EILEEN GU: A CASE STUDY IN THE AMERICANNESS OF CHINESE AMERICANS.

ICHEOKU says if China does not accept dual citizenship as a matter of State's policy and they allowed her to compete under the Chinese national red flag as a Chinese athlete, it means that she renounced her American citizenship as the Chinese authorities must have insisted on her doing so first before they signed off on her competing for China. 

She was born in San Francisco, a California city with a very large Chinese population, to an American white father and a Chinese mother. Like many of her Chinese--American compatriots, who for the most part, often see their American citizenship as just a tool to help them get what they want, her allegiance is now openly made known as incontrovertibly, primarily to China. She has also forever foreclosed her chance at ever representing the United States of America in any future global sports competition whatsoever.

According to her, her mother made her do it, to switch her allegiance from her country of birth America to her mother's country of birth China, as her mother taught her to embrace her "heritage and honor her ancestry". But what has her "heritage and ancestry" ever done for her throughout her 18 years of existence, one may be forced to ask; yet she prefers to fly the red flag of China against the white, red and blue flag of America, the country which gave her everything she has and also provided the hospital in which she was born and the Stanford University she will be attending. Would she rather live under the control of the Chinese Communist Party than the freedom she is enjoying in America? 

She is Chinese-American, but for all intent and purpose, prefers her Chinese half to her American half. It is the same way former President Barack Obama prefers to identify as black rather than white, but never sought to nor campaigned to be president of Kenya. Whether he "embraced his heritage and honored his ancestry" is also debatable. If children normally inherit the pedigree of their father, why this Chinese representation at the Beijing Winter Olympics games by this San Francisco born Chinese mother and American father female freestyle skier? 

It is true that many hybrid Americans are often conflicted about their true identity and most times, they break for the side that will give them the most mileage in life. Former President Barack Obama did exactly the same thing when he moved to Chicago from his Hawaii pampered life, with politics in his view.  He started learning how to be black, to understand what it really means to be black in America and then he started behaving like black. He directly courted blacks, attended Jeremiah Wright's black church for twenty years and also married a black Michelle to complete his blackness credentials and political resume. But during his presidential campaign when he ran into racial trouble with white people, he hurriedly dusted up his white side pedigree. 

Is it possible that these racially hybrid Americans are just milking their Americanness depending on how it suits their convenience. It would even be more understandable if the parents of such  American born individuals, were both immigrants from another country and still have undiluted sentimental attachment to their country of birth. As with many immigrants in America and practically  elsewhere, their mother country is always very dear to their hearts and they celebrate their heritage as occasion permits. They also instruct their children accordingly about where they come from, their background and also visit with their children to their native country as often as they can afford to make the trip. 

They sometimes even tell their American born children that they should not behave like "those Americans" because they are not Americans. Imagine that, telling children born in America that they are not Americans. There was this story about a Nigerian- American couple who sent their American born children back to Nigeria to be "correctly and properly" tutored about life, despite the children's protestations that they do not want to live in Nigeria because they are not Nigerians but Americans. It took the intervention of the American embassy in Nigeria, who the children secretly called, to bring them back to America. 

It is not just Chinese, but so many immigrants in America who go through this conflict of divided nationality, including even Mexican immigrants whose country of birth shares a common border with America. Sometimes it takes the passing away of such immigrant parents and even the first generation before their children's children will become completely and fully Americanized. So, let no reader of this piece get this piece wrong, as it is not meant to chastise this particular Chinese-American champion freestyle skier or to throw any dart at hybrid Americans because of their mixed race pedigree. 

ICHEOKU is only merely exploring why Eileen Gu did what she did, preferring to compete for China instead of America, her country of birth; especially at this particular time when China's genocide against the Uiighers is front and center of world conversations, the reason there was a diplomatic boycott of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Why did she do it? Does she approve of what the CCP is doing to Chinese minorities or would she rather live under their repressive regime, with only government approved and rationed freedom. What founded her action and why is she so proud of it. Could it be that Brad Pitt was right when he said in the movie Killing Them Softly: "In America, you're on your own. America is not a country, it's just a business. Now pay me." 

She could have easily competed for America as a Chinese-American and still enjoyed the support and love of both countries, her mother's China and her and her father's America as a Chinese pedigreed American making American winter sports competitiveness great again at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. She would have become an instant heroine and celebrity in America as a powerful voice to reckon with the Chinese American community in America. But for her to diss America in this manner, and at a time of high wire global politics and ratcheting tension between the two countries over Taiwan and for what China did to Hong Kong, leaves so much to be desired. She sent a strong message to the world about America and it is not a good message. 

She is now an embodiment of the lack of trust by some American people of a large segment of the Chinese population in America, particularly those in San Francisco and Los Angeles, who these Americans believe owe greater loyalty to China than they do to America. These Americans also believe that it is mostly from this segment that the Chinese Communist Party is drawing the majority of their American spies to infiltrate American politicians and government agencies and departments to mine sensitive information and steal trade secrets. Recall that both Congressman Eric Swalwell's Chinese honey pot and Senator Diane Feinstein's Chinese personal chauffeur/driver of over twenty years came from this very Los Angeles and San Francisco California axis. 

Such a display of borderline loyalty may be one of the reasons some knuckleheads often attack Chinese and other Chinese-looking Americans on the streets, believing that they are moles working for the Chinese Communist Party who do not mean well for America. Many of these Chinese-Americans believe that they are Chinese and not Americans; and for the most part, only fly the American flag when there is a racial complaint to make and protest against. 

Now, Eileen Gu will be celebrating her Winter Olympics gold medal win in Beijing instead of Washington DC or San Francisco, parading through downtown Beijing alongside other Chinese medal winners in the olympics, her now fully affirmed and newly found fellow Chinese compatriots. Just an aside, if she were a member of the United States Marine Corp and war broke out between China and America over Taiwan, and her platoon were deployed to the South China sea to help defend Taiwan, what would she have done? Your guess is probably as good as this writer's. 

ICHEOKU says will be withholding any congratulations to her as that would amount to sleeping with the enemy since she is now part of the genocidal Chinese Communist Party. May be they will give her an honorary membership of the CCP as a reward for what she did, choosing China over America. A country which gave her everything and made it possible for her to attain the great olympian height which she did and also took care of her from birth to now and continuing. 

No wonder San Francisco is what it is, acute liberalism on steroids; always rioting and burning the American flag. This particular Chinese gold winning medalist and now America hating, Eileen Gu, has surpassed every expectations of a weirdness from whacko San Francisco. What does she want to prove, that she can be more outrageous than any other San Franciscan? And Madam Speaker crazy Nancy is their representative. Is she ok with this? Lets see if she will invite her to Washington DC, honor and celebrate her for the gold medal win. In short, this gold winning freestyle skier might be crazier than Nancy for crying out loud. 

PRESIDENT BIDEN HOSTS GERMANY CHANCELLOR OLAF: SANCTIONS ALONE WILL NOT CUT IT.

ICHEOKU says the fear of white people, once again, killing themselves in very large numbers as they did during the two world wars is weighing heavily on the minds of NATO leaders and President Vladimir Putin. This is why the forever threatening war between NATO and Russia has not been fought yet and is steadily looking very unlikely that it will ever be fought. The will is not just there, particularly in Europe, where people are now used to just loving and living life on the easy lane and will not want anything to disturb their groove. 

The new mantra in Europe is why fight wars when you can just relax, make love and smoke some weed and sometimes carry placards on the streets. Many of the good men are all gone, remaining only a very few, who are not in a position to influence policies or make decisions. Those European hippies easily forgot that, but for the brave and courageous few good men of the past, the entire European continent would have lost their culture and language; and replaced them with Aryan culture and German, which would have been the only language tolerated in Europe. Adolf Hitler started off just about the same way which President Vladimir Putin is now trending, with one small country.

That the visiting German Chancellor refused to categorically commit to the fate of Nord-stream II should Russia invade Ukraine shows the deep anti war sentiment in Europe. They don't want war and they don't want to and will not fight Russia; they don't want any hostilities in the neck of their woods to dampen their joyride. Imagine what these European leaders could possibly be telling President Vladimir Putin privately, in phone calls and visits. Is it not even better to just break up NATO or cancel it entirely; and let the "countries of the willing" organize themselves into another security protection umbrella. Enough of the wishy washy Germans giving Putin a mixed signal that NATO is not united under one common resolve.

The German Chancellor was repeatedly asked and given many opportunities to assert a firm position of his German government on the gas pipeline project, but he severally refused to, hiding under the nicety of diplomatic ambiguity. What would President Vladimir Putin, watching the meeting between President Biden and Chancellor Olaf from the comfort seating of his Kremlin residence or office, think? Probably that NATO will not do anything other than the current barking and shouting; and you ask yourself, will such be enough to deter and dissuade Putin from ordering his soldiers to cross the border and thrust into Ukraine, full metal jacket.

Sanctions alone, no matter how tough, will not be enough to deter Putin nor force him to change his mind. He is one heck of a tough cookie and he only understands the language of force. He is a bully of some sort and bullies only understand and respond to bullying. Bullies need to be bullied themselves, too. If NATO should commit right this very minute to send troops into Ukraine and fight alongside Ukraine to help Ukraine protect its territorial integrity, President Vladimir Putin will immediately pull his troops back from the Ukraine border. He is a "strongman" and he does not want to lose that appellation through a possible defeat by NATO and would rather cut his losses and beat it, with his pride and ego still intact.

The war with Russia should be fought as so many weapons have been manufactured and more are still being manufactured and they need to be used. There will not be any other war greater than a war between NATO and Russia, the real mother of all wars. Such a war will be the biggest payday for the military industrial complex and it will also help improve so many countries' economies. Even if President Vladimir Putin caves in now and withdraws his troops from Ukraine's border, he should still be forced to pay a penalty for disturbing the peace of the world and ratcheting the threat of war. He should be made to set a definite transition timetable, within which he must relinquish power in the Kremlin. 

How can the West be preaching democracy around the world and going to war to spread it, yet still doing business with a despot who has been in power for 23 long years. Why were Saddam Hussein and Moumar Gaddafi killed or is President Vladimir Putin not also killing and imprisoning his Russian people in a similar fashion as those former leaders of Iraq and Libya? The sham which passes for elections in Russia is not free and opposition figures are frequently hounded and hunted down, just like it obtained in Iraq and Libya during the regimes of Saddam and Gaddafi. So, why is President Vladimir Putin getting a different special treatment or does his different skin color hold the secret source code?

Anyway, Chancellor Sholz Olaf equated himself well as a bilingual speaker; he also has the composure and finesse of a leader and shares uncanny resemblance with Delaware Senator Chris Coons, the guy who took Biden's senate seat, although his hair is fuller and the hairline is still within an acceptable recession. If only he had the courage to make the much anticipated pronouncement about what will happen to the Nord Stream II pipeline project should Russia invade Ukraine, he would have transformed himself into an Americans loving world statesman. But he missed that golden opportunity to shine at his moment in the sun. It is sad. The wait now continues for Putin to make his next move, which probably would be with tanks rolling into Ukraine. Who even knows what Putin is thinking? Only Putin can vouchsafe that.

THE WEST IS UNDER A MORAL OBLIGATION TO DEFEND UKRAINE: KUWAIT WAS DEFENDED.

ICHEOKU says the West goaded Ukraine out of the Kremlin's control and should stand with the country, shoulder to shoulder, as it defends its territory from Russia. The country is under a darkening fog of invasion by an overwhelmingly stronger and militarily more superior Russia, and cannot be left to its own devices. Will Russia tolerate the use of Western weapons in killing Russians without forcing the West into the conflict by striking a target in the West like Japan did with Hawaii? 

Anyway, weapons alone will not do the magic and cannot do the job as was shown with Afghanistan National Army, which were also militarily well supplied, yet they crumbled before the rag tag Taliban forces. Western boots on the ground will be needed and should be provided in addition. The West must boldly affirm its stand that every sovereign and independent country has the right to make its own foreign policy decisions and decide which direction it wants to go. Therefore, when Russia finally invades Ukraine, the West must see Ukraine as a brother in trouble and come to its assistance in fighting the Russian invaders.

If Russia will be bold enough to ignore all the threats of sanctions and proceed to invade Ukraine, the West must determine such as an action of a bully and come to the assistance of Ukraine with a direct military action against the invaders. The West must show Ukraine that they really support it by actually supporting it, and helping the heroes of Ukraine in giving death to the invaders and prospective occupiers. If Germans had been confronted when they first invaded Poland, they would have been stopped right there; and would not have had the impetus to take over more European countries. Ukraine will not be the only country in the menu of Russia; it will only be a trial run as Russia will consume every other former Soviet Socialist country if they get away with Ukraine. 

The currently prevailing argument that because Ukraine is not a member of NATO and therefore it is not entitled to benefit from the "attack on one is an attack on all" defense policy of NATO is simply a hogwash. Other countries which were not members of NATO have benefitted from the organization in the past. Kosovo for one; and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the Iraqi army was chased out Kuwait and the last time ICHEOKU checked, Kuwait was and is still not a member of NATO. It is either the West is afraid of fighting Russia or they know something which the public does not know about Russian military superiority, which they do not want to become advertised by going to a war with them and suffering a humiliating defeat in their hands.

The West must override any presently existing policy in their charter which will prevent NATO from directly engaging the Russian army when it invades Ukraine. At minimum, they can treat it as a special case which needs an exception; and issue a waiver designed to prevent a bully from bullying a less powerful and less stronger neighbor. It will help boost the moral credentials of NATO and reassure countries flirting with membership of NATO, that they can do it if they want, without fear of Russia attacking them. If NATO stays aside while Russia overruns Ukraine, it will produce a chilling effect on its membership-aspiring countries and will also weaken NATO's strength in the eyes of the world. If the organization cannot fight just one country, Russia, what then is the use for its existence? 

The West's resting their help on only weapons supply is not enough as the courage to effectively stand their ground in the face of a massive Russian invading army, might not be sufficiently available in the Ukraine military. They will need all the extra support and help they can get from NATO or elected Western countries' military, to shore them up and assure them that they are not alone in the fight and that they got their back. Even if such foreign military help will not go into a direct fighting with Russians, or to the battle front, at least they can man the logistics and supplies, as well as training additional Ukrainian volunteers, while enough of Ukraine trained soldiers are freed up to enable them deploy more troops into the battle fields as they confront the invading Russians. 

Ukraine is a laboratory test case for the future of European military and defense security; and as Ukraine goes, so shall many other European countries, the reason NATO must stand their ground firmly and help fight the war against Russia now in Ukraine, once and for all. The war with communism, which was once cold and now heating up, should be fought now instead of kicking the can down the road for a future time. This is the only way to finally decide the military superiority contest between the West and Russia, which is the primary cause of the lingering tension between the West and Russia, as one side has to be first militarily defeated in order to have a permanent peace. 

Such a war will be very lucrative to the military industrial complex and will also help grow the economy of the various countries which will supply and support the war effort. It is not enough to wish and hope and pray that President Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine or that President Vladimir Putin has been deterred by the barrage of threats of economic sanctions. The Russian strongman does not care and he showed it previously when he invaded Georgia and Ukraine, seizing their cities of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as well as Crimea, despite the then President Barack Obama's threats of crushing economic sanctions. President Vladimir Putin simply ignored them and they eventually turned out to be just ordinary empty hot air. 

Recall that the American government's position then was that "realistically Crimea is now effectively in Russian hands and the challenge going forward is how to deter Russia from taking over the Russian-speaking areas of east Ukraine or even the whole Ukraine." It has now been  shown that Vladimir Putin is not content with what he has already taken by force, and now wants more. He figured out that the West lacks the resolve to militarily confront Russia because the appetite for a real war between the West and Russia does not exist in the West, especially among Europeans, who have since succumbed to woke sissy politics, and he is now craving for more territorial seizures. 

Now that we are once again experiencing "the most dangerous situation in Europe since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968", what is the West going to do about it? Is the West ready to put their military muscle where their economic sanctions threat mouth is, or will they shy away under the cover of Ukraine not being a member of NATO? Every right thinking person knows that bullies understand only one language, their language of force. They need to be bullied too or at least forced to stop bullying others by giving them a dose of their medicine; or as  William Shakespeare would put it, Measure for Measure. Stopping President Vladimir Putin's annihilation of Ukraine is a moral obligation which the West have, and they owe it to Ukraine now as a matter of cause. 

President Vladimir is marching on with his invasion and has literally encircled Ukraine with thousands of armored tanks and soldiers. He has also deployed the cold weather combat Siberia-based military unit and has ordered his nuclear bombers into full military readiness. Will the West wait and watch as he unleashes all these anacondas on a small Ukraine? Will the West be comfortable to entertain such high level deaths and destruction? If the West claims that Putin is miscalculating, why won't the West also "miscalculate" alongside Putin, afterall it takes fire to sometimes quench a fire. Is all the West's threats of "crushing economic sanctions" not what William Shakespeare described as a little gust of wind which enables an inferno to rage on? 

He did it before with South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Crimea and the sanctions then did not do jack to deter him and did not adversely impact Russia or President Putin. If Russia survived then,  why would President Vladimir Putin be deterred now by the same similar vacuous threat? What if he decides that Russia can ride out whatever sanction the West might impose and goes ahead to invade Ukraine? North Korea has been under such "crushing sanction" for a long time, yet their leader Kim Jong Un is still in power and the entire North Koreans have not been wiped out of hunger. What does President Vladimir Putin care if sanctions are imposed, as long as Russia occupies Ukraine? He does not care if he is perceived as "strategically weaker", whatever that means; as long as he is perceived as militarily so strong that NATO backed out from fighting Russia. 

ICHEOKU says it is time to put an end to his lawlessness and constant violations of international borders of his neighboring countries and getting away. NATO exists as a counterforce to Russia and it must stand up now to show, in fact, that it is really a counterforce against Russia. Ukraine is asking for all the help it can get to help defend itself from Russia and NATO should give it to them, including fighting men and women, to help them take on the Russian invaders when they finally arrive. It is no longer if, but when, Russia will invade Ukraine. The war is already afoot, with Russian soldiers eagerly waiting at the border for the order to breach Ukraine. So, when Ukraine finally asks NATO for some help with troops, will NATO answer Kiev and say, here they are, take as many as you need?

MOROCCO FAILED LITTLE BOY RAYAN: HE WAS RESCUABLE AND SHOULD HAVE LIVED.

ICHEOKU says Private Ryan was saved but a real life little boy Rayan could not be saved just because the team that mounted the rescue operation fumbled the ball. It was absolute ineptitude and gross incompetence of the rescue team that led to the death of five year old boy Rayan. Little Rayan had a great resolve to live and he gave the Moroccan authorities everything they could have needed to help them save him but they still failed him, regardless. 

First, he fell into a 100 feet deep hole which could easily pass for a shallow hole in the drilling world. Second, it was a leg first, straight down fall, a somewhat rappelling down drop if anyone wants to see it that way, and he survived the fall. Third, he was alert and talking; and was able to reasonably communicate with the rescuers. Fourth, he was did not panic and stayed alive for four long days, alone and unafraid, inside the ten stories deep dark hole, hopefully and patiently  waiting for the Kingdom of Morocco authorities to get to him and pull him out alive. 

What else could the authorities in Morocco have expected from such an entrapped citizen, which the 5 year old little boy did not provide for them to make his rescue possible? In fact, he lived long enough to have been successfully rescued ten times over; and his death will forever haunt those rescuers for their unprofessionalism and lack of technical knowhow on how to mount an effective rescue operation. The whole circumstances were just about perfect for them to have done a better job and rescued little Rayan; and the weather held up as it was not raining either. 

The hole was only one hundred feet deep; they knew the exact location of the boy; they lowered a camera into the hole and saw him clearly. They also lowered oxygen, water and food to him; so why wasn't more stuff lowered to him in order to get him out. He was alert and not badly injured, so why didn't they lower a hard helmet, life jacket and suspenders to him and then guide him on how to strap them on; and using a harness, gradually hoist him up and out of the hole. Even if the crane was pulling him up at a maximum speed of about ten feet every one hour, it would have successfully and safely pulled him out alive within about ten hours.  

Instead, they wasted much valuable time digging up piles of dirt and at a distance; and after five long days of avoidable waste of time, little Rayan lost the will to wait and gave up. He died regretting that he was born in Morocco where the authorities are grossly inept and could not manage such a simple rescue operation. If that hole could fit the shoulders of the little boy, it means that it was also big enough to fit steel pipes, to shore the side walls and also pull Ryan  safely through. 

Even without such pipes, with the necessary harness, hard helmet and right rugged outfits, the job could still have been safely done. All they needed to do was remain in constant communication with little Rya as they gradually pulled him up, having guided him into those safety gears. 

In other climes, people buried far deeper underneath such as coal miners, and whose location are sometimes not even known, are still being safely rescued. But in Africa, in the Kingdom of Morocco, a little boy who fell into a mere 100 feet shallow hole and whose exact location was known, could not be safely rescued after five long days of waiting. It is exactly what Bob Marley's song "Waiting in vain" looks like and little Rayan experienced it first hand before he finally succumbed to death. 

ICHEOKU says whoever was in charge of the rescue attempt and also the emergency service in Morocco ought to resign in shame or be fired for the botched rescue. They let little Rayan down,  despite all the effort he made to stay alive and be rescued. His will to live was eventually overpowered by the incompetence of the Moroccan rescue team and his body yielded his spirit. 

Instead of excavating a parallel hole requiring such a heavy amount of earth removal and the constant fear of surrounding grounds giving way, they should have drilled a lateral hole adjacent to the boy's location and crawl him out from it. It is used in oil fracking and it was also the reason Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, claiming that Kuwait was stealing Iraq's oil through lateral drilling. A hundred feet deep hole could easily have been drilled using this method within a few hours and a stationary drill machine would have also dispensed with heavy earth-moving machinery, moving back and forth and heightening the fear of possible cave in. 

It is a lame excuse that diggers encountered "a hard rock" which further delayed the rescue effort, because hard rocks are reasonably to be expected as part of the subterranean structure; or were they expecting beach-sand under the earth? The supposed "experts" on topographical engineering should have known or at least anticipated that there could be "hard rock" beneath the earth's surface. 

All the people involved with the rescue attempt of the little Moroccan boy Rayan should resign in shame as they not only failed little Ryan, but every Moroccan and in fact the entire African continent. They did a very poor job and they failed woefully. Maybe, we should have sent Tom Hanks to the rescue. It is sad that little Rayan was not safely rescued. May his soul now rest. 

BEIJING WINTER OLYMPICS 2022 OPENS: UNITED IN DESPOTISM, BIRDS OF THE SAME PLUMAGE.

ICHEOKU says they can do whatever the heck they like to their completely emasculated captive citizens, but that is where it ends as the free world will never allow them to dictate outside the borders of their respective enclaves. What Vladimit Putin is planning for Ukraine and what Xi Jingping is planning for Taiwan shall both fail as the world has resolved to not tolerate them. 

In this 21st century, just two men believe that only them knows what is best for millions of Russians and a billion plus Chinese people. It is incredible that President Vladimir Putin has been the only absolute authority in Russia for 23 years since 1999. Is Russia a third world country or what? Why are Russians allowing this madness to continue to fester. Why is China's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still existing when China is no longer a communist country, having since embraced capitalism? 

Anyway, it is their completely subdued citizens, who have been intimidated and tortured into total servile obedience, who still tolerate their subjugation. Hopefully, a day will come when they will wake up from their cruelty-induced stupor to demand their freedom and say enough of living in bondage of oppressive dictatorships. It is possible too that the two men are sponsoring the military coups sweeping out elected governments in West Africa to make it easy for them to do business without any check and balance. Anyway, good luck to the world class athletes who are gathered in Beijing and competing in the Winter Olympics 2022 games. 

A HOUSE DIVIDED SPEECH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JUNE 16 1858: SIMPLY MLK-STIC.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved–I do not expect the house to fall–but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new–North as well as South.

Have we no tendency to the latter condition?

Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination–piece of machinery, so to speak–compounded of the Nebraska doctrine, and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do, and how well adapted; but also, let him study the history of its construction, and trace, if he can, or rather fail, if he can, to trace the evidences of design, and concert of action, among its chief architects, from the beginning.

The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the States by State Constitutions, and from most of the national territory by Congressional prohibition. Four days later, commenced the struggle which ended in repealing that Congressional prohibition. This opened all the national territory to slavery, and was the first point gained. But, so far, Congress only had acted; and an endorsement by the people, real or apparent, was indispensable, to save the point already gained, and give chance for more.

This necessity had not been overlooked; but had been provided for, as well as might be, in the notable argument of “squatter sovereignty,” otherwise called “sacred right of self-government,” which latter phrase, though expressive of the only rightful basis of any government, was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this: That if any one man choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object. That argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows: 

“It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.” Then opened the roar of loose declamation in favor of “Squatter Sovereignty,” and “sacred right of self-government.” But, said opposition members, “let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Territory may exclude slavery.” “Not we,” said the friends of the measure; and down they voted the amendment.

While the Nebraska bill was passing through Congress, a law case involving the question of a Negro’s freedom, by reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then into a Territory covered by the Congressional prohibition, and held him as a slave for a long time in each, was passing through the U. S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; and both Nebraska bill and law suit were brought to a decision in the same month of May, 1854. The Negro’s name was “Dred Scott,” which name now designates the decision finally made in the case. 

Before the then next Presidential election, the law case came to, and was argued in, the Supreme Court of the United States; but the decision of it was deferred until after the election. Still, before the election, Senator Trumbull, on the floor of the Senate, requested the leading advocate of the Nebraska bill to state his opinion whether the people of a Territory can constitutionally exclude slavery from their limits; and the latter answers: “That is a question for the Supreme Court.”

The election came. Mr. Buchanan was elected, and the indorsement, such as it was, secured. That was the second point gained. The indorsement, however, fell short of a clear popular majority by nearly four hundred thousand votes, and so, perhaps, was not overwhelmingly reliable and satisfactory. The outgoing President, in his last annual message, as impressively as possible echoed back upon the people the weight and authority of the indorsement. The Supreme Court met again; did not announce their decision, but ordered a re-argument. The Presidential inauguration came, and still no decision of the court; but the incoming President in his inaugural address, fervently exhorted the people to abide by the forthcoming decision, whatever it might be. Then, in a few days, came the decision.

The reputed author of the Nebraska bill finds an early occasion to make a speech at this capital indorsing the Dred Scott decision, and vehemently denouncing all opposition to it. The new President, too, seizes the early occasion of the Silliman letter to indorse and strongly construe that decision, and to express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained!

At length a squabble springs up between the President and the author of the Nebraska bill, on the mere question of fact, whether the Lecompton Constitution was or was not, in any just sense, made by the people of Kansas; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he wants is a fair vote for the people, and that he cares not whether slavery be voted down or voted up. 

I do not understand his declaration that he cares not whether slavery be voted down or voted up, to be intended by him other than as an apt definition of the policy he would impress upon the public mind–the principle for which he declares he has suffered so much, and is ready to suffer to the end. And well may he cling to that principle. If he has any parental feeling, well may he cling to it. That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine. Under the Dred Scott decision “squatter sovereignty” squatted out of existence, tumbled down like temporary scaffolding–like the mould at the foundry served through one blast and fell back into loose sand–helped to carry an election, and then was kicked to the winds. 

His late joint struggle with the Republicans, against the Lecompton Constitution, involves nothing of the original Nebraska doctrine. That struggle was made on a point–the right of a people to make their own constitution–upon which he and the Republicans have never differed.

The several points of the Dred Scott decision, in connection with Senator Douglas’s “care not” policy, constitute the piece of machinery, in its present state of advancement. This was the third point gained. The working points of that machinery are: 

First, That no negro slave, imported as such from Africa, and no descendant of such slave, can ever be a citizen of any State, in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States. This point is made in order to deprive the negro, in every possible event, of the benefit of that provision of the United States Constitution, which declares that “The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.”

Secondly, That “subject to the Constitution of the United States,” neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature can exclude slavery from any United States territory. This point is made in order that individual men may fill up the Territories with slaves, without danger of losing them as property, and thus to enhance the chances of permanency to the institution through all the future.

Thirdly, That whether the holding a Negro in actual slavery in a free State, makes him free, as against the holder, the United States courts will not decide, but will leave to be decided by the courts of any slave State the Negro may be forced into by the master. This point is made, not to be pressed immediately; but, if acquiesced in for awhile, and apparently indorsed by the people at an election, then to sustain the logical conclusion that what Dred Scott’s master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free State of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or one thousand slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free State.

Auxiliary to all this, and working hand in hand with it, the Nebraska doctrine, or what is left of it, is to educate and mould public opinion, at least Northern public opinion, not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up. This shows exactly where we now are; and partially, also, whither we are tending.

It will throw additional light on the latter, to go back, and run the mind over the string of historical facts already stated. Several things will now appear less dark and mysterious than they did when they were transpiring. The people were to be left “perfectly free,” “subject only to the Constitution.” What the Constitution had to do with it, outsiders could not then see. Plainly enough now, it was an exactly fitted niche, for the Dred Scott decision to afterward come in, and declare the perfect freedom of the people to be just no freedom at all. Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people, voted down? Plainly enough now: the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision. 

Why was the court decision held up? Why even a Senator’s individual opinion withheld, till after the Presidential election? Plainly enough now: the speaking out then would have damaged the perfectly free argument upon which the election was to be carried. Why the outgoing President’s felicitation on the indorsement? Why the delay of a reargument? Why the incoming President’s advance exhortation in favor of the decision? These things look like the cautious patting and petting of a spirited horse, preparatory to mounting him, when it is dreaded that he may give the rider a fall. And why the hasty after indorsement of the decision by the President and others?

We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen–Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance–and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortices exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few–not omitting even scaffolding–or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such a piece in–in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.

It should not be overlooked that, by the Nebraska bill, the people of a State as well as Territory, were to be left “perfectly free,” “subject only to the Constitution.” Why mention a State? They were legislating for Territories, and not for or about States. Certainly the people of a State are and ought to be subject to the Constitution of the United States; but why is mention of this lugged into this merely Territorial law? Why are the people of a Territory and the people of a State therein lumped together, and their relation to the Constitution therein treated as being precisely the same?

While the opinion of the court, by Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case, and the separate opinions of all the concurring Judges, expressly declare that the Constitution of the United States neither permits Congress nor a Territorial Legislature to exclude slavery from any United States Territory, they all omit to declare whether or not the same Constitution permits a State, or the people of a State, to exclude it. Possibly, this is a mere omission; but who can be quite sure, if McLean or Curtis had sought to get into the opinion a declaration of unlimited power in the people of a State to exclude slavery from their limits, just as Chase and Mace sought to get such declaration, in behalf of the people of a Territory, into the Nebraska bill;–I ask, who can be quite sure that it would not have been voted down in the one case as it had been in the other? 

The nearest approach to the point of declaring the power of a State over slavery, is made by Judge Nelson. He approaches it more than once, using the precise idea, and almost the language, too, of the Nebraska act. On one occasion, his exact language is, “except in cases where the power is restrained by the Constitution of the United States, the law of the State is supreme over the subject of slavery within its jurisdiction.”

In what cases the power of the States is so restrained by the United States Constitution, is left an open question, precisely as the same question, as to the restraint on the power of the Territories, was left open in the Nebraska act. Put this and that together, and we have another nice little niche, which we may, ere long, see filled with another Supreme Court decision, declaring that the Constitution of the United States does not permit a State to exclude slavery from its limits. And this may especially be expected if the doctrine of “care not whether slavery be voted down or voted up,” shall gain upon the public mind sufficiently to give promise that such a decision can be maintained when made.

Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks of being alike lawful in all the States. Welcome, or unwelcome, such decision is probably coming, and will soon be upon us, unless the power of the present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown. We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State. To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty, is the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation. That is what we have to do. How can we best do it?

There are those who denounce us openly to their own friends, and yet whisper us softly, that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object. They do not tell us, nor has he told us, that he wishes any such object to be effected. They wish us to infer all, from the fact that he now has a little quarrel with the present head of the dynasty; and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point, upon which he and we have never differed. They remind us that he is a great man, and that the largest of us are very small ones. Let this be granted. But “a living dog is better than a dead lion.” Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it. His avowed mission is impressing the “public heart” to care nothing about it.

A leading Douglas democratic newspaper thinks Douglas’s superior talent will be needed to resist the revival of the African slave trade. Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is approaching? He has not said so. Does he really think so? But if it is, how can he resist it? For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to take negro slaves into the new Territories. Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest? And unquestionably they can be bought cheaper in Africa than in Virginia. He has done all in his power to reduce the whole question of slavery to one of a mere right of property; and as such, how can he oppose the foreign slave trade–how can he refuse that trade in that “property” shall be “perfectly free”–unless he does it as a protection to the home production? And as the home producers will probably not ask the protection, he will be wholly without a ground of opposition.

Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser to-day than he was yesterday–that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation? Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference? Now, as ever, I wish not to misrepresent Judge Douglas’s position, question his motives, or do aught that can be personally offensive to him. Whenever, if ever, he and we can come together on principle so that our cause may have assistance from his great ability, I hope to have interposed no adventitious obstacle. But clearly, he is not now with us–he does not pretend to be–he does not promise ever to be.

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends–those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work–who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then, to falter now?–now, when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail–if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SNAGS UP HIS OWN TERRORISM TROPHY: KILLS ISIS LEADER AL QURAYSHI.

ICHEOKU says while we concede that America's dedication to fighting the scourge of islamist terrorism is absolutely resolute, we beg to differ that the killing of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al- Qurayshi dealt a "catastrophic blow to ISIS". The Islamist terrorists group are legion and they are resilient too. They have an entrenched hierarchical order of succession and will appoint a new leader as soon as the smoke of the raid settles down and they have mourned their departed leader. Killing of al Qurayshi is definitely a set back no doubt, but it will neither end ISIS nor stop their terrorism. They are fully resolved in prosecuting their nefarious activities and will dust up and soldier on.

We heard the same thing when President Donald John Trump snagged up Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the terrorist group quickly appointed his replacement in the fella who just blew himself and family up. President Barack Obama before that, also said a similar thing about al Qaeda after he sent Osama bin Laden to his maker, but the terrorist group is silent operating. President George W Bush had a similar thought when he took out Saddam Hussein and many other terrorists in Afghanistan, believing that Islamist terrorism has been kneecapped. 

The fact of the matter is that these Islamists terrorists, unlike President Vladimir Putin, have succession plans that as soon as they are sent to their seventy virgins, the one waiting in the wings springs into action. They do not hold elections nor are they democratic, but they have masterfully figured out how not to leave a vacuum of authority. This is their sustaining attribute,  how they outlast every American president and the reason they have survived to this date and it doesn't look like they are going anywhere any time soon. 

As President Barack Obama once said and he might be right, we may have to just adjust our expectations about eliminating Islamist terrorism and learn how to live our lives with it as an existing constant threat. Two things are working against their elimination: one, they are fanatically committed to their cause and two, they are not afraid to die. Their women are still making babies, some of who will end up joining the terrorism business. It is a fact; there is no need to paper over it or sweet-coat what is. It is akin to draining a body of water with its tributaries still running. 

Any person who would blow his family, wife and children up is batshit crazy and it represents what we are dealing with. A lot of mentally messed up fanatics who are bereft of reason and humanity just because they have some other warped conception of what is the true path. As President Joe Biden rightly articulated, we have to remain vigilant and prepared to nip whatever they are plotting in the bud through a direct action against their leaders any time we secure such an actionable intelligence. 

Taking them off the battlefield, one terrorist leader at a time, is a good attrition method to bleed the Islamists terror organizations. It also sends a strong message to terrorists all over the world that there is no safe haven for them anywhere on this planet. America will pursue them, locate them and take them out as they are all dead men walking with large bullseyes tattooed on their foreheads and painted all over their body. 

It is good that the ISIS leader died as it saved American taxpayers the burden of taking care of him in detention as well as the cost of defense lawyers for him. Instead of wasting further resources on him, for probably the next 20 years or more, it is good that his days of terror ended as it did. It frees up resources for other targets that need to be brought to justice too. There is no greater justice that could have otherwise been served on him than the death penalty and good enough, he did it for us and saved everyone the headache of a life incarceration or later execution.

These terrorists do not care about their women and children, so why should we or demand of our soldiers to take extra risk in saving them during operations. The guy blew up his "women and children" without a whiff, so why should we mind if their "women and children" become collateral damage during any active encounter. Although it is a noble idea to strive for, it should only be encouraged when it is safely feasible, but never at greater risk of loss of lives and limbs to our fighting men and women. 

These women are aiders and abetters of and accomplices to terrorism. They love these men, they marry them, they birth children for them, some who might grow up becoming terrorists themselves. So what exactly is the logic in saving these women if they unduly expose themselves or are they any different from their terrorist husbands and partners in crime.  Let us not forget that Pakistani Dr Saddiki is a woman. They possibly instigate their husbands into terrorism as it was not only Lady Macbeth who could persuade her husband to commit murder. 

On matters arising, if the "mechanically" challenged helicopter during the operation was subsequently "properly disposed", why again were those other several helicopters that were abandoned in Afghanistan not similarly "properly disposed" before the withdrawal? A military that is trained to destroy things and kill, could easily have easily destroyed all the military equipment and weapons that were left in Afghanistan, if they had wanted. 

Anyway, the fight against terrorism is a lifetime commitment and good enough, America has the resolve to stay the course, and will continue hunting them down and eliminating them. We thank the good Lord Almighty that no American soldier was lost during the operation. Congratulations to President Joe Biden for pulling this off and he now joins the list of presidents who got a terrorist honcho. Kudos to the men and women in uniform who successfully executed the  command of their Commander in Chief. It is good. 

CNN'S PRESIDENT JEFF ZUCKER RESIGNS RATHER THAN HEAR, YOU'RE FIRED!

ICHEOKU says when you think that it is only spreading fake news that is CNN's problem, a workplace-incestuous relationship between a boss and his underling has cost the boss his job and is quaking the already weakened foundation of the network. He was the boss and the rule against workplace dating did not apply to him; and how many employees would have risked it all by rejecting such an indecent proposal? 

It is either the rule only exists for the lesser mortals at CNN and the boss is always right and can do whatever the heck he wants, or that he took advantage of the double standards which is always available only to the woke leftist liberal nutjobs, by knowingly breaking the rule, believing that nothing will happen to him. Unfortunately, Jeff Zucker did not know that an incensed Chris Cuomo could be more furious than a woman scorned and hell put together. The privately held information leaked and Jeff Zucker's headship of CNN is now history, as he begged to be allowed to fall on his own sword rather than be killed by another's sword and resigned. 

How would those former President Donald John Trump's famous liner "You're fired" have sounded in his ears? Thankfully, he was spared the bullet of such dishonor and he went out with his golden parachute still intact, unlike Chris Cuomo who was disgracefully fired from the network by Jeff Zucker himself. Chris Cuomo must be laughing himself lame at what happened to the once seemingly untouchable CNN president, who fired him, forgetting that he too held his job at another boss discretion. Why was Allison Gollust not forced out as well, afterall both of them broke the rule. She also has admitted that Jeff did not make her do it and that she is not a victim.

She blames it on coronavirus lockdown and you wonder what the lockdown had to do with it when they were supposed to be observing the nationwide lockdown like the rest of us. Instead they were busy messing around and getting some, unafraid of contracting the contagion and transferring it to each other through bodily fluids. Unlike the other CNN exposed personality, Jeff Toobin, who was caught on a Zoom meeting helping himself with masturbation, this duo felt that there is nothing like the real thing and braved all the risks just to be getting some, while everyone else was quarantining because the CDC ordered it.

Call it the revenge of the Cuomo Brothers of the now defunct CNN Comedy Central. The junior Cuomo who is still smarting that he was fired by Jeff Zucker decided to take his pound of flesh and leaked an insiders-only known CNN's secret that the boss was dating a staffer. It is also possible that his lawyers ran into the information while carrying out a private investigation, preparatory to their client's case against CNN and Jeff Zucker, who refused to pay Chris his severance package after firing him. 

Jeff Zucker was so full of it that he sees himself as the capo de tutti of American politics. He once wondered out aloud how former President Donald John Trump won the presidency without his CNN's approval and support. His fate was sealed by corporate power play as the long knives came out disemboweling everyone who had wronged people in higher places. First, Jeff took out Chris, then Kilar took out Jeff, Zaslav would have taken out Kilar if not that Kilar has, for all intent and purpose, already been taken out as his position will be redundant as soon as the deal reached by CNN's owner Warner's parent company AT&T to let Disney have the failing network is finally in place. 

CNN sucks; FakeNews CNN; Cesspool News Network; LGBTQ's proven ground Network are some of the legacies which Jeff Zucker will be leaving for CNN. His hyper-partisan leadership reduced the once world famous breaking news source into a coven for ultra biased leftist pinheads who regularly offload their idiocy on the public. In fact CNN has become simply unwatchable except if you are part of the tunnel-opinionated woke far left crowd who relish the fantasy they dish out, while stifling true free speech. 

Jeff Zucker(berg) should have been fired a long time ago, and not allowed to resign now, for screwing up CNN so badly. The CNN of Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett, the then Christiane Amanpour and of course the original Anderson Cooper version 1.0, before he became the too gay and too woke Anderson Cooper 2.0, is the CNN viewers want back but which Jeff Zucker drove into the gutter of acute liberalism that it is very difficult for people to watch now. The network moved away from revolving full 360 degrees to now just swiveling back and forth, like a parking meter, within 180 degrees.

Watching CNN today, who would believe that people like Pat Buchana once had a show on the network. So, CNN's parting ways with Jeff Zucker is not a loss, talkless of it being an "incredible loss"; it is a blessing if only the incoming leadership would harness the provided opportunity to reposition the network. The other loose talk that they are "two consenting adults" is irrelevant because the last time ICHEOKU checked, Monica Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton were also both "consenting adults" when the blue dress happened. The issue is that such workplace philandering is not allowed and they went afoul of the standing policy. The only outstanding  issue now is why Allisia Gollust hasn't been fired since she has refused to resign as well. 

Hopefully, whoever Disney brings in as the new helmsman or woman, will dust up the old play book of CNN and bring the network back to where it used to be, closer to the center, such that every American will once see the network as a news outfit and not a liberal leftist woke, Democratic Party's megaphone. CNN needs drastic changes in their lineup as people are tired of the bullcrap the incumbent talking heads are feeding them which has made many stop tuning in. Better still, if they believe they have evolved into something entirely different and want to stay their present course, they should drop the NEWS in their name and just make it a network. 

Again, it shows that the only safe secret one has is that which no one else knows about. The good Omertà law states that two people can only keep a secret when one of them is dead. The revenge of Chris Cuomo as he used his former close friendship to Jeff Zucker to now disadvantage him, and Jeff must be feeling exactly how Julius Caesar felt many centuries ago about Brutus. If it didn't come out, they would have still kept it under wraps because they knew that what they were doing was wrong and against CNN's workplace policy, but they carried on anyway. They can spare the people all the crappy "regrets" for "not disclosing" that they were in an amorous relationship contrary to the company's standing rule.  

Jeff Zucker should also know that Chris Cuomo too, wished that his tenure at CNN had ended differently too. It is called fate and human beings have no ability to foretell their future. When he fired Chris Cuomo he never knew that this day would come when he too would beg his own boss to please not to fire him, but to grant him the decency and honor of resignation. Anyway, the outlook for CNN is already gloomy, but we shall see how it fares under the new Disney take over; hopefully the new owners will do what is needed to resuscitate the comatose former News Network and bring it back to its game. So long Jeff, sayonara! 

WHOOPI GOLDBERG SUSPENDED FROM THE VIEW: JEWS ARE JEWISH, NOT WHITE PEOPLE.

ICHEOKU says Whoopi Goldberg just found out that there are some untouchables in America who she cannot run her wild woke foul mouth against. These people are not President Donald John Trump or members of the Republican Party and other conservatives, who she believes she is at liberty to bad mouth without consequences. They have suspended her from their network for misstating a very crucial important fact of their historical struggles; and lets hope it will be just that two weeks suspension and nothing more. 

Although many people in the black community could relate to Whoopi Goldberg's understanding and interpretation of racism as a skin color based discrimination, with white people dishing it out on black people as in the American context; but Jewish people have now expatiated and explained in lucid detail, that everyone may understand, that racism has nothing to do with the skin pigmentation. Rather, according to this new Jewish theory on race, racism has to do with the feeling of superiority of a people over other people who they see as inferior, regardless of the color of their skin. Hence it is possible for some white people to be racists against other white people and that was their experience under Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. 

So, the Jews are not emphatically denying that they are white people, only that Adolf Hitler felt that the Aryan white race was superior to every other white race including the Jewish white race. This varies in great detail from a typical black person in America understanding of race as mostly predicated on the color of one's skin, black and white; or as with Asians, their unique body type and the slanting of their eyes. But is this why Whoopi Goldberg is being pilloried just because her understanding of race is narrower than the Jews would like her to appreciate. Like Whoopi, so many people did not know before now that race is broader than the color of the skin.

But if what Adolf Hitler did to the estimated six million Jews was caused by racism, why was what Nigeria did to five million Biafrans not similarly also tinged? Both were genocides or was it the underlying feeling behind them that made their designations to be different. How about slave trade and slavery, afterall so many chained black African slaves were thrown off slave cargo ships into the Atlantic to their watery deaths by drowning. Was that racism too or was the fact that they were drowned at sea, instead of being gassed in gas chambers, make all the difference? How about all the wars in Africa, including the Hutu and Tutsi war, would that also qualify as racism since it was the feeling of superiority that made the Hutus decide to wipe out the Tutsis. 

ICHEOKU is seeking some answers and clarifications here and not that anyone is questioning the Jews on how they prefer to tailor their narrative of the holocaust. Yes, Adolf Hitler was a very bad fella and yes, many Jews were killed by him, admitted the number is still subject to debate; but the bottomline is that what he did to the Jews was man's inhumanity to man. This was the exact point which Whoopi Goldberg was trying to make and for which she has now been descended upon by the powerful Jewish lobby group in America. She was not trying to demean or minimize the horrors of the holocaust; no, she was only trying to put it in the context of the evil which man can do to a fellow man, period; or is anyone debating that the holocaust was not man's inhunanity to man? 

A race is a group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of their supposed physical or genetic traits which is shared by only the group. Things like their common ancestry, common historical affiliation, common culture, common language, common nationality, or common geographic distribution and spread. If this is actually the accepted meaning of race, it means that calling Europeans the white race is a misnomer because there are so many different languages in Europe and many of them do  not share common ancestry or historical background; and in some cases, not even the same culture. So why do we still have the word white race or black race or now Jewish race, when race is broader than the color of the skin. 

With the new Jewish expansion of the word racism, it is now possible for racism to even exist in Africa amongst black Africans, as some black Africans feel that they are superior to other black Africans. Xenophobia for example is such feeling coated in dislike for foreigners. This discourse has nothing to do with semantics or syllogisms or nomenclature or even etymology, just that the meaning of race and racism has henceforth changed dramatically because Whoopi Goldberg thought that Jews are white people. So, the next time Black Lives Matter complains that racism is killing black people in America, they should be more specific and identify which micro group of white people are perpetrating the racism. It is no longer acceptable for BLM to bundle all white people together as racists because the skin color is no longer the controlling authority.  

Now, we have all been reeducated that the holocaust was about racism against the Jews and that Adolf Hitler Nazi saw it that way, as his Nazi Germany carried out a systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across Europe with deliberate and ruthless cruelty. We have also been re-informed that although Jewish people don't fit neatly into the Black and White binary view of race in America, the anti-Semitism which Jewish people have long faced is simply another form of racism. We are also told that Adolf Hitler perceived the Jews as a subhuman race, which means that it was not just about their being inferior to the white Aryan race, but that they are inferior to the entire human race, regardless of their hue.

This begs the question, is this why Jews are not liked and are literally hated by so many people throughout the world, including the Palestines, Iranians, Arabs and Africans, whose African Union just recently refused to admit Israel as an honorary observing member. Do all these various people share Adolf Hitler's feeling about the Jews being beneath them as well? Was the biblical account of the Jews torturous enslavement in Egypt also race tinged? It is a fact that Jewish people have suffered untold hardship throughout their history; they have been marginalized, persecuted, enslaved, slaughtered. But why? 

Is it because they are different or is there more to it, otherwise why is their hatred almost universal? Is there something they are doing which rubs other people the wrong way? Their killing of Jesus Christ cannot be the reason as many of their haters are not even Christians nor do they believe in Jesus; this hatred of the Jews preceded the birth of Christ. Will it be a better approach for the Jewish people to fund research to help find out why people don't like them, instead of this perpetually alarm that they are hated. If this many human-beings hate only one amongst their own kind, don't people think that there must be something, a reason behind it? But there is no justifying what the Jewish people are forced to live with.

What exactly does black people everywhere have against the Jewish people? Africans in the motherland loathe them and blacks in America are not any different and Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan have no love lost for the Jews. The other time it was NIck Cannon who was suspended by Viacom and later fired for his anti Jewish views, admitted he has since been recalled. Now, it is Whoopi Goldberg that is on their chopping block for an honest mistake which she made, sincerely believing, like many people, that race is all about the color of the skin. 

As things stand now, not even her Jewish last name seems to be coming to her aid, and the two weeks suspension might end up becoming a permanent termination. The junior Cuomo of the now defunct Cuomo Brothers CNN Comedy Central was initially suspended before it was converted to You're Fired and he was let go, despite being the best rating host on the fake news network. Whoopi should pray that the powerful Jewish lobby group will be satisfied with the two weeks suspension handed to her and determine it as good enough, otherwise she is toast as nobody messes with Jewish people in America. 

But did Whoopi not even remember the people who own ABC and Disney, the parent of the network? Why did she not get the message when her co-hosts on the View were telegraphing to her to stop, in order not to offend the people who write and sign her paychecks? But Whoopi was convinced in the rightness of her argument that the skins of both Germans and Jews are of the same white color, and went on to make her point that they were just two white people, with one visiting man's inhumanity on the other, a fellow man. Now, she has been reeducated through a series of reprimanding private telephone calls, which forced her to hurriedly apologize and make a mea culpa for her "wrong and hurtful" comments. 

Is it already too late for her and will they make an example out of Whoopi Goldberg to send a message that not even being woke will spare anyone who transgresses against the Jewish people. Will this lead to Whoopi changing her last name for an African themed name? As a matter or fact, Whoopi should immediately contact Nick Cannon for a referral to the Rabbi who made him kosher-whole again following his own anti semitic convulsion Jesus moment. Whoopi did not intend to hurt anyone, but since the Jews have determined that her words were hurtful comments and have suspended her from their network, in order to appease their people, colleagues, friends, families, community and owners, she should remain contrite and use every opportunity to express remorse and ask for their forgiveness.  

But the fact of the matter is that the fundamental of what Adolf Hitler did to the estimated six million Jews during the holocaust was very reprehensble man's inhumanity to man, regardless of the prism through which anyone views it. It does not matter the tag, and provided we all agree that it was abominable and condemn it, that is what really counts. But since the Jewish people want everyone to understand that what took place was racism, racism it therefore was, case closed. Everyone should take note of the correction and not make Jewish people mad any more or in any other way, attempt to diminsh or deconstruct the horrific holocaust which their people experienced under Nazi Germany. And of course yes, Whoopi is down with Jewish people and so much so, that she bears their last name, Goldberg. Please Jewish people, forgive Whoopi as that was an honest mistake.