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, April 25, 2021

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOTED: HOW ABOUT BIAFRAN GENOCIDE AND OTHERS?

ICHEOKU says the United States of America has finally acknowledged that former Othman Empire, the present day Turkey, carried out a genocide against the Armenian people. It was a long overdue admission of a historical fact of that  heinous man's inhumanity to man; an evil, which was supposed to be called by its rightful name a very long time ago. However, it is still better late than never and for this, ICHEOKU commends Joe Biden for rising up to the occasion, 106 years later. 

So with the Armenian genocide now finally given its deserving place in the annals of historical genocides, alongside the Jewish Holocaust and Rwanda Tutsis ethnic group cleansing, two other widely acknowledged genocides, when will the other similarly deliberate attempts at exterminating other various ethnic groups around the world be given their rightful names. When will their own similar circumstances be given their proper names too, as in to call a spade a spade and damn the consequences just like Joe Biden did with Armenia. It was a bold move and one day has passed following the pronouncement and the sky is still holding up firmly in the sky and the earth is neither rumbling or boiling as a result. 

The aboriginals of Australia were nearly wiped out in order for the British and other Europeans to settle on their land. The Maoris of New Zealand were similarly nearly killed off before the British and other Europeans displaced and replaced them in their motherland. The Portuguese did the same thing in Brazil and of course there was the 1967 to 1970 Biafran genocide in Nigeria wherein over 3 million Biafrans were slaughtered by the Nigerian government, aided by Britain, Russia, Egypt and America to some extent. When will all these genocides be also similarly acknowledged for what they were so that the real healing can indeed begin. Then add the Indians of America who were hunted to near extinction by the same European settlers as well. 

So, there is enough blame to go round and Turkey reserves the right to also call the Indian American experience a genocide as well if Recep Tayyip Erdogan so choses. Although nobody is seeking retribution, but it is the right thing to do to properly acknowledge these tragedies as doing so will provide some succor to the victims' surviving descendants and help them in their healing. A skewed history is better righted and it is good that Armenia eventually got their awful experience finally rightfully acknowledged by the United States of America. It gives hope to these other victims of similar experiences that some day their own horrible experiences might see the light of the day and also be properly identified for what they are, pure evil. 

ICHEOKU says it was another right step in the right direction and it will favorably count in the column of Joe Biden's legacy, provided it is properly gazetted as law and not subject to a next president's executive order override, whenever that may be. Armenia have something significant to celebrate on the occasion of the 106th anniversary of the infamy which claimed 1.3 million of their people. It is an anniversary gift of inestimable value. Now, let the Armenia slaughtered finally rest. If such pronouncement will help thaw the relationship between Turkey and Armenia, that will be an additional gift, admitted it is a tall order which will be difficult, if not impossible, to realize. 

But hey, Joe Biden braved it and the deed is done and that was the only thing that counts here; every other thing now is but the shouting. It was a good gesture, regardless of how Ankara feels about it. Germany is not fretting that Adolf Hitler's nearly wiped out the Jews, so Turkey should not sweat that part of their ignominious history that rightly belongs in their rearview mirror. It is time to move on and everybody and every party involved should look on to better days ahead and leave the past alone. Enough of the bitter clinging to what happened more than one century ago. It was a good right move by Joe Biden. Well done Joe.

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