Juneteenth: A Commemoration to Slavery’s Formal Finality

JUNE 2020 Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.  Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – which had become …

Boycott for Black Lives

June 18, 2020 AM Boycott for Black Lives: People plan to stop spending in companies that don’t support BLM. As Juneteenth approaches, some Americans are commemorating the day by flexing the power of the dollar. On June 19, advocates of Black Lives Matter plan to support the namesake civil rights movement by not spending money with companies that aren’t aligned with the movement  …

BLACK LIVES MATTER

InnerKwest™ has committed resources to the Black Lives Matter movement. We recognize and appreciate the BLM raison d’etre. Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international human rights movement, originating from within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests speaking out against police brutality and police killings of black people, and …

Christian Nationalism: Far-Right Agenda, Segue to Maintaining White Supremacy

June 8, 2020 AM Racism’s perpetual occurrences and reaffirmation continues to be a thorny affliction, kneaded in the sour dough social construct of America. The Trump era is attempting to ratify racism through christian nationalist policy influence, while the GOP’s silent vote allow white supremacy out of the shadows and into daylight through a smog filtered sun. The prerogative of …

Goodell Attempt at Being Good to All

June 2020 Recent social unrest appear to have put fire under the conscience of NFL president; Roger Stokoe Goodell. Strange how the media is portraying him as “siding with the players”. Under careful review I found the players to be “ESSENTIAL” to the game all along. Not Donald Trump’s divisive edicts. Maybe the major media outlets are obliged to paint …

To POTUS #45; No, It’s Not a Bad Dream.

June 5, 2020 PM Unfortunately painful for some and very gratifying to many others, the painting of BLACK LIVES MATTER on 16th street heading to Pennsylvania Ave is not a bad dream. It is a friendly reminder. The president has made every conceivable effort to discount black lives, but now he and his cohorts will view this DC attribute whenever …

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