It should be painful for the accused who is wrongly or wrongfully accused of being a racist, an ethnic supremacist, or a Nazi. So, we have to be extra careful and avoid making false accusations or accusations without any strong foundations.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
Thou shalt not bear false witness, period.
Here's one reason why we should not look forward to Trump's re-election:
Trump is not the kind of person that's going to wage war against police brutality. As we can all see, he would rather tear-gas his peaceful fellow American citizens peacefully demonstrating outside the White House just as he did yesterday, without remorse, and also, just as he said yesterday, he wants to wage war on his fellow American citizens. He would like to call out the full force of the battle-ready, awesome US military against other unarmed protesters, fellow Americans who he views as the enemy. So, there are now two enemies: the visible enemy (fellow Americans, including the more militant protesters, looters ) and then there's the invisible enemy that is causing the kind of economic ruination of what he was boasting about as his achievement.
The last such encounter that I remember, was at Kent State University where four students were shot dead. There's was this protest song about it : Four Dead in Ohio
When the student cadres of the moral, upright America start protesting about the spate of brutal, unlawful Police killings of unarmed Black People, then America will have a chance of redeeming its name that is being sullied during Trump's watch.
As Chairman Mao once said, "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
Hopefully, the moral majority students will protest peacefully – as they did at Kent State University, this time, without being gunned down mercilessly, e.g. by Trump's war machinery. Some of them think that they can get away with anything because they read in Isaiah. "Though your sins be scarlet, they shall be as white as snow". I would like to hear what Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan has to say about that perception. Well Louis Farrakhan is one of the Black Leaders in the US, and here's what he has to say about the cold-blooded murder of Brother George Floyd
Trump thinks that nobody knows the military use of force better than him. America's chief soldier has just contradicted and corrected him about his latest plans of sending in the troops
Trump is not the kind of person that's going to wage war against police brutality, unless of course, such brutality were to be perpetrated on a near and dear member of his own family, in which case we can take it as fore granted he would be speaking differently.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
We can ruminate over this question that is neither poetic nor philosophic not even the weepy Biblical "Why do bad things happen to good people" it's a straightforward hypothetical question:
Members of the Jury, if it had been Jared Kushner's life that had been crushed under Derek Chauvin's knee, what do you imagine would have been Donald Trump's reaction? What would he have said in his address to the nation? Maybe - he would have declared three days of national mourning?
That being the case – and we all agree that it's "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise."(Shemot / Exodus 21: 24 - 25)
There's Cuomo Prime Time ( I pray that he will be increasing the heart on Trump's rump)
Twitter says fake "Antifa" account was run by white supremacists
Please check out these tweets
Dear SK,
Thank you sir. I think Trump is missing Adolf Hitler whose actions may have sat well with the current American president. He could even be a closet Hitler admirer. Remember that the Trumps migrated from Germany and his father was a shady character and known supremacist.
I saw a WhatsApp picture of Don's dad in KKK regalia and the white terrorist in New Zealand who targeted Muslims not too long ago in a shooting spree actually hailed Trump as "a symbol of common purpose" by which he clearly meant white supremacy and its Nazi-style fascist world domination project.
Trump may even support legislation such as that of the state of Missouri in 1922 that issued Nigger hunting licence. It gave the holder the legal right to hunt and kill African-Americans.
On Monday, June 1, 2020, 10:34:48 PM GMT+1, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
Take note, my dear Rabbi Hamelberg, that every participant in discussions on this forum always identify self with name before initials.
Double zero, 'O O', is an exceptional suspect. If he is not what Frantz Fanon called, Black Skin, White Mask, he must certainly belong to Neo-Third Reich Brown Uniform. His hypothetical question, I think, is meant to provoke otherwise, he could
just have informed readers about his personal experience of a Black police officer he knew that murdered an unarmed Black civilian in order to prove his point that the White policeman that choked George Floyd to death did the usual thing the US police used
to do irrespective of the colour of the skin of the perpetrator or the victim. It does not make sense for double 'O O,' a probable Black Skin, White Mask and perhaps an inheritor of Third Reich Brown Uniform, to insinuate about if a black police officer could
have done to George Floyd what the white police officer did to him or not.
S. Kadiri
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Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE: Okafor: In Memory of George Floyd
Sisters and Brothers
I just wanna grab your attention
Who be me?
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight."
No protocols here not for convenience not even conventional big grammar punctuation because I'm angry so unspeakably angry I could shoot him in the knee
I'm beginning like this because once upon a time I remember one
Orlando Marville at that time working for UNESCO and marvelling at one of his students at Milton Margai Teachers College by the name of Theodore Dougan having the temerity not pleading guilty and yes actually having the balls the perspicacity the presence
of both mind and good conscience to begin some maiden speech or other with the opening preamble "Gentlemen and Ladies" which at the time my marvellous Senior Brother Marville thought was cool pretty cute maybe even quite revolutionary when his aforementioned
student Dougan daring to insist in not reversing the natural order of sanity/ reality/
i-manity/ humanity not even for politeness sake ( such as
hush now child "there are ladies present ") but no holds barred let truth be boldly told and crowed out loud (and clear) considering that according to the natural order of reality Grandpa Adam, of course, came before Grandma Chava Ḥawwa Eva Eve came
long before God put Grandpa Adam to sleep and pulled out one of his ribs which later on was fashioned and shaped to become the creation known as Grandma Chava was created which is at it was in the beginning and should forever be namely respect for Adam the
elder therefore the adage age before beauty came into being and nowadays every time I say or think of "age before beauty" I think of the recent usage and misapplication ( in this forum) of the word "geriatric" by one 47-year-old old youth
and e.g.
Tom Lehrer of
National Brotherhood Week fame ( badly needed in the USA today) saying " It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year" and I seem to remember that when
Steve Biko was assassinated he was only thirty years old 30 Frantz
Fanon died at the age of thirty-six 36
Patrice Lumumba was assassinated when he was thirty-six years old 36 Walter
Rodney was assassinated at the age of thirty-seven 37
Dr King was assimilated at the age of thirty-nine 39
Malcolm X was assassinated at the age of thirty-nine 39 all of them cut down in their prime.
Sometimes it has to be expressed in what is poetry
or what looks like poetry but is certainly not poetry
through poetry so as to bypass
censorship the sensitive diplomatic language filter
but assuming that this dumbass
question is coming from some really bitter
old Negro black as my donkey's ass
it's a natural reaction when you think that Steve Bantu Biko didn't
just die it's not as if he was killed by nobody or somebody who didn't
Know what he was doing since the killer was someone who didn't
like Biko and his Black consciousness and because that someone didn't
such a dumb-ass question coming from one of us pisses me off
Respect demanded so please remember Brother Steve Biko died
He was killed it was part of the method in the madness he died
we're pissed off because you are looking for some highfalutin
philosophical rhyme and reason asking such a dumb ass question
I'm not a disciple of Lombroso so is this supposed to be academic
Some smart as dick thing for you guys to discuss and split hairs
"Would black police officer not do to GF what the white police officer did to GF? And why or why not?"
Did Cain kill Abel?
Soundkilla
For Oluwatoyin
: The Knee of Listening
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 04:00, Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:
You must be an agent provocateur.
Are you not the same person who stereotyped Black People not too long ago?
Sorry I tend to mix up my O's and A's.
GE
> On May 31, 2020, at 7:45 PM, 'O O' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Would a black police officer not do to GF what the white police officer did to GF? And why or why not?
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> Work
>> On May 31, 2020, at 3:13 PM, 'Pamela Smith' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for this, Collins.
>> It said it all
>> Endearingly,
>> Endurely.
>>
>> R.I.P.
>> George Floyd
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2020 9:24 AM
>> To: ya <yorubaaffairs@googlegroups.com>; dialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
>> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Okafor: In Memory of George Floyd
>>
>> In Memory of George Floyd
>>
>> I want to breathe
>> But I cant breathe
>>
>> I could not see his face
>> His knee was on my neck
>> Life was going fast away from my soul
>> I want to breathe
>> But I can't breathe
>>
>> 46yrs ago, I learnt my first word
>> Mama! mama! mama!
>> 25th May 2020,I spoke my last word
>> Mama! mama! mama!
>> And I still pleaded because
>> I want to breathe
>> But I cant breathe
>>
>> My color was black
>> His color was white
>> My crime was black
>> His right was white
>> I still want to breathe
>> But I cant breathe
>>
>> Minneapolis is burning
>> Real Americans are angry
>> The world is shocked in disbelief
>> Because I wanted to breathe
>> But i cant breathe
>> They were four of them
>> Four messengers of death
>>
>> I saw the face of my wife
>> I felt the smiles of my kids
>> I remembered my friends
>> For their sake
>> I just needed to breathe
>> But I cant breathe
>>
>> I asked for water
>> The pain was getting more
>> My neck hurts
>> My stomach hurts
>> My eyes were closed in agony
>> My offence again?
>> My color was black
>> His color was white
>>
>> I have paid the price
>> Price of being black
>> Cry no more Minneapolis
>> I was one of the added numbers
>> My blood on that pavement
>> Will always remember that
>> I wanted to breathe
>> But I had no right to breathe
>>
>> My offence again?
>> My color was black
>> My name George Floyd
>> My crime was black
>> His color was white
>> His name Derek Chauvin
>> His right was white
>> He has the right to breathe
>>
>> I want to breathe
>> I can't breathe!
>> But someday this battle shall
>> Be over.
>> I go in peace but remember
>> 25th May 2020
>> Mama!mama!mama!
>> My last word!
>>
>> -Collins Okafor
>>
>> #ICantBreathe
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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