Month: June 2020

George Floyd and The America Hereafter – OpEdNews.com Headline – Best of TREMR

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On 25 May 2020, a 46-year-old African American citizen died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a 44-year-old white police officer Derek Chauvin – in full view of three other lawmen, and bystanders with cells in video mode – knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while he was handcuffed face down in the street.  The name of the perp was George Floyd.

Like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Manuel Ellis, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Aubrey, George Floyd’s guilt was never in question – never considered up for discussion – indeed, making no difference, never given a thought.  He was just another racial expletive.

Maybe it was our revolutionary Bicentennial that really ran aground on Nantucket Island.  And possibly Reagan’s, Welfare Queen was the reef into which Trickledown collided in Prince William Sound.  Or did the last remnants of American Exceptionalism die with our forgotten eleven in a Gulf of Mexico explosion?

For more than 244 years, have we, the majority, been blind to the un-prospected Black Gold in America?

Didn’t we know, one day the killing of a black person by an officer of the law, would finally move America’s moral needle from tip of the iceberg, to final straw?

So, why isn’t the murder of George Floyd less forgettable or any more important call-to-action than any other drug deal gone bad, neighborhood gang-war drive-by or Jim Crow residue?

First, America in Crisis, like an historic presidential entourage neighborhood stroll to Blaspheme both Church and State, is a Teaser, meant to shape our POV, while the real Black Gold, is redefined by paler minds, unable to see the colorfully diverse forest, for the out-of-control carte blanche trees.

America’s crisis is actually a long overdue transition, most unsettling, for Conservative Republican money financing corporate owned media, because of its demonstrative transparency in an election year, when all we have to lose is a president whose become as bored with our lack of pandemic preparedness as he is with his DPB.

Above and beyond the looting violence, property damage, brick throwing at officers who, every day and night do what most of us only watch on TV, there is a post D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation ask, rolling through the ashes of Dirty Harry’s empty chair, inflaming, Driving Miss Daisy into seeking the lessons of, The Help – emerging, enabling us to knock on the door of mature thinking, where true patriotism lives by the example of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and D. C’s mayor, Muriel Bowser.

The global freedom of expression of mostly marching, dancing, singing and kneeling in peaceful assembly, clearly demonstrates a timely desire for justice and equality, balanced atop the infrastructure of the 2017 Women’s March and 2018 students still insisting, Never Again.

This real time televised murder of a human being has ignited a complacent world into a collective Moses on yellowed lettered pavement, crying out – from the wilderness, surrounding closed White House minds, shrouded in hate, bigotry, and a self-imagined American Pharaoh:  Let my people go!

Nonetheless, like Caesars, Emperors, Dulles and Koch brothers before our 45th, the journey of a thousand miles can easily begin with one photo op too far, and a murderous pill too impossibly bitter to swallow.

There was an America before Pearl Harbor and D-Day and, except for racism. a vastly different America after 22 November 1963.  What we accepted as normal before 9/11, morphed us into forever oil war accomplices.

Realizing there are still Conservative Republicans who support Donald Trump despite his lack of response to COVID-19, disregard for our Constitution and desire to dominate American civilians in, the battle space, with active duty military might – any pretense that the America of Trump/McConnell/Barr/Pence is a Land of the Free, is simply, fake news.

America is much more than a red, white and blue stars and stripes symbol.  It is the rainbow of nations, a multi-cultural people from immigration and slavery to a quarterback’s awakening, and NFL social justice for all patriotic enough to take a knee.

Despite the stark public brutality of George Floyd’s death, America’s new reality is not a crisis, but a conscientious moment for moral choices.

While blind to the enterprise, faith and contributions of our human, Black Gold, and failing to live the words we’ve writ large:  we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness – Exceptional greatness will elude us.

Now, facing The Ugly American Trump within us, that we projected onto the world, let’s vote a joyful noise that shatters the silence of indifference to hate, bigotry and justice for all.

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America Can’t Breathe Without Justice and Equality for, All of God’s Children – OpEdNews.com Headline

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Our response to George Floyd’s death and Trump’s Insurrection Act threats can’t be predicated by where our grandparents sat on the bus.  In 2020, all of us are charged by Franklin’s gauntlet:  a Republic if you can keep it.

Seeing our Land of the Free through inflamed cities, lack of ICU beds, the mockery of Trickle Down economics, owner class gluttony, and a Republican Party and President consistently making America worse for those they’ve rarely seen or heard:  Native-Americans, women, LGBTQ and low-wage earners – until George Floyd’s murder.

Whether peaceful demonstrations or violent protestations, COVID-19’s 1,770,384 American cases and over 105,000 deaths cannot be deleted from our hearts and minds.  It can’t make us immune to an inept, too slow to act Executive Branch, nor blind us to, governmental support delayed is medical supplies denied – because Congressional NRA gun violence protection, Environmentalists only fining Methane Gas toxic emitting pipeline companies and Fraternity of Police clubbing with the blue, no matter what they do.

Conservative Republican disciples worshiping at the unpresidential altar of one who refused to serve in uniform, betrayed his country to a foreign power now attempting a rerun of Andrew Jackson on steroids, caging asylum seekers, flirting with John Adams’ Sedition Act, and believing states under his personal authority, declaring governors weak for not being made in his on egregious image.

Safely behind Secret Service protective arsenal, insisting state governments arrest, track and threaten Americans, the Commander-in-Chief of fatigue-wearing extremists, distributes disinformation to rehearse for Election Day.

So, the choice is ours:  respond like Eleanor Roosevelt and Marion Anderson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr for, all of God’s Children and Senator Robert F. Kennedy with America’s Farm Labor Movement or, be gangbangers hanging Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear in effigy.

We can settle for governors, senators and a president to whom we are invisible, or we can vote them out, even if by mail.

Whether radical Left or Right, without a multi-color center secured by, United We Stand, extremes and extremists will evaporate the us in USA.

We must test, trace and treat not only COVID-19, but the conveniently warped interpretation of, the poor you will always have with you, and the root of evil that presses its knee on the neck of those left behind when our nation was born with a preexisting condition:  slavery.

We can assume African Americans will return home, and accept our complacency until the next, I can’t breathe, or we can accept the opportunity to stand together for what we’re for, instead of continually fighting amongst ourselves over what we’re against.

COVID-19 and violence against each other automatically seize upon the path of least resistance, just as white-collar criminals – whether at the seat of government or power puppeteers in private enterprise – attack what’s most vulnerable:  our right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The most resistant to COVID-19 truth are those who choose to ignore the common sense of scientific fact – endangering themselves and all with whom they have direct or indirect contact.  The most vulnerable are wage earners who cannot afford to stay safe at home, nor desert those of us for whom working at home is an easy choice.

What are we doing to the least among us, those most ignored by our government, banking Corporatism and ourselves: the unemployed, underemployed, uninsured, underinsured, veterans, the elderly and our children – we, the empowered by, Free Will, to either be a Trump/McConnell pawn or a thinking decent human being to all?

We can yield to Conservative Republican Fascism, or be Good Stewards, Good Samaritans and good neighbors.

2020 is our wakeup call:  Vengeful leaders and phony patriots incite our violence against each other to distract from an indiscriminate COVID-19, to maintain control of the pigmentation battlefield.

Like COVID-19, the response to the murder of George Floyd recognizes no city limits, nor state borders and in the wake of George Floyd’s death, protestors have taken our grievances to the very gates of a hellish administration cowering behind violence inciting Tweets, in its occupation of our 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

I Can’t Breathe is ringing in the ears, lives and streets all over America.  It, like COVID-19 and Climate Change, is a supreme warning, which if we allow Trump to use his lack of religion to intimidate voters with a Second Amendment preamble to, Marshall Law, we do so at America’s peril.

We can break windows and set fires or use our 2020 Elections to clean up the carnage left by Trump Administration looters and lawbreakers.

We can stop calling ourselves, The Home of the Brave, or confess Lafayette Square is now our Tiananmen Square, and give America our Last Full Measure.     

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