Picture a mountain valley somewhere in the Alleghanies, Appalachians or Blue Ridge. It’s a safe bet what you just imagined didn’t include a metal pipeline more than three feet wide running down a steep ridge or crossing a pristine stream.
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President Biden is proving to be the ultimate diplomat at home as well as abroad. His efforts to save Ukraine’s democracy, barring no financial limits, aren’t without grave risks to our own economy. This comes on top of the two trillion-dollar senseless twenty year struggle in Afghanistan. Bridge the two financial drains and you could fill the Grand Canyon with taxpayers’ dollars. Yet, Biden appears oblivious to Republicans’ war at home against democracy.
The Democratic Black Caucus of Florida held its 40thanniversary at the Rosen Centre on May 19 – 21/ 2023. Forty years ago in 1981, the Florida State Democratic Party Convention in Hollywood, Florida realized there was a need for more Blacks in the party. A decision was made at the convention to unite Black Democrats across the state.
Nowadays, politicians are constantly talking about witch hunts. Every time a politician gets charged, indicted, convicted, or made liable for a crime or criminal misconduct, they run straight to the microphones and TV cameras to claim that any accusation about them is a witch hunt.
The political revelation made me happy and excited. I was glad because few candidates realize that now is a good time to start to test the waters and prepare for an election in 2024.
It was very disheartening to read that our senior Senator, Marco Rubio, called the jury verdict finding former President Donald Trump liable for defamation “a joke.” This remark is insulting to the jurors that rendered the verdict and undermines the rule of law.
As a girl growing up in Live Oak in the 1980s, I have vivid memories of May Day celebrations. It was the one occasion when there was a multigenerational community celebration that wasn’t necessarily connected to a church. We would gather at the site of the local middle school, which had historically been the segregated Douglass High School. There would be good food–barbeque, lemonade, and all of our favorite cakes. There would be games–baseball, sack racks, and other competitions. Most of all, there was joy.
That fire has taken up residence in my body; it has occasion to visit me often and knows each nook and cranny. And since May 1, when Jordan, a Michael Jackson impersonator and unhoused man complaining of thirst and hunger on the New York City subway, was choked to death by a white former marine, the fire has stayed.
America’s path towards becoming the most powerful country in the world has undergone a Revolutionary War, Civil War, two World Wars, countless lesser wars, and the infamous January 6, 2021, unsuccessful insurrection. Despite the devastating impact of each of these events on this Nation, the two that have and continue to represent America’s greatest mortal enemies are a divided government and its people.
The practice of Black self-hate and racial hatred was promoted during slavery days. The Willie Lynch theory of dividing Black people and turning the light-skinned slaves against the dark-skinned and the house N-words against the field N-words has endured and impacted our communities to this very day.