Just as "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere", so too
political violence anywhere, is a matter of grave concern to all of us.
"No martyr is among ye now
Whom you can call your own
So go on your way accordingly
But know you're not alone" - (I dreamed I Saw St. Augustine) // St. Augustine
"He wouldn't take shit from no one
He wouldn't bow down or kneel
Authorities, they hated him
Because he was just too real" (George Jackson ) // George Jackson
Archie Shepp ::: Malcolm Semper Malcolm
Rahsaan Roland Kirk ::: We Free Kings
Today, Utah is synonymous with Mormon Country,
with Salt Lake City and their world-renowned Tabernacle Choir,
and from the holiness of this Sabbath, unto the unholy:
the conditions that have prompted the latest murder….
There's hate speech ,there's cause and effect, and there's freedom of Speech :
I'm asking you, whoever you may be or may think that you are : How is a Black man (black like my ass) how is such a man supposed to feel or to react to the murder of any Super White Supremacist who said that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was "awful" - not beautiful?
I suppose that as a disciple or Evangelist of "Gentle Jesus Meek and Mild", in the name of International or National Brotherhood , a Black Man is supposed to look upon such a one, not with disdain but with pity, love, mercy, compassion, and understanding…
According to the late Charlie K ,"MLK was awful. He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe. I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s."
Dear people, Minnesota too has its place in the global /popular diaspora imagination - I think first of all about the Swedish immigration presence in that part of the United States, secondly Duluth, Minnesota, where Bob Dylan was born, and thirdly, most recently the June 14th 2025 shootings of Minnesota Democrat legislators
There's a long list of assassinations from Julius Caesar in 44 BC, Ali Ibn Talib (a. s.) 661, the Prince of Martyrs Husayn ibn Ali (680), Abraham Lincoln (1865), Leon Trotsky (1940), Mahatma Gandhi (1948) , Patrice Lumumba (1961), John F. Kennedy (1963) Malcolm X (1965) the mass assassinations in Nigeria on the 15th of January 1966, Martin Luther King Jr (1968), Emperor Haile Selassie (1974)
These days in history, the context, the world of political violence, with circa 56 wars going on right now, the news about Charlie Kirk now fills the airwaves, the entire media space and has displaced all other news into second place, including the latest from Gaza, Doha-Qatar, some balanced news about Ukraine, the floods in Punjab, Pakistan…
Hey Joe -
There are the famous & infamous, gunslingers of the Old West sometimes celebrated & glorified as folk heroes and villains, Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok and from time to time you have the President of the United States believing himself to be an incarnation of Wyatt Earp and acting likewise as World Sheriff on the world stage as the democratically elected figurehead of the Military Industrial Complex - but after this latest assassination, hopefully, more than ever, in tune with "Vengeance is Mine", saith the Lord, and in tune with sentiments expressed by Gil Scott-Heron, President Donald J Trump will be motivated to Work For Peace more assiduously and exert himself to his uttermost
For context Charlie Kirk's assassination has happened in the US with its own gun laws, clearly a reason why the USA is today the epicentre of world political violence, and why, mourning the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, President Trump has ordered US flags to be flying at half mast until sunset on Sunday the 14th of September.
Charlie Kirk's assassination is " a watershed moment" , says Utah's governor - and at least let's thank God that kind of thing didn't happen during Barack Obama's watch…
Sitting here at this distance, after checking out what some African-American commentators have said about Charlie Kirk - including Defiant Lawyers Network reactions , and of course Nation of Islam on Charlie Kirk , it would seem that in the awakened mind known as Black Consciousness, Mr. Kirk's Christian name "Charlie" resonates wholly with Black folklore images and perceptions of Mister Charlie, resounds with the definition/ delineation of "Mister Charlie" as featured in James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie
The whole world is watching President Donald J Trump the Statesman, poised at the cusp of world history in the making, with the task of healing the dangerous polarisation that is slowly engulfing his American peoples America that he wants to make great again and he knows better than anyone else that as Abraham Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself, cannot stand"
If President Trump is going to deserve being awarded the Nobel Prize For Peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, this year or next year, he had better sharpen up by addressing the causes of the dangerous polarisation. because the saying is that "charity begins at home" and indeed it would seem that President Trump resonates with that and that's what "Making America Great Again" is ostensibly all about, that it should not be that " home is where the hatred is"
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