Many are looking to November 3rd hoping pre-election polls are accurate this time and a sea change will occur. But not just a change of seats but for a new Congress to ignite a nonviolent regime change. 

On the other hand, there were others who due to an inability to get past their psychological and behavioral illnesses voted against their own self-interest two years ago. Will they see clearly this time? Or while they pay $4.80 per gallon gasoline, $9.00 for grapes and $5.00 for two apples, do they still believe America would have been worse off if the Black woman had won? 

Then there is a smaller but still sizable number of people who voted for chaos, confusion and conflict last election. Has there been enough or do they need to see their neighbors and others  experience more misery, hardship and pain? 

A very large group of Americans did not vote in 2024. They preferred to complain and whine about the state of the nation. Will they vote this time or just continue to complain and whine? 

Social scientists and historians will have an avalanche of material to wade through in their study of the last ten years. They will probably give considerable attention to the oversize role that the current occupant of the Oval Office played.  

However, their insights and conclusions will be especially valuable if they focus lesser attention on the current occupant’s ability to suck the air out of the room and greater attention on the forces within the US at the time which allowed it to happen. 

The current occupant might not fare too well when future social scientists and historians study his regime. Will he go down in history as the worst US president ever?  

Will they look at his psychology and behavioral traits and declare individuals with such traits should be prevented from holding any and all public office? Will they conclude that his regime utterly damaged America’s standing in the world to the point that it might take decades if not longer to repair? 

If opinion polls are accurate there are many who are extremely unhappy with the way things are in America today. They blame the current occupant in the Oval Office. Not to minimize those views, however,  there are two positive developments to emerge from the last ten years. 

1)  If the last ten years has proven anything it has shown how utterly weak and fragile America’s democracy really is. For years, many years, the American public has been fed that America’s democracy was the gold standard of all democracies throughout the world. That its democracy was the envy of the world and was second-to-none. That governmental officials, social scientists and scholars traveled to the US to learn of the workings of America’s democracy. 

What we have learned is that America’s democracy is nothing more than a paper tiger, an illusion. One refrain often heard in the last two years is “I never thought I would see the day when things would be like this.” They were not referring to the price of beef, chicken and ham. Nor were they talking about the late-night mumblings of an emotionally and mentally challenged individual. 

What they were referring to was the total collapse and surrender of federal governmental institutions in particular the Congress and the Supreme Court to an authoritarian executive. They have felt betrayed by those two institutions. There are institutions such as the US Justice Department and the FBI who are no longer viewed as non-political but the wicked arms of a revenge spoiled toddler who believes he is an adult. 

Then there are the major corporations, high powered law firms, elite universities and longstanding established and highly respected media outlets who were believed to be bulwarks against anti-democratic elements. They too took a knee, surrendering not only their independence but also their dignity and integrity. They too betrayed the American people. 

2) The second positive is more theological and metaphysical than political. Many people down through the years have looked for signs, miracles, majestic events that affirmed and demonstrated that God exists. Perhaps, they have been looking in the wrong direction, in the wrong place.  

The existence of the Devil, Satan, Lucifer clearly and definitely affirms and reaffirms the existence of God. One does not exist without the other. There is no good without bad. No righteousness without sin. No God without the Devil and the Devil’s handiwork is everywhere in America today. 

The last few years, Satan has been loose and evil is omnipresent. Hate, immorality, brutality, insensitivity, greed, hypocrisy, and pure evil furnishes across and throughout the nation. Yes, there is a God because there sure as hell is a Devil. 

Now more than ever America needs God. Be it the God of Abraham, Mohammed or Jesus, America needs it.  

America’s government is not just in a swamp, but an enormous cesspool. A cesspool where Moloch counts his riches while defiling and devouring children. 

Government policies have been nothing but evil. Cutting funds for food for children and the elderly. Eliminating funding and programs for healthcare. Denying funding for housing. Who other than Lucifer is the architect of those evil US governmental policies? 

For many, November 3rd cannot get here quick enough. It will be meaningless if those who clearly see evil do nothing more but vote and expect evil to go on its merry way. The nation needs a cleansing and a healing.  

It needs leaders who are committed to feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, providing for the homeless. Not tax break for the indecently wealthy. 

It needs prayer, but more important it needs unapologetic warriors for decency, goodness, morality and righteousness prepared to go toe-to-toe with Satan, his army and evil to ensure good wins out over evil. 

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

Question or comment regarding this article? Feel free to send a message to: Alatunji@ThyBlackMan.com.

If they had advanced from the National League championship round and then beat the American League champion the Dodgers would have become the first National League team to accomplish such a feat and one of just a handful of professional teams in any sports to win three consecutive championships.

However, the Dodgers failed in their attempt to three-peat. It would have been a testament to the players and the management of the organization.

The Dodgers probably more than any baseball or professional sports team has been the avant-garde. The organization that broke the color barrier with the signing of Jackie Robinson.

That brought Latino fans to ball parks by signing players like Fernando Valenzuela and Pedro Guerrero. Japanese trailblazer Hideo Nomo over thirty years ago and now with Japanese and other Asian fans buying tickets and game shirts featuring the names of Dodgers stars Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki.

The sports columnists and other talking heads had bad-mouthed and blamed the Dodgers the entire season for an expected owners’ lockout. Now they were fast to declare the Dodgers failure to win a third consecutive championship to the Dodgers players being old, tired looking and no longer hungry.

Maybe, however, the Dodgers ran into a team that at the moment was playing better baseball then they were playing. A huge negative about the current MLB playoff format is that a team with a mediocre regular season sneaks into the playoffs and gets hot and lucky and ends up winning the World Series. This year’s World Series could have easily been between the Astros and Phillies.

But the real reason the Dodgers did not make it to the World Series this year is simple. It had nothing to do with being old, tired or not hungry. The reason the Dodgers failed to make it a third straight time to the World Series is because on July 23rd of this year they went to the White House.

After going to the White House, the Dodgers season went from dominant to mediocre. The next game after going to the White House they won, then they went on to lose seven straight games. They went from looking invincible and playing that way to a team that over the next several weeks basically did not win a series.

They went on gallantly despite injuries to star players to limp to the finish line. Several of their players who made the National League All Star team shortly after July 23rd ended up being injured.

For many Dodgers fans they were not surprised the Dodgers failed to three-peat after going to the White House. Some openly predicted that outcome because they went.

Many could not understand why the team would go to the White House after its current occupant had basically declared war on the city of Los Angeles. Who sent armed troops to the city for no reason other than to cause chaos and confusion. Who would state that Iran could “take out” the city of Los Angeles as if it was no big thing. But they went to the White House.

The Dodgers  have players, stars players, from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba and Canada all places where the current occupant of the White House has openly expressed hostility and aggression.

So why did Dodgers’ management “encourage” its players to go to the White House? Was it fearful like some countries, universities, media outlets, non-governmental organizations, major law firms and corporations to stand up to evil and instead take a knee and shallow their dignity and integrity?

The criticism of the Dodgers going to the White House had nothing to do with politics, but everything to do with right and wrong, good and evil. Unfortunately, after going to the White House, the Dodgers were cursed.

Yes, cursed. There are probably many in this age of smartphones, AI and all the other technological wonders which demonstrate how advanced mankind is find the idea preposterous. Yes, the advances in technology which makes the idea of curses, witches, devils, good and bad, evil and even God irrelevant.

Yes, technological advances which allows man to be quicker and more efficient in its killing of other men. Yes, we may hold smartphones and wear fitness watches and AI glasses but evil is everywhere and man remains a troglodyte.

Evil does exist and Satan and his army are working overtime. In fact, he is having a heyday.

One needs to look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The evil that has oozed out of there is unprecedented in US history. Again, this is not a political statement, but a statement based on morality, goodness and righteousness.

The suggestion is made to whoever wins the World Series this year and teams that win championships in other sports that they refuse to go to the White House. That is if they want to have another championship season until the White House undergoes an utter and thorough exorcism.

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

Question or comment regarding this article? Feel free to send a message to: Alatunji@ThyBlackMan.com.

All season long the talking heads whined about how the Dodgers were destroying baseball because they were able and willing to pay more for players than other teams. That because they played in a larger population and media market the team’s owners had an advantage over smaller market team owners.

The talking heads and others however could not explain why the Angels who play in the same Los Angeles market as the Dodgers and teams like the Mets who have a payroll similar to the Dodgers are at the bottom of their divisions. Why a team like the White Sox despite playing in big market Chicago for two consecutive years lost over 100 games.

However, facts are not something those pushing the supposed inequality and lack of parity argument have on their side. This year’s World Series will feature the Brewers against the winner of the Rays and Guardians American League championship.

For the average baseball fans, they would be hard pressed to name four of the players on all three remaining teams. Maybe the owners and their organization need to be more creative and innovative in marketing their players and teams instead of crying about the Dodgers.

But since we cannot expect the owners and talking heads to be creative and innovative in helping baseball to one again have some relevancy, how about we let a real baseball fan do that?

1. Return MLB back to eight teams in the National League and eight teams in the American League like it had been for many years until the 1960s. Let’s return back to 16 teams and only those teams that have a successful history of being able to host a team get a team.

That does not mean that an expansion team that came into MLB would be eliminated. The Mets for example would be allowed to remain in MLB because they clearly have been able to financially host a team. There are other teams who have been around since the early days of the 1900s who can’t and should no longer have a team.

Instead of having 30 teams, many of which are carrying mediocre players to fill playing rosters, having 16 teams should allow for greater parity between teams. Parity between teams is a common refrain heard over and over again by the owners and talking heads as to why there is a need for a player’s salary cap.

If MLB wants to add additional teams, then it should look to have teams in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Japan, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and South Korea. All places where baseball is huge and which currently are sending significant numbers of players to MLB. Not just numbers but quality players.

Granted with just 16 teams in MLB most teams probably would have very few American born players on these teams. However, the countries which are filling the ranks of MLB should not be faulted.

The reality is that baseball is no longer the national pastime of the US. Or to put it another way, American born youth are not playing baseball and have little to any interest in baseball. MLB needs to find some creative and innovative ways to market baseball to American youth. It has done a piss poor job so far.

MLB needs to eliminate its playoff format and return back to the team in the American League with the best record playing the team in the National league for the World Series. I know this idea will not be popular with media outlets and bettors, but the playoff format has made a mockery of the World Series.

The World Series used to mean something. It no longer does when you have a team with a regular season record at .500 or lower playing against another team with a similar season record in the World Series.

It is no longer the best versus the best, but a crap shoot between two teams that had a few lucky bounces during the playoffs. Similar to the NCAA March Madness tournament. Yes, the media outlets and the bettors like it, but how often does the unquestionably best team end up with the crown?

2. MLB has made certain changes which have not been helpful. One of them was interleague play. Interleague play takes away from the specialness of the World Series. Get rid of it.

Get rid of the pitch count. It was adopted by MLB to speed up the game as if shortening the length of the game would make it more attractive to a youthful market to follow the game. Not only has it not lent itself to bringing younger fans to the game, but it has also alienated older fans who remember the time when there was nothing better than a doubleheader that took all day.

A doubleheader to that fan was the equivalent of a follower of Judaism going to Jerusalem, a follower of Islam going to Mecca and a follower of Christianity going to Bethlehem all rounded up in one.

If a person is not interested or does not have the time to watch a game that is on them. Don’t have time, don’t watch, don’t attend.

The two throw over to a base with a runner. A terrible rule. Baseball is a game within a game within a game. That is its beauty. The stolen base. The steal of home. The hit and run. The sacrifice bunt and the suicide bunt. Signs and counter signs. The moves and counter moves. That is true baseball.

3. One-year contracts for all players with a base salary and cap of $1 million. Once a current player’s contract ends the player would be subject to a one-year contract worth a $1 million with incentives that could result in the players making upwards of $50 million for one year if the player met those incentives.

All teams would be limited to providing the same incentives in terms of objectives and money. For example, if a player won the MVP award for that year, the player would receive an additional $10 million. A player who came in second would receive $5 million, third $3 million. It would be the same for the CY Young award.

A person would be entitled to automate bonus money for playing 150 games each season. A player who played every game that season would receive a bonus.

A pitcher who pitched 25 or 30 games and/or a certain number of innings would receive bonus money for that. The league would develop an extensive list of incentives based on position and performance which would be the standard contract throughout the league.

Attractive incentive money for hits, runs scored, winning the triple crown, winning the batting crown, lowest earned run average and so on and so on.

There would be no more free agency. Send the agents packing. Teams could trade players, but no money would be included in such trades. Strictly player for player or player for players trades.

Return back to allowing players to play for one team their entire career. Fans want to be able to identify with players as if the player were family in good years and bad. The team might not have a great record, but there will be players on that team who fans of the team feel a special connection with year in and year. Nowadays it is hard keeping track as to who is on a team and who is not.

Return baseball back to the fans, not the agents, not the owners and the player’s union but back to the fans and the ball players.

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

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Both men died prematurely. Then again everyone dies prematurely regardless of their age to those who truly care about the person.  Floyd and Kirk were the victims of political violence although there are many who dismiss both of their murders as being politically motivated.

George Floyd was executed by a white police officer while other officers looked on because Floyd was Black. The same type of treatment handled out by the officer while other officers looked on would not have occurred if George Floyd looked like Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated because of his conservative views on LGBTQ rights.

Both Kirk’s and Floyd’s deaths received both national and international attention. Both were far better known after their murders than when they were alive.

Floyd’s death launched a national and international movement demanding law enforcement accountability and reform. His face and death became a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Prior to his death Kirk had made a name for himself as a youthful leader on the political right championing opposition to abortion, DEI and LGBTQ rights.

After both men’s murder follows of their respective movements sought their canonization of and made them saints despite men, like all men and women, imperfect.

To that end, their past were power washed to appear Christ-like.  Movement followers attempted to minimize both men’s deeds and words that distracted from the narrative they walked on water.

At the same time, movement followers opposed to the ideas for which the two men’s names were now attached went into overdrive denouncing and discrediting the men. They refused to see anything other than the men’s flaws. Instead of seeing them as being Christ-like as their movement followers sought, opponents of the movements attempted to present the men as follow travelers of the anti-Christ.

Many went as far as celebrating the men’s death and blaming the men for their deaths. Some cheered the men’s murders as heroes and not as the murderers that they were. The phrase “he did it to himself” was voiced often and loudly to justify their murder and acquit their murderer.

For the most partisan and passionate followers of the movement the two men’s names were attached, the very thought of the two men’s names appearing in the same sentence would be an outrage.

The two men, they would argue, were polar opposites. They shared nothing in common. One represented all that was good. The other was the personification of all that was evil.

However, the two men, like all men and women, had more in common than they had in differences. Unfortunately, society seems more committed to seeking and exploiting the differences that keep one from others. In promoting banners, symbols, flags and pennants as well as ideas and concepts that lead men and women to take up arms against each other.

George Floyd and Charlie Kirk had more in common than they had in differences.

Each man became actively involved in Christian outreach endeavors. Both were active in outreach to youth. Both used videos to reach youth.

Both were tall men. Charlie Kirk was 6 foot, 5 inches. George Floyd was 6 foot, 6 inches.

Both men attended college.

Both men were fathers. Both had daughters. Daughters who would not be able to experience the joy of seeing their father’s joy when they graduated from high school and college.

Daughters who would not have the privilege of having their father walk them down the aisle on their wedding day. Not having the change to place their newborn baby in their father’s arms, and so much more.

After each man’s murder each man’s name and photo were omnipresent throughout what seemed endless news cycles. But just mere months after their murder their names and photos vanished into history.

The murder of Charlie Kirk and George Floyd were both senseless, unconscionable, barbaric, criminal and tragic. However, by far the greatest tragedy surrounding their deaths was the inability and defiant unwillingness of the followers of their respective movements to recognize and accept both men’s humanity.

Their inability and defiant unwillingness to recognize and accept each man’s humanity ensures that political violence in America will not just continue to happen but to be accepted and expected. Currently, a majority of Americans believe political violence in pursuit of political objectives is warranted and justified.

Such attitudes guarantee that America will see more George Floyds and Charlie Kirks die. It will also guarantee, sooner rather than later, that America itself will die.

On October 14th Charlie Kirk would have been 32 years old. George Floyd would have been 53.

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

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In what was considered no surprise, media reports circulated that Russian, Iranian, Chinese and other foreign actors were actively attempting to interfere and influence the November mid-term elections. Although the reports suggested that foreign governments are involved, the Chinese government makes no comment, completely ignoring the allegations.

As for the Russian and Iranian governments, irrespective of each other, denied the allegations and countered that American politicians, podcasters and influencers had done an outstanding job of undermining confidence in the US electoral system without any outside help. Those governments mockingly pointed out the last several years certain sectors of the US political establishment had in an unending crescendo alleged vote fraud and tainted elections.

Was it any wonder, the Russians, Iranians and others asked, that American voters had lost confidence in its government’s ability to hold open and fair elections. They pointed to prominent  US leaders who continually undermined their own electoral process. Before one vote was cast some US politicians proclaimed the election would be stolen.

As election day neared reports started circulating that various voter suppression tactics were occurring. That insidious attempts to confound and confuse voters had been hatched. Fake ballots were mailed to voters with misleading and false information. Fake candidates, false polling places and polling times appeared on the ballots.

After mail in voting started there were reports of a significant amount of returned mail in ballots being destroyed in areas where Democrats usually did well. Democratic leaders appealed to the FBI to investigate. Their requests fell on deaf ears. The incidents only served to raise more voter concern about election fraud and insecurity.

AI generated fake campaign ads flooded internet websites with misleading and misinformation as well as outright election lies. Appeals to the White House, Congressional leaders and FBI went unanswered. Voters’ mistrust and anger reached an all-time high.

Individuals and vigilante groups decided to take matters into their own hands. Without any legal authority such individuals and groups started to actively and aggressively patrol polling places.

They demanded individuals preparing to vote to provide documents that indicated their identity and their citizenship. Their actions intimated voting officials who were supposed to know better but remained silent in fear of confrontation.

Some voting officials and voters challenged the individuals and vigilantes. Verbal and physical altercations took place. The pushback became widespread and at times violent.

After procrastinating, the White House finally intervened and ordered Homeland Security personnel to take complete control of all polling places. To enforce its decree the number of polling places were substantially reduced.  It significantly reduced the confusion and violence at polling areas.

Voting also became even less convenient after the White House issued an executive order  prohibiting all mail in voting. The White House insisted that the move was made necessary for national security.

Protests directed at the White House’s moves spread throughout the US. Initially, the protest and then the counter protests were peaceful, but later turned violent. Each side blamed the other for the violence. The violence had moved from polling areas to the streets of America. It was widespread and intensified.

If that was not enough, reports spread throughout the media that some divergent groups anonymously injected AI programs into mainframe electronic state, county and local voting machine systems. The AI programs over rode valid election ballots replacing them with fake ones and in other cases erased ballots altogether.

A question which no one asked was if it really was some divergent groups that used AI? Or did AI go rogue? No one asks because everyone was too busy pointing fingers.

The various state, county and local election officials did not discover the hacking until they began counting early ballots and realized the vast discrepancy in ballots cast and ballots counted. The election was now in complete chaos and confusion.

Both major parties accused the other of the chaos and confusion. A grotesque attempt to rig and steal the elections was alleged and each party blamed the other.

Polls prior to the election showed Democrats winning the House and possibly the Senate. Democrats were alarmed and outraged. Republicans countered that the polls were not accurate but were fabricated by the left leading media.

The nation was in uncharted territory. Republicans called for the current makeup of the House and Senate to remain as it was prior to the election. Democrats vehemently rejected the notion.

Democrats turned to the Supreme Court to decide what should happen. The Supreme Court by a 5-4 decision ruled that the issue was a partisan political issue that should be decided by the House and Senate. Dissenting judges lambasted the decision as a gross malfeasance of judicial duty.

Republican leaders of the House and Senate announced that both houses would meet on Tuesday January 2, 2027, to negotiate a plan forward. Democrats balked at the idea.

Democrats argued that it would be illegal for the current members of the House and Senate to be involved since many of them would have lost if the elections had actually been fair. Republicans countered that since the states were unable to certify new House and Senate members things had to remain as they were.

The issue however became mute.  On the morning of December 31, 2026, the nation woke to the news that overnight the Capitol Building had been completely destroyed. Preliminary indications were that a fire must have broken out in the building and ignited gas lines near and under the building causing massive explosions that completely demolished the building. The nation was in shock.

Although initially there were no indications that foul play was involved, Republican leaders and right-wing talking heads pointed fingers at Antifa, leftist organizations and Democrats.

The current occupant of the White House directed his Justice Department to be relentless in finding the culprits reasonable for destroying the Capitol Building. The Justice Department immediately raided the offices of various progressive and leftist organizations as well as the offices and homes of Democratic leaders, activists and anyone who had raised issues with the current regime. It was an unprecedented action.

What was surprising to some was that scores of leaders, podcasters and influencers associated with the movement that brought the regime into power were also grabbed up in the Justice Department’s sweep. It was an epitome of  a revolution eating its children.

On the evening of  December 31, 2026, the current occupant of the White House in a prime-time television address spoke at length to the American public.

He started with a long recount of attempts by Democrats, other critics and their flunkeys  in the media to go after him. He mentioned how they had stolen the 2020 election and the failure of his then vice president to do the right thing. He mentioned how certain news outlets daily promulgated fake news and were responsible for the current poisoned political climate.

He then announced with the destruction of the Capitol Building and the chaos of the mid-term elections, he was calling for new Congressional elections. The Congressional election as well as the next presidential election would be pushed back to November 2032. It would allow states to create new Congressional maps based on the 2030 census.

It would also give enough time for a new Capitol Building to be built.  The new Capitol Building he pointed out would be the largest, most elegant legislative building ever. It would feature a golden dome and gold-plated fixtures throughout the building. It would be the envy of nations around the world. No one would have ever seen anything like it in the history of the world.

To reimage the nation’s capital to be the most prestigious in the world and history, the Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson monuments would be demolished and replaced with new magnificent monuments reflecting America’s greatness.

To prevent more violence and insurrection he ordered US troops to protect all federal property as well as public areas. Since a viable Congress was unable to exist at the current time, the Executive Branch transferred all Congressional powers to the Executive Branch. It was done by the issuance of Enabling Laws.

The current occupant of the White House ended his address indicating the actions that he was taking would ensure that the US would remain the greatest nation in the history of mankind. He ended his remarks by wishing everyone a Happy New Year and encouraged the nation to bring in the new morning for America by celebrating and partying like it was 1999.

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

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1) eliminate affirmative action programs;

2) dismantle corporate set-aside programs for Blacks and other minorities;

3) defeat reforms aimed at making law enforcement less hostile and the criminal justice system more humane in its treatment of Blacks and other minorities; and

4) silence and table any discussion of reparations for Blacks in the US.

Widespread protests took place across the US and world after the murder of George Floyd during the coronavirus pandemic. Attention was directed at the injustice Blacks and other minorities experience at the hands of law enforcement and in the US criminal justice system as well as other facets of daily life.

In addition to discussions around revamping and reforming law enforcement and the criminal justice system there were calls for reparations for Blacks. Reparations for their ancestors having been enslaved in the US and the lingering negative efforts of that enslavement.

Major US corporations, seemingly influenced by the protests and discussions of an unequal society with very little fanfare, quickly and quietly committed to developing or enhancing set-aside programs for Black and minority businesses. They also committed to funding advocacy and community improvement organizations in Black and other minority communities.

Just as quickly and quietly with even less fanfare those commitments vanished from the websites and public communications not long after being first posted and disseminated. Their disappearance occurred way prior to the November 2024 presidential election.

The current federal regime probably would be pleased to receive credit for the removal and disappearances of corporate set-aside programs for Blacks and other minorities. However, the credit belongs to the actions of right-wing activists and organizations.

While Blacks and others were marching in the streets and standing before buildings chanting slogans, right-wing activists and groups quietly and effectively threatened and implemented boycotts of corporations directed at their set-aside policies and programs. Their threats and actual boycotts proved far more effective than the marching and chanting.

It seems the right-wing activists and groups clearly understood what appeared lost on the marchers and protesters. They understood that during the civil right movement it was the threats and implementation of boycotts that touched the pockets and not the hearts and souls of business interests that moved those interests to push governmental officials to do the profitable thing.

Right-wing activists and groups with assistance from right-wing influencers and information peddlers lit fires under police organizations and police unions to push back and raise questions about law enforcement and criminal justice reforms. Reforms that left the public with images of widespread lawlessness if certain restrictions were placed on law enforcement personnel.

The concerns as highlighted by the law enforcement community were such that a frightened public compelled federal lawmakers to quietly and effectively bury legislation that was conceived to help ensure there would be no more George Floyd type murders.

As for the issue of affirmative action, discussions and efforts to dismantle such programs were basically shrugged off by Blacks. The issue may have been important to the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents of today’s Black workers, but not for themselves.

Black workers today look around and see Blacks prominently appearing on network and cable programming, Black executives in the boardrooms and C-suite offices of Fortune 500 corporations, and throughout the offices and hallways of local, state and federal governmental buildings.

Blacks are everywhere and that is not going to change, many Blacks have concluded. Like water and air nothing to concern themselves about. Since they saw affirmative action as an archaic phrase talk by right-wingers about eliminating it was viewed as basically a non-issue. “Nothing to see here, keep it moving.”

As for the issue of reparations, right-wing influencers and other information peddlers went into overdrive to discredit and defeat it. Their approach was not to challenge the validity and merits of the issue, but to try and discredit individuals who publicly raised the issue.

By hook and by crook their smear campaigns seemed to have been effective in forcing those who supported the idea of reparations into silence. The right was successful enough to even make the term “racism” taboo. There was no such thing as racism or a racist, the right racists proclaimed.

To assist with their discrediting efforts right-wingers plucked a few bootlickers and handkerchief heads from under rocks, dusted them off and told them to go fetch. They obediently obeyed while pocketing their thirty pieces of silver and wedge of cheese.

Many civil and human rights activists and organizations focus their lobbying efforts entirely at the federal government level. Right-wing activists and groups on the other hand while focusing efforts at the federal level have also directed considerable attention at the local and state government level, including boards of education. They have been quite successful in promoting their right and far-right agenda.

It is estimated that Blacks in the US have $2.1 trillion in yearly purchasing power. If used strategically and effectively corporate America would not have to be pushed to make sure the well-being of Black consumers mattered. It would not be about hearts and souls for those corporations but their corporate wallets and pocketbooks.

Blacks may also want to ease up on the marching and chanting. It is no longer the 1960s. Instead, they might want to use the tactics of other groups, with far less numbers who have been able to successfully push their agendas.

While Blacks are out in the streets marching, those groups are on the phones, sitting in offices and hovering over the shoulders of decision makers to make sure they do the right thing. What that also means is that Blacks cannot just go to the polling booth on election day cast their votes and then for the next 364 days go back to sleep.

We have to hold people accountable for our votes. It is about being proactive and not reactionary.

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

Question or comment regarding this article? Feel free to send a message to: Alatunji@ThyBlackMan.com.

In addition to an impeachment of the current occupant of the White House, Democrats now in control of the Congress will be expected to hold impeachment hearings for other members of the regime and possibly even members of the Supreme Court.

While such hearings are understandable and might be richly deserved, they might prove a disservice to the nation and a serious political mistake for Democrats. They would play into the narrative pushed by the current occupant of the White House, Republicans and their flunkies in the media that Democrats have no agenda other than to be opposed to the current occupant of the White House.

If the new Democratic controlled Congress wishes to adopt a Congressional resolution  expressing their contempt and embarrassment to the people of America and the world for the actions of the current regime over the last two years such a resolution would be admirable and statesmanlike.

If in the resolution they detail and denounce the crimes against humanity and crimes against the peace committed by the current regime and declare those responsible for such crimes as international criminals subject to trial by an international tribunal it too would be commendable and statesmanlike.

But beyond adopting such a resolution the entire focus of the New Congress should be passing legislation to undue all the pain, misery and evilness enacted by the regime and its enablers in the previous Congress.

Legislation directed at making housing more affordable for Americans regardless of age or where they live should be among the first order of business for the new Congress. Legislation to ensure Americans regardless of income and status have access to quality, affordable healthcare.

People in what is supposed to be the wealthiest most prosperous nation in the world should not be compelled to defer or deny their healthcare needs due to cost. For such to occur is nothing short of being an abomination. A stain on the soul of the nation.

The new Congress should burn the night oil seeking ways to lower costs of food, clothing and other essentials. If Congress needs to raise taxes, and raise them significantly, on individuals who own five plus houses, ten plus cars and have nothing better to do than show off their obscene wealth, then the new Congress needs to do the right thing and raise taxes.

If it needs to raise taxes and raise them significantly on corporations which prevents their executives from getting multimillion dollars bonuses on top of multimillion dollars salaries, so be it, raise those taxes.

Get out of the DC Bubble and hold meetings where the real people live. Real people whose sons and daughters are sent to fight in wars. Who work nine to five and then a second and third job just to keep a roof over their heads. Who pay their own food bills and fill up the cars they drive.

Remind the people and especially yourself that it is the people’s government, the residents of Main Street. Not the government of Big Tech and inhabitants of Silicon Valley.

Pass legislation that makes living in America affordable and desirable. Send it to the White House and see if the current occupant of the White House vetoes it. He might just surprise you.

Among other things he is a very transactional guy and if he thinks it might win favor with Democrats to stay out of jail you can bet your last bottom dollar that you won’t hear him holler. At the same time, he can be counted on to criticize the former Republican majority for not passing such measures.

The current occupant of the White House and Republican strategists are counting on a new Democratic controlled Congress to waste time and capital trying to litigate the last two years and holding impeachment hearings.

Will it make a difference to the average person if the current occupant is impeached a third, fourth or tenth time? It will not change history. He is destined to go down as the worst person to reside in the White House. It will not even be a contest.

Not just the worst, but the most incompetent, immoral, emotionally, mentally and intellectually challenged person to reside in the White House.

He would be ecstatic with the attention he would receive from another impeachment trial. It would play into his narrative that the Democrats only goal is to get him. However, Democrats should stay so busy passing an affordability agenda that no one sees or hears his name. It would drive him even more batty than he currently is not to be the center of the universe.

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

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A cardinal tenet of Christianity is that it is imperative for salvation to forgive those that trespass against us. It is one of the more challenging tenets of Christian faith.

For some Christians to address that challenge they believe it is best they forget so they can forgive, forgive and forget. If one forgets the transgression that was directed at them, forgiveness is easy since they don’t recall being transgressed against.

We may want our hearts as required by Christian faith to be righteous. However, there are certain things that cannot and should not ever be forgotten. Forgiven yes but forgotten never. To forget in itself would be a sin. To forget those who suffered and died for no reason other than their skin was darker than blue is a sin.

Sunday morning September 15th started out as just another typical Sunday morning. People throughout the city of Birmingham, Alabama, like places across the US were either at Sunday morning service, traveling to service or preparing themselves to head to their place of worship.

As for 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair, and 14-year-old Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Dionne Wesley and Carole Robertson they were already at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. They along with 200 members of the church had attended Sunday school classes prior to the start of the 11 am morning service.

It would be a similar scene in churches throughout the US. Sunday school classes followed by the main church service at 11 am. Attendees to the Sunday school classes would be grouped by age and a teacher would be assigned to lead a class in instruction about the Bible and tenets and practices of Christianity.

Sunday school classes had ended and Carol Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Dionne Wesley and Carole Rosamond Robertson who were youth choir members were busy putting on their choir robes and preparing themselves for the morning church service. The youth choir would lead the church in song for one of the musical presentations at the 11 am service.

It was Youth Day at the church. There was an element of joy and excitement in the air.

Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole talked while putting on their robes. They prepared themselves for the morning service in the church basement ladies’ bathroom.

Like other typical girls, 11 and 14 years of age, they talked about their regular school teachers and classmates. Public schools had been in session just a few days in Birmingham after the summer recession.

The girls busied themselves discussing their new teachers, new and old classmates as well as the subjects they were taking. Eleven-year-old Denise had just started the 5th grade. Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole had just started junior high and were in the seventh grade. While talking Addie Mae helped Carol tie her robe’s dress sash.

Typical girls their age, they talked about the latest fashion. What was in and what was now out of style.

They talked about shows on television. They talked about the latest movies in theaters.

They spoke about the latest songs that were topping the music pop record charts. They talked about what was happening in their lives at that time.

They also spoke about the future. Like girls typical their age they share their dreams, hopes and plans for the future. The future belonged to Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole.

It was a typical September Sunday morning in America. Then just like that it wasn’t.

At 10:22 am a massive explosion ripped through the church. The blast destroyed the church’s rear wall.

The explosion was so violent that it blew a passing motorist out of his automobile. It destroyed automobiles parked on the street outside the church.

Properties located more than two blocks from the church had their windows blown out. Bricks and mortar from the church was sprayed everywhere.

The blast caved in the church’s interior walls and destroyed all but one of the church’s stained glass windows. The only stained glass window left in tack depicted Jesus leading a group of children.

It demolished the basement ladies’ bathroom. The bathroom where Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole were preparing for the 11 am church service.

The explosion resulted in 22 injuries. The bodies of Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole were found beneath the rubble created by the blast.

Like a thief in the night, the explosion stole the future of Carol Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Dionne Wesley and Carole Rosamond Robertson. They would not give their musical rendition later that day at the 11 am church service. There would be no 11 am church service.

Carol would not be given the chance to graduate from fifth grade to sixth grade. She would not be given the opportunity to eventually attend junior high with Addie Mae, Cynthis and Carole.

Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole would not have the opportunity to attend their high school prom. To join with others in celebration upon their graduation from high school.

Years later, they would not have the opportunity to recollect exactly where they were when they learned that John F. Kennedy, the President of the US had been assassinated. Where they were and what they were doing when the news came over the radio and television that Malcolm X had been killed. That the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been murder.

To reminisce where they were when they learned that Robert Kennedy had been shot. What they were doing when the planes went into the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11.

Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole would not get the chance to listen and dance to the Four Tops’ “Reach Out I’ll Be There”, “Baby I Need Your Loving”, “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)”, “Still Waters Run Deep” and “It’s the Same Old Song”.

They would not get to hear the Temptations’ “Beauty is Only Skin Deep”, “My Girl” and “Ain’t too Proud to Beg”.

They would miss out on the opportunity to hear the Supremes sing “Where Did Our Love Go”, “Stop! in the Name of Love”, and “Love is Like an Itching in My Heart”. They would not get to hear Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell duet “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “If This World Were Mine.”

Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole would not get the chance to watch The Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and The Flip Wilson Show.

They would be denied the opportunity to experience the anticipation, excitement and joy of opening college acceptance letters. Of attending college and graduating.

Denied the opportunity after graduation to embark on careers. Perhaps becoming teachers, college professors, lawyers, doctors, nurses, scientists, business owners, council members, state legislators, mayors and members of Congress. Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole would not be given that opportunity.

Carol was a friend and classmate of Condoleezza Rice. Condoleezza Rice went on to become the first female Black US Secretary of State and the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor.

Perhaps, Carol would have become an aide to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Then again, maybe Condoleezza Rice might have been an aide to Secretary of State Carol Denise McNair.

Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole were not given the opportunity to be bridesmaids in the weddings of family and friends. They would not be given the chance to date and marry becoming brides themselves.

They would not be given a chance to experience the wonder, magic and joy of motherhood. They would not have the opportunity to see their children attend kindergarten, graduate high school, college and have successful careers of their own.

To see their children have children making them grandmothers. Their children’s children make them great grandmothers.

Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole would not be there to take care of elderly parents and family. They would not be there to assist their grandparents and eventually their parents take their final breaths prior to transitioning to sit at the foot of Jesus.

They would not be there to celebrate the joy and comfort the sadness of other family members and friends during good times and tough times. Friends that they may have known from childhood, college or career. Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia and Carole would be denied all of that.

They would be denied being able to see Roots, Soul Train, Amen, 227, Laverne & Shirley, Love Boat, The Cosby Show, Dallas, Dynasty, Good Times, Hills Street Blues, Sanford and Son and The Jefferson. They would not get to see Martin, Law and Order, ER, In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Donnie Simpson’s Video Soul, Bobby Jones Gospel, BET Gospel and West Wing.

They would not get to watch The Wire, Sex in the City, Suits, House of Cards, Power, Game of Thrones, Greenleaf, Sistas and Queen Sugar. They would be denied the opportunity to see Shameless, Red Shoe Diaries, The Handmaid’s Tale, Harlem, Being Mary Jane, And Just LIke That, Godfather of Harlem, Bel Air and Run The World.

They would not hear Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”, Luther Vandross with the group Change singing “The Glow of Love”, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Patti LaBell, Michael and Janet Jackson, The Jackson Five, Sounds of Blackness, Beyonce and so much more, so much more.

They would not get a chance to experience the profound joy of seeing President-elect Barack Obama raise his hand and take the oath of office becoming the first Black President of the US.

To see Kamala Harris become the first Black and woman to become Vice President of the US. Of seeing Venus, Serena and Coco. Joining with family and friends doing the Boogaloo, Robot, Worm, Cabbage Patch, Running Man, Harlem Shake and Electric Slide.

The opportunity to see and experience all of that and so much more was stolen from Carol Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Dionne Wesley and Carole Rosamond Robertson.

The explosion that stole the future of Carol Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Dionne Wesley and Carole Rosamond Robertson was the result of no less than 15 sticks of dynamite being placed beneath the stairs of one of the 16th Street Baptist Church’s entrances. Immediately, church members and others knew exactly what had happened.

The terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church was the third bombing in 11 days in Birmingham after a federal court order mandated the desegregation of Alabama’s school system.

The church had been targeted because many of the civil rights protest marches that took place in the 1960s began at the steps of that church. It had long been a significant religious center for the city’s Black population and a routine meeting place for civil rights activities.

The horrific church bombing was viewed by many in the US and throughout the world as not just an attack on Black people but the very body of Jesus itself. Roughly 2000 years earlier while Jesus was on the cross a Roman soldier took a spear and thrusted it into the body of Jesus.

Now roughly two thousand years later no less than 15 sticks of dynamite had been used to once again attack the body of Jesus.

But why are we recalling this incident which happened so very long ago? Isn’t it time to move forward to stop looking back at the past. Isn’t it time to turn the page?

Are we too busy looking behind us that we are unable to see and enjoy today and tomorrow? Can we just forget about the past?

The answer is an explicit and emphatic “No!” Yesterday is so very much who and what we are today. The past is today and today is so much the past.

In so many ways we never left the past. The same attitudes and forces of bigotry, discrimination, intolerance, racism, hate and evil never vanished. They remain just as alive, just as ugly and vicious as that fateful September 15th Sunday morning.

Those who have such attitudes might not march around as cowards hiding behind and covering their heads and faces with soiled white sheets. Instead like cowards they hid behind keyboards and keypads emitting their insanity, ignorance, racism and evilness.

Just as sadly and unfortunately, there remain so many people in the US who are unable or just refuse to see in the faces of Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson their child, their grandchild or great grandchild. Their inability and/or refusal makes them just as indirectly compliant today as so many others had been on that September 15th Sunday morning that they might as well had planted the dynamite under the stairs of the church themselves.

It is important for Black people to remember their history and teach their children and their children’s children their history. That the history is passed down from one generation to the next.

Such an act is not about seeking revenge or retribution. It is not about the continuation of hate, inhumanity and evil. But it is about making sure that such inhumanity and evil never ever happens again to them or anyone else.

If Carol Denise McNair who was born on November 17th had lived she would have been 73.

Addie Mae Collins who was born April 18th, Cynthia Dionne Wesley who was born April 30th and Carole Rosamond Robertson who was born April 24th would be 77.

Carol Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Rosamond Robertson lived. Their lives, like all lives, were sacred. They were like all children, regardless of race, gender, country of birth, religion, creed, languages they speak, children of God.

To that end, we remember and will not forget Carol Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Rosamond Robertson.

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

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What many have viewed as chaos may in fact be a well-orchestrated strategy to confuse, frustrate, deceive and exhaust the American people and the media into submission. There may be an element of method to the chaos and the madness.

Immediately upon taking office the regime declared war on the federal bureaucracy and the American people. In a blitzkrieg widespread assault, the regime bombarded the public and the media in what appeared to be nonstop actions. It attacked broad sectors of the American government and nongovernmental institutions.

The attack included countless executive orders, firings, dismantling of programs, abandonment of long-standing policies and an avalanche of lawsuits against nongovernmental institutions.

There appeared to be no rhyme or reason behind the actions beyond revenge and retaliation. The regime did not attempt to hide those efforts. It was bold and unapologetic with its revenge and retaliation. However, there was more to its purpose than just revenge and retaliation.

As for its lawsuits against various longstanding nongovernmental institutions, the regime attempted to convey outrage and concern that those nongovernmental institutions were engaged in injustices that demanded federal governmental intervention. It was just a smokescreen.

The regime wanted to intimidate and silence institutions. Institutions believed if left alone might challenge the unlawful actions of the regime.

It seemed to be omnipresent, nonstop in pursuit of liberty, justice and the American way. It impressed many, it frightened others and fooled even more.

The approach being used was a much larger scale version of the DOGE’s firing and dismantling of the federal bureaucracy. A buckshot approach. It was using a sledgehammer when a laser scalpel of a surgeon was needed.

There were many that saw the issuing of countless executive orders and the reports of the disbanding of programs and repeal of various policies and the adoptions of new policies that the regime was firmly in charge. Finally, they surmised, the government is being led by a person, an extremely successful businessperson, who knows exactly what he is doing.

It was the most effective and efficient federal administration in their memory. They were proud to convey to others how the regime in just a matter of days had done more for the American people than all the recent administrations had done combined over the years.

Just as quickly as the executive orders were promulgated judges throughout the US were forced to render rulings overturning the executive orders. However, it did not stop the regime from issuing additional executive orders and/or plowing ahead with its previous issued executive orders in contempt and defiance of the court rulings.

The court challenges to the executive orders and the regime’s lawsuits that were dismissed led many, especially opponents of the regime, to proclaim not only that the regime was incompetent and evil but also drowning in chaos. With chaos and confusion everywhere, they viewed the head  of the regime as totally unsuited and ill-tempered to being in the Oval Office.

The regime’s greatest success in promoting its government by chaos has been in its handling of the media. The regime flooded the zone with its numerous executive orders and pronouncements. Far more it seems than the media could keep up with.

Unable to track and report on all the actions of the regime, the media basically cherry-picked a small number that seemed most fascinating and intriguing.

Exhibit One: Epstein. The media used a lot of ink and spent a lot of time reporting on an issue which a year later no one is talking about. It was replaced by the US and Israeli War on Iran.

Then there is the White House Ballroom, DC Arch, Canada as the 51st state, Greenland as a territory of the US, John F. Kennedy Center Performing Arts Center renovations, and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. None of those issues addressed the affordability concerns that the average American citizen has with the increasing prices of food and other essentials.

If anything, it has only made things worse for the average American family as highlighted by the rising cost of oil resulting from the regime’s unpopular war on Iran. However, it has not stopped the media from focusing considerable attention on distracting issues.

Unfortunately for Americans while the media has followed and reported on glitzy pieces, the regime and its allies have gone into overdrive buying and selling America. The regime has basically engaged in full scale looting and robbery in broad daylight. A robbery and looting at the expense of the nation and its people.

In the end all the regime’s activity, its executive orders, lawsuits, policy changes and pronouncements have done is to confuse, frustrate, distract and exhaust the public into tuning out and turning off.

In the meantime, the regime and its allies are using the government to make money hand over fist. It has been clever in using what some view as a government in chaos while it plows ahead in its unholy campaign of robbing the public coffers bare.

The phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has been substituted by “government of the regime, by the regime, for the regime” with its clever use of perceived chaos.

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

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There were many Americans who voted in the November 2024 election who voted not for someone but against someone. Despite one candidate being heads and shoulders over the other, far more qualified to be the leader of the country, many voted against that candidate for no other reason than the person’s race and gender.

Who voted against the candidate born into humble surroundings but nevertheless worked and excelled while following a moral compass. The other candidate, an emotionally, intellectually and mentally challenged individual, knew of  no cesspool that he was not willing to swim.

How did that turnout as you dig deeper and deeper into your wallets and pocketbooks to purchase food and clothes for yourself and family? Do you still have that satisfaction that you had election night when you fill up your car to head to work? Were you still delighted that the other candidate lost when you learned your son or daughter, sister or brother and close friends lost their federal jobs for no legitimate reason?

Democrats, Independents and even some Republicans are looking forward to the midterm elections in November. Looking to right the ship and save it from completely sinking.

Some are actually overjoyed that what they perceive as the dark night in America will soon be replaced by a new morning of sanity. That with a new Congress, a responsible Congress, the ills of the nation, the insensitive, inhumane, childish policies of the immoral regime would be halted and reversed.

How wonderful that would be if that was the case. But unfortunately, elections have consequences. So much of the policy as well as the attitudes and tone of the current regime will not and cannot be reversed by a new Congress nor even a new administration. Elections have consequences and what the current regime has done will remain in place for many years, perhaps decades after its slithers from power.

It might take decades if not longer for people throughout the world who once looked at the US admirably and with affection to see the US in a similar light after the last two years. To once again view the US as that shining city on the hill where freedom, justice and equality shined supreme and once served as a beckon of hope and inspiration.

Is that how people who sought political asylum, and those who were legally working through the maze of the US citizenship process still feel about the US after finding themselves deported to some country for which they never lived nor speak its language?

Is that how people in countries that one believed the US a friend and reliable ally feel about the US when the current regime goes out of its way to demean, insult and basically declare war on their country?

The current regime has done more in two years to destroy the US’ image of being a responsible, stable and progressive nation than anything the Chinese, Russians or others could have done in their propaganda campaigns against the US. The current regime with its childish, irrational and playground mentality has forced governments and their people to look at China as the responsible adult in the room.

As children and elderly people throughout the world die from starvation and diseases it will not be lost by many nor forgiven that vital humanitarian aid that both Republican and Democratic administrations had provided over the years was one of the first of many evil actions of the current regime.

Those who survive will not be singing America the Beautiful. They will not see a nation committed to and propelled by goodness but greed. Faith and friendship but fearmongering. Facts but fear. Hope but hate. Righteousness but racism. Mercy but maliciousness. Christianity but cruelty. Love of all mankind but loathing of all who are viewed as other.

Whereas Russia, North Korea and Iran once had the designation of being pariah nations, the current regime through its illegal, immoral, inhumane actions and conduct now own that designation of pariah nation throughout the world. It will keep that designation in many people’s minds throughout the world for a long time after the current regime and its enablers have been swept from the halls of power.

Elections do have consequences and Americans and people throughout the world have seen in just a blink of an eye just how dangerous, deadly and demonic such consequences can be. Yes, elections do have consequences as a very wise man said.

By the way, that very wise man was also a good, moral, righteous man who also served as president of the US. He brought an audacity of hope not just to America but the world. History will proclaim him one of the greatest US presidents ever. It will also highlight him as a man of faith, charity and mercy. His name, President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the US.

Staff Writer; Al Alatunji

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