Racism, Gangster Glorification, Political Correctness And Bigots

The politics of race are often polarizing. If one narrative or another is not accepted, people get accused of racism or something else.

It is possible to recognize the existence of racism and how it has detrimentally affected African Americans while also recognizing other reasons why there are high levels of crime and violence in many low income African American communities.

Political correctness shuts down discourse. It is a cult that wants adherence and obedience, not discussions or solutions.

So in the face of the mind numbing cult that has swept the nation, especially academic places where pampered professors get to spew nonsense unopposed, hindering progress and critical thinking, here goes.....

Racism created difficult problems facing many African Americans.

Other things added to it that have made the problems much worse. This includes the flight of millions of labor job in manufacturing to countries outside of the United States where there is cheap labor and loose safety and environmental restrictions.

A thriving drug trafficking economy filled the vacuum, creating communities where gangs are the major employer.

A gangster culture emerged glorifying thug life. A few became fabulously wealthy from glorifying this life, while quickly removing themselves to palatial mansions far from the chaos they create.

When children are raised in communities where gangs and drug dealers are the major players and thug life is glorified by the idiots producing and making the music these children hear every day, it is unsurprising that children embrace this life as they get older.

Then there are the multimillionaire leaders with their cult like followings and others that offer no way out of the mess other than the same crap offered for over the past fifty years: be angry, act angry, be militant, be a bigot, use deflection to avoid responsibility, be violent or excuse, justify or condone violence, make sure to always have a target to blame and a scapegoat to hate, make sure to have an enemy to demonize and to cast blame upon. Make sure the scapegoat is the fall guy, responsible for everything bad. In the case of Farrakhan, he found something even better than blame the white man: blame the Jew, whereby he combined Jew hate with religion where the Jew was already demonized by many.

Scapegoats, bigotry, violence and hate are not the way out. While violence rages, the hate cults of bigoted white men and women and of bigoted black men and women and others, often done under the name of religion, grow and prosper while communities continue to die.

The way of Martin Luther King Jr. is the right way. Nonviolence, education, kindness, love, equal rights and equal treatment for all - the rejection of violence, hate and bigotry, not excuses made for it.

Those that glorify violence or turn a blind eye to it, the race baiters and bigots of all races; the men and women that think hate and bigotry are acceptable as long as it comes from the race, religion, or ethnicity they prefer - must finally be confronted and rejected.

Violent And Angry Steal The Show In U.S. - Millions Abroad Suffer In Silence

The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed already overwhelmed health care systems in many developing countries.

Millions of people no longer working have no safety net to provide food and other basic needs.

Many people in the United States, rather than count their blessings during this time of crisis, prefer staying angry and enraged. They are confident that they live in the worst place on the planet, even though their bellies are full, and they suffer nowhere near what millions of people in developing countries suffer. Or they use their grievances strategically in order to play on guilt and extract concessions.

The violent and angry once again steal the show, while millions of people the world over really in need suffer ignored and in silence. Meanwhile, the environment continues its collapse and  degradation and nuclear weapons proliferate.

U.S. And Developing Nations - Hardship Before and During Coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic highlights the hardships and differences between the lives of most people living in developing countries from the lives of those living in the United States and other developed nations.

In developing nations, there are minimal to no safety nets for those that are poor. The health care systems of these countries were overwhelmed before the coronavirus. Many people that are sick, injured and dying cannot expect to receive medical care if they do not have money. Government hospitals and clinics, along with charitable hospitals and clinics, could not meet the needs of millions of poor people in developing countries before coronavirus. Coronavirus patients add to the already overwhelmed health care systems that have long failed.

With millions now unemployed because of coronavirus, there is no safety net in many developing countries to provide food for those without work. In those places where the government or private charities distribute food, it is nowhere near enough for the vast majority of people in need.

Coronavirus is causing malnutrition and disease by the breakdown of already fragile economies. There is simply not enough food available.

In places like the Philippines, where there were once waters rich with coral reefs, mangroves, fish and other marine life, much of this has been destroyed. With millions out of work from the pandemic, people no longer have the bounty that the oceans once provided. The oceans no longer sustain life for millions as they once did.

For a long time now religious, political and economic leaders have ignored environmental degradation and how this impacts health and food availability and increases poverty.

Throughout the Philippines, Borneo, the Nigerian Delta, the Congo, Vietnam, and many other places, mangroves, forests, coral reefs and more have been recklessly destroyed or contaminated. People that were able to sustain themselves by relying on the oceans, mangroves and forests can no longer do so.

Basic freedoms that people in the United States and west enjoy are nonexistent in many developing nations.

People in the United States, no matter how poor, are not turned away from hospitals in an emergency.

Americans can stand on the street and denounce Trump or any politician and not be hauled away to prison or shot on the street.

Political dissidents are not murdered or imprisoned because of their beliefs.

Apostates and blasphemers are not murdered. There is religious freedom.

No mullah, sheikh or other religious figure controls everything, with unlimited power to shove their beliefs down the throats of others.

The United States is not a nation with a dictator looting, murdering and treating the nation as a personal possession.

There is the rule of law in the United States. There is individual freedom unmatched by most other places in the world.

Affordable and accessible birth control and family planning are available in the United States. Women can make choices regarding family planning by the availability of contraceptives, without  having to rely upon abortions or having children that they do not want.

In many developing countries, simple travel is difficult by the lack of infrastructure.

 Such things as good roads, sewer systems, schools, water treatment, garbage removal, proper garbage disposal, and more are nonexistent for millions upon millions of people.

The United States is an imperfect society. It is a place with its share of problems and injustices. But it is not a stagnant place. It is not ruled by dictators or religious tyrants. It is place with more than its fair share of rotten leaders. But there are elections. And there is a strong constitution with a bill of rights.

Many people in the United States are blissfully unaware, purposely so in some instances, of how many people in the world live without running water, toilets, electricity, proper food, clean water, health care, dental care, education, struggling each and every day simply to survive.

No matter the internal problems inside of the United States, the United States must not stop being a beacon of hope and help for countless people the world over suffering from extreme poverty and oppression.

Many developing countries are in a crisis from the coronaviris pandemic far worse than what the United States and developed countries are experiencing. Americans should count their blessings and not forget the suffering that exists outside its shores.

Pandering To Racism, Violence, Bigotry

Concern about lives, black and otherwise, is too often about political, religious or other agendas, both within and outside of the United States. Gangs kill by the thousands. Over 6 million people have been killed in the Congo region alone, with untold numbers of women and girls raped, eliciting little to no outcry. The cry for justice is often selective, parochial and about personal, political and religious objectives. Some lives count, others do not.

Violence, rioting and looting ensures nothing good results, nothing changes for the better, and societies do not become more humane, just places. Regarding police, the focus on bad cops as though that is the norm obscures the need for real police reform that makes policing far more effective and  better.

The mob rules, with far too many people inclined towards group think and capitulation to the mob. Until that changes, real change for the better will be near impossible to achieve.

The two greatest threats to the survival of all people; nuclear weapons and environmental destruction, continue to be pushed to the side.

The media that provides the message is controlled by a few mega corporations. They feed on the sensational and do everything they can to stoke racial division and tension.

Social media corporations also ensure hate, bigotry and violence spreads, as long as the people spreading the hate and violence are the groups they prefer and protect and that the recipients of the hate, bigotry and violence are the groups they could care less about.

Social media corporations are like the Kremlin and religious dictatorships and theocracies. They kill free speech and spread hate.

The enormous concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few, along with corporations that sent their labor jobs overseas, ensure inequity and injustice continues. Few are willing to address this. The less there is hope and opportunity, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or nation, the more there is instability and despair.

Whites that pander to blacks, unwilling or afraid to speak out or stand up against violence, bigotry and hate when the hate, bigotry and violence comes from nonwhites, fuel racism, violence and destruction. Blacks that make careers fueling racial discord and hate too often are given passes, or are glorified and provided platforms to spread hate and bigotry.

All bigotry, racism and hate must be opposed, no matter where it comes from. Hate is big business and a money maker for far too many. A black hate monger and bigot must be treated with the same contempt as a white hate monger and bigot.

Human beings are human beings, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion.

Meanwhile, every dictator and religious theocratic on the planet laughs when there is trouble in the United States. They get to plunder, murder and loot with impunity, knowing all eyes are off of them.

Hate, bigotry and violence must stop being selectively accepted, ignored, excused, condoned or promoted under the banner of victim hood or anything else.

Why Nothing Changes For The Better - Dog fighting And Domestic Animal Cruelty

The simple, yet seemingly impossible to achieve objective is to have animal cruelty that is in the criminal statutes move fully into the hands of public law enforcement, not token police teams, and completely away from non public non police entities, which includes any and all animal organizations. The only role that they should have is to be advocates to ensure police respond appropriately and broadly to animal cruelty. Additional things, such as assisting in the removal and housing of confiscated animals are also useful roles for animal organizations. Changing the long standing pathological dynamic regarding dog fighting and domestic animal cruelty is near impossible unless there is true advocacy not by one or two individuals here or there, but by a concerted effort by a group of people willing to truly understand the existing pathological approach to dog fighting and domestic animal cruelty, and their willingness to fight for meaningful change.

Racial Justice Is Not Separate From Economic Justice

Racial justice and equality cannot be separated from economic justice and equality. A number of companies are jumping on the bandwagon of smoke and mirror change regarding racial justice and inequality without having to do much of anything. They will give money to certain organizations, increase the diversity of their upper management, and perhaps fund some education program, but do nothing in regard to what they can really do to make a difference.

Corporations have been on a long standing trend of paying their executives and upper management ridiculously exorbitant salaries along with obscene benefits while they scour the world for the cheapest labor that they can find combined with the fewest environmental and safety regulations.

U.S. corporations and politicians gave away much of the United States' manufacturing and industrial base to countries (mainly China) with the cheapest labor and fewest regulations. No consideration was given whatsoever for the political, economic, environmental and other costs of this decision, domestically or internationally.

Cheap labor means big profits that companies spend on their upper management and executives. Money is also spent on advertising near slave labor products, much of which go to social media giants that spread hate, bigotry, lies and violence while censoring free speech that has nothing to do with hate, bigotry or violence.

Imagine if all that manufacturing and industry never left the United States. Imagine if the United States had responsible business and political leaders not driven by greed that were content with paying themselves reasonable salaries and benefits along with fair wages for their workers.

Imagine if vast urban areas and other parts of the United States were not devoid of legitimate jobs.

The primary employer in many low income urban areas in the United States is the drug trade, which fuels gangs, violence, religious and racial cults and fanatics.

The less there is legitimate employment, the more there is a strong drug trade, the greater the likelihood of violent interactions with the police. A violent gang and drug culture in the United States ensures continued violence, which gets swept under the rug or condoned.

It is easy to focus on the police alone and ignore everything else. Rich elites, black, white and everything in between, get to maintain their innocence and self righteous stature.

Education alone will not change racial and economic inequity if jobs do not exist that can absorb educated people into the workforce.

There is a country in the world with a high level of education and literacy, and where English is commonly spoken.  But jobs are lacking. Many of the educated are unemployed or underemployed and do everything they can to escape the country.

The United States must take back its industrial and manufacturing base.

This will take power away from corrupt regimes and dictatorships that profit from the shameful American giveaway.

The environment will benefit from stricter environmental regulations practiced in the United States, despite the present administrations weakening of many of those restrictions.

The less the Pacific ocean and other waters are polluted thousands of miles away, the better for the entire United States.

When elitists, black, white and brown cry out for racial justice, make sure economic justice is included in the playbook.

Animal Cruelty - Exploited By Animal Abusers And Animal Activists

There is a big difference between talking about and exposing animal cruelty and animal exploitation by those considered the bad people, and exposing animal cruelty and exploitation by those considered the defenders. The former is socially acceptable, profitable and lauded. The latter rocks boats and makes one an outcast. The well known animal activists are not the outcasts.

Animal Advocacy And Its Profitability

Animal advocacy has not moved beyond a cult of feel goodness, pandering to emotions and that which has the best monetary appeal or provides other personal gain. When involved in a police capacity with trying to stop dog fighting and animal cruelty, the list of the animal advocates and others reached out to is long. All of it led nowhere. It was and is a dead end road. The dark world of animal cruelty and dog fighting, and the exploitation of that world by animal organizations and animal advocates remains unchanged despite decades of trying to make things better. Pathological dynamics remain unchanged when the people that claim to speak for the voiceless and vulnerable are instead their exploiters.

Animal Cruelty: Exploitation By the Supposedly Good, Cruelty By The Bad

An inordinate amount of money funds organizations and individuals that claim to address dog fighting and animal cruelty. They play on peoples' heartstrings. They exploit animal cruelty for their own gain.

Public law enforcement is already funded to respond to crime, including for laws pertaining to animal cruelty. Public law enforcement needs to respond appropriately to dog fighting and animal cruelty laws. These laws are already in the criminal codes, but are meaningless if not enforced widely and appropriately when encountered. The advocacy to make this possible will never occur until the organizations and animal advocates that sell themselves as the defenders for animals stop exploiting animal cruelty and dog fighting for their own gain and profit.

Because animals cannot speak for themselves in a way that people can understand, they will continue to be victimized by their alleged defenders and by their abusers. Domestic violence victims, because they can speak, would never tolerate the poor police response and the exploitation response that animals are forced to endure.

Until then, the dance will continue between what law enforcement minimally does, and what a number of animal organizations and animal advocates pretend to do.

Obama, Bush On George Floyd Killing

Past presidents Bush and Obama have spoken out about the George Floyd murder.

If Obama and Bush care so much about life, they should have used their time as presidents more wisely.

They could have intervened in the genocide taking place in the Congo region that continues to be ignored. More than six million people have already been murdered. Countless women and children have been raped.

Bush and company did not have to go to war in Iraq, and should not have lied to the American people about why the U.S. needed to go to war. After the Saddam regime was toppled, Bush and company allowed chaos and violence to run rampant, resulting in more loss of life.

Obama compounded the disaster in Iraq by prematurely leaving Iraq. His indecisiveness, failure to act, meaningless red lines, and playing politics encouraged the Assad regime assisted by Russia and Iran to continue mass murder.

Obama failed to intervene on behalf of the Yazidis, middle east Christians, Muslim moderates and secularists before ISIS became as powerful as it did. He did little to stop the genocide, mass murder, mass rapes, and sexual slavery that ensued.

What happened to George Floyd is wrong. No sane person thinks it is right. It does not need the voice of past American presidents to point out what so clearly is wrong. There is a lot of grandstanding going on right now.

If only these past presidents were more concerned about lives when they had more power than anyone else in the world to do something about so much.

How Apple And Other Companies Can Fight Racism And Economic Injustice

Apple CEO Tim Cook made a number of promises today about fighting racism. Apple is not the only corporation recently to make such promises. One of the promises he made is to donate to organizations that challenge racial injustice.

Giving to organizations looks good on paper, but it will accomplish little more than enriching the pockets of a few while making donors feel good.

People need jobs. They need well paying jobs where they can afford to take care of their families, buy homes, eat well, have proper health insurance, and so forth.

Apple executives and upper management earn fortunes. Apple, like a lot of American corporations, relies upon low waged workers.

Executive compensation in the United States is out of control and disgraceful.

Meanwhile, corporations like Apple rely on the cheap labor, poor safety and environmental standards of countries like China.

Instead of fluff, how about Apple moves its manufacturing into low income, impoverished communities in the United States where work is desperately needed. Skip the meaningless contributions to organizations, and provide people with actual well paying jobs.

In response to how higher labor costs will increase the prices of their devices, offset this by bringing executive compensation and upper management salaries back down to earth.

Regarding how stock prices may be affected and go down, an employed labor class finally able to buy shares of the companies where they work will offset the decline. Having a strong middle and working class is far more important than the present situation of inflated stock prices, low wages for most and excessive wages for a few.

In Stocks We Trust

Pandemic with resulting high unemployment, disease, war, fanaticism, environmental degradation threatening mankind's future, looting, rioting, poverty.... None matters as far as the stock market is concerned. Money keeps pouring into it. The federal reserve, government and the corporations and interests that control the economy and government ensure that the stock market is the only game in town.

At this point, the government might as well just outright buy stock. They have done everything else  to keep markets inflated.

Two thirds of the American economy is driven by consumers. Consumers are hurting, with unemployment high and small companies going out of business. The main driving force of the American economy is not propping up the stock market, but still the market euphorically goes higher.

Big drivers of the market, such as certain social media companies, basically produce nothing and are little more than advertising companies with a social media presence. They help the euphoria that is not rooted in reality.

One analyst said that a certain company's decline was the market actually getting it right about the company. The analyst said that the company burns through cash daily and therefore is worth less each passing day. True to form, the negative news from the analyst came out on a day when the stock was already hard hit. In the days and weeks that followed, the company's stock dramatically rose, proving once again never follow the singular financial advice of anyone. On bad days, bad news comes out. On good days, the news is upbeat and even euphoric. Financial news is often about appealing to reader sentiment.

Speculation runs rampant. On the New York stock exchange casino, an insignificant company was treated as a world shaking giant, heavily traded days ago as gamblers nimbly made their bets

One day a price will be paid for inflating stocks, making them the only game in town, letting the environment fall apart, nuclear weapons spread, war, corruption and hatred grow, while blindly believing in stocks we trust.