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Murder in Minneapolis

5/31/2020

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​It’s Sunday morning and after a week of George Floyd’s murder by the police in Minneapolis and the ensuing protests and riots, I am exhausted.  Mentally exhausted and emotionally spent.
I have gone through a rollercoaster of emotions and revelations concerning the circumstances of George Floyd’s murder.  Not only that, but the response from the Minneapolis police, President Trump, and the news media seems to be surprise and disbelief at the level of anger and intensity of the response by the public.  One thing is clear, the response on the streets have not just been Black Americans but an array of people with various ethnicities.

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A series of statements that I heard from Cornel West, in my opinion, were on point.  What we are seeing is the result of a failure of democracy in the United States.  All of the failures have been exposed by the pandemic.  They were already present but the extreme impact of the pandemic has laid bear the failures of the democratic experiment that is the democracy implemented in the United States.
  • Low wage jobs that do not support a sustainable, predictable life above the poverty line;
  • Lack of access to affordable healthcare.  At least 50 million people have lost access to healthcare once they lost their jobs;
  • Structural weakness at the State and Federal levels. Folks in most states cannot submit their applications for unemployment even after scores of attempts.  The stimulus checks that have never arrived – two months after they were to be sent, people are still anticipating receiving a check or direct deposit.  “Small Business” safety net support designed to keep them from going under was not directed to them but large corporate entities by the banks;
  • The cultural and physical assault on Black men that has been ongoing for at least 150 years post the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln; mass incarceration and persistent killings of unarmed men in the streets across America – some by police but also by armed citizens.
 
We are witnessing America as a Failed State.  We’ve seen the protest in other countries throughout the world and use various terms to describe them - an uprising against fascism, the demise of a dictatorial state, a reaction to pervasive corruption in a tiny island nation or an eastern European nation.  Now life in America, for not only Black people but poor people in general, is being exposed to those in America that do not share this experience and every country in the world.  We, as a nation, mistreat the poor and dispossessed.  We subjugate and incarcerate those culturally disdained – the vast majority of Black folks.  We are witnessing America as a Failed State. 

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​Now as all of the people at the bottom of the economic ladder are home and out of work, we see in graphic detail the murder of an unarmed man on the streets of Minneapolis.  We see him plead for his life as life drains from his body. We see him left on the street as he looses control of his bladder and bowels, as he stops breathing and has no pulse, we witness his lifeless body then carted away.  The fact that the number and intensity of the protests appear to surprise authorities is itself evidence of a failed state.  The institutions in place to serve the people have no idea that the people are at a breaking point.  That the actions displayed by the state and municipalities towards Black and poor people over the years preceding has led to this convulsion of anger and unrest.  This exists because the institutions and structure of the States and Federal Government has gone about serving itself, the wealthy, and large corporate entities.  Thus for the vast majority of people in the United State, in particular Black people, the State has failed them and has not served their interest.  Expect this unrest and protests to go on for as long as a year.  People are out of work and out of money and they don’t have much to focus on except what has been lost.
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I started today with the intention of developing a poem or prose to express my anger and disappointment with what I have experienced this week.  But after listing the names of unarmed Black men and women killed by law enforcement officers since 1999, I have lost heart and my head.  I am ready to go out to fight and burn and loot.  Fortunately, I am no fool.  I am old enough to understand that a better way to address this is to organize a definitive strategy to force the failed state to yield to the people and transform the economic system so that it supports the people not cooperate interest.  Having said that, maybe I am a fool.  Time will tell.
 
For all those Black men and women who are sitting somewhere safe at home with money saved and jobs to go to – I ask: What are you prepared to do?  Now is the time when you have to look in the mirror and answer this question for yourself.  You have knowledge, skill, ability and access to information that is vital to the success of this struggle.  What are you prepared to do?

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The Race War Is Underway - What Are You Going To Do?

5/7/2020

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Ahmaud Arbery
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I have a simple answer and a definitive solution.  Start a "Go Fund Me" initiative whose sole intent is to arm every Black person who can obtain a concealed carry permit.  It would work like this, if you are able to obtain a concealed carry permit in your jurisdiction (where you live) you would receive a voucher that would pay for a hand gun from one of the big box store or their online store.  This way every honest Black man and woman would have the opportunity to defend themselves from an assault by a criminal or anyone else.
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Criminal Elements are In Charge of Justice

5/7/2020

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Did you see the news today?  Michael Flynn's criminal case was dropped by the Justice Department.  The President immediately stated that he did not know that it was about to happen.  Also, the lead prosecutor removed himself from the case just prior to the announcement.  The submission to the court was not signed by any career prosecutor.  It was signed by a political appointee.

This shows there was a criminal element inside the Trump campaign and now inside the White House.  This has lead to the hollowing out of the structure and institutional memory of the our legal system.  Look, I am no fan of the American legal system.  It has been used to control, subjugate, and terrorize Black people for centuries.  Our problem, there is nothing better to turn to so we attempt to work the system.  The incarceration rate (38% of prisoners are Black, while Blacks make up 13.4% Americans) is an indicator that demonstrates this strategy is a straight loser.  Now the head of the justice department overrides all of the lawyers who have worked for years to make the system "equal for all".  He is the hand picked and appointed henchman of the President.  He decides who will be prosecuted regardless of the evidence or the process to gather it.
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No one will stand up to the criminality that is in plain sight.  They are all afraid to call it out because it might damage the institution.  They can't see that the Justice Department has been coopted for the personal use of the President and his friends.  Let's face it, none of us could talk to Russians while we are the head of a presidential campaign, lie to the FBI and Congress about it, plead guilty, allocute in federal court, and then have the head of the Justice Department drop the case against us.  The honest white folks wring their hands and then do nothing.  There is no moral compass in the country.  The only thing that is ubiquitous is the love of money.  It unites people from all ethnicities.  Its the only thing we can agree about - how much we love the almighty dollar.  It has no equal.  This is what I believe restrains all the "good folks".  They are more afraid of losing their money than they are of losing their soul.
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