GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Monday, March 9, 2015

SAE RACIST CHANT, NOT PECULIAR TO OKLAHOMA BUT WIDESPREAD?

Icheoku says until caught, it does not exist, it did not happen; but we all know that racism is a fact of life in America and it cuts across every sphere and strata of the American society. It is a fact of life and anyone saying otherwise is either in denial or is not brave enough to acknowledge a fact of daily living in a racist American society. Where does racism not exists in our American society or the better question should be, is there any place where racism is excluded in America? Is it with a Supreme Court Judge mouthing "THATS NOT TRUE" at an America president simply because the color of his skin is not the agreeable skin color of occupants of the White House? Is it a State Governor pointing her accusatory finger at an American president because as a "boy-nigger" he must do as told? Is it in a Congressman interrupting and shouting "YOU LIE" at an American president during his State of the Union address in the Congress? Is it now in the latest effort of some Senators to undermine a sitting United States president from performing his purely exclusive executive function of negotiating international treaties and foreign policies with regard to the Iranina nuclear negotiations? Is it in our everyday life in America where certain jobs are no brainer for peoples of color and when you manage to secure one, at a lower wage below your comparative white colleague? Is it in a basket ball owner ordering his paramour not to bring those NIGGERS to his game? Is it in different neighborhoods for different people? Is it in different schools for different peoples children? Please let somebody please tell Icheoku where in America is racisim not a fact of life? 

Racism is the underbelly of America which to the extent it is not discussed or spoken of, does not exist? Needless to factor in the numerous black people shot and killed nearly everyday by white police officers without any repercussion? So Icheoku sometimes get pissed off when some trivial race issue like drunken frat boys and girls having a jolly good time, are hung out to dry in this fashion merely because they are voicing what they witnessed their parents, uncles, aunties and other relatives drum in their ear while growing up. They are being hung out to dry simply because another drunk captured a glimpse with a camera phone, of what is a daily fact of life in America? Is it in our factories that colored people are not being called names? Is it on television stations that only certain color is good enough to appear?Just name it. 

Anyway, Icheoku does not buy into all these holier than thou shouters screaming that Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of University of Oklahoma murdered sleep by singing "If you are happy and you know it, clap your hands; There will never be a NIGGER in SAE, clap your hands: You hang him from a tree but he can never sign with me, clap your hands." Yes NIGGERS were hung in America in the past and today NIGGERS are being hung by state sanctioned legal system and prsion system that is heavily skewed against people of color. Their song or action is nothing new in America, whether "inappropriate or disgusted", because this is what they learnt from their parents and surrounding environment wherein RACISM thrives and still does till today. They were raised that way and thats the only thing they know and they learnt from their parents. Many of them did not go to a mixed school or neighborhood or even church; so why would they not conclude that it is okay to put down people who do not look like them? They heard about NIGGERS being hung without consequence, so why would not think it is acceptable to hang colored people? 

Icheoku adds that even the University President David Boren is not himself innocent of the fact of consequence and is merely pandering to present emotional outburst. Those frat guys and gals, caught on the video were just unlucky to be captured on video, mouthing what is prevalent refrain in America. Icheoku says the solution is for America to accept that racisim is a clear and present danger of existence in America and then encourage its discussion among the various groups, towards finding a possibly meeting grounds on managing it as may be equitable. But for anyone to pretend that it does not exist or that he or she does not nurse racial tendencies  inside of him or her is to outrightly lie through one's teeth. Racism is part and parcel of the American society and the SAE were only being scapegoating now simply because they were caught on camera, period.

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