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.

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Monday, September 14, 2009

VAN JONES, JUST ANOTHER ANGRY BLACK-MAN?

Attorney Van Jones is an angry black-man, so what? But which black-man is not angry in America, giving what these folks have gone through and are forced to endure daily; just because they have a darker shade of skin pigmentation? Icheoku says, any black-man in America who is not angry, is an exception rather than the norm; and literally does not deserve the black-blood flowing in his veins! Such a person might as well be an Uncle-Tom and Van Jones is not that type of an 'a-hole!'
Van Jones deserves to be mad as hell at a system that formerly enslaved his people, kept them down for so long, discriminated against them, gave them lower opportunities, deems them unemployable, raped their women, hung their men on tree-tops, confined them in inferior neighbourhoods, gave them lower credit lines at higher interest rates, gave them mortgages at rates far higher than their other counterparts in America, denied them educational opportunities through separate but equal segregated schools of yore and which continues till today in the form of private and public school systems, as well as in so many other discriminatory practices which had helped sustain and maintain the chasm between various racial divides in America. So why would Van Jones not be mad and angry at such a pretentious and subjugating society, one may ask?
The irony of it all, what we may call the joker of it, is that all those people fostering these discriminations are usually the first to complain about those "angry black-men;" and you ask yourself, which planet are these pretenders from? Are they telling us that there is no discrimination in America or that those black-men being discriminated against are not supposed to be angry at a system which does not give them a fair fighting chance? If fortunes were to miraculously shift today and they find themselves in the shoes of those 'angry' black-men, would their reaction be any different? Will they not themselves pick up arms in defence of their essence, being and manhood? To these people who beat a people and expect them not to cry, Icheoku says, take a good look at yourselves, your surrounding environment including your office and tell us how many people with different skin coloration work there with you? Tell us how many people with different skin pigmentation that you see each morning as you drop off your kids to school being dropped off in your children's schools? How many persons of color are your neighbors and/or friends? How many colored people are your lawyers, doctors, book-keepers, and/or even restaurateurs?
The problem with racial injustice and inequality in America is that it is being forced underground, more subterranean; it is becoming more and more underground as people are discouraged from discussing it for political correctness? Icheoku says, we need to talk about our differences more often, freely and frequently, in order to continue to breakdown barriers and walls of suspicion; towards understanding ourselves better and become more galvanised as a people. If Van Jones is mad and angry, he is not the only one; he is just one among millions of other black-men who feel heavily shortchanged by a society, which still see them first as 'niggers' irrespective of whether that nigger is a very special person or is a Yale or Harvard law graduate or even the president of the United States of America? So Icheoku says, Van Jones is not the only mad and angry black-man in America and should be left alone. He was not alone in speculating what could have gone awry with September 11, 2001 as many Americans wondered how the terrorists could have pulled such a feat without being detected? Even 700 Club Robertson once claimed that Israeli Sharon was struck by God because of his dalliance with Palestines? So why would Van Jones purported speculation be a crucifixion tool in the hands of bigoted racist Americans?
The Oakland California environmentalist-activist and President Barack Obama's former green-jobs advisor, who was helping chaperon America's transition to a green-tech economy; was forced out of his new dig because of brewing brouhaha of his "anti-white establishment" past? According to the narrative, Van Jones' former organisation, Color of Change, took on Fox Network's Glenn Beck after he branded the president a racist because of his "stupidly" comment about a Cambridge cop who arrested Professor Louis Henry Gates without any reasonable ground? Glenn Beck in fighting back, dug up Van Jones past activism including:- a 2005 profile after the Rodney King verdicts in the early 1990s, where Jones considered himself "a communist?"; his membership of a group that dreamed of an American multiracial socialist Utopian society called 'Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM.' There was also a video of Van Jones wherein he called Republicans "assholes" in a speech he gave earlier this year in Berkeley California? Also there was a 2004 petition which Van Jones had signed calling for an investigation into whether the Bush administration had allowed the 9/11 terrorist attacks to happen in order to sway public opinion for a war against Iraq?
So in a way, Van Jones' cup was literally 'filled' as far as those fanning the embers of racism in America are concerned; and President Barack Obama, who is heavily constrained juggling the white folks, his primary black constituency and other racial divides of America, and who does not ordinarily have the same leeway as any other average Joe white-boy in the White House would have, could not save him? Van Jones had to throw in the towel and scamper for the hills for his safety, from the vampires calling for his blood; and in order to spare the president further hounding as a "socialist angry black-man who has deep seated hatred of white people?" Van Jones who was tagged an evidence of the president's socialist inclinations; is the founder and executive director of Bay Area Police Watch, an organization committed to stopping police misconduct and protecting victims of abuse. Van Jones works directly with individuals who have suffered from police harassment, intimidation, and brutality.
But unbeknownst to these villains, what they say and/or do only increases the level of resentment against their ilks; and the forced exit of Van Jones from the White House office will only serve to the perpetuate the "they really do not care about us" thinking among the black-folks of America! Icheoku says, shamelessly though, these bigots are never seen asking why these American black-men are angry in the first place, which could have since helped solve the problem of their angriness! Rather they perpetuate and propagate the stereotypical hateful-anger which they deploy so effectively to keep and maintain their subjugating status-quo in place, with every black-man being seen as a pitch-fork devil who must be kept at his place in a far distance. Icheoku hopes that Van Jones episode coming shortly at the heels of the Professor Louis Henry Gates incident, both of which truly depict the state of racial tension in our society, will help move race relationships forward; and begin earnestly to heal the wounds of racism in a society which still sees a person primarily through the lens of color, the miracle of Obama's presidency notwithstanding!