Independence Day 2020_In the New Normal
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(Excerpt from my Los Angeles Times News Feed)
"Deeper Into the Abyss"
"At a time when white Americans are calling out racism against Black Americans more vigorously than at any moment in recent memory, President Trump has chosen blatant appeals to racism instead.
On Wednesday, he suggested that painting the words “Black Lives Matter” on New York City’s Fifth Avenue would amount to a “symbol of hate.”
That came shortly after a threat by the president to veto the Pentagon’s budget legislation should it include a measure to take the names of Confederate generals off military bases, which he denounced as being sponsored by “Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren (of all people!)”
That came only hours after his declaration that he “may END” a federal housing regulation aimed at desegregating neighborhoods, which he claimed has had “a devastating impact” on America’s suburbs. And that came roughly a day after he retweeted, then deleted a video of supporters in an almost entirely white Florida retirement community shouting “white power” from a golf cart."
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🙏🏽 Blackbutterfly Expressions Words: 7 -2 -20
Need There Be we Say More? Truly we shall! All the more_ since day one. As we grow closer to an END of the Present tyranny upon this Nation, on November 3rd 2020! That will be the beginning of Healing and Restoration and Renewed Hope for our Next Chapter in the United States of America….a once Greatest Nation...that is now a fallen from Grace and from the very Statures of its Constitutional Proclamations...of Liberty and Justice...Freedom and Liberty for All.
While Slavery of African people ensued and the subsequent Cicil War, and Jim Crow eras endured for a very long time period of 200 years. Our blood, sweat and tears…our death hung up on the trees of plantations, our bodies tattooed with scars of the whip, day in and day out. Our bodies ravaged by the torture, lay dying in the cotton fields and others who were burned alive...if they dare disobey and/or try to escape. And we were just accounted as just that….Bodies. Bought and Sold Bodies...for Labor...In the "New World". Not much more than an animal in the Slave-Owner's assessment, only that these Bodies of Africans... these Bodies of people were prime for doing hard work in the fields, in the mills, and the trenches of building their homesteads and plantations. For 200 long years…that's a very, very long time to be a just a Body...not a equal...Human Being. Created by the same One God. Stripped of our Native Lands; Shipped from our Native Lands and brought to a "New World"... only to be a Body of Labor... Nothing More. Until all those 200 years later. That would be a great day in the history of the United States of America. June 19th 1862; when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into Law by then President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War. The Abolition of Slavery. And although, Slavery was then made illegal... the upending was still a long while and the onset of rebellions and Racism took root in America. Thus, the "White Only" establishment made its mark. As did Segregation and Discrimination; subsequently the formation of rebels against the Emancipation of "colored people"...Negros and otherwise called the N_word. The one group, Klu Klux Klan would become the most dangerous and deadliest of the time. Lynchings and assassinations, executions and burnings, and other mob-style killings and tortures would be a grave reality for the African people in the so-called (anti-slavery) freedom granted on the day June 19th of 1862. Across the Nation and especially in the South, the Emancipation was not at all... total freedom...but just an end to being bought and sold...used Bodies for (hard and deadly) Labor. Africans were still, in the minds of their former Owners...as well as the "White Only" conservatives…no longer "Bodies" of personal property...or ownership. On the other hand... they're just still only good for doing the same hard labor, with a minimum of pay...not always in the form of money. Which was and still is, a whole another session of discrimination and Racism in America. But this was when it all began. It would be a long time to go... through the Civil Rights and Desegregation eras, to the day and time of the Voting Rights Act, when finally African Americans (Colored people) Negros... would be legally allowed to vote in America. Under the same Statues of Old... "Freedom And Liberty and Justice for All".
Again, rebellion and discrimination and the Jim Crow eras endured... especially in the South. African Americans through the decades of Trials and Tribulations, have worn and survived the consequences of the experience of being just a *Body for Hard Labor*. African Americans/Negros were more later referenced as "Black People" in America. So, it's long been washed into the colors of Racism...Black and White...to being privileged and not so privileged...to have and to have not. So, it's been an ongoing Injustice in America to the present day. Despite the greater of good, having a President of African descent...President Barack Obama. We're still now in the midst of the resurgence of broad…as in broad open day… mass-killings and lynchings and Police Brutality and Homicides of African American/Black people in America. To this the Call...we say...No More...No More!
So, we must be forthcoming and Rise...March...Speak Out for our Human Rights...to bring about the Change… for Real Freedom and Liberty and Justice for All...in the Righteousness of its Statutes and Constitution. From long years ago and recent decades past...Where We Are in America...the Time has come... the Change has Come...It is NOW!
As July 4th, Independence Day is celebrated…. this Remarkable Year of 2020...in the midst of the Pandemic…"new normal" and widespread Protests...of the Rise Against Police Brutality and Systemic Racism and Political Protests….this is a Different One America. No Fireworks and Barbeque and Happy Go Celebrations for the Obviousness of the stark Reality, of the Day and Time we're witnessing, and the hardship and suffering and lost of so many lives in this season of our Lives. What is the Matter with America….is what Matters the Most…today and everyday. So, very much. AMERICA HAS TO CHANGE THE PRESENT…IN ORDER FOR THE BEST...TO COME. Where there will be REAL FREEDOM, REAL LIBERTY AND REAL EQUALITY AND REAL JUSTICE FOR ALL.
Yes, in all and through it all...we shall keep the faith... Don't be discouraged or worry, nor fear. God has begun to turn the Tide Right_ Right Now! CHANGE Is Long Over Due. God is shaking and awakening! Nothing will ever be the same as before. And that's an Almighty Great Thing!
So in this season of the New Normal... Independence Day...Here's to celebrate what GOD has Done and what GOD will Do! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Forever Grateful 🙏🏽😇❤️🦋
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