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, June 7, 2020

BLACK LIVES MATTER ON A PAVEMENT: SIMPLY A BAD IDEA.

ICHEOKU says why do a tribute which will be walked all over and underneath people's feet and vehicles tires. It is only dirt that is allowed to be down below the feet and tires. It was a bad idea as it does not in any way honor Black Lives Matter but only succeeded in placing them down under, beneath people's feet and vehicle tires. By the road signage, Black Lives Matter is now at par with dirt and it is dishearteningly demeaning. It would have been a different case were the BLM letters painted on a wall of a big building as an imposing giant mural, holding aloft the cause. But to put them down on a pavement, a roadway, where peoples shoes will pound them and vehicle tires will continuously run them over like a road kill, it is a statement in surrender and submission. 

It is bad enough that black people are complaining that their necks are under white people's knees; but to now put the entire Black Lives Matter movement under everybody's feet and every vehicle tires is absolutely thoughtless and simply below par. Mayor Muriel Elizabeth Bowser simply out did herself, thinking that she was telegraphing a different message; but inadvertently admitted where black lives actually belong, beneath people's feet and vehicle tires. If she wanted to really honor black lives, she would have placed the sign on the wall of City Hall building or better still erect massive billboards along the entire 16th Street corridor with her Black Lives Matter letters painted on them. The H Street which she renamed BLM Plaza is a more honorable way to pay tribute to the struggle. But the painting of BLM on the pavement on 16th Street is definitely a negative because of necessary connotations. 

The painting reminds ICHEOKU of what Saddam Hussein used to do to taunt America by painting American flag and President George H. Bush's image on the pavement where Iraqis walked all over them with spiteful glee and disdain. It is somewhat similar to throwing a shoe at somebody to show how contemptible the person is and message them  that they are below dirt. So, the Washington DC radical Mayor Bower did not insult the president by her action, rather she has created an otherwise avoidable antagonism for herself which will someday turn around to bite her badly any day she seeks some benefit or bailout from the Federal government. That she is the Mayor does not mean that she owns the streets of Washington DC to paint them as her ego desires. 

So many people who live in Washington DC do not believe in BLM and each time they are forced to walk on the painting, it will further push them away from whatever cause BLM is pursuing. It is one thing to send a message but it a different thing all together to stick it in everybody's face, including those who would rather it was otherwise. Such in your face affront will only succeed in alienating people from each other, especially from the cause, as some white people might start seeing the Black Lives Matter as a struggle for power between white people and black people. People when threatened or feel under siege, reacts for survival and it will not bode well for Black Lives Matter if the majority are provoked as to feel threatened or no longer secure. 

The painting is uncalled for and should be removed, painted over, as soon as possible or immediately following the waning off of the George Floyd's protest. The longer it stays the more people will start having thoughts and reading subliminal messages therein contained as a survival campaign between white people and black people. Such will definitely alienate support for Black Lives Matter and further prolong the resolution of the racial impasse in America. It is as simple as that, all the hullabaloo about George Floyd notwithstanding, that to fix the racial problem in America, the majority white people must first want to fix it, otherwise no deal. So, poking the finger in their eyes or waging the the finger in their face will only make them more reticent and withdrawn as they dig deeper to defend what they feel is theirs. 

Why did Mayor Muriel Elizabeth Bowser not even paint the name of George Floyd on the street or name the street after him in order to immortalize him. But she was pandering to Black Lives Matter with a road painting on a street which belong to everybody, including those to whom black lives does not matter and you wonder what exactly was she thinking. ICHEOKU says condemns the road painting as a needless distraction to the issue of racism and excessive use of force by the police which are currently occupying the minds of American people. The painting is needlessly antagonist, confrontational and demeaning to BLM. Above all, defacing a public street by appropriating it to a particular people of people is not the answer and neither will antagonizing the president help with solving the problem. Only a concerted effort by everyone from both sides of the debate will solve the problem and Mayor Muriel Elizabeth Bowser should advise herself accordingly. #RemoveThePainting.

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