by 98 percent to have strike action. Many medical workers have been involved in a strike for real change. 20,000 dockworkers in Los Angeles and on the West Coast, in general, want to have adequate jobs and benefits. There are protests in Santiago, Chile where workers want no repression. Many unarmed protesters were attacked in Chile too. Many journalists were shot at while reporting on demonstrations in Chile.
Russia fired hypersonic missiles in Odessa. It landed on 2 hotels and a shopping mall on Monday. These are obviously part of Russia's continued war crimes against Ukraine. On its Victory Day in Russia, Vladimir Putin lied and said that the West left him no choice but to invade Ukraine. This is silly as a peaceful resolution could have easily resolved the crisis. Yet, Putin violated the national sovereignty of Ukraine by executing an unjust invasion of the country. Still, far-right defenders of Putin and fake leftist defenders of Putin still support the Russian invasion. It's disgraceful. The EU is talking with Hungary on the Russian oil ban too. In America, the House of Representatives will consider an additional $40 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine. I agree with investing in Ukraine, but many people in America need tons of investments too when record homelessness, poverty, and economic inequality exist nationwide in the USA. Black Americans do deserve reparations too. Ukrainian soldiers continue to hold out in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the city.
Haley Taylor Schlitz is about to be Southern Methodist University's youngest-ever law school graduate. She is only 19 years old. She was accepted into 9 different law schools in 2019. She attended SMU's Deadman School of Law in Dallas. Schlitz has been an author, public speaker, and advocate for students. She graduated from high school at the age of 13 after struggling to be acknowledged by her public school's gifted and talented program. At 16, she was the youngest graduate on record from Texas Woman's University according to her website. Taylor Schlitz is clear that she wants girls and students of color to be part of the nation's gifted and talented programs. She wanted to work on education policy issues and increase opportunities for gifted and talented girls including students of color.
Yesterday was the Birthday of Sister Aya Danioko, and she is 27 years old. She is a famous singer. One of her hit songs was Djadja. Her stage name is Aya Nakamura. She was born in Bamako, Mali. Later, his family immigrated to France. She grew up in Aulnay-sous-Bois (which is a northern Paris suburb). Her family consisted of griots, and Aya is the oldest of five siblings. Aya studied fashion at La Courneuve. Later, she worked hard to publish her music online, gaining a following with Karma and J'ai mal. Dembo Camara, her friend became her producer and manager, helped her out. She is a gorgeous black woman. Her song Brise was very popular. As one of the most important international musicians of our time, Aya has earned her first nomination at the BET Awards as Best International Act. Djadja was a platinum album worldwide too. Jolie nana was the lead single from her third studio album Aya. In 2021, Nakamura was featured in the music video for Sans Moi, a track in the Franglish's album Vibe. Degaine is her recent 2022 with Damso. She won many awards like the 2021 Apple Music Awards for Artist of the Year in France. I wish Sister Aya Danioko more Blessings.
By Timothy
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Monday, May 09, 2022
The Various Generations and Other News.
Generations have existed throughout the ages of time. They have massive differences historically and culturally. Thought patterns, social movements, and other forms of inventions are diverse over the course of time. Yet, there are some similarities among generations too. Each generation has people who care about the oppressed, each generation dealt with family connections, and each generation confronted many evils in order to try to make the society reach its highest aspirations. It doesn't matter what generation folks live in, we all have that responsibility to advance liberty and justice for all. At the end of the day, we want our descendants to live in a better world than in the past and the present. I'm an older Millennial as I'm almost 40 years old in 2022. Some get confused about the definition or length of time that a generation may consist of. A generation can span about 20 years or so. In a generation, you typically find people in that generation have many commonalities with folks in other generations. The Greatest Generation saw WWII. The Greatest Generation saw jazz plus swing music, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the old school Age of Hollywood. The Silent Generation makes up of those who were leaders in the early Civil Rights Movement. They saw McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the increased usage of nuclear technology. Baby Boomers were leaders of Counterculture and the anti-Vietnam War Movement. Baby Boomers saw a massive increase in educational opportunities as colleges plus universities were massively cheaper back then. Generation X was heavily made up of latch key kids, people being entrepreneurial, and saw angst plus a musical revolution (with BET, the Box, and MTV)). They saw the rise of the AIDS epidemic, the increase of video games and personal computers, and the start of the popularization of the Internet). My Generation of the Millennials witnessed recessions, 9/11, the 1990's, hip hop being the dominant musical genre, and the growth of the movement against police brutality. My generation saw the rise of social media, the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular usage of cell phones, and a childhood filled with Internet technology. Generation Z is the first generation to see Tik Tok, other social media accounts, and a youthful movement of self-expression. Generation Z was born with cell phone technology, they are some of the young people who witnessed the COVID-19 pandemic, and many of them are young activists on social issues. Generation Alpha is the first generation in human history to be born into smartphone technology, and they are forming their own legacies as I write these words. Generation Alpha is the first generation born entirely in the 21st century. They never saw the 20th century. Therefore, we have to appreciate the resiliency of human culture and do our parts to establish that human liberation that we all deserve.
A lot of people don't know that Malcolm X and Jackie Robinson had tensions with each other ideologically. It became so personal that both men never truly reconciled at the end. It's sad, but it's real. Jackie Robinson underestimated Malcolm X's revolutionary politics, his courage, and his will to change to be more progressive. Malcolm X underestimated Jackie Robinson's persistent motivation for equality and justice for black people. Both misunderstood each other which caused tensions in the first place. The irony is that both men would have more agreements than disagreements as time would go on. To understand how this existed, we have to look at historical events chronologically. Malcolm X at first respected Jackie Robinson. He listened to the radio on April 15, 1947, when Jackie Robinson was on the field as the first African American in the MLB since Reconstruction. Malcolm X would later reject his previous surname to be a follower of the religion of Islam. Malcolm X said that he was a great fan of Jackie Robinson in his "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." Malcolm X's brother, Philbert, inspired him to join the Nation of Islam. Years later, Malcolm X would be the most powerful speaker of the NOI, and Jackie Robinson would retire from baseball. By 1963, Malcolm X and Jackie Robinson would massively disagree on many issues. Malcolm X back then from 1953 to 1964 was in the Nation of Islam. Back then, he preached black nationalism and a separate black state to try to escape white racist society. Even when Malcolm X was in the Nation of Islam, he spoke the truth about being against imperialism, fighting police brutality, endorsing self-defense, and appreciating black identity.
Jackie Robinson disagreed with NOI leadership calling white people devils. Robinson rejected separatism by his own words, "“Malcolm X and his organization believe in separation. They have every right to. If they want to go off into some all-black community, why don’t they just go.” – Jackie Robinson, The Chicago Defender ( July 13, 1963).
Jackie Robinson and Malcolm X fought for the same goal of black liberation, but they disagreed with the approaches on achieving the same aim. Robinson believed in integration. He supported Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X, when he was in the NOI, believed in separatism, not integration or Jim Crow apartheid (i.e. segregation). Malcolm X said that segregation relegated black people to 2nd class citizenship which is true. Malcolm X regularly criticized the U.S. government for its lax response to eliminate anti-black racism, and he criticized black leaders that whom he didn't agree with as "Uncle Toms." Jackie Robinson considered the Nation of Islam as a group that would harm the essence of the civil rights movement. He voiced his criticisms in public and in the column in the New Journal and Guide, a weekly African American news journal including The Chicago Defender. Robinson disagreed with Congressman Adam Clayton Powell and accused him of wanting people to boycott the NAACP and support Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X criticized white liberals as trying to co-opt the black freedom movement to make it lose its radical or revolutionary flavor. Elijah Muhammad told Malcolm X to not retaliate after girls were killed in Birmingham, Alabama and the police in LA murdered a NOI member. This increased the split among Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. Dr. King was egged in Harlem, NYC. Malcolm X accused Robinson of selling out, and Robinson accused Malcolm X of promoting self-destruction for black people. The war of the words would continue and be increasingly personal.
Civil rights icon Medgar Evers was murdered in an assassination on June 12, 1963, at his driveway at Jackson, Mississippi. The murderer was Byron De La Beckwith. Malcolm X didn't attend Evers' funeral. Jackie Robinson criticized Malcolm X by saying that he was militant on Harlem street corners but not in the South where white racist terrorism ran rampant. Malcolm X criticized Ralph Bunche as a puppet of international Western elites, but Robinson praised Dr. Bunche for attending the funeral of Medgar Evers. Malcolm X responded in a speech saying that Robinson was an ex-baseball player and criticized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Malcolm X criticized Robinson's ties and support for Richard Nixon, and his other policies. Malcolm X said that "If my integrity or sincerity is to be measured in your eyesight by attendance at funerals of Negroes who have been murdered by whites, if you should ever meet with such misfortune I promise to attend your funeral. Then, perhaps you will be able to see me in a different light. If you should ever become as militant on behalf of your oppressed people as Medgar Evers was, the same whites whom you now take to be your friends will be the first to put the bullet or the dagger in your back, just as they put it in the back of Medgar Evers.”
Robinson would criticize Malcolm X as a racist. Malcolm X was suspended from the NOI for his remarks about the JFK assassination. Robinson talked about Elijah Muhammad too. By 1964, Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston. Malcolm X supported Ali. Malcolm X said this about Muhammad Ali: "He is more than Jackie Robinson was, because Robinson is the white man’s hero. But Cassius is the black man’s hero.” Months later, Malcolm X came to his Hajj. He transformed after coming to Mecca. He rejected the view that every white person was exclusively evil, but he believed in self-defense and black liberation. Jackie Robinson was shocked and astonished by the transformed Malcolm X. “In my view, if Malcolm were sincere and honest in his new visions,” Robinson wrote in The Chicago Defender on July 18, 1964, “he would reflect on how harshly and unjustly he has belittled and sought to discredit our national responsible leaders who have been working in the struggle for so long.” Malcolm X was forming his Organization of Afro-American Unity advancing international Pan-Africanism. Muhammad Ali rejected Malcolm X, because Malcolm X soon criticized Elijah Muhammad (and accused him of adultery which angered tons of NOI members). Malcolm X heroically changed further by opposing the Vietnam War, standing up for equality for women, and being against imperialism. Later, he was assassinated on February 21, 1965. Muhammad Ali regretted never having the time to reconcile with Malcolm X. Jackie Robinson expressed his views on the death of Malcolm X in these terms in the March 1965 column for The Chicago Defender, "But, in making him a martyr, they have only deepened whatever influence he may have had. In addition, they have generated a senseless brutal … war which sees black hands raised against brothers at a time when we most need unity among black people.” Jackie Robinson considered the death of Malcolm X a tragedy. If both would have spoke by 1965, they could have found common ground. Malcolm X found common ground with many people. Both black men were heroic freedom fighters who wanted the best for black people collectively.
It is no secret that many high-level banking interests enabled Hitler and the Nazis. They supported the Nazis, because they were far-right extremists who hated communism and wanted no massive rights for workers. For example, the German industrial cartel I.G. Farben aided the Nazis. Antony C. Sutton in his book called, "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" documented how German bankers and other American banking interests aided the Nazis Empire. We know about IBM and the computing system that the Nazis used to facilitate the Holocaust. Adam LeBor wrote an article entitled, "How bankers helped the Nazis" for The Sydney Morning Herald on August 1, 2013, detailing how the BIS worked with many Nazis. According to John Strausbaugh, the author of the book Victory City, A History Of New York and New Yorkers During World War II, “Via the BIS, the American and British bankers would maintain a mostly secret friendship with their Nazi and Japanese counterparts straight through World War II while thousands and thousands of American and British men in uniform were being killed and maimed in the fight to defeat the Nazis and Japanese.” The leader of the BIS was a Wall Street banker named Thomas McKittrick. During World War II BIS received gold as interest payments from the German Reichstag which later investigations showed had been looted from the central banks of Belgium and the Netherlands. Between 1933 and 1945 the BIS board of directors included Walther Funk, a prominent Nazi official, and Emil Puhl responsible for processing dental gold looted from concentration camp victims, as well as Hermann Schmitz, the director of IG Farben, and Baron von Schroeder, the owner of the J.H. Stein Bank [de], all of whom were later convicted of war crimes or crimes against humanity.
For the eons of time, music has existed. Music is one major soundtrack of our human lives from celebrating graduation to experiencing the joy of weddings. Today, we live in a new period of time filled with crisis and hope. An unjust war in Ukraine continues to exist, and we must have the same spirit of love of justice. In our time, music is massively available from streaming services, STEM devices, and to YouTube. This new series is about the history of rock and pop. Rock came from the jazz and blues being found in the Deep South. To fully be attuned to the essence of American music, anyone has to comprehend the multifaceted styles of jazz and blues (Artists like Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstong, and Lena Horne established a glorious legacy that modern musicians follow). Pop encompasses many genres of music, and it was modernized by the 1930's and the 1940's. This work will not demonize every form of music as irredeemably wicked, but it would deify individual artists either. It will show the real facts as they are without compromise or political correctness. Musicians like Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, U2, REM, Beyonce, The Beatles, Muni Long, Rosetta Sharpe, Arrested Development, and other groups will be mentioned in this series. The concerts, the lyrics, the entourage, and the controversies signify much of the cultural landscape of rock and pop. Subsequently, music deals with history and the many political plus social changes in our world. It is no secret that some of the local police (including some in the NYPD), the FBI, and other agencies have harassed or monitored musicians who called for progressive political change on the Earth (as proven by John Potash and other scholars). Now, it is time to present the truth, stand on justice, and evaluate many genres conclusively.
2022 has been a year to remember so far. Both positive and negative changes have existed. One thing remains clear. That point is that we must be in favor of the side of history. In America and throughout the world, we have witnessed massive opponents of democracy gaining power or enacting unjust laws that harm the democratic rights of the people. The Republican Party is not only far-right extremist now as it's controlled by Donald Trump plus other bigots. It is a party that embraces open neo-fascists who believe in the myth that the 2020 election was stolen. The Supreme Court has many members who believe that justice must exist for some people, not for all people. Some members of the court embrace the archaic concept of originalism. It doesn't make sense, because society evolves and the expansion of human rights against oppression is a blessing, not a detriment to human social progress. The Constitution is clear that new rights from social, economic, and scientific progress have the right to exist via Congress passing laws (and the Supreme Court making sure that rights are protected). Trump is so extreme, that according to Mike Esper, Trump wanted to attack Mexico without due cause. Tyrants like Putin not only promote propaganda from Russia Today. RT boss Simonyan see nuclear war as the likely outcome of a Russian defeat. Fascism is a global problem, and it must be defeated in the 21st century indeed.
Donald Earl Whitaker was my first cousin who lived from July 31, 1954, at Scotland Neck, North Carolina to February 17, 2017. His parents are Thomas Lee Whitaker Sr. (b. 1931) and Carrie Bell D. (1931-1979). Donald and I share the same ancestor of Adam D. (b. 1862). Donald Earl Whitaker married Lenora Antoinette Russell (1956-2000) on December 9, 1977, at Greensville, Virginia. They divorced on May 5, 1981, in Halifax, North Carolina. Donald Whitaker later married Sylvia Ann Bradley (1954-2011). Donald Earl Whitaker was a veteran who served his country in the U.S. Army. His children are Tyronda Shawnee Whitaker, Jamonte Bradley, Marlon Neko Whitaker, Tamara Ballard, Earl Mills, and Tyrek Wilson. Donald's brother is Thomas Lee Whitaker Jr. (b. 1949) of Virginia Beach, Virginia. He had 13 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, and many relatives and friends. Carrie Bell Doggett's parents are Adam D. (b. 1862) and Nancy Reynolds (1888-1982).
By Timothy
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