ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! | ||
| GEORGE FLOYD |
I’ve been away from home for more than 3 months now, not
able to return to Mexico because the borders are still closed due to the code
red status of COVID 19.
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qbtqew-CI8 |
In the beginning of the epidemic I hoped President tRump was
correct in his casual statements that the Corona virus would just “go away”,
“it’s a hoax”, “it’s the flu”… Little did I know, like the rest of the country,
our president, the administrative health agencies and government officials were
withholding information, and downplaying the threat posed by the coronavirus to
the United States, as well as the severity of the outbreak.
You know the ugly details, how the impact of Corona has
affected our everyday lives from freedom of movement and religious worship to
increased economic devastation of the poor and low income population who are
already socially excluded and have no access to basic health care; and
subsequently, the economic devastation of the entire country through “social
distancing” and “lock down”.
I’m being supported by
people whose friendship I have nurtured over the last 25 years. Germans! And
yes, a few Americans; Black Americans who have chosen to live in Germany
because it is safer for us here where opportunity is based on your experience
and skill. A place where we can take advantage of possibilities created by
social, technological and cultural changes.
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| SLEEPING WHILE BLACK BREONNA TAYLOR |
This is a land where we don’t have to look over our shoulder
every time we step outside of the house. We don’t have to worry that the police
will “no knock” bust into our homes in the middle of the night and fire bullets
into our sleeping bodies.
We don’t have to school our children
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| BLACK CHILDREN KILLED BY POLICE |
on how to
respond to the police so there is “less” of a chance that they will be arrested
for JAY WALKING WHILE BLACK
or “barbecuing while Black”. BBQ BECKY
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| PERMIT PATTI, GOLF CART GAIL, BBQ BECKY, CORNERSTORE CAROLINE |
We don't have to be worried about being arrested while reporting the news CNN REPORTER AND CREW ARRESTED
or being murdered by racist police officers for driving a car with a broken tail light. PHILANDO CASTILLE
Amid the Corona virus pandemic black men, women and children
are being murdered by the police and crazy vigilante white people who still
consider us less than human and feel free to use our bodies for target
practice.  |
| AHMAUD ARBERY |
How do we respond? Do we continue to turn the other cheek like Martin
Luther King, Jr. who was inspired by Gandhi – the self-identified anarchist?
Do
we fight back like Malcolm X who taught us that “You can't separate peace
from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom…?”
Shall we believe in representation in the
government like the South African parliament member Julius Malema and fight for
our rights politically?
Shall we follow the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan who reminds us that “…there is no one … (who) can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns”?
Like many people
around the world, I watch the news every day hoping that a Corona virus vaccine will be discovered; hoping that black folks right to live will finally
be acknowledged by white people in America; hoping that the ball and chain will
be forever removed from our feet, hands and NECKS; 
hoping that no one of us
will ever again have to plead with the police – “I CAN’T BREATHE”.
Minister Farrakhan
reminds us that "…without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of
mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy." We are already
at the mercy of rampant terrorists who have a monopoly on weapons of
destruction used to track and murder black people. 
We are unprotected from
coercive subjugation Imposed by police who are paid with our personal tax
dollars. We are unprotected from white people who murder us with immunity.
And now we have to contend with the Corona virus.
