IT’S NOW 48 HOURS

IT’S NOW 48 HOURS

And the pain is beginning to ease. Remember: “vox populi, vox dei” and “It’s no use crying over spilt milk” and “If you can’t beat them, join them” etc. etc.

By the way, I have been working on a book, CAN AFRICAN AMERICANS MAKE AMERICA GREAT? I plan to finish it this weekend, so I can put it out in e-book format by the end of next week. The print version is scheduled for release on January 15, 2017.

My website ianismart.com is undergoing renovations and will be back up by the end of next week. We keep on doing for self and keeping hope alive.

WHITE SUPREMACY HAS COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS

On 8 November 2016, white supremacy came out of the shadows. The (d)evil manifested itself. And this is exceedingly good, because that kind of darkness cannot survive in the light of day.

It is up to us—We the People—of good will, who are the overwhelming majority of the population of this nation and, indeed, the planet to root out definitively this poisonous weed that has invaded Western civilization since the Enlightenment (around A.D.1776).

We have the tools to accomplish the task. And, certainly, Original World Press is one of those tools.

IT’S TIME FOR SOME COMMON SENSE TO PREVAIL

We the people have just chosen “a sick puppy” who is “uniquely unqualified” to be the most powerful leader on the planet. This occurred because of the long standing practice that in the realm of politics, ideology trumps common sense. Critical thinking is replaced by commitment to ideology. It is taken as self-evident, for example, that the Founding Fathers of the United States created the most perfect political system known to mankind. The discordant fact that the supposed paragon of democracy and beacon of freedom was founded on the two most heinous crimes against humanity is simply excluded from consideration.

            Human beings are imperfect. In the face of this, existentialist philosophers see us as condemned to eternal absurdity. Most would deem this position to be too extreme; most would embrace the fundamental optimism of Jesse Jackson’s signature saying: “keep hope alive.” We Americans commonly claim that our nation is the greatest democracy that has ever existed. Undoubtedly, our democracy is a human institution and is therefore imperfect. However, it might well be the least imperfect political system ever created by mankind. It is difficult to defend this assertion now that the election of President Trump has ripped the mask off the vile underbelly of our cherished democracy.

A Setback Is a Set Up for a Comeback

A SETBACK IS A SET UP FOR A COMEBACK—Willie Jolley

DO FOR SELF—The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey

KEEP HOPE ALIVE—Jesse Jackson

SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED

Over fifty years ago Fannie Lou Hamer described with powerful eloquence the emotional state of African Americans. Two hundred and forty years ago, the U. S. Constitution declared us to be three-fifths human; and, even today, we keep on being sick and tired of being sick and tired.

The moneyed white men who founded America generated incredible wealth through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the genocide of the First Nations people and the unconscionable plunder of their lands. For two centuries there was a trickle down of some of this wealth to the majority white population. About one generation ago, the trickle dried up, leaving the white working classes empty handed. So, they have become sick and tired.

It took the white working class just one generation to become sick and tired of being sick and tired. Donald Trump speaks to their rage and holds out the promise of restoring the benefits of white privilege.

Starting in the early nineteenth century, the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, the Platt Amendment have made Latinos sick and tired. So Latinos have been sick and tired of being sick and tired from at least as far back as the Alamo. Of course, African Americans have been sick and tired of being sick and tired for nearly four centuries.

Latinos and African Americans can trump Trumpism tomorrow. This is the only way that the nation will finally begin to address the fundamental problems that have made the majority of its citizens sick and tired of being sick and tired.