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   Revelation in the Bible talks about mankind’s apocalyptic fate for their transgressions and the faltering ways of churches. Now our Nation’s democracy faces its own Revelation of a perilous fate. Such a fate, results when voters knowingly elect an unfit and criminal minded president.

     Being a “spook” is dangerous and hazardous. If you consider teaching Black people how to fight mentally, physically, or otherwise, you won’t have to worry about the CIA, FBI, KGB, FSB, DEA, MI-6, Mossad, Scotland Yard, or other intelligence agencies coming to America’s Black communities to get you or to suppress your efforts.

     Conventional wisdom holds that wars end in one of two ways. Either one side wins and the other loses or they negotiate a peace agreement by coming to an understanding that both sides can live with. The Russian invasion of Ukraine currently looks like a stalemate, with little territory being won or lost this year and both sides seemingly adhering to a position requiring total victory.

     Why do I feel the urge to stroke the crime as though it were my child? The story generated an impossible scream of disbelief, horror and . . . uh oh, you may have trouble groping with the next word I’m about to say . . . empathy.

  America is the world’s most powerful superpower, capable of destroying  not only its enemies, but the planet itself. Yet our government is struggling to defend the U.S. Constitution, democracy, as well as the rule of law from former president Trump and Republican Congresspersons who operate more  as  a syndicate.  Trump’s  threatening  rhetoric to “root out the communists, Marxists. fascists and radical left thugs that live like vermin’s,” bestows upon him the title Intimidator-In-Chief.

   Exploiters and oppressors are quick to find people of color who will repeat, parrot, or rubber-stamp whatever they say or do.