How Na Pali Coast Wedding Charters Create Unforgettable Experiences

The Na Pali Coast is renowned for its dramatic landscapes, which include towering cliffs, lush valleys, and cascading waterfalls. These natural wonders provide a stunning backdrop for any wedding ceremony. Couples opting for a Na Pali Coast Wedding Charter can expect to experience this beauty firsthand, as the charter allows access to secluded spots that are otherwise inaccessible. This exclusivity adds a touch of magic, making the ceremony feel like a private haven amidst nature’s grandeur.

Furthermore, many wedding charters offer personalized services that enhance the experience. For instance, Destination Management Companies (DMCs) specialize in organizing seamless wedding events, ensuring every detail is meticulously planned. Whether it’s arranging for a traditional Hawaiian blessing or coordinating with a local musician for live entertainment, these services contribute to the overall enchantment of the day.

Recent analysis from Travel and Leisure confirms that couples who choose such unique locales often report higher satisfaction levels with their wedding experience, highlighting the importance of selecting a venue that resonates with personal preferences.

The Romantic Setting of Na Pali Coast for Your Ceremony

The Na Pali Coast’s natural beauty is complemented by the romantic ambiance it provides, making it an ideal setting for a wedding ceremony. As the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean, it casts a warm glow over the cliffs, creating a picturesque scene that is perfect for exchanging vows. The ambiance is further enhanced by the gentle sound of waves and the scent of tropical flowers, which contribute to an unforgettable atmosphere.

Couples can choose from various ceremony locations along the coast, each offering unique features. Whether it’s a secluded beach or a serene cove, the options abound. This flexibility allows couples to find a spot that perfectly matches their vision for the day.

Moreover, with Ecotourism Certification becoming increasingly important for travelers, choosing a wedding charter that prioritizes sustainable practices ensures that your ceremony is both beautiful and environmentally conscious.

Exploring Customized Wedding Packages on the Water

One of the advantages of booking a Na Pali Coast Wedding Charter is the availability of customized wedding packages. These packages cater to different preferences and budgets, ensuring that every couple can find an option that suits their needs. From intimate elopements to larger gatherings, the packages are designed to offer flexibility and personalization.

For instance, couples can opt for a package that includes a sunset cruise, complete with cocktails and appetizers, which adds a touch of elegance to the celebration. Additionally, many charters offer the option to incorporate local Hawaiian traditions, such as a lei exchange, adding authenticity and cultural richness to the ceremony.

With the increasing trend of Free Independent Traveler (FIT) bookings, these customized packages provide an opportunity for couples to tailor their experience, ensuring that every element of their wedding day is exactly as they envisioned.

Capturing Memorable Moments with Professional Photography Options

Documenting your wedding day is crucial, and the Na Pali Coast offers countless opportunities for stunning photography. Professional photographers familiar with the area can capture the essence of the coast and the beauty of the ceremony. With the cliffs and ocean as a backdrop, every photo becomes a work of art.

Many charters provide photography services as part of their wedding packages, ensuring that couples have access to skilled professionals who understand how to make the most of the setting. These photographers often use drones and other advanced equipment to capture unique angles and perspectives, adding another layer of creativity to the images.

Moreover, a recent survey by The Knot revealed that couples who invest in professional photography for destination weddings report greater satisfaction with their wedding albums, underscoring the value of high-quality documentation.

Conclusion

Booking a Na Pali Coast Wedding Charter offers couples a chance to celebrate their union in one of the most stunning locations in the world. The combination of natural beauty, personalized services, and professional photography ensures a dreamy ceremony that will be cherished forever. For those seeking a unique and breathtaking setting, the Na Pali Coast provides an unforgettable experience that truly encapsulates the romance and magic of a wedding day.

Staff Writer; Craig Marshall

After last Tuesday’s primary contest in Michigan, where Marxist/Islamist candidate Abdul El-Sayed won the Democrat nomination for U.S. Senate, there was much prognostication. It was a race barely won, and if it had not been for a third candidate, who had since dropped out, El-Sayed would probably not have been successful. It was certainly not the supposed blowout that everyone had predicted for the Democratic Socialists (Marxists) of America-supported candidate. However, the real story behind that race, which has been a consistent theme, is that black Democrat voters do not want to be the “useful idiots” of these intellectual elite, privileged white Marxists/Islamists. Abdul El-Sayed tanked with Black voters in the Michigan Democrat Senate primary. The same can be said for Zohran Mamdani in New York City. The exit polls are very telling: the main support for these Marxists emanates from college-educated, privileged, leftist elites who embrace their knowing better than you about your life, liberty, and freedom.

When one studies the history of the American Democrat Party, it is one replete with examples of decimation and destruction of the American Black community. It started with slavery, moved on to segregation (the original Jim Crow), the first domestic terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan, obliteration of the traditional nuclear Black family, construction of the inner city economic plantation, and the relegating of Black kids to failing public school systems. Remember, it was Karl Marx who first introduced the idea of state-controlled education. So, today’s “Democratic” Party is being overtaken by the same old mentality, kinda like the song by The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” with the lyric, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”

Last Tuesday, the Black community rejected the Marxist ideals of open borders and abolishing prisons, which will have less safety and security. Not in the leftist elitist gated communities, of course. And it was not just in Michigan, but consider the rematch between incumbent Congressman Wesley Bell and former Congresswoman Cori Bush in the St. Louis-area Missouri Congressional District 1. That race was not even close, with Bell receiving 59 percent to Bush’s 37 percent. Bush was heavily supported by the DSA and her old friends in “Da Squad”, and she sought to make this about Rep. Bell’s vote in support of Israel. As we know, the Marxist/Islamists are anti-Semitic. That strategy fell way short in this heavily Black congressional district.

Here in my area of Dallas, Texas, I have noticed that Democratic congressional candidate Pastor Frederick Haynes III has had the Black Lives Matter banner removed from his Friendship-West Baptist Church building, which was visible from the interstate. Now, maybe Haynes did not direct that to be done personally, but how interesting that it has disappeared as he became the Democrat nominee for Texas Congressional District 30, replacing Jasmine Crockett. Perhaps Haynes and Co. realized what that banner represented: an organization that was founded by self-proclaimed Black female “trained Marxists.” It is obvious that someone did not believe that Pastor Haynes, the pastor of a large Black church, and the BLM banner were a good fit.

Even the “establishment” Marxists in the Democrat Party realize how important the Black community is in turning back the Marxist/Islamist (Red-Green Alliance) that is overtaking their party. The Democratic National Committee has already decided that South Carolina will be their first-in-the-nation primary state for the 2028 presidential election cycle. I am sure they will be leaning heavily on longtime South Carolina Democrat Rep. James Clyburn.

There is nothing that the DSA Marxists aligned with their Islamist comrades can offer the Black community. All they are saying is that we will be your NEW slave masters. And they have enlisted certain Black leftists to be the new plantation overseers. We should not forget that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 by four white intellectual elite “progressives” (meaning Communists), Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Henry Moskowitz. They then brought in Black intellectual elites, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, to be the face. Nothing has changed since. It is worth noting that Du Bois was an avowed socialist, well, a communist, who would end up rejecting his American citizenship. He also dined with Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung.

Marxism, socialism, communism, along with segregation, have done nothing for the advancement of Colored people. The real impetus behind those four white progressives founding the NAACP was to counter the father of Black conservatism, Booker T. Washington, whom they would demonize and denigrate. Washington’s three principles of education, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance, along with the establishment of the National Negro Business League, would do more to lift Blacks out of their plight, even under the dark specter of Democrat segregationist policies. And, once again, nothing has changed. White Marxist intellectual elites fear strong Black conservatives who will not surrender to their ideals of victimhood.

Booker T. Washington, not Karl Marx or W.E.B. Du Bois, is my philosophical mentor. Perhaps this quote from the founder of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute will provide a lesson learned to the Marxists of the DSA, as they try to dupe Blacks, once again, into being “useful idiots” for their insidious schemes. It comes from his 1911 book, My Larger Education:

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into a settled habit of advertising their wrongs, partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

Booker T. Washington gave us an apt description of the grievance mongers, race hustlers, and poverty pimps who have plagued the Black community. He also gave us insights into the “gospel of envy” that drives the Marxists. It is my sincere hope that more and more blacks, and truthfully all Americans, will heed Washington’s words and not be the useful idiots of the Marxists, starting tomorrow in Wisconsin with delusional and deranged Marxist Francesca Hong, running for the Democrat nomination for Governor.

Written by Allen West

Official website; https://x.com/AllenWest

But from the East Coast to the West Coast, “tax the rich” is the battle cry of radical-left Democrats. They claim that by attacking the rich, including celebs like Swift, they’re saving democracy. Don’t be fooled.

Their new forms of taxation — including wealth taxes, mansion taxes and pied-a-terre taxes — are fueled by jealousy and hatred for our free-market system, working people and everything American. You’re their next target.

You may not consider yourself “rich,” but these new forms of taxation will eventually hit you if you live in a blue state.

Swift paid a whopping $17.75 million for her Watch Hill, Rhode Island, pad back in 2013. But the tax starts on any vacation home worth over $1 million and occupied less than half the year. It went into effect at the end of July.

“Tax the rich” is also building steam in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and California.

The official magazine of the Democratic Socialists of America announces that the fight to tax the rich will go on until “there is not a single state that is a safe haven.”

Connecticut Democrats are ramming through a “mansion” tax, the first-ever statewide property tax, which will be levied annually on homes valued at over $3 million, whether they’re primary residences or not. That’s in addition to the sky-high local property taxes residents already pay. Democrats are united behind the radical new tax and have a veto-proof majority in both legislative houses to pass it whenever they choose.

No one should assume that only the “rich” will be hit with the tax. When the state adopted an income tax in 1991, it was supposed to be temporary and had only one bracket. Thirty-five years later, it’s still in effect and has been expanded to seven brackets.

Another blue enclave, Washington, D.C., is proposing a “mansion” tax on high-value residences — those valued at more than $2.5 million. Most of the revenue will come from three tiny but tony neighborhoods: Georgetown, Kalorama and Massachusetts Avenue Heights. Plenty of wealthy politicians will be hit, but Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, vocal advocates for wealth taxes, will unfortunately not be among them. They don’t live there.

Mansion taxes are proxies for wealth taxes, but in November, Californians will vote on Proposition 40, which, if approved, will lead to the nation’s first tax on total net worth: the Billionaire Tax Act. It’s a “onetime” 5% tax on all forms of wealth, from homes and yachts to where the real money is: stocks, bonds and ownership interests in private companies.

The bill says 90% of the revenue collected will go to support health care services for Californians, and health care unions are its biggest supporters.

The “onetime” claim is preposterous because once health care services are funded, where do the unions and patients go when that spigot is turned off?

The state Democratic Party endorses the tax, but Gov. and presidential wannabe Gavin Newsom does not. He pivoted instead to calling for a national wealth tax, warning that the passage of the Billionaire Tax Act will make more California billionaires head for the exits — following in the footsteps of Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Newsom joins a chorus of lefties, including Warren, Sanders and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, calling for a national wealth tax. They make the preposterous argument that “a well-functioning democracy” is threatened by the existence of billionaires.

Nonsense. Billionaire former Gotham Mayor Mike Bloomberg blew through hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money seeking the presidency in 2020 and won support only from American Samoa. Money doesn’t guarantee political success. The Republican National Committee right now has about 10 times as much cash on hand as the Democratic National Committee, but the outcome of the November midterms is still a nail-biter.

What is true is that democracy is threatened by dire poverty. People who are hungry will succumb more easily to the promises of a dictator. But poverty in the U.S. is half what it was in 1959, when the U.S. Census began measuring the number of Americans living below the poverty line.

The leftwingers calling for wealth taxes aren’t telling you the truth — wealth taxes are economy killers, and workers are the victims.

Only 2.7% of a billionaire’s wealth is in jewels, yachts, artwork, homes and other luxuries. Almost all of it is in business assets — stock and ownership interests that provide the capital for businesses to buy more efficient trucks, faster computers and more sophisticated equipment that increase worker productivity. Jeff Bezos’ $250 billion in wealth is mostly in Amazon. As Cato economists Adam Michel and Chris Edwards warn, taxing wealth takes capital out of these companies, limiting worker productivity gains and future wage growth. Ouch!

Wake up, everyone. You’re the ones in the “tax the rich” crosshairs. Call out these leftwing demagogues for their lies. In Swift’s words, be “fearless.”

Written by Betsy McCaughey

Official website; https://twitter.com/Betsy_McCaughey

Why? Because the DSA understands that El-Sayed has to say that to win over even Democrats in a moderate state like Michigan. They firmly expect that once elected, he would do as they say, which happily conforms with what he truly believes.

Confusing? Yes, on purpose. But let’s move beyond this war of labels. Let’s stop using socialist and capitalist as either compliments or denunciations.

The United States has a mixed economy, as do most modern countries. It has an economic system in which both the government and the private sector control resources. The American government runs public education, Medicare and the U.S. Postal Service, to name a few programs. They are all taxpayer supported.

Why does a stamp on a letter going from a remote farmhouse in North Dakota to Chicago cost the same as a stamp on a letter sent from one Chicago apartment to another three blocks away? In a purely capitalist system, the stamp’s price would have reflected the difference in cost of delivery. The North Dakotan would have had to pay for this service, a lot more. But U.S. law mandates “universal service,” which keeps the cost of a stamp fixed. Thus, dense cities subsidize mail delivery in rural areas.

Private companies, such as UPS and FedEx, charge vastly higher prices for delivery to remote places. Note that President Donald Trump has supported selling off the USPS to a private company.

Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed through the Social Security Act of 1935 as part of his New Deal program. America was in the jaws of Great Depression, and FDR used the power of the federal government to create jobs, stabilize the financial system and keep the destitute elderly alive.

New York’s Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, says he’s another FDR. But FDR said, “No one in the United States believes more firmly than I in the system of private business, private property and private profit.”

Roosevelt’s new government programs were intended to save the capitalist-market system from collapsing, not, to use Mamdani’s words, “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Where are the heroic peasants of the Soviet agitprop films waving banners?

Socialist Bernie Sanders heralds Sweden as the socialist model, citing its free health care, free college and so forth. He also says, “I don’t think billionaires should exist.”

Sanders may not be up to date on Sweden’s economy. It is highly capitalist with more billionaires per capita than the United States. The social programs he admires are supported by taxes.

Sweden, meanwhile, has been tightening the rules for receiving government benefits. For example, it’s been cutting benefits to those not working. It has also adopted a hyper-restrictive immigration policy. In addition to the shock of a massive influx of people from very different cultures, Swedes rebelled at the impoverished newcomers’ claims on its social programs.

The number of migrants entering Sweden was down to 12,000 last year from 117,000 in 2016. And the country is trying to get people already there with residency permits to leave.

What do the “abolish-ICE” Democratic Socialists think of that?

As conservative economist Milton Friedman famously put it, “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.”

Here’s how it works: Our capitalist-market system generates a huge amount of wealth that can be taxed to pay for social and other programs. A balance must be found between encouraging wealth creation and crafting a tax code able to raise money for desired public needs. That’s a lot harder than throwing around dated labels.

Written by Froma Harrop

Official website; https://twitter.com/FromaHarrop

Seasonal Trends in Deer Behavior

Deer behavior is notably influenced by the changing seasons, which directly impacts their interaction with gardens. In spring, deer are drawn to tender new growth, making it a critical time for gardeners to employ protective measures. As summer arrives, their diet shifts to include a variety of plants, increasing the risk of damage to ornamental gardens and food crops. Autumn sees a spike in activity as deer prepare for winter, often leading to more frequent garden visits.

Understanding these patterns allows gardeners to anticipate potential threats and implement timely measures. For instance, using a soil amendment, such as compost, can enhance plant resilience against deer browsing. Additionally, hardscaping elements in your garden can create physical barriers that deter deer access. Recognizing these seasonal trends is the first step in executing a successful Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan tailored to Deer Repellent Service control.

Effective Deer Repellent Methods

To safeguard your garden, employing a range of deer repellent methods is essential. Physical barriers like fencing, though effective, can be costly and may not suit every landscape design. Alternatives include natural repellents, which utilize scents and tastes that deer find unappealing. For instance, products containing putrescent egg solids or garlic are popular among homeowners for their effectiveness and ease of application.

Another approach involves the use of biostimulants, which strengthen plant health and improve resistance to pests, including deer. Mulching techniques also play a role in deer deterrence by masking the scents of appealing plants. For those seeking comprehensive solutions, a professional Deer Repellent Service can provide tailored strategies. According to the Virginia Cooperative Extension, implementing a diverse array of methods can significantly reduce deer-related damage.

Choosing Professional Deer Repellent Services

When selecting a professional service, consider a company’s experience and the methods they use. A reputable service should offer eco-friendly solutions, tailored to the specific needs of your landscape. Look for providers who understand the nuances of xeriscaping, a landscaping method designed to reduce or eliminate the need for irrigation, which can also deter deer due to its minimalistic approach.

Professional services often employ landscape architects who can integrate deer-resistant plants into your design. Furthermore, they may recommend topdressing, a technique that involves adding a layer of material over the soil, which can serve as both a deterrent and a nutrient boost for plants. Consulting with an arborist may also be beneficial, as their expertise in tree and shrub health can aid in selecting species less attractive to deer.

Maintaining a Deer-Free Landscape Year-Round

Continuous vigilance and maintenance are key to sustaining a deer-free environment. Regularly inspect your landscape for signs of deer activity, such as trampled plants or droppings, and adjust your strategies accordingly. Pruning shears can be used to manage plant growth, making them less appealing to deer.

Incorporating perennial division, the process of dividing mature plants to promote health and manage space, can also help in maintaining a robust garden that is less susceptible to deer damage. Engaging in green waste recycling ensures that waste products are not left to attract deer, contributing to a cleaner and more secure garden space. A guide from the USDA highlights the importance of integrating these practices into your landscape management plan.

Conclusion

Effective deer management requires an understanding of seasonal behaviors, the implementation of diverse repellent methods, and the selection of professional services tailored to your landscape’s unique needs. By maintaining a proactive approach and employing year-round strategies, you can enjoy a thriving, deer-free garden. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or new to landscaping, these insights will empower you to protect your outdoor spaces efficiently.

Staff Writer; Bobby Poole

We resign ourselves to the ideal that if God wants us be [ or our loved] to be healed he will make it happen…and he doesn’t need our assistance. Because remember, “he will never put more on us than we can bare”; the problem may have begun with a gross misreading and misunderstanding of scripture. There is a big difference between not putting more on us than we can handle, and not allowing us to be tempted beyond what we can handle. One implies God is applying the pressure, and the other implies he is not the cause of the pressure. This misunderstanding can affect how we pray our understanding of what we need to do to assist our wellness.

I can remember the accident that began the journey that has been repeated health challenges. There have been so many limits given my life I’ve lost count. There were times where I felt God was testing me, so I kept praying to show myself worthy of living…basically begging for life. Then came the why me Lord phase…that saw me angry with God and questioning why I must go through such unspeakable pain. This eventually led to the thought that if I’m going through it that must be because I can bare it. All of these phases caused an inconsistency in what I was praying for verses what I wanted from God.

Furthermore, in the midst of all the “tarrying” I wasn’t putting for the maximum effort to care for myself. Basically, it was prayer or nothing. I had no concept of working with God. Basically, if God wants to fix it he will, and it it’s not fixed this is what he has assigned to me to carry as my burden or “cross” per se. Granted today I am able to say that a lack of understanding about God, faith, healing and prayer led to me almost giving up my faith in the midst of my health crisis, as my original mindset led to despair and depression.

Healing is something that, in most cases, doesn’t occur overnight. It is a combination of faith, work, and in many cases following medical direction. Having an understanding that this doesn’t work like magic, God is not afflicting us, and that we must put work with our prayer can mentally prepare us for the journey that is healing. This journey is not always a matter of physical illness, but where there is a need for healing there will need to be prayer and work. Training our mind to speak spiritual healing to the body is one area that requires time in God’s Word, and plenty of mouth control discipline. Yes, discipline has to become your new best friend as it helps us work past what we feel, and what we see.

Taking time to do a biblical study on healing will aid your discipline, and help you understand healing from God’s perspective verses what you’ve been told by others. It was a game changing revelation the day I was able to understand God won’t allow the enemy to tempt me beyond what I could handle, a price was already paid for my healing, and there is a connection between my physical health and the health of my Spirit. Granted it has to be understood that this is a position on healing from a Christian perspective, so if the believe system is different of course what is required is different.

However, regardless of one’s spiritual belief, or lack thereof, the person seeking healing will have to find a way to engage with the issue, the health issue they are facing with positive words/meditation/prayer and be willing to do the work required. This is not a journey built for perfection, but one built for consistency and discipline. Showing up for oneself becomes a crucial necessity on the road called healing.

Staff Writer; Chelle’ St James

May also connect with this sister via Twitter; ChelleStJames.

But does simply being an undocumented immigrant make you a criminal? Living in a country without authorization is generally treated as a civil matter under immigration law rather than a major criminal violation. Now that the presidential election is over and Trump is back in power, the true policy details of his mass deportation pledge are coming to light.

The description of a criminal is now expanded to include the broader undocumented population. As a result, the Trump administration has effectively categorized all undocumented migrants as criminals. The reality we face regarding U.S. immigration comes down to the fact that immigrants, both documented and undocumented, play a vital role as workers. Key sectors such as construction, agriculture, food processing, farming and ranching, hospitality, healthcare, cleaning services, landscaping, and manufacturing rely on foreign-born workers.

The ripple effect on the U.S. labor market and economy from mass deportations is real and is now becoming painfully obvious. No matter how undesirable a particular job may appear in one’s eyes, there will always be individuals who are willing to do the specific job. In addition, the U.S. economy has experienced labor shortages in recent years attributed to an aging workforce. Immigrants have played a significant role in addressing labor shortages, thereby bolstering the U.S. economy. The contribution by migrant workers to the U.S. labor market cannot be taken for granted. In states like California and Texas, immigrants make up 40% of the construction workforce.

The South Texas Builders Association is raising the alarm on how immigration enforcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has scared immigrant workers from showing up to work sites, causing a labor shortage and delays in construction projects. People are starting to wake up and pay attention. After the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction worker in Houston who an ICE officer fatally shot, the targeting of immigrant laborers by ICE is gaining attention. The builders’ association, in protecting its interest, is demanding worker protections such as permits that would allow immigrants to work legally in the country. Ronnie Cavazos, chairman of the South Texas Builders Association, said his own father was an immigrant and a hard worker. He imagined that Salgado Araujo, who was killed on his way to work, was similar and questioned why the community had supported a presidential administration that would shoot and kill a worker like him. “Let’s be real, we voted for it,” Cavazos said. “So, whose fault was it?” Where voters in Texas are having buyer’s remorse, the same is true in Ohio and Florida.

In 1990, Congress created the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as a humanitarian immigration program for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and thousands of Syrians who have legally lived and worked in the United States. After weeks of short-term court extensions, TPS protections for Haitians ended when the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can move forward with its plans. While ICE has drawn up its plans to launch a deportation blitz focused on more than 300,000 Haitian migrants, Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told CBS News the deportations of Haitian migrants are a “mistake,” arguing the move could bruise the state’s economy and risk putting Haitians in danger in their home country. Many Haitians who live in Ohio have settled in the city of Springfield in recent years. “These are people who have helped Springfield really come back,“ DeWine said, pointing to Haitians who have filled jobs and opened businesses in the economically challenged city. “The Haitians who are living there and employed there, they came there to work, and they came there because there were jobs that were not being filled by other people.”

No other state will feel the repercussions of the loss of the Haitian TPS recipients more than Florida, where about half of the 350,000 in the U.S. now live. The concerns surrounding the Haitian TPS holders prompted the Florida Health Care Association, which represents hundreds of assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers in the state, to write to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security requesting an exemption for their workers, the Florida Phoenix reported.

The real threat to the conscience of our nation is not the law-abiding migrants who are willing to address America’s labor gaps, but are now categorized as criminals due to their undocumented status. Nor is the threat Haitian TPS holders who legally work as nursing assistants and caregivers. The true threat comes from individuals who know the value immigrants provide to communities and yet remain silent when anti-immigrant agendas distort the truth. The threat also comes from the Black community who sees the wrongful death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and remain unmoved and silent “because it is not in my community.”

Written by David W. Marshall

Official website; https://davidwmarshallauthor.com/

One may purchase his book, which is titled; God Bless Our Divided America: Unity, Politics and History from a Biblical Perspective.

Last week’s column titled, “Black People Have Ninety-Nine Problems, but Donald Trump Ain’t One,” put me in the crosshairs of the bourgeoisie, the talented tenth, and the boule all at the same time.  Click the above link to read what I wrote.

I received tons of calls and emails from the guilty parties and they were not happy.  They could not refute what I wrote, they just did not like the fact that I called them out, many by name.

As I wrote last week, they are at Martha’s Vineyard sipping on the best of champagne, caviar, and steaks while complaining about how racist America is.

After being inundated with these calls, I reached out to a dear friend, King Solomon and we discussed this issue over dinner.  He said to me, “…Where there is no vision, the people perish…”  This is one of my favorite scriptures found in Proverbs 29:18.

Therein lies the problem with the Black community—no vision.  As a matter of fact, the only vision these media appointed Black leaders have is the television!

After this conversation with King Solomon, I received one of the most astonishing, ignorant, and sad emails that goes to the heart of what I wrote last week.

The email came from one of these media appointed Black leaders and their radical liberal Democrat organization.

The email claimed that, “climate change is among the top five most important issues America currently faces.”

You cannot make this up.  On what planet is climate change in the top one hundred issues facing America, let alone Black America?

The email went on to argue that this issue is top of mind within the Black community, with no evidence provided.

This bizarre statement was made by radical liberal Black Democrat mayor of Flint, Michigan, Sheldon Neeley.

Oh, it gets better.

In the same article, radical liberal Black mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott stated, “Even though we have an administration [referring to the Trump administration] that doesn’t even believe that climate change is real, we’re smart and we know that it is real.”

Saying it is so does not make it so.  There was absolutely no shred of evidence provided.

Scott is also president of the African American Mayors Association (AAMA).  They claim to represent the 641 African American mayors of the AAMA, an organization that grew out of the 50-year-old National Conference of Black Mayors, which merged with the AAMA in 2016.  These Black mayors supposedly  represent 48 million citizens across the country.

These mayors and their organization have rampant crime in their cities, high unemployment, alarming teenage pregnancy, no job creation, out of control homelessness and drug addiction and they are talking about climate change?

You cannot make this stuff up.

Name me one city in the U.S. that is led by a radical liberal Black Democrat where Black kids are reading and mathing at grade level; where crime is under control; where teenage pregnancy is not an issue; where unemployment is low; or where crime is low.

I dare you!

Name me one piece of substantive legislation that has ever been written and passed by a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) that benefited the Black community!

They have been around for fifty-five years and have not one accomplishment to their name.  NOT ONE!!!

They currently have sixty-two members, the largest in their history; but have nothing to show for their fifty-five-year history.  They have the largest voting block in Congress, but somehow never manages to get any legislation passed that directly benefits the Black community.

The Asian and Hispanic caucuses seem to get bills passed that specifically benefits their communities even though they have fewer members than the CBC.

Go figure.  Oh, my bad.  It is because of Donald Trump, racism, and the legacy of slavery.  My apologies.

This lack of any sensible vision and agenda is doing more harm to the Black community than anything Trump could ever imagine doing if you subscribe to the unfounded notion that he is a racist.

These Black mayors have no money to improve education in their cities, but they have unlimited money to educate, house and feed those in the country illegally.

Scott, mayor of Baltimore, pats himself on the back for ramming through a bill in his city council to mandate electric vehicles by 2030, while Blacks face a failing healthcare system in his city.

Hey, but they will have zero pollution emitting cars.

Racism and Donlad Trump are not responsible for bad policy being force fed into the Black community by these radical liberal Black Democrat elected officials!!!

Last June, the Supreme Court upheld state laws banning boys from playing in girls sports in the Little v. Hecox case.  Here is the response from the radical liberal Democrat socialist controlled NAACP, “The NAACP condemns the Supreme Court’s decision in Little v. Hecox, upholding state laws banning transgender youth athletes from competing in sports that align with individual identity. This ruling does not protect fairness. It targets children. And it sends a dangerous message to every trans young person in America: that the highest court in the land does not acknowledge their full humanity.”

Click on the link to read the entire statement.  It will turn your stomach.  When did transsexuality become a Black issue?

These media appointed Black leaders and organizations continue to make other people’s issues our issues; and they wonder why Blacks ignore them.

The NAACP has not issued one statement about the Black-on-Black killings in Chicago, Baltimore, DC, or St. Louis.

They have not issued one statement about the number of Blacks who have been killed, raped, or maimed by those in the country illegally; but they want Blacks to feel sorry for Trump sending Haitians and Syrians back to their countries because their Temporary Protection Status (TPS) has ended?

Really?

Weak people take strong positions on weak issues.

Black folks have ninety-nine problems, and they are one!

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

This talented brother is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.

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I came up on soul. Sam Cooke floating over Sunday, Otis digging in the dirt, Al Green when the grown folks cleared the room. So when I put Michael in that lineage, take it to the bank. He also belonged somewhere louder and rougher, a place with amps stacked head high and a sweating guitar player daring him to keep up. That side got treated like a rumor. Time to run the tape back and look at the receipts, because the receipts are wild.

Start where everybody has to, with “Beat It.” Here’s a thing most people never learned. Michael told Quincy Jones flat out he wanted to write the kind of hard number he’d buy himself if he ever bought one. That was the whole mission on Thriller, cross the tracks and appeal to the kids nodding along to Van Halen. So Quincy called Eddie, and Eddie showed up and did something outrageous. He didn’t just blaze over the section handed to him. He rearranged and edited sections of the multitrack to fit his idea, then burned the thing down. That left Jeff Porcaro and Steve Lukather with the job of building a fresh groove around Michael’s existing vocal and Eddie’s solo. Sit with that. The vocal was already so locked, so alive, that a Toto rhythm section rebuilt an entire record underneath it rather than lose a single breath. Then Quincy decided the guitars sat too aggressive for radio and had them softened. The voice, he kept. That tells you which element carried the danger. Underneath Eddie’s fireworks Michael isn’t cooing. He’s snarling, chewing his consonants, shoving air like he’s got something to prove to the men in the room. Radio spun the cut into wallpaper and we quit hearing it. Shame. Buried in all that familiarity is a delivery hard enough for any metal station in the land.

Roll forward five years to “Dirty Diana,” and honestly the case makes itself. Quincy and Michael wanted to chase the lightning of “Beat It” again, so they reached past the session pros and hired Steve Stevens, the flashy six-string sidekick from Billy Idol’s camp. Stevens showed up nervous, expecting an entourage and chaos, and instead found Michael, Quincy and the engineer keeping things remarkably small, with Quincy eventually turning him loose to do whatever he pleased. What Stevens carved out still makes grown men grab an invisible neck in the cereal aisle. Peel the leads back, though, and listen to the man underneath them. He enters low, stalking. He climbs. By the finish he is flat out howling her name into the dark, and here’s the tell, the tone cracks and he lets it crack on purpose. Careful singers hide their strain like a bad hand of cards. Michael weaponized his. He plays a man cornered by his own weakness, and you can taste the sweat, the shame, the wanting. That closing stretch, all nerve and no polish left, went to number one and became the fifth straight chart topper off Bad. A hard rock ballad about a groupie, sung with the desperation of gospel. Only he could do both at once and mean it.

Hand him Slash and the whole enterprise turns nastier. On “Give In to Me,” off Dangerous, the Guns N’ Roses man came in after the demos were already cut and dropped a fuse on the thing. It opens near a whisper, almost tender, the King of Pop pleading while that Les Paul coils in the shadows like it’s waiting on a signal. Once he grants it, the number cracks open and his voice chases the fire right off the ledge. He’s begging and demanding inside a single breath. That is a hard trick, and he lands it clean because his instrument came built for the reach. Soul taught him how to plead. The heavy stuff taught him how to shove. Rolling Stone caught it at the time and clocked that grittier, throaty menace in the delivery, the way it flirts with something almost cruel while Saul Hudson’s strings whip and soar behind him. They shot the video in Munich two days before the Dangerous tour kicked off, staged like a live concert so you’d feel the heat. Getting the collaboration together took time, but once Slash finally entered the picture, Michael gave him plenty of room to work. Out of it came one of the meanest ballads either man ever touched.

Then there’s “D.S.,” and the gloves don’t just come off, they get thrown across the room. Anybody who knows the backstory knows exactly who Michael is spitting at. He built the whole track as a diss aimed at Tom Sneddon, the Santa Barbara prosecutor who ran the 1993 investigation and was involved in the court-authorized body search and photography that humiliated him deeply. The printed lyric calls the target “Dom Sheldon,” but contemporary listeners and reporters had little difficulty connecting the song to Sneddon. He is clearly unloading his anger over and over, riding a grunge-dirty riff and one more furious lead from the top hat. This is Michael sounding purely enraged, a register his biggest hits almost never allowed him. No footwork, no crossover charm, only a cornered man screaming back at his tormentor across a beat that won’t quit. Ugly on purpose. The composure he kept locked up for the cameras comes all the way loose here, and what pours out is contempt with a pulse.

“Morphine” might be the bravest and strangest swing in the entire catalog, and he damn near buried it. Tucked onto the Blood on the Dance Floor mix in 1997, it lurches between industrial clang and New Jack swing, Slash again throwing sparks across the wreckage. Michael is hollering about his own numbness, the needle, the chase. Then, dead center, around the three minute mark, the machinery falls away and he sings this aching, gorgeous lullaby about Demerol, gentle as a hand on a fevered forehead, before the clang comes roaring back to swallow him whole. That contrast is the whole point of the exercise. Tenderness and violence stacked inside one recording, and he carries both ends without dropping either. Knowing the prescription-drug struggles that surrounded his later life, the cut plays with an unsettling weight in retrospect, like a man wrestling on record with something darker than the audience fully understood at the time. He even threaded in a spoken sample from The Elephant Man. That’s how deep the wound ran on this one. Few artists would attempt such a swing. Fewer could land the plane.

And “Come Together.” Covering the Beatles is a fool’s errand for most mortals. Michael strolls in holding part of the deed, and I mean that almost literally, since his 1985 purchase of ATV Music gave him control of the publishing rights to most of the Lennon-McCartney catalog. He cut his version during the Bad sessions in the fall of 1986, Bill Bottrell riding the board. He doesn’t ape Lennon. Doesn’t try to out cool the original. He just brings his own hunger, drops the groove low and greasy, and struts through the verses like a man who has nothing left to prove to anybody. His phrasing runs loose, cocky, a shade dangerous. Where the Beatles sounded hazy and slurred, he sounds wide awake and hungry. Listen to it and you get the ache of what might have been, a whole leather-jacket album he could have cut in this bag if the machine hadn’t already decided what shape his career was allowed to hold.

That’s the frustrating truth of it. The public wanted singles, ballads, dance floor magic, so his heavier work got shelved as a side dish when it deserved half the plate. He owned every tool the harder music asked for. The grit, the nerve, the willingness to sound genuinely ugly when a number called for ugly. And he never once misplaced himself doing it. That’s the detail the pop story skips clean over. Drop Freddie Mercury anywhere and he stays Freddie. Let Prince shred and he lands as Prince. Michael carried that same rare gift. Bury him in a wall of distortion and he comes out unmistakably himself, that little catch riding through the register, the breath control, the flair for pure drama.

Part of why we forget, I think, is timing and something uglier underneath it. His peak lined up with a moment when Black artists reaching for a Les Paul got quietly nudged back toward their own lane. Little Richard practically laid the foundation this whole church was built on, and people still act startled when a Black man walks through the front door of it. So Michael’s harder edge never got the respect it earned. Waved off as novelty, a tourist passing through somebody else’s neighborhood. Nonsense. He wasn’t visiting. That block was home too.

Try the experiment yourself. Put those six recordings on one playlist and hand them to somebody who only knows “Thriller” and “Billie Jean.” Watch the face change. The snarl buried in “Beat It.” The collapse at the tail of “Diana.” The venom coursing through the Sneddon record. The dark beauty of the Demerol lullaby. The swagger he brings to Lennon’s tune. The way he and that Guns N’ Roses guitarist burn “Give In to Me” clean down to the studs. None of it is pop wearing a costume. That’s a vocalist who understood rage as one color on the palette and reached for it whenever the canvas hollered.

We shortchange the man remembering only the smooth. He held a whole storm behind glass, fed us the shine because the shine sold the tickets, but every so often that glass shattered and something wilder got loose in the room. Those flashes deserve their own shelf. Their own argument at three in the morning between two people who love this music enough to raise their voices about it.

So next time some purist swears Michael was nothing but a chart machine, cue up “Dirty Diana” and turn the dial past neighborly. Let that final wail carry the full weight of it. Ain’t one soft bone in there. That’s a grown man screaming up from the very floor of himself, and it stands proud next to anybody you care to name. Believe that.

Staff Writer; Jamar Jackson

This brother loves poetry, music, and the culture that raised him… His words come from somewhere honest, and they speak to everyday Black folks just living their lives… Reach him at JJackson@ThyBlackMan.com.

I’m talking about the noise. The kind that rattled your mama and rattled the government in the same breath.

Public Enemy carried that torch better than anybody who ever picked up a mic. When I spin those albums now, what grabs me isn’t only how hard they knocked, though the good Lord knows they knocked. It’s that Chuck D and Flavor Flav made rebellion feel like the coldest thing a young brother could stand behind. “Fight the Power” wasn’t a lecture you endured. It landed like a battle cry you blasted with your chest poked out. Spike Lee commissioned it for Do the Right Thing, and just like that a whole summer had its heartbeat. Nobody was begging for permission on that one. They were demanding, and somehow they made you want to dance while you demanded.

Sit with what that crew managed to pull off. “Bring the Noise” already sounded built for collision, and when Anthrax joined Public Enemy for the 1991 remake, metal guitars crashed straight into hardcore rhyme at a time when those two camps still acted like they couldn’t stand each other. “Don’t Believe the Hype” did something sneakier. It told you to squint at the news way before squinting at the news became everybody’s default setting. “911 Is a Joke” hollered out loud what plenty of neighborhoods already muttered under their breath, that emergency medical help showed up painfully slow where our people laid their heads. Flavor Flav flipped a genuine gut wound into something you could bounce your shoulders to, clock swinging around his neck the entire stretch. That balancing act was straight sorcery. Heavy truth riding shotgun with party fuel, no water added to either side.

And when they wanted to catch you square in the jaw, they did. “Rebel Without a Pause” still sounds like a siren nobody bothered to shut off. That squealing loop gets in your chest. Chuck talked over it like a preacher who walked out of the church and grabbed a turntable instead. “Welcome to the Terrordome” ran hotter, an angry man throwing hands at a world that wanted him buried. Then there’s “By the Time I Get to Arizona,” which went after a whole state for dragging its feet on Dr. King’s holiday. That video stirred up even more noise because Public Enemy pushed the message into deliberately shocking territory, staging violent retaliation against fictional Arizona officials and forcing everybody watching to argue about where protest art ought to draw its line. None of it was decoration slid between party records. Confrontation was the identity. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Fear of a Black Planet weren’t merely respected by critics. They moved units, went platinum, sat in rotation next to whatever else was hot. The Bomb Squad stitched together chaos into rhythm, layering sirens and horns and static until the beat itself sounded like an uprising.

Here’s the ugly part. In 2026, I struggle to name a headliner who wears that responsibility the way Chuck’s outfit wore it every single day. Understand me clearly. Plenty of gifted people speak up when a tragedy trends. Somebody drops a heartfelt verse after a funeral, posts the right graphic, shows up to a march with cameras rolling. I respect all of that, truly. Occasional commentary is a different animal from a career built around it. There’s a difference between mentioning the fire and living as the alarm.

A few artists brush against it. Kendrick has moments that shake the ground, no argument. Killer Mike keeps his boots planted in the movement and his pen sharp. But even they operate inside a marketplace that rewards you for keeping the message optional. The safest lane pays best, and everybody knows it. Streaming algorithms crave smooth, prefer repeatable, reward a mood you can study or exercise to. Righteous fury doesn’t playlist neatly. So the machine quietly steers our brightest away from the very fire that once defined the culture.

That drift costs us more than we admit. When I was coming up, a record could double as a classroom for young Black men trying to read a country that rarely read them at all. You learned about redlining, about crooked cops, about pride, about your own history, all while nodding your head off. The music met you where you already were, then dragged your mind somewhere new without asking. Losing that isn’t only an aesthetic problem for old heads like me griping about the good old days. It’s a spiritual leak. A people cut off from its own protest tradition starts forgetting how to argue for itself in public.

Now somebody always tosses the old objection my way. Times changed, they say. Kids want escape, not a syllabus. Fair enough, and I hear it. But that argument insults the very legends we claim to love. Marvin gave us What’s Going On and still filled dance floors. Nina Simone terrified the establishment while sounding gorgeous doing it. Bob Marley preached revolution and the whole planet sang along anyway. The idea that consciousness and mass appeal can’t share a bed is a lie the industry sells because timid product is easier to package and cheaper to defend.

So no, I’m not asking for a museum tribute. I’m not begging anybody to cosplay 1989, hyping the same fashions, chasing a sound that already belongs to its era. What I want is the spirit reborn in a body built for today. Somebody who looks at surveillance, at gentrification eating city blocks alive, at the digital hustle chewing up young minds, at Black men profiled for the crime of standing still, at the same tired brutality wearing fresh uniforms, and decides that reporting on it will be their entire purpose. Not a side quest. That is the main mission.

The blueprint already exists, that’s the beautiful part. Chuck D and Flavor Flav proved you can be furious and funky at once. They proved a protest anthem could outlast every disposable smash from its year and still hit like a haymaker decades later. And they showed you could scare the powerful without picking up a weapon, just a microphone and a truth you refused to soften. “Prophets of Rage,” “Can’t Truss It,” and the deep cuts nobody talks about enough, all of it forms a manual sitting right there for anybody bold enough to open it.

Rap is bigger and richer than it has ever been. More money, more reach, more global love than those pioneers could have pictured. Yet with all that muscle, it feels weirdly toothless when the moment calls for a roar. We have the platform they dreamed about and less of the nerve they carried. Somewhere out there a kid is filling a notebook with rhymes, furious about something and too green to know what supposedly can’t be done. I hope that young genius digs up these old records one late night and feels whatever it was I felt. The loudest move you can make is telling the truth over a beat that won’t quit.

Staff Writer; Jamar Jackson

This brother loves poetry, music, and the culture that raised him… His words come from somewhere honest, and they speak to everyday Black folks just living their lives… Reach him at JJackson@ThyBlackMan.com.