Looking ahead: Democrats, independents, and Republicans can agree on one thing: Now is not the time to raise taxes! Broward County voters should follow the lead of Broward County Commissioner Torey Alston and “just say no” to the Broward School Board’s proposed tax increase. He correctly called it an “additional tax on Broward families.” Stating that “we still see schools along the I-95 corridor left behind … and a facilities program still in shambles,” he added that there is “no fiscal trust in Broward County Public Schools.” Alston is right! Throwing good money after bad is not the way — accountability and transparency are!
Browsing: Opinions
The Republican Party (GOP), without any regards for democracy, humanity, or social justice, have embraced ungodly hypocrisies that threaten to divide this Nation against itself. Their ungodly hypocrisies of freedom of choice and love of country have forged a divide within our Nation festering like sore oozing yellowish or greenish vile pus. Former President Lincoln famously said, “A nation divided against itself cannot stand – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.”
The mid-term election in 2022 will be extremely important to Black people, and people of color in America. Voting is our voice, and voting is power. But in 2022 voting has become a popularity contest, and there appears to be fewer forums about platforms and issues.
Everybody is an Expert
The Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has effectively ended the constitutional right to an abortion—returning the issue to states. African American women, particularly the poor, will be disproportionately impacted by the lack of access to reproductive choices. As Black Christians, we are yet again confronted with the religious mandates and reading of scripture that undermines our humanity. Bodily autonomy, privacy, states’ rights, religion and the never-ending struggle against white supremacy in the United States are at the heart of the SCOTUS ruling. These issues are not new but historic in nature. The end of Roe v. Wade as the law of the land is part and parcel of a broader conservative agenda.
America’s society is currently under siege by a strain of insanity which seemed to have gone viral with the election of the former 45th president of the United States. During his reign as president, having infected members of the Republican Party and their base with his strain of insanity, the U.S. Constitution became as credible as a dead sea scroll. If insanity is defined as “one who jumps out of a plane without a parachute,” then certainly “one who knows he lost but believes he won and attempts a coup must be insane.
Editor’s note: This commentary is provided by the Medical Marijuana Education and Research Initiative (MMERI) of Florida A&M University.
Cause and Effect: Citizen Complacency = Fatal Consequences
The struggle of systemic racism in 2022 has intensified, and many Americans refuse to discuss the threat to voting rights, civil rights, and human rights. As millions of Americans spend hours glued to their television and cell phones watching the January 6th hearing, we almost lost our democracy, because of racism, discrimination, and criminality. There are 5 Proud Boys and 10 Oath Keepers who have been charged with seditious conspiracy.
Joe Biden Needs To Go