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 19, 2021

DEL RIO IMMIGRATION CRISIS HYPE: IT IS THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, STUPID.

ICHEOKU says suddenly the Joe Biden's administration has woken up from its slumber on the Southern border immigration crisis. It has decided to carry out its immigration responsibility with a ratcheted up deportation exercise; primarily targeted at Haitians, who merely followed the examples of Cubans, Mexicans and other light skinned South Americans and made it into America. Now, the government is sending hundreds of border agents to the southern border in Del Rio and fortifying the border defenses to ensure that these black Haitians don't enter into the country and that those who have already entered, are quickly deported back to Port-au-Prince, using as many charter flights as they could possibly find to effectively accomplish the task.  What's the rush to send back these black Haitians to the country from where they are escaping in search of a better life in America; or are Afghanis the only people who deserve a better life?

Entry point Del Rio is now the main and to some extent, the only focal point and staging ground of illegal immigration crisis hyperventilation on nightly news and newspapers editorials.  This is possibly because the color of the immigrants streaming across the Rio Grande river through Dell Rio into America is not the right skin color; they are black. But throughout last year and continuing for most part of this year when hundreds of thousands of light skinned Mexicans and other Southern Americans immigrants were "invading" the Southern border through El Paso, despite some media mention, the government looked the other way and when they looked, it was only to provide them with humanitarian assistance, busing them into American cities for rehabilitation and resettlement. 

But with those black skinned Haitians arriving through Del Rio, Americans don't want them in their country because they are too dark for the country, the reason the quick reaction and order to get them deported back to Haiti. Otherwise, how else does anyone explain the double standards in treatment of these two different immigrant groups from the two sides of the southern border, Del Rio and El Paso? What is going on with respect to the bias immigration enforcements typifies the general treatment which is meted to black people in America, where black lives don't truly matter nor really counts. How can anybody rationalize or meaningfully argue that the two treatments of the Haitian immigrants at Del Rio and those Mexicans and Southern Americans immigrants through  El Paso, meets fairness? 

It is not only not fair, but it is cruel; as Haitians need more help than even those Afghanis being brought into America in planeloads. Haiti is suffering untold economic hardship from years of deprivation, natural disasters and political turmoils, some of which were created through endless Washington DC's interference in their internal domestic affairs matter. Their president was recently assassinated and a desperate people are seeking shelter in America but are being denied it. Where is the humanity in America which they preach overseas and sometime go to wars to emphasis it, if already arrived Haitians are being removed and forcefully sent back to the same despondency where they escaped from. Cubans who manages to set their feet on American soil are allowed to stay, but not Haitians, why?

Must it only be only when America goes to war in another country and is later forced to pull out, like in Vietnam and Afghanistan, that the citizens of such country deserve to be airlifted and boat-loaded into America. Haiti is our neighbor and within the same geo-political influence of America and deserves some cordial and most favored status immigration treatment more than those Afghanis from thousands of miles away in South Central Asia being brought in planeloads. Must Haiti first become a terrorist hotbed or an enemy of America by joining forces with China and Russia, before America can begin to seriously take their needs and problems as America's responsibility. There is a lot of empty spaces in the heartland and these Haitians can be easily bused over there and encouraged to rebuild their lives back better there. 

Even the country Haiti itself deserves a sort of Marshal Plan to help rebuild and reposition it in order to discourage and dissuade these migrations. But they are black and blacks don't usually count nor matter in America's foreign policy decisions. An issue which is even more disheartening because Joe Biden's immigration tsar or tsarina, Kamala Harris, is herself a black Indian-Jamaican, yet black immigrants from Haiti are being summarily deported back to Haiti without even extending to them the same accommodations granted to their Mexican and Southern American immigrants from across the El Paso Southern border. It was not a crisis nor rose to the level demanding immediate intervention when only light skinned immigrants were crossing the southern border, but suddenly became such once dark skinned Haitians joined the exodus. It is sad.  

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