Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

    Regrettably,  women have suffered denial  of their inalienable rights  by white men for Centuries. Sadly, the resistance to defend women’s reproductive rights  faces constant roadblocks. SCOTUS gleefully overturned  Roe v. Wade. Now Arizona’s Supreme Court reaffirmed an 1864 law, which banned abortions  at all stages. Farmers controlled and labeled their farm animals as livestock and poultry. Republicans at the federal and state levels  are passing laws literally treating  women  as livestock and poultry.

  Not too long ago, the Westside Gazette reported on the journey of one Gwen “Gi Gi” Thomas, a Miami Northwestern senior who excelled as a student-athlete academically and athletically, maintaining an overall 4.3 g.p.a. while competing on the most challenging stage as a gymnast. With the unwavering support of family and friends, Gi Gi , as previously noted, performed with great aplomb at the state of Florida gymnastics meet! This was an amazing feat, particularly in light of returning from a devastating knee injury ( ACL/Meniscus ) that threatened her gymnastics career.

Community college borrowers, who represent a significant portion of the student population, would also benefit from the administration’s initiatives. The Biden-Harris administration’s SAVE Plan, which aims to make community college more affordable, projects that 85% of community college borrowers could be debt-free within ten years. However, Latino students comprise a substantial proportion of community college enrollees and need help completing their degrees and repaying loans.

     Nuclear weapons won’t go away, the cynics — the souls in despair — tell us. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. You can’t, as Gen. James E. Cartwright, former head of U.S. Strategic Command, once put it, “un-invent nuclear weapons.” So apparently we’re stuck with them until the “big oops” happens and humanity becomes extinct. Until then: Modernize, modernize, modernize. Threaten, threaten, threaten.