My friend Jonathan posted this on Facebook after a tragedy at his home. I wanted to share these vital words with you as they are so important and will help us all navigate these fraught times living under the march towards fascism and world isolation being brought on by the current US administration.
Opinion
In signing over 200 executive orders geared at undoing the Constitution, the unelected co-Presidents Elon Musk and Donald Trump (aka the Diapered Don) with the help of the GOP party, are attempting to reverse hundreds of years of gains for BIPOC Americans, women, children, and the LGBTQ+ community. They are also seeking to overwhelm Americans with so much tyranny and chaos that we can’t keep up and become disengaged. Read these vital tips from sociologist Jennifer Walter on how we can best resist and survive through this chaos.
Much is hypocritically being made of First Lady Michelle Obama not attending the installation of the Orange Menace. But she is likely—like myself and 92% of other Black American Women —done with play acting like this mess is ok. We are emotionally out.
In a recent Op-Ed in The NY Times, James Carville railed on about how Kamala Harris supposedly lost the 2024 election due to “the economy”. But there is one big problem with that false narrative — the US economy under the Biden/Harris administration is at an all time high. As a Black-American woman, I am sick to death of white pundits trying to avoid the massive elephant in the room — America is a racist and sexist cesspool where millions of uneducated Americans voted against their own interests and the health of our Democracy. That’s it. It had zero to do with the economy, inflation, or the price of eggs, stupid!
I am going to do what I am appalled that The Washington Post and the LA Times were too cowardly and corrupt to do. I am going to use my pages to endorse Kamala Harris for the Presidency of the United States. There is no one in America better suited to be our next President than Kamala Harris, and when compared to who she is running against, there is no other viable choice.
With the most important election in our history just four months away, I am praying this is not our last July 4th celebration.
In 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of his most riveting speeches “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” In this Op-Ed, TGATP discusses he state of the union amidst the growing political and ideological divisions in the US in 2024.
I usually republish the iconic “I Had A Dream Speech” on Martin Luther King Day. However, with the United States’ current foolhardy involvement and the senseless deaths on both sides in the Israel conflict, his “Beyond Vietnam” speech seems more apropos this year.
Delivered at NYC’s Riverside church on April 4th, 1967, exactly one year before he was murdered, Dr. King touches on the issues of America’s constant involvement in foreign wars and the need for all good people of conscience to speak up against them. He speaks of the globalist oppression that leads to these conflicts that can be linked to the ongoing oppression of people here in the United States. It is scary how little progress we have made in our consciousness since Dr King made this speech and that we are still raging these senseless wars. Substitute just a few words and this same speech could be made today.