Friday Updates in Late June of 2019.

A U.S. drone was shot down by Iranian forces. Trump said that it was found in international waters while Iran said that it was in Iranian airspace. Trump is less hawkish than Bolton. Even back in 2003, when I was in college, Bolton promoted war against Iraq and Iran. Bolton is a true believer in neo-conservative foreign policy views. Therefore, there are meetings to figure out the future. Hopefully, no war exists. Likewise, we have to prepare for anything. Foreign policy is complicated, and it requires the embrace of nuisance and sober reasoning. Lawmakers are being briefed on the Iranians situation too. Donald Trump almost send airstrikes to attack Iran, but at the last minute, he called the proposed bombing campaign off. There is controversy with Joe Biden. The reason is that Biden said that he was willing to even work with a segregationist like Eastland in order to get civil rights policy passed. Cory Booker called for Biden to apologize. To his credit, Booker is one of the first Presidential candidates (along with Kamala Harris and Beto O'Rourke) to do so. It is one thing to work across the aisle to get laws passed, but Biden used a bad example of him citing terrible racists in citing his points. Therefore, he should apologize in my opinion in making sure that people have to show respect to our community. America isn't just made up of white American moderate voters. Black voters exist in the millions. Our voices matter, and our concerns ought to be respected.


On this Juneteenth in 2019, we see the point of how far we have come and how far we have to go in the present. The reality is that the Confederacy being defeated was a great day. Also, today, the House panel had hearings on reparations. This is the first time such a discussion ever existed in Congress in over a decade. Senator Mitch McConnell is wrong in denying the right of black Americans to have reparations. He said the racist nonsense since we have civil rights legislation, he didn't own a slave, and Obama was President; therefore black people aren't entitled to reparations. The truth is that many taxpayers have paid for the reparations of Jewish and Japanese Americans even though many of these same taxpayers had nothing to do with the Shoah (which is the Holocaust) or Japanese internment camps. Some Native Americans were given reparations too many years ago. We pay our taxpayer dollars to help storm victims, 911 victims, etc. We do so not because we are responsible for these situations, but it's the right thing to do. African Americans definitely are deserving of reparations.

The bill in the House just wants a study on reparations, and still Republicans and even some Democrats refuse to support HR 40. I do believe in reparations 100 percent. Our black ancestors helped to built America for centuries without pay. We have never received just compensation after we were oppressed back then or for our oppression now. After Reconstruction, Jim Crow, redlining, and discrimination harmed many black families. The wage gap and other forms of income inequality especially harming poor and working class black Americans. Reparations has nothing to do with random acts of empty rhetoric. Reparations is about structural change in making sure that total justice in enacted for African Americans. Reparations should be given to all black people of the African Diaspora too. No, the end of the Civil War wasn't reparations. Slavery existed after the Civil War via the peonage system (which was overt, virtual slavery where black people were kidnapped and forced to do labor against their wills throughout the South). America's wealth was build on the blood of black slaves. Reparations is about the advancement of real change and real accountability that honors us and our black ancestors.

She has established a decades long career that has shown a great light. Always a down to Earth person, her roles and her actions represent grace in action. She is Sister Phylicia Rashad, and she is 71 years old (with her Birthday that existed days ago). She was born in Houston, Texas, and her sister was the famous actress Debbie Allen. She graduated from the world famous HBCU Howard University at Washington, D.C. Many of her relatives are musicians and performers of the arts. Debbie Allen is known for being an excellent dancer. She earned magna cum laude in 1970 (at Howard) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She worked in theater with Sheryl Lee Ralph in Dreamgirls during the 1980's including other plays. Also, she has been on TV shows and famous movies. Phylicia Rashad was the first black actress of any nationality to win the Best Actress (Play) Tony Award, which she won for her 2004 performance as Lena Younger in a revival of the play A Raisin in the Sun by playwright Lorraine Hansberry. She was nominated for the same award the following year, for Gem of the Ocean. Her films stretch generations. She was on Just Wright, For Colored Girls, Creed I, Creed II, and Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored (I remember that movie when I was a teenager watching it). She has won many awards. She loves her family unconditionally, and she is a great role model for the younger generation of actresses and actors. She is an illustrious icon. I wish Sister Phylicia Rashad more blessings.


The ADOS is a low movement. For months now, many of their members have shown lies, anti-African bigotry, anti-immigrant slander, and pro-white supremacist views. I am an African American, but the ADOS isn't representative of me or other African Americans who love all black people in world regardless of nationality. Many ADOS members are Trump supporters. Then, you have Antonio Moore saying that he has more in common culturally with an European American than an African person. He has a brainwashed mentality. Then, you have Yvette Carnell citing the Nazi phrase "Blood and Soil" in trying to mention black American sacrifice in wars. That is disrespectful to black veterans and Jewish people. I'm not shocked by these developments ,since she is on the board of PFIR, which is funded by the white nationalist John Tanton. She said that black people must be transformed into being "white" in order to end inequalities. Self-hatred is found in Moore and Carnell indeed. She or Carnell said that Pan-Africanism is dead, which is a lie. I believe in Pan-Africanism, and it's alive and well. Moore assumed that one Igbo Nigerian person might have came from a slave trading family, which shows Moore being a traitor to black people (and an anti-African extremist). Carnell disrespected Talib Kweli's mother which shows that she's a coward and sellout (to especially the jingoistic American exceptionalism canard). I have more information about the ADOS movement. I have a lot of facts. Therefore, the ADOS movement is an enemy of black people. In the final analysis, we love black people worldwide, and we love Africa greatly.

Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika/


By Timothy