Showing posts with label Mike Pence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Pence. Show all posts

12.30.2020

GUEST POST: Hari Kunzru Bids Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish - East Indian Style


By Gloria DULAN-Wilson
 
Habari Gani   NIA = PURPOSE = DAY 5 OF KWANZAA
AND 1 DAY TO GO IN 2021!! 
THANK GOD!!

We are all coming up with statements and reviews of how this past year impacts us - nearly pushing us to the brink of disaster.   And, truth be told, we're not totally out of the woods:
WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ELECT JON OSSOFF AND REV. RAPHAEL WARNOCK to THE UNITED STATES SENATE ON JANUARY 5, 2021
(which, by the way, is my grandson, HANDSOME AKILI JABARI's Birthday).  SO WE HAVE TO MAKE HISTORY - TWICE!

THAT SAID, WE'VE ALL GOT SOME CHOICE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT, SOON TO BE EX - INCUMBENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE - and when I find something really good, I will promptly publish it. 
This was forwarded to me by my Lincoln Unity Classmate, Vaughn Thomas -
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STAY BLESSED &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
HAPPY NEW YEAR


 
A political fond farewell from British-Indian novelist Hari Kunzru... 😎

 

"Mike Pence you repressed joyless would-be witchfinder, every time you spoke you always looked like you were straining to expel an enormous bolus of your own hypocrisy from your clenched sphincter.

 

“Betsy DeVos you blandly foolish soulless entitled child-stealing witch, rotting like a corpse inside your Chanel suit.

 

“Kayleigh McEnenay, you evacuated husk of a mean-girl cheerleader, the cavity where your heart once was pumped full of spite and moronic lies.

 

“Bill Barr you vast pompous pus-filled bladder of casuistry, you are an enemy of justice, bloated with resentment and cruelty, wobbling like a jelly at the feet of the oligarchs.

 

“Jared Kushner you vacuous dainty preening overpromoted nub of mediocrity, squeezed like an entitled smear of toothpaste into a silk suit bought with tear-stained dollars wrung out of the suffering tenants of your slum apartments.

 

“Ivanka Trump you monstrous slug of vanity, you infantile ninny so marinaded in self-regard that in your pea brain you believe we ought to love you for your crimes.

 

“Mike Pompeo, you bubble, you booby, you flatulent zero, that roiling in your ample guts that you mistake for world shaking significance is just the acid reflux of irrelevancy.

 

“Don Junior, you scabrous single-nostriled unloved elephant-murdering human wreckage, vibrating with bitterness and impotent rage at all the opportunities you’ve squandered.

 

“Interlude: all you staffers and interns, so eager to crunch your way in your shiny new work shoes over the bodies of the poor and powerless, I smite you and cast you out one by one.

 

“Eric Trump, you pallid clammy suppurating nocturnal semi-human grub, your absence of charisma is your only notable trait and the act of flushing you from memory will so be smooth and painless that in a month people will find it hard to picture your moon face.

 

“Rudy Giuliani, you capering cartoonish skull-faced bag of graft and corruption, too stupid even to ask who’s pulling your strings just so long as you can cake your crusty face in tv make-up and clack your jaw at a camera.

 

“And of course Stephen Miller, you weeping pustule upon the social body, you dreg, you homunculus, you noxious slime felched from the gaping cavity of Jim Crow, one day may you find yourself walking barefoot across hot sand, desperate for water, crying for your missing child.

 

“With that I'll rest a while, and go to find a street corner to dance on."

 

 

NOW THAT YOU KNOW

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Gloria DULAN-Wilson

 

1.12.2020

GUEST ARTICLE: Imagine A World, by Dr. Efaye Williams, Esq of Wake Up & Stay Woke

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

Welcome to 2020 - and we've got a lot to do starting right  now and moving forward.  No one is exempt from the project of the salvation of America's soul.    I will of course be dealing with this throughout the year, and featuring relevant guest articles as well - notice I said "relevant."  Dr. E. Faye Williams article, Imagine a World, is the first in a series of Guest Articles.  Of course, as with all my other previous guest articles, I reserve the right to agree, disagree and comment on them - and would also appreciate your feedback and commentary as well, which can be sent to me via eclecticallyblacknews@gmail.com.  

Please enjoy Dr. Williams commentary - there is so much to learn, share and take action on, and we, as ECLECTICALLY BLACK PEOPLE  of the SIXTH DIASPORA OF AFRICA, must not shirk our responsibility.



IMAGINE A WORLD By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. 01/10/2020


TriceEdney – We have an impeached president in our country because he has done so much destruction 
to our country. He has even destroyed who others believe we are! Many Americans have lost faith in 
who we once thought we were. I’ve heard Americans talk about being embarrassed to travel abroad 
because they have no way to defend what has happened to our country. 

Now, as a result of the extreme actions taken by the man in the White House, we have the added 
reason of fear to travel abroad. Once we’re identified as Americans, we are fair game to those who 
want pay back from America for what the occupant in the White House has done without a logical 
explanation.

The Administration held a briefing to explain why the occupant of the White House started the ground 
work for a war without authorization from Congress. Even our top military officials who stood behind 
Trump as he tried to justify ordering the killing, it was obvious they were thinking about the former Beatle, 
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's song “Imagine,”* with another Commander-in-Chief.   
*(See lyrics and link to song below)

Senator Mike Lee (R) is definitely not known as one who would likely vote for anything with 
which I agree. But, Wednesday he came out of the briefing that was intended to justify killing Iran's
Major General Qasem Soleimani - at this time while in Iraq, not in Iran - speaking in angry words and 
proclaiming it to be the worst military briefing he’d heard since coming to Congress nine years ago! 
Senator Rand Paul stood with him before Democratic Senators began their assessment.

Democratic Senators described the Administration’s explanation as “Incredibly without facts, deeply 
concerning, unacceptably vague, thin on facts, deeply dissatisfying” and insulting! The descriptions 
went on and on.

With that kind of criticism, I’m reminded of former Secretary of State John Kerry’s question when 
he asked, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?’  So many voices today 
indicate that no matter how badly we think of Iran or its dead General, Secretary of Kerry said, 
“Trump’s unilateral actions have brought us to a point where we are at greater risk than we had before 
killing Iran’s General.  Now there is no way at all the world and the U.S. are safer with the steps Trump 
has taken.”

Vice President Mike Pence’s speech on this matter was mysteriously cancelled!  Now I am wondering 
what he would have said.

I’m a Dick Gregory disciple which says I’m anti-war. I know when you identify as anti-war, you’re 
called some awful names by those who I suppose would rather be “pro-war!”    I am unapologetically 
pro-peace. Some of us have paid dearly for being pro-peace. In April of 1980, my good friend Dick 
Gregory went to Iran in an effort to protest the Iranian hostage situation. He did it while reducing his 
meals to water and fruit juice and vowed to do it until the hostage situation was resolved peacefully. 
He returned to the United States on September 9, 1980. He never stopped protesting injustices. 
In September of 1968 he went to Marquette University and spoke on behalf of anti-war activists who’d 
seized and burned draft cards from a Selective Service office in downtown Milwaukee. In the late 60’s, 
he became friends with John Lennon and together Dick Gregory and he made an anti- war anthem called 
“Give Peace A Chance.” Trump has violated that.  War is still not the answer. We are less safe as we have 
a President who seems determined to rule by war. We’re not safe so long as Trump is in the White House 
continuing to act irrationally. Let us “Imagine A World” without him.

(Dr. E. Faye Williams is National President of the National Congress of Black Women.  
She’s also host of “Wake Up and Stay Woke” on WPFW-FM 89.3 radio.)


LYRICS FOR IMAGINE
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine
Source: Musixmatch
Source: Youtube
 
NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria Dulan-Wilson
eclecticallyblacknews@gmail.com
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