Category: Represent Our Resistance

With money comes beautiful women that both Epstein and Trump can abuse while federal prosecutors, lawyers, tabloid publishers, and politicians (admirers of the great men) whisk away any pesky women or girls who object to being treated as another purchase in the lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Too many Americans, ordinary citizens, adults have given in to perpetuating violence against the little ones! The visibly deplorable conditions at Clint best represents not the children’s state of mind but rather how the process of dehumanizing ordinary Americans is what’s really going on at the detention center in Clint, Texas.

For too many white Americans of whatever political affiliation, there’s a wish to see blacks disappear rather than racism. Just ignore black people and maybe the problem of racism, of white supremacy, of that ugly history we’d rather not confront will disappear.

Neither Marx nor King could begin to analyze the pursuit of freedom and equality without discussing the wrongs of an economic system that represents the direct opposition of democracy (freedom and equality). However, both thinkers considered ways to disable cruel and unjust policies. Both Marx and King prioritized freedom on Earth rather than eternity in the elsewhere. For both thinkers, capitalism was not a given.

Life is what it is! Divine authority keeps score in heaven as do bosses here on Earth. Retribution and reward become the norm. Nothing is done because anyone cares. Nothing is done out of love. Freedom on this planet isn’t an option. Wait for your eternity in heaven.

Nike can’t substitute for religion and provide our lives with meaning. A Mercedes neither. No more than flat screen televisions or Harvard degrees.

Religion takes away our mental capacity to soar on our own to feel, to think critically about how we as human beings want to live on this planet, among other species, without destroying and causing unnecessary suffering to ourselves.

Donald Trump’s election to the presidency enables haters within the borders and “beyond” because no sovereign nation in Africa or Asia, in the Caribbeans or South America, is really beyond the watchful gaze of white supremacy. No sovereign land in worlds consisting of majority black or Brown, Indigenous or Asian is really safe from an unleashing of fear and hatred.

so much mean-spirited thinking, ubiquitous, encircles black people. To not know. To refuse to know. A form of thinking no less that isn’t freedom—but instead deliberate and cruel.