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