Fred Shuttlesworth was one of the heroes and leaders of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s who survived beatings and bombings in Alabama a half-century ago as he fought against racial injustice alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He died on Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama at the age of 89. In 2009, in a wheelchair, he was front and center among other dignitaries in an audience of about 6,000 at the city’s Boutwell Auditorium to watch a live broadcast as the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, was sworn in.
“Without Fred Shuttlesworth laying the groundwork, those demonstrations in Birmingham would not have been as successful,” said Andrew M. Manis, author of “A Fire You Can’t Put Out,” a biography of Mr. Shuttlesworth. “Birmingham led to Selma, and those two became the basis of the civil rights struggle.”
Sunday, October 9, 2011
"SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS OF RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY FOLLOW THE GOP HOPEFUL:RICK PERRY"
(i) Rick Perry wrote a letter in 2000 to defend the local communities in Texas that wanted a Confederate Monuments on Texas government buildings.
(ii) Rick Perry supports the ongoing movement by the Confederate groups in Texas that wanted the Confederate Image on automobile state licenses to read "Sons of Cofederate Veterans".
(iii) Rick Perry once defended one of his staffers that was forced to resign over a racial slur comment "we have one NIGGER here and we do not need another one.
(iv) The Washington Post reported last week that Perry's family leases a hunting camp once called "Niggerhead". According to some local residents interviewed by the Post, the Perrys used the camp for years before painting over a large rock with that name on it, which stands at an entrance to the area, and during this time Perry hosted friends and supporters at the camp.
Can he sell his candidature to American voters from different races, cultures, religions and ethnicities? Time will surely tell. Rick Perry carries a lot of baggages into the GOP race. How far will he go? Will he defend these serious allegations in his next public debate sucessfully? All hands on deck for now as the political events unfold. Time will surely tell.
(ii) Rick Perry supports the ongoing movement by the Confederate groups in Texas that wanted the Confederate Image on automobile state licenses to read "Sons of Cofederate Veterans".
(iii) Rick Perry once defended one of his staffers that was forced to resign over a racial slur comment "we have one NIGGER here and we do not need another one.
(iv) The Washington Post reported last week that Perry's family leases a hunting camp once called "Niggerhead". According to some local residents interviewed by the Post, the Perrys used the camp for years before painting over a large rock with that name on it, which stands at an entrance to the area, and during this time Perry hosted friends and supporters at the camp.
Can he sell his candidature to American voters from different races, cultures, religions and ethnicities? Time will surely tell. Rick Perry carries a lot of baggages into the GOP race. How far will he go? Will he defend these serious allegations in his next public debate sucessfully? All hands on deck for now as the political events unfold. Time will surely tell.
"AMERICAN POLITICS AND DEMOCRACY:OBAMA VERSUS THE DO-NOTHING CONGRESS"
The primary constitutional role of the 535 members of the United States Congress is to legislate bills that will benefit their constituencies in particular and the American nation in general. Today, America faces the worst economy recession since the 1930s, millions of homeowners face foreclosures, 14 million Americans are jobless, 10 mill...ion Americans are underemployed, the unemployment rate stands at 9.1% and the nation carries a huge national debt of $14.5 trillion.
The Congress is so polarised, broken into pieces and heavily divided along party ideologies. Party loyalty, winning the mid-term elections, defeating Obama in the 2012 presidential election, protecting the top 1% of the richest Americans and the Corporations that caused the collapse of our national economy from paying their fair share in taxes are the primary goals of the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Republican senators in the House of Senate.
The elections of 2012 for both the Congress and the presidency will be primarily about the economy and jobs. At the present moment the approval rating of the Congress stands at 11% which is at its lowest in decades and 82% of Americans support tax increase on the rich and the corporations. Will many of these Congress members survive their re-election hurdles in 2012? Did Tea Party elements of the House Republican change Washington as they promised their supporters who voted them into power in 2010 or they divided and polarised Washington further? Time will surely tell in 2012.
The Congress is so polarised, broken into pieces and heavily divided along party ideologies. Party loyalty, winning the mid-term elections, defeating Obama in the 2012 presidential election, protecting the top 1% of the richest Americans and the Corporations that caused the collapse of our national economy from paying their fair share in taxes are the primary goals of the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Republican senators in the House of Senate.
The elections of 2012 for both the Congress and the presidency will be primarily about the economy and jobs. At the present moment the approval rating of the Congress stands at 11% which is at its lowest in decades and 82% of Americans support tax increase on the rich and the corporations. Will many of these Congress members survive their re-election hurdles in 2012? Did Tea Party elements of the House Republican change Washington as they promised their supporters who voted them into power in 2010 or they divided and polarised Washington further? Time will surely tell in 2012.
"HOW PROSPERITY GOSPEL STARTED AND SPREAD TO THE WHOLE WORLD"
"THE ORIGIN OF THE SO CALLED PROSPERITY GOSPEL":Is this doctrine biblical or man-made? This strange type of Christianity based on money and materialism started in the 1940s through a small religious sect known as the "Faith and Healing Movement" in the southern United States. It was pioneered by Late Oral Roberts and Kenneth Hagin Sr. The core teaching was "God wants all Christians to be rich and the key is giving".
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that g...ives to the rich, shall surely come to want - Proverbs 22:16.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ - 2 Corinthians 11:13.
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that g...ives to the rich, shall surely come to want - Proverbs 22:16.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ - 2 Corinthians 11:13.
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself . But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out . And having food and raiment let us be therewith content . But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after , they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows - 2 Timothy 6:5-10.
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).
"OCCUPY WALL STRRET:THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION THAT IS SWEEPING THROUGH AMERICA"
"OCCUPY WALL STREET:THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION AND ANSWER TO THE PRESENT ECONOMIC CRISIS, INCOME INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND WEALTH GAP IN AMERICA":This powerful, unstoppable, effective, leaderless but middle-class powered revolution is now in its 4th week and it is spreading like a bush fire into the commercial nerve centers and 51 major cities in America for the following reasons:(i) Wall Street bankers were primarily responsible for the present economic recession. Their risky business practices led to the collapse of this economy in 2008.
(ii) The too-big to fail banks were bailed out with our taxes after the collapse of our economy. They have since recovered and are now economically vibrant, but the middle-class Americans have not recovered from the same economic crisis.
(iii) Six of the biggest banks on Wall Street control 60% of America's GDP or about $7 trillion. This monopoly must be broken for competition and fairness. If these six banks collapse again which is very possible based on the same business model they practice today which was the same business model that collapsed our economy in the first instance.
(iv) The corporations are sitting on an idle cash totalling $2 trillion at the present moment. They have refused to create jobs or invest this money in this ailing economy. (v) Our democracy and the US Congress have been hijacked by the Wall Street bankers and big corporations through their thousands of lobbyists and campaign money given to these politicians and our elected public officials.
(vi) Money determines election winners, this is not democracy but a corporatocracy. The rule of the corporations, for the corporations and by the corporations. (vii) Unemployment rate stands at 9.1%, the highest since the great depression of the 1930s. 14 million Americans are unemployed, another 10 million Americans are underemployed.
(viii) The top 1% of Americans who are about 450,000 billionaires and millionaires control 60% of the nation's wealth, pay less taxes and have increased their wealth by 400% in the last 30 years through these favorable economic policies that favor the rich and big corporations only.
(ix) Millions of home owners are facing foreclosures that was caused by these Wall Street investment bankers who were bailed out instead of these home owners who were given bad loans by these banks. (x) Republican-led House of Representatives and their senators in the House of Senate are all in Washington primarily to defend and protect the Wall Street and the wealthy Americans instead of the middle-class Americans and the poor that voted them into power.
(xi) Poverty rate in America is now at over 46%, the highest rate in the last 15 years according to a government report that came out recently. (xii) The middle-class, the economic engine of any nation and its democracy is quickly disappearing in America today. The middle-class jobs that make the American Dream a reality to millions of American workers are no longer obtainable today.
(ii) The too-big to fail banks were bailed out with our taxes after the collapse of our economy. They have since recovered and are now economically vibrant, but the middle-class Americans have not recovered from the same economic crisis.
(iii) Six of the biggest banks on Wall Street control 60% of America's GDP or about $7 trillion. This monopoly must be broken for competition and fairness. If these six banks collapse again which is very possible based on the same business model they practice today which was the same business model that collapsed our economy in the first instance.
(iv) The corporations are sitting on an idle cash totalling $2 trillion at the present moment. They have refused to create jobs or invest this money in this ailing economy. (v) Our democracy and the US Congress have been hijacked by the Wall Street bankers and big corporations through their thousands of lobbyists and campaign money given to these politicians and our elected public officials.
(vi) Money determines election winners, this is not democracy but a corporatocracy. The rule of the corporations, for the corporations and by the corporations. (vii) Unemployment rate stands at 9.1%, the highest since the great depression of the 1930s. 14 million Americans are unemployed, another 10 million Americans are underemployed.
(viii) The top 1% of Americans who are about 450,000 billionaires and millionaires control 60% of the nation's wealth, pay less taxes and have increased their wealth by 400% in the last 30 years through these favorable economic policies that favor the rich and big corporations only.
(ix) Millions of home owners are facing foreclosures that was caused by these Wall Street investment bankers who were bailed out instead of these home owners who were given bad loans by these banks. (x) Republican-led House of Representatives and their senators in the House of Senate are all in Washington primarily to defend and protect the Wall Street and the wealthy Americans instead of the middle-class Americans and the poor that voted them into power.
(xi) Poverty rate in America is now at over 46%, the highest rate in the last 15 years according to a government report that came out recently. (xii) The middle-class, the economic engine of any nation and its democracy is quickly disappearing in America today. The middle-class jobs that make the American Dream a reality to millions of American workers are no longer obtainable today.
The Republican leaders have been verbally attacking these peaceful protesters calling them mobs. Othes on the left of our politics says it is the direct answer to the political extremism of the Tea Party Movement that swept this nation in 2010. What will be the final outcome and the future of this powerful political movement that cuts across races, socioeconomic status, ethnicities and culture and is taking over the major cities of America today? Power belongs to the American people. Only time will surely tell.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
WHO IS DONALD TRUMP AND WHAT DOES HE STANDS FOR IN THIS 21ST CENTURY AMERICA?
The New York City real estate billionaire Donald Trump has been in the national spotlight in America for the last few weeks. Many are speculating that he may run in 2012 under the platform of the Republican Party as a presidential candidate. If this is true, then we need to know who Donald Trump is in all reality, his political beliefs, his public life records and his present positions on the most important and the most volatile issues in America of today.
America as a nation today faces enourmous domestic and foreign challenges. Our national debt is skyrocketing beyond a manageable level at the moment, our nation is not fully out of the woods due to the worst economic recession since the 1930s, our public school systems are failing the students in millions yearly, unemployment rate and foreclosure on homes are at their highest levels in decades. Our immigration policy is broken with an estimated number of illegal immigrants put at between 12-20 million persons.
American national infrastructures are old and dilapitating, the health care system left behind over 46 million Americans without health insurance. The future of our Social Security System with its medicaid and medicare programs for our seniors are bleak. America is presently immersed deeply in three budget-breaking foreign wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Islamic terrorism is still a national threat to Americans and their interests at home and abroad.
Any American who aspires to be our next president in 2012 must be the best candidate in the best position to address and solve all these national and international issues that are most important to Americans from all walks of life. If Donald Trump will run, then we need to put a powerful searchlight on him, in order to examine him fully, what he represents and whether he is truly a presidential material come 2012.
These important questions below must be answered fully about Donald Trump and his presidential ambition due to his many public comments and controversial utterances over the decades on issues that are most important to all Americans.
(i) Is Donald Trump a role model for American school children and a Presidential Material come 2012?. On Thursday April 29, 2011 in Las Vegas. Donald Trump spoke before his audience, followers and news media. Donald Trump used profanities, cursed words and vulgar language repeatedly and openly in this important public forum. In that speech, he called the Chinese politicians "motherfuckers". On OPEC, he said "You ain't gonna raise the fuckin' price". On American public education, "we can't get a fucking school built in Brooklyn".
(ii) Is Donald Trump a racist, a bigot and a white supremacist? Donald Trump has made the following comments in the past about his black employees and black people. Over 13% of Americans are blacks by race. The comments are as follows “Laziness is a trait in blacks.” “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day." “If I was starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black because I really do believe they have the actual advantage today.”
(iii) Has Donald Trump ever discriminated openly aganist blacks and minority groups in America in the area of public housing? Donald Trump was once sued by the American State Department of Justice for refusing to rent his real estate properties to blacks.The case alleged that the Trump Management Corporation had discriminated against blacks who wished to rent apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. His corporation quoted different rental terms and conditions to blacks and whites and lying to blacks that apartments were not available according to the lawsuit.
Trump Management Corporation, was sued by the Justice Department for alleged racial discrimination. At the time, Donald Trump was the company's president.
(iv) Has Donald Trump ever promoted a conspiracy theory based on racism and white supremacy against President Barack Obama concerning President Barack Obama's American citizenship by birth? Donald Trump has publicly claimed on many occassions that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya and never in America, and that President Barack Obama has no American certificate of live birth.
The White House last week released the President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate to prove to the racist-based Birther Movement and Donald Trump beyond any reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama is a naturally-born United State citizen and he is constitutionally a full-fledged American citizen that is legally qualified to be the president of the United States.
(v) Has Donald Trump ever promoted a conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama's ivy league education and his intellectual abilities?
America as a nation today faces enourmous domestic and foreign challenges. Our national debt is skyrocketing beyond a manageable level at the moment, our nation is not fully out of the woods due to the worst economic recession since the 1930s, our public school systems are failing the students in millions yearly, unemployment rate and foreclosure on homes are at their highest levels in decades. Our immigration policy is broken with an estimated number of illegal immigrants put at between 12-20 million persons.
American national infrastructures are old and dilapitating, the health care system left behind over 46 million Americans without health insurance. The future of our Social Security System with its medicaid and medicare programs for our seniors are bleak. America is presently immersed deeply in three budget-breaking foreign wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Islamic terrorism is still a national threat to Americans and their interests at home and abroad.
Any American who aspires to be our next president in 2012 must be the best candidate in the best position to address and solve all these national and international issues that are most important to Americans from all walks of life. If Donald Trump will run, then we need to put a powerful searchlight on him, in order to examine him fully, what he represents and whether he is truly a presidential material come 2012.
These important questions below must be answered fully about Donald Trump and his presidential ambition due to his many public comments and controversial utterances over the decades on issues that are most important to all Americans.
(i) Is Donald Trump a role model for American school children and a Presidential Material come 2012?. On Thursday April 29, 2011 in Las Vegas. Donald Trump spoke before his audience, followers and news media. Donald Trump used profanities, cursed words and vulgar language repeatedly and openly in this important public forum. In that speech, he called the Chinese politicians "motherfuckers". On OPEC, he said "You ain't gonna raise the fuckin' price". On American public education, "we can't get a fucking school built in Brooklyn".
(ii) Is Donald Trump a racist, a bigot and a white supremacist? Donald Trump has made the following comments in the past about his black employees and black people. Over 13% of Americans are blacks by race. The comments are as follows “Laziness is a trait in blacks.” “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day." “If I was starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black because I really do believe they have the actual advantage today.”
(iii) Has Donald Trump ever discriminated openly aganist blacks and minority groups in America in the area of public housing? Donald Trump was once sued by the American State Department of Justice for refusing to rent his real estate properties to blacks.The case alleged that the Trump Management Corporation had discriminated against blacks who wished to rent apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. His corporation quoted different rental terms and conditions to blacks and whites and lying to blacks that apartments were not available according to the lawsuit.
Trump Management Corporation, was sued by the Justice Department for alleged racial discrimination. At the time, Donald Trump was the company's president.
(iv) Has Donald Trump ever promoted a conspiracy theory based on racism and white supremacy against President Barack Obama concerning President Barack Obama's American citizenship by birth? Donald Trump has publicly claimed on many occassions that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya and never in America, and that President Barack Obama has no American certificate of live birth.
The White House last week released the President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate to prove to the racist-based Birther Movement and Donald Trump beyond any reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama is a naturally-born United State citizen and he is constitutionally a full-fledged American citizen that is legally qualified to be the president of the United States.
(v) Has Donald Trump ever promoted a conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama's ivy league education and his intellectual abilities?
Barack Obama got into Columbia University on merit based on his great academic qualifications. He got into Havard Law School based on his excellent academic qualifications. He became the first black person in the history of Havard University to be made the president of the prestigious Havard Law Review. He was a professor of Law for 10 years at the prestigious University of Chicago Law School. He wrote two books about his life that are acclaimed today by the New York Times newspaper as their best sellers.
Is Donald Trump involved in outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs overseas? Donald Trump has established clothing factories in Mexico, India anad Bangladesh recently because of the cheap labor force and lower cost of production of goods in the third world countries. His businesses abroad take away the much-needed American manufacturing jobs at the moment when the national unemployment rate stands at over 8.8% and with 13.5 million Americans jobless.
Is Donald Trump involved in outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs overseas? Donald Trump has established clothing factories in Mexico, India anad Bangladesh recently because of the cheap labor force and lower cost of production of goods in the third world countries. His businesses abroad take away the much-needed American manufacturing jobs at the moment when the national unemployment rate stands at over 8.8% and with 13.5 million Americans jobless.
From all what we know at the moment about Donald Trump, I can conclude on a powerful note that he is not a good presidential material at all. Donald Trump is a clown, a joker, an entertainer or a carnival barker. His candidacy for the highest public office in America is too polarising and divisive in nature. Donald Trump in his true color is a racist, a bigot and a promoter of white supremacy in this 21st century America that is racially, ethnically, religiously and socially diverse as a union of many nations in one.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
"CHRISTIANITY APPEARS IN MANY DIFFERENT COLORS IN THIS 21ST CENTURY HUMAN UNIVERSE"
Christianity is presented to the world today in many different colors in this 21st century that are not scriptural, biblical or bible-based in their origins or presentations. Christianity as it is preached and promoted from the satellite cable television channels, radio stations, Internet websites, Church pulpits, Christian meetings, Christian books, Christian magazines or pamphlets in most cases do not reflect the Bible-revealed, grace-oriented and the faith-rooted saving grace of God that is based on the person and the finished work of Jesus Christ.
Christianity or the Christian faith as it is seen and defined in the Bible must be 'based and rooted in the complete trust and total reliance on the finished work and the person of Jesus Christ the Lord". The Bible remains the one, the only final authority and the divine guidance for the entire Christian faith, beliefs or mandates. The central personality of this saving grace of God that is made available to all members of the human race is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Any teaching, doctrine or a belief that promotes church denominations, prosperity gospel, personal philosophies of men, teachings of men, their persons or personalities, human deeds and abilities above the supreme deity of Jesus Christ and the Scriptures undermine the power of the cross of Jesus Christ and the whole essence of the grace of God.
A group of Christians in a town of Berea in the Early Church represented Christianity to the entire world forever in its true light and nature. Berean believers stood out forever as unique examples of Christians in the Early Church for many reasons. The Bible called them "noble believers" which means "spiritual nobles or first-class citizens of God's kingdom" in Koine Greek, the original language of the Bible.
Berean believers were teachable, lovers of the Bible and were excited daily and were always ready to learn from the Word of God and its divine truths or revelations. Their Christianity or their Christian faith was built on the sound Bible doctrine, the teachings and the words of Jesus Christ and never on the dogmas and teachings of men. They put the Word of God above the teachers of the Word of God. They hated heresies and were ready to challenge false teachings and false teachers with the biblical truth.
What is your Christianity or your Christian faith built upon? Are you a true follower of Jesus Christ in all reality or you follow the men of God? Why are you a Christian? Do you see Christianity as a means to your financial goals in life? Do you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour? Are you an example of a Berean Christian in today's world? Do you have the hope of eternal life? Do you practice the truths of the Scriptures or you follow heresies of men and organizations? Do you put heresies and heretic teachers above the sound biblical doctrine of the Bible?
Christianity or the Christian faith as it is seen and defined in the Bible must be 'based and rooted in the complete trust and total reliance on the finished work and the person of Jesus Christ the Lord". The Bible remains the one, the only final authority and the divine guidance for the entire Christian faith, beliefs or mandates. The central personality of this saving grace of God that is made available to all members of the human race is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Any teaching, doctrine or a belief that promotes church denominations, prosperity gospel, personal philosophies of men, teachings of men, their persons or personalities, human deeds and abilities above the supreme deity of Jesus Christ and the Scriptures undermine the power of the cross of Jesus Christ and the whole essence of the grace of God.
A group of Christians in a town of Berea in the Early Church represented Christianity to the entire world forever in its true light and nature. Berean believers stood out forever as unique examples of Christians in the Early Church for many reasons. The Bible called them "noble believers" which means "spiritual nobles or first-class citizens of God's kingdom" in Koine Greek, the original language of the Bible.
Berean believers were teachable, lovers of the Bible and were excited daily and were always ready to learn from the Word of God and its divine truths or revelations. Their Christianity or their Christian faith was built on the sound Bible doctrine, the teachings and the words of Jesus Christ and never on the dogmas and teachings of men. They put the Word of God above the teachers of the Word of God. They hated heresies and were ready to challenge false teachings and false teachers with the biblical truth.
What is your Christianity or your Christian faith built upon? Are you a true follower of Jesus Christ in all reality or you follow the men of God? Why are you a Christian? Do you see Christianity as a means to your financial goals in life? Do you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour? Are you an example of a Berean Christian in today's world? Do you have the hope of eternal life? Do you practice the truths of the Scriptures or you follow heresies of men and organizations? Do you put heresies and heretic teachers above the sound biblical doctrine of the Bible?
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