As a Morehouse Mom, I’m going to speak on the behalf of many 2024(2020) graduates and their parents/families 🎓… 🗣️ Don’t bring this BS onto our sons’ day of celebrating their academic achievements! Yes, I’m straddling this international issue and ready to go ballistic on this intrusion. When all has quieted down or is said and done with the happenings in these other countries…No-one from abroad will be marching and causing madness in their homelands about our Black American youth and our historic, continuing and current daily threats to surviving physically, mentally, spiritually and financially.
I like the discourse, however, one must understand the importance of the dialogue presented by the young ones. I am glad to see them engaged in the conversation about the state of politics. My personal opinion is one that simply states, you cannot straddle the fence on the war. POTUS must speak forcefully and unequivocally in reference to the need for a lasting solution.
Same! I am VERY encouraged to see the next generation locked into learning about the long and tortured history in the Middle East, while searching for solutions that could foster a lasting peace!
THERE WAS A MOVIE THAT SHARED A STATEMENT SAYING THIS OR SIMULAR TO " YOU WANT THE TRUTH, BUT YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. Look in the mirror, see the blood on our hands holding a paycheck. Tax money buys killing weapons. Do we pay taxes? If I'm against the killing of all human kind, is that straddling the fence because I don't champion either sides? Are we intelligent enough to listen to the POTUS propaganda via protocol in disagreement and finance it with no choice?
I've followed you for quite some time Phi. Although I've missed an article here and there, I've read more than what I've missed. Until today, I've always been in 100% agreement with your take on various topics and issues. This stance ends that streak. I felt such a loss reading your position on Biden's visit to Morehouse. Biden is complicit in a genocide. If we don't agree on that point, then anything I say next probably won't matter. (Interestingly enough, Morehouse President Thomas refused to answer that question.)
If the issue was just a matter of failed policies in regards to say, affordable housing, or unkept campaign promises, such as reforming policing, then I could see your point. BUT, this is a matter of innocent lives, the MAJORITY of whom are children (followed by women) being slaughtered at scale with the full-throated support of ("I am a Zionist") Biden. He has steadily (at times illegally and clandestinely) supplied Israel with the weapons to execute this genocide. His admin as vetoed every UN vote that could help bring this tragedy to an end. Instead, he as stated that there is no "red line", and he will support Israel unconditionally.
The humanitarian issue aside (which should be enough on it's own merits), Morehouse has nothing to gain here, but so much to lose, unless there are unseen factors behind the decision to not cancel the visit. As a history buff, you must have considered how this decision will age with time. I'm a decade+ older than you, so I'm intimately familiar with Vietnam and South African apartheid. The students, and those that stand with them, will historically be on the right side, the human side, of this issue.
I'll end by saying this: "The time is always right to do what is right" - MLK
My Brother, we agree. Funny thing about interviews is that you say alot, but only so much gets in to the final article. My take is that Biden is the president, and he should explain why he has stood tall with Netanyahu while genocide takes place in Gaza. That, and other issues directly impacting Black people (DEI, CRT, wage gaps, First Amendment attacks including white washing Black History etc.). That Morehouse stage gives him 30 to 45 minutes to explain his record and vision to a huge bloc of his constituents, thus, my belief to allow him the mic and see what he does...or doesn't...
As a Morehouse Mom, I’m going to speak on the behalf of many 2024(2020) graduates and their parents/families 🎓… 🗣️ Don’t bring this BS onto our sons’ day of celebrating their academic achievements! Yes, I’m straddling this international issue and ready to go ballistic on this intrusion. When all has quieted down or is said and done with the happenings in these other countries…No-one from abroad will be marching and causing madness in their homelands about our Black American youth and our historic, continuing and current daily threats to surviving physically, mentally, spiritually and financially.
I like the discourse, however, one must understand the importance of the dialogue presented by the young ones. I am glad to see them engaged in the conversation about the state of politics. My personal opinion is one that simply states, you cannot straddle the fence on the war. POTUS must speak forcefully and unequivocally in reference to the need for a lasting solution.
Same! I am VERY encouraged to see the next generation locked into learning about the long and tortured history in the Middle East, while searching for solutions that could foster a lasting peace!
THERE WAS A MOVIE THAT SHARED A STATEMENT SAYING THIS OR SIMULAR TO " YOU WANT THE TRUTH, BUT YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. Look in the mirror, see the blood on our hands holding a paycheck. Tax money buys killing weapons. Do we pay taxes? If I'm against the killing of all human kind, is that straddling the fence because I don't champion either sides? Are we intelligent enough to listen to the POTUS propaganda via protocol in disagreement and finance it with no choice?
I've followed you for quite some time Phi. Although I've missed an article here and there, I've read more than what I've missed. Until today, I've always been in 100% agreement with your take on various topics and issues. This stance ends that streak. I felt such a loss reading your position on Biden's visit to Morehouse. Biden is complicit in a genocide. If we don't agree on that point, then anything I say next probably won't matter. (Interestingly enough, Morehouse President Thomas refused to answer that question.)
If the issue was just a matter of failed policies in regards to say, affordable housing, or unkept campaign promises, such as reforming policing, then I could see your point. BUT, this is a matter of innocent lives, the MAJORITY of whom are children (followed by women) being slaughtered at scale with the full-throated support of ("I am a Zionist") Biden. He has steadily (at times illegally and clandestinely) supplied Israel with the weapons to execute this genocide. His admin as vetoed every UN vote that could help bring this tragedy to an end. Instead, he as stated that there is no "red line", and he will support Israel unconditionally.
The humanitarian issue aside (which should be enough on it's own merits), Morehouse has nothing to gain here, but so much to lose, unless there are unseen factors behind the decision to not cancel the visit. As a history buff, you must have considered how this decision will age with time. I'm a decade+ older than you, so I'm intimately familiar with Vietnam and South African apartheid. The students, and those that stand with them, will historically be on the right side, the human side, of this issue.
I'll end by saying this: "The time is always right to do what is right" - MLK
My Brother, we agree. Funny thing about interviews is that you say alot, but only so much gets in to the final article. My take is that Biden is the president, and he should explain why he has stood tall with Netanyahu while genocide takes place in Gaza. That, and other issues directly impacting Black people (DEI, CRT, wage gaps, First Amendment attacks including white washing Black History etc.). That Morehouse stage gives him 30 to 45 minutes to explain his record and vision to a huge bloc of his constituents, thus, my belief to allow him the mic and see what he does...or doesn't...