End of the Week Updates in September 2022.

 

One lesson out of life is to decolonize your mind. When we were kids back in the day, many of us were taught lies like Christopher Columbus discovered America, every Pilgrim was just a peaceful traveler, and the British Empire never committed atrocities. Today, we live in a time of more of the Internet, books, and other sources of information that shows us the truth about the world. That is why the system of racism and imperialism must be defeated once and for all. It is easy to see that the system of monarchy and Empire for centuries brutalized our black ancestors and other persons of color for centuries. The British Empire used concentration camps and torture in Keyna decades ago when Kenya fought for its own independence from the UK. The Windrush scandal harmed the human rights of Caribbean immigrants. Many of the monarchs of the UK, Germany, and Russia were related to each other. King Leopold, I was involved in the murder of 15 million black Congolese over 100 years ago. Therefore, decolonizing the mind is not about hating people. It's about showing historical truth in order to cause the transformation of the human mind in desiring justice for everybody.

Now, Governors Abbott of Texas and DeSantis of Florida are sending migrants to Washington, D.C., and other places of America, not for generous reasons. They are doing it to promote political exploitation of the human suffering of migrants who escaped war zones and totalitarian governments. Xenophobia is never a political solution. Both Governors are not only far-right extremists. They believe in the myth that the free market is nearly infallible, and a border fence will magically eliminate the migrant crisis. Florida Governor sent dozens of migrants into Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday night. Tons of people are giving aid to the migrants at Martha's Vineyard too. These Republicans claim that the federal government is providing inadequate federal efforts on southern border security. Immigration issues have existed for decades in America. It wasn't caused by one man or one party. The problem with DeSantis and Abbott is that they didn't send anyone advanced notice or form a plan at all. They are just shipping human beings off, because they hate progressive ideological views. The truth is that we are called to help the sojourner and the immigrant as the Golden Rule says love your neighbor as yourself. Therefore, a comprehensive immigration policy should be made by Congress to address immigration matters in a fair, humanitarian fashion. Back in 1962, racist people shipped African Americans to the North in opposition to civil rights legislation.

Some tragic news is the murder of PnB Rock. He was a hip-hop artist from Philadelphia who was killed in Los Angeles at a Roscoes Chickens and Waffles restaurant. He talked about fellow artists feeling targeted for robbery. You have some extremists even blaming him or his girlfriend for his own death which is cruel and a lie. It is one thing to say that celebrities have to be careful in their lives. It's quite another to say that an artist is responsible for his own murder. PnB Rock was with his girlfriend was enjoying a meal at the restaurant. Later, an individual brutally attacked him and murdered him. A social media posting of the artist's location existed. Gun violence is at epidemic levels in America. America is the only industrialized nation on Earth with this level of gun murders. I visited Los Angeles before in 2019. I know which places to go, and I enjoyed myself (at restaurants, a hotel, a university, and other places). There should be a real policy to address gun violence, economic inequality, crime, and other issues where human rights are protected and accountability is shown to those who inflict harm and death on innocent human beings.

This year is the 200th year anniversary of the time of Brazil's independence. That was in 1822. The far-right extremist President Jair Bolsonaro wants to celebrate this anniversary with a display of militarism and traditional extremism. He integrates the military high command into right-wing demonstrations. Some want to overturn the results of the October general elections to maintain Jair's power. Brazil's leader supports Portugal, whose President was side by side with Brazil's fascist head of state. Warships joined a naval parade off the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Dom Pedro I was a dictator of Brazil being emperor back in the 19th century. Brazil has been a victim of a right-wing coup in 1964 which was supported by the U.S. imperialists. It was carried out with the murder of rural guerillas and the suppression of working-class movements. That regime would work to promote military coups in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina causing the deaths of over 70,000 people. Some even want to glorify Dom as a revolutionary visionary leader which he wasn't. 

Today, we see Brazil in an era of a crossroads. After 200 years, Brazil has had a huge assault on living standards. There is massive impoverishment in the nation, and the pandemic still has cost human lives. Bolsonaro supporters believe that Article 142 of Brazil's Constitution that any of the three branches of government can call out the Army to be a "moderating power." We know about the massive racism, police brutality, and economic exploitation that Afro-Brazilians experience every single day. For example, the black Brazilian woman Marcelle Silva Santos (who is 22 years old) is a trainee of the 1st Naval District of the Navy. She denounced racism in the Brazilian Navy as they made her to wash dishes because she is black. She continues to fight racism in Brazil. Racism in Brazil is so vicious, that I would run out of space to list all of it. Yet, many progressive Brazilians are still in Brazil fighting for justice for all. 

By Timothy