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     You can tell the pro-life extremists. They’re the ones who want their enemies–the women and men who support a woman’s sovereignty over her own body–dead by any means at their command. Hard to get more pro-life that that.

       American Oversight, a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog dedicated to transparency and accountability, is monitoring the situation closely. Chukwu expressed serious concern over the administration’s apparent lack of oversight and protocols in protecting classified information, particularly the use of encrypted messaging apps like Signal to communicate sensitive war plans.

       But I am not talking about the victorious WW2 Allied forces and the cumulative actions up to May 14, 1948 that resulted in the forcible re-establishment of the state of Israel; I speak now of the Romans, in the year 135 CE, when they evicted the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland of Judea and bequeathed the newly designated land of Palestine Syria to the Jew’s even-then-arch enemy, a people known as the Philistines.

     While important to celebrate a day that freed our ancestors from the physical bondages and the inhumane capacity of slave owners to treat them as less than human beings, we must also look to the day as a reminder we have yet to successfully free Black community, from the vestiges of restraints, controls and power structures that bond us far beyond the physical realm of being enslaved.