Month: January 2021

On January 6, 2021 we witnessed the desecration of the seat of our democracy by a hate filled mob. We witnessed the Confederate flag proudly paraded inside the Capitol rotunda. I ask, in the defense of evil what is there to be proud of?

Please! Someone convince me that Confederate symbols and monuments are not memorials to a failed ideology of hatred that considered Whiteness and its cultural characteristics as the highest standard of being human, the apex of civilization.

An ideology that placed Africans as sub-persons, a race not quite human and suited for exploitation— thus justifying race-based slavery, which was considered as a cause worthy of dying for and the ‘appropriate’ institution for African people by White supremacist masters, in a failed attempt to preserve it.

Please! Someone convince me that Aushwitz is not a memorial to the consequences of hate. A hatred so deep, so evil it morphed into unrestrained inhumane actions characterized by the classification and numerical labeling of Jews as mere cattle — an inferior class of humanity; a people deemed not worthy of sharing the same space or the same air as the White (Arian) race.

Please! Someone convince me that a hate-based ideology does not lead to intolerance and inhumane treatment of fellow human beings, in the form of enslavement, torture, forced separation of families, rape, extrajudicial executions, and eventually mass murder and genocide.

Auschwitz stands as a memorial that reminds us of what happens when we allow evil to proliferate. When we remain silent in the face of attempts to glorify, memorialize or defend evil. If we are to be true to the promise to ‘never again’ allow evil to take a foothold anywhere in the world, we must not permit memorials in the defense of evil.

Finally, the history of evil deeds are not worthy of glorification or memorialization, in any form, unless it is clearly intended to stand as a warning to what happens when evil is allowed to take its course.

Biden won the 2020 Presidential election, fair and square. This fact has now been certified by every electoral office in the land. There has been no evidence of election fraud presented in court sufficient to convince a single judge in over 50 cases. But despite lack of evidence of election fraud Trump and his Republican supporters in government insist he won. Trump is determined to remain in office at all costs. Many Republican law makers have joined him in this effort to steal the election.

Trump and his allies in Congress understand that a lie repeated 10,000 times, especially by so-called ‘reputable’ elected government officials like Senators Hawley et al, creates the ‘illusion of truth’. Many voters in Georgia now have been deceived into believing this lie and are even refusing to cast their votes in the Senatorial run off election. So no amount of truth to the contrary will now stop this big lie campaign. It has assumed a life of its own. It has become a conspiratorial juggernaut.

Trump’s ‘big lie’ about the 2020 election is carefully calculated to attempt to reverse a Trump loss. Senators who are complicit in this big lie don’t believe they will pay a price for misleading their constituents. Because the big lie has now become a ‘grassroots’ mainstream conspiracy theory. It has been widely accepted as truth by the Republican base. A base of voters that for the first time in minority Republican Party history, is comprised of HALF OF THE ELECTORATE.

Republican politicians who have no scruples know they have A LOT TO GAIN and NOTHING TO LOSE by joining in this greatest of all deliberate deceptions. Trump’s big lie has so far made lots of money. At last count, the Trump campaign has earned $200 MILLION! Republican politicians want a piece of that action.

Folks, there is NOTHING corrupt politicians care more about in our legally corrupt campaign system, than raising lots of $$$$$ to fund their re-elections, big lie or not.