Some news is that the DOJ is opening an investigation into how Phoenix Police Departments treats the city's homeless residents. Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced the news in Thursday. The head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke said that she will review allegations and other information to make a determination of what is going on. The investigation from the DOJ will come, and the DOJ will conclude with its findings. The research will determine whether the Phoenix police officers had a pattern of deadly force and retaliatory activity against people for conduct. They want to find if discriminatory policing existed. We know that in recent years, some police have used sweeps of homeless communities. Biden's Department of Justice is light years much more progressive than the Trump's DOJ. We want the truth revealed. If anyone conducted unjust misconduct in Phoenix, then accountability ought to exist.
Nina Turner may have lost the election, but the battle for freedom and justice is never over. Nina Turner deserves respect for her courage to go against corporate interests who lied about her views constantly. First, the candidate Shontel Brown won by the vote of the voters. The decision of the voters in Ohio must be respected in this regard. Yet, I will mentioned this. Many of the centrist and neo-liberal plus conservative crowd with people like Joe Scarborough are gloating over Turner's defeat, because they believe in the myth that pragmatism leads into human liberation. Joe has always been that way. From his support of George W. Bush to his support of the imperialist Truman (who murdered thousands of innocent human beings with his atomic bomb attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki), he is what he is. No one should be surprised at how some (not all) CBC members like Rep. Bennie Thompson disrespected Nina Turner by calling her a "know it all."
I have more respect for Shontel Brown and Nina Turner than those neoliberal types, because Shontel Brown has shown grace in her victory. Shontel is a much better candidate than the Republican political opponent. Nina Turner is committed for real change too. These haters of progressives forgot that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a progressive, W.E.B. DuBois was a progressive, Ella Baker was a progressive, Septima Clark, and Fannie Lou Hamer was a progressive. These progressives gave their lives for us regardless of anyone has to say. The irony is that progressives have been in the trenches for centuries to end slavery, to end Jim Crow apartheid, and to end other injustices, but these centrists lecture us "pragmatism." There is absolutely no moderate position on racism, on environmental destruction, and on economic inequality. Therefore, Shontel Brown and Nina Turner are owed dignity and respect despite the hatred shown by centrist and moderate puppets who desire tokenism instead of real social change.
There are many Olympic news now in early August of 2021. For the 200m Finals for men in the Olympics. De Grasse from Canada won gold. K. Bednarek from America won silver, and Lyles from America won bronze. After all of these years, the Afro-Canadian Andre De Grasse finally got his dream to win gold fulfilled. He ran the race of his life. Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya defected to Poland, because she criticized the dictator of Belarus. She lives in asylum after Belarusian team officials pulling her from the women's 200 meter sprint after she criticized the sport authorities on social media. Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam became the 2nd athlete ever to win back to back women's heptathlon titles after having the gold medal on Thursday. Thiam joins the American Jackie Joyner-Kersee to win 2 heptathlon titles at the Olympic Games with Joyner-Kersee winning in 1988 and 1992. Also, Katie Nageotte won the women's pole vault in gold. Silver was won by Russia's Anzhelika Sidorova. Great Britain's Holly Bradshaw won bronze.
Days ago was the Birthday of a late legend who changed jazz forevermore. Jazz is an indigenous American musical artform. To know music in America fully, you have to study jazz. Louis Armstrong was one of the best jazz musicians of all time. His career spanned decades. He could sang, play the trumpet, and inspired future musicians. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Delta is the Birthplace of the blues and jazz music. Armstrong lived in mass poverty as a young person. He was raised by his mother, grandmother, and a Jewish family named the Kamoffyskys. He played on riverboats, various bands, and orchestras before forming his solo career. By the 1920's, he created music in Chicago. During the Jazz Age, he flourished. He still expressed music during the harsh Great Depression. During the Harlem Renaissance (a time of the explosion of African American culture in Harlem plus all over America), he was the premiere trumpet player, and the world famous poet Langston Hughes admired him. Armstrong played for tons of people worldwide in hundreds of performances. By the 1950's, he was already an icon of music being the ambassador of jazz. He loved to write. He passed away in 1971. Tons of people were honorary pallbearers and gave tribute to him from Ella Fitzgerald to Bing Cosby. What a Wonderful World was one of his greatest songs along with St. Louis Blues and Hello Dolly. Louis Armstrong remains one of the best of jazz, and his talent will always be recognized by all of us.
Rest in Power Brother Louis Armstrong.
By Timothy
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