America in Crisis (The fight against Police Brutality Continues).

In the United States of America, we have lived in a time of crisis for centuries. What happened for the past few days is not new. What is new is new technologies have recorded what we have always condemned: police brutality. Black people have experienced massive injustices. From the 1500's to our time, black people in the Americas were victims of the Maafa, slavery, Jim Crow, the prison industrial complex, and other evils. To this very day in 2020, you have racists who don't view black lives as important, and you have those who defend police injustice unconditionally (which is wrong too). In America, the recent unjust deaths of 3 black Americans (whose names are George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery) have caused an uprising of pain, demonstrations, and an awareness that capitalist exploitation has no place anywhere in the Universe. Systematic racism and class oppression are realities as validated by tons of sociological studies. George Floyd of Minneapolis, Minnesota turned his life around to be a better man. 4 officers were involved in his death on May 2020 on Memorial Day. One officer placed a knee on his neck for over 9 minutes which caused his passing. Immediately, the outrage over such a barbaric act of murder has been condemned by us black people, by people of every color, and by people from across the political spectrum. This is a rare time, because when you have even conservatives condemning the murder of George Floyd, you know something is wrong with the system of the status quo. Thousands of people in America have been involved in heavily multiracial demonstrations against police state violence. This presentation of working class unity is certainly part of a new era, and it showed that the younger generation includes the most progressive generation of human history. The conditions made what we see a reality. The protests, the rebellions, and the anger didn't exist ought of thin air. The horrendous conditions have been boiling after centuries of oppression against people of black African descent in the Americas, the harm of democratic rights done by the neo-fascist Trump administration (plus done by previous administrations), the spread of the coronovarius, the criminal injustice system, police terror in communities of color (especially in the black community), the economic disaster that we witness today (with over 40 million Americans without jobs), economic oppression, the crisis of our health care system, and racial injustice. The thing is that we, who are black Americans, predicted this. We know that destruction of innocent property and harm to innocent human life is wrong. We know that a small group of people are agent provocateurs from the Bugaloo boys and other groups who seek chaos not true civil rights.

Yet, we embrace the nuisance of how a rebellion represents the language of the unheard, and for long centuries, the cries of black people in America have been maligned, ignored, and disrespected. Now, we have no excuses. There must be real change. There are no other options. We have seen the videos, we have witnessed the hurt of the victims, and we are outraged at centrism. Reactionary extremism is repugnant, but centrism permits the status quo for decades. Now, we witness that only revolutionary, systematic change is necessary in establishing justice for all. Trump is a hypocrite. Donald Trump condemns Antifa as a terrorist organization, but Trump has verbally praised neo-Confederates and white supremacists at Charlottesville. Trump has praised far right armed militas group who spew profanity and threats at the police in the Michigan statehouse with semiautomatic weapons. His recent Tweets has provoked violence by saying that looters will cause shooting. Trump has also reversed consent decrees. That reversal make it harder for crooked cops to be held accountable for their actions. We understand that the vast majority of protesters and demonstrators are peaceful, shown courage, and desire righteousness in the world. Minneapolis (like many places of America) have a long history of police brutality, racial injustice, and economic inequality. That is why even one police officer tried to confront the racism in his own Minneapolis police Department. That is why the person who murdered George Floyd (the murderer is Derek Chauvin) has been cited over a dozen times over allegations of police misconduct. Only one man was arrested, and he was charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter. Yet, the 3 other officers have been not arrested. That is a disgrace. We witness a dual reality too. One reality is the excessive usage of force by some people (who aren't peaceful protesters) against property (including black businesses and a Native American empowerment center in Minneapolis), people, etc. in destroying stores even pharmacies plus libraries, vehicles, using vandalism, etc. We have seen this in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, etc. That is wrong.

Also, there is the reality of how some police authorities have harmed innocent people, protesters, and the press via tear gas and rubber bullets. One example in NYC, where  NYPD SUVs ran over innocent people who were just protesting. De Blasio made excuses for the NYPD for the SUVs running over people. A video  shown police marching behind a National Guard Humvee screaming for people to go inside and yelling "Light 'em up" as they rubber bullets on a group of young people gathered outside their home. An elderly white man was shoved to the ground by riot police in Salt Lake City. He was walking in a cane. In Sacramento, California a young black man was bleeding greatly after being shot in they. A young black Atlanta couple was tased and pulled from their car by dozens of riot police in Atlanta. This came after they slashed their tired and broke out the windows. Two officers were fired by the police chief and the mayor of Atlanta. A young woman in Dallas was shot by a rubber bullet in the head. A child in Seattle was pepper sprayed in the face. MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi was shot in the leg with a rubber bullet while reporting live in Minneapolis. In Louisville, a local TV report and her cameraman was targeted and shot with pepper balls during protests Friday. A freelance photojournalist in Minneapolis was permanently blinded in her left eye after being shot by the police with a rubber bullet. Lucas Jackson was shot with rubber bullets when he is a reporter too. The Associated Press reported that more than 4,100 people have been arrested since Thursday. CNN host Omar Jimenez (who has a black mother) has been unjust arrested, and he was released hours later. Some National Guard people fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters and media people.

The overall point is that our eyes must be on the prize. The truth is that a black man was murdered while saying that he can't breathe, and he called for his mother when his mother passed away before. Black people are certainly in pain over this injustice. There is no solution without strategy, leadership, organization, mobilization, solidarity, and political plus economic policies to build up a better world. Some want us to vote. I have no problem with voting, because we can get rid of corrupt cops, judges, prosecutors, and other political leaders via voting. Yet, that is not enough. We need new laws in every level of government to eliminate police terrorism. We need changes in public policies. We desire investments and a change in the mindset of the world society. Massive protests have been in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Houston, Atlanta, Norfolk, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Louisville, Washington, D.C. Boston, Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Columbia (in South Carolina), Denver, Sacramento, San Francisco, Miami, Las Vegas, Fort Wayne, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, etc. We are all in unison in wanting to be free. It should be no crime for us to be black. We are opposed to social inequality, austerity, endless wars, mass unemployment poverty, health care disparities, and other evils that plague the world. A long term solution can never be the continued mobilization of National Guard forces. In this class struggle too, the super rich have handouts in the trillions of dollars spanning decades while we deal with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Many ordinary people have cleaned up debris from the events of the previous days, have came together to promote justice, and gone out of their way to defend black human lives. This is the largest uprising of protests in America since 1968. Protesters have marched outside the U.S. embassy in London at Trafalgar Square. We want peace, but there can be no peace without justice.


Dororthy Dandridge's early life was an experience. She was born on November 9, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents are entertainer Ruby Dandridge (1900-1987) and Cyril Dandridge (1895-1989). Her parents separated just before her birth. Ruby made a song and dance act for her daughters Dorothy and Vivian. Vivian and Dorothy were part of the child group called The Wonder Children. The act was managed by Geneva Williams. They toured the South for 5 years, while Ruby worked and preformed in Cleveland. It is said that Geneva Williams had a bad temper. By the time of the Great Depression, the family moved into Hollywood, California. Ruby worked on radio and film in small domestic servant parts. Dorothy Dandridge attended McKinley Junior High School in 1930. The Wonder Children were renamed the Dandridge Sisters in 1934. Dorothy and her sister teamed up with dance schoolmate Etta Jones. The Dandridge Sisters were strong for many years. They were booked in famous nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the famous Apollo Theater. Dorothy Dandridge's first on screen appearance was in a small part in an Our Gang comedy short called Teacher's Beau in 1935. She was in the 1936 The Big Broadcast as part of the Dandridge Sisters. They worked with Bill Robinson in that film. She was in the film A Day at the Races (in 1937) with the Marx Brothers, and It Can't Last Forever in 1937 with the Jackson Brothers. Nationwide, Dorothy Dandridge gained national recognition with her nightclub performances. Dandridge's first credit film role was in Four Shall Die (1940). This race film cast her as a murderer and did little for her career. She rejected stereotypical black roles. She had small roles in Lady from Louisiana with the racist John Wayne and Sundown with Gene Tierney (both in 1941). Dandridge appeared as part of a Specialty Number, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" in the hit 1941 musical Sun Valley Serenade for 20th century FOX. This film showed her for the first time performing with the Nicholas Brothers. Dorothy Dandridge was in many soundies. Soundies are film clips that were displayed on jukeboxes. They were Paper Doll by the Mill Brothers, Cow, Cow Boogie, etc. They films showed her singing and dancing plus acting abilities. Dorothy Dandridge were on plays and films all over the 1940's.

She continued to appear occasionally in films and on the stage throughout the rest of the 1940s, and though performing as a band singer in some good company, Count Basie in Hit Parade of 1943 and Louis Armstrong, Atlantic City 1944 and Pillow to Post 1945. In 1951, Dandridge appeared as Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba in Tarzan's Peril, starring Lex Barker and Virginia Huston. When the Motion Picture Production Code tut-tutted about the film's "blunt sexuality", Dandridge received considerable attention for wearing what was considered "provocatively revealing" clothing. The continuing publicity buzz surrounding Dandridge's wardrobe got her pictured on the April 1951 cover of Ebony. That same year, she had a supporting role in The Harlem Globetrotters (1951). In May 1951, Dandridge spectacularly opened at the Mocambo nightclub in West Hollywood after assiduous coaching and decisions on style with pianist Phil Moore.This success seemed a new turn to her career and she appeared in New York and at Café de Paris in London with equal success.In a return engagement at the Mocambo in December 1952, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio agent saw Dandridge and recommended to production chief Dore Schary that she might make an appearance as a club singer, in her own name, in Remains to Be Seen, already in production. Her acquaintance with Dore Schary resulted in his casting Dandridge as Jane Richards in Bright Road—her first starring role, projecting herself as a "wonderful, emotional actress"—which the trailer was to later promote. The film, which centered on a teacher's struggles to reach out to a troubled student, marked the first time Dandridge appeared in a film opposite Harry Belafonte. She continued her performances in nightclubs thereafter and appeared on multiple early television variety shows, including Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town.


By Timothy