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.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE, ANCHORS.

Icheoku says what a magnificent work of art it is, crafted in the finest of steel, with bronze-hued exterior, which on one side looks like an ark (ship), possibly designed after the many ships in which millions of Africans were forcibly brought shackled down to the Americas. The museum indeed is quite splendid and makes a very powerful presence, standing majestically so close to the Mall of Washington in Washington DC. Icheoku says congratulations to the team that made it possible; who midwifed the project and who finally brought that aspect of American history this up close and in the face. 

They labored in order that people will not forget how long the journey traveled so far by African Americans is; a journey which still continues till today in various forms of roadblocking racist discrimination throughout the country. But in the old negro song, we shall all overcome and as long as we keep the hope alive and keep on marching on. The team did a very great job - from its choice location, design, architecture, construction and finishing; and including of course the many artifacts which were painstakingly collected and assembled therein. Indeed it is a very beautiful and statement-making edifice and hopefully it will become a major draw for tourists and students as well as people from all over the world interested in actually learning about the ugly history of slavery and slave trade which still haunts America till today. 

It is equally a good thing too that the museum which was authorized by a white president George Walker Bush in 2003 was completed and opened during the presidency of a black president Barack Hussein Obama in 2016; thus once again bringing the two races that constitute America historically,  crossing paths and making another history all together. In his remarks at the opening ceremony, President GW Bush called the  museum "fabulous" and said "It shows our commitment to truth. A great nation does not hide its history, It faces its flaws and corrects them."  Representative John Lewis who led the struggle to have the museum built, said "This place is more than a building; it is a dream come true." 

The museum choreographs a history steeped in rich struggle for freedom and equality, from slavery to civil rights to the latest Black Lives Matter movement and every other thing in between. Icheoku says it is a "clarion call to remember" the past and the journey so far, but whether this sordid past will continue to plague and hound present and future generation of black Americans, who will always feel intimidated by their story, is a possibility. 

According to Peter Kovler, "How can you fail to see the links between current events - Charlotte, Tulsa, Black Lives Matter - and the brutal death of Emmet Till all those years ago. You have to be deliberately not looking at things to not see that there are things from that era that still applies to our era." Another woman said "it was dangerous then to be black in America and it is still dangerous to be black on America now." President Barack Obama bemoaned that blacks are not a burden to America and in his own words, said  "We are not a burden on America or a stain on America or an object of pity or charity for America. We are America." Icheoku says whether white Americans agree to this statement is an entirely different matter all together. Overall, a good structure and curation of stories history of black peoples struggle and contributions in America.

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