US President Barack Obama’s breeze through Jamaica may be a savory moment for the Portia Simpson Miller led admin­is­tra­tion in Kingston, but Jamaica will see pre­cious lit­tle from his pit-stop tour though the Island Nation.

China’s grow­ing influ­ence in the region is not lost on Washington. As such tra­di­tion­al allies has large­ly been ignored since Obama took office. Jamaica’s pit-stop stop in was not much more than a farewell tour for Obama on American tax-pay­ers dime.
Chinese influ­ence is on the rise in the Caribbean and Latin America, as it is in many oth­er regions of the Globe.
As America grap­ples with main­tain­ing it’s empire , while jug­gling hot-spots some cre­at­ed from ill-advised wars, the Chinese are large­ly allowed a free hand in Africa and the America’s.
Of course the Chinese come with cash and lots of it.
The Caribbean like oth­er regions of the world has seen America’s influ­ence chal­lenged by Chinese cash.
Unlike the Soviet-era Ideological clash between east and west, this clash of influ­ence is all about who has mon­ey to dole out.
Obama under­stand loy­al­ties are influ­enced by mon­ey so a quick pit stop to an old ally Jamaica will keep the Jamaicans hap­py for a few more years.
Relaxing the embar­go on Cuba .….
That’s a dif­fer­ent mat­ter , after half a cen­tu­ry of eco­nom­ic block­ade the Cuban Revolution is still intact.
The last thing America needs is a new set of com­mu­nist lead­ers after the Castro broth­ers exit the stage who are friend­ly with a bel­liger­ent Russia and a cash-strong emerg­ing China.

For it’s part, Cuba ever anx­ious to shed the shack­les of eco­nom­ic stran­gu­la­tion will be will­ing to play ball with America.
Already the Cuban President Raul Castro has demon­strat­ed his affec­tion for Obama, say­ing Obama is a hon­est man.
Of course Obama will be look­ing to extract some valu­able con­ces­sions from the Cubans in order to start nor­mal­iz­ing rela­tions between the two countries.
The America right-wing will not relent unless it sub­jects it’s ene­mies to embar­rass­ment and humil­i­a­tion. As such, Barack Obama will be forced to demand stiff con­ces­sions from Cuba before the Right wing Republicans and even some Democrats will be will­ing to con­sid­er nor­mal­iz­ing rela­tions with the com­mu­nist Island.

Cuba has been home to many dis­si­dents some of whom have fled from America.
The ques­tion now, is whether Cuba flush with excite­ment will offer up these polit­i­cal pris­on­ers to cur­ry favor with America.
After all they have no eco­nom­ic value.
They have already served their pur­pose as pro­pa­gan­da pawns in the 50-plus year long psy­cho­log­i­cal war between the two countries.
Only time will tell.…

It’s nev­er end­ing, a sit­u­a­tion in law enforce­ment which ought to end rather mild­ly with the arrest of a sus­pect, ends with the sus­pect dead.
Oh by the way the sus­pect is male and just hap­pen to be African-American.
Welcome to the era of the American Warrior cop.
It is sick­en­ing what is hap­pen­ing and it real­ly begs the ques­tion , “who the hell will save Black-America?
I ask this because Black-America is bliss­ful­ly uncon­cerned about it’s own survival. 

Eric Harris was shot and killed by a reserve deputy who fired his gun after alleged­ly mis­tak­ing it for his taser, accord­ing to a state­ment from the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.

It was a mis­take. That’s the blasé expla­na­tion Oklahoma offi­cials gave after the fatal shoot­ing of an unarmed black man by a white deputy who acci­den­tal­ly pulled his gun when he meant to use his Taser. The encounter was cap­tured on a dis­turb­ing video released by police on Friday — nine days after the fatal Tulsa shooting.

Harris bolt­ed from offi­cers who were try­ing to arrest him for sell­ing a 9 mm. semi­au­to­mat­ic pis­tol and ammu­ni­tion to under­cov­er cops. Harris, who was unarmed, had report­ed­ly done time for assault and bat­tery on an offi­cer. He was “absolute­ly a threat when going down,” Tulsa Police Sgt. Jim Clark said at a news con­fer­ence. Sheriff’s Capt. Billy McKelvey claims the arrest­ing offi­cers were not aware Harris had been shot, despite the gun­shot noise and Bates’ admis­sion. They called para­medics and fire­fight­ers, and ren­dered aid when they real­ized, McKelvey said. “He made an inad­ver­tent mis­take,” McKelvey said.
Sgt. Dave Walker told the Tulsa World that police “would not inves­ti­gate the death unless the sheriff’s office asked them to, and they have not asked us to.”

“He shot me! He shot me, man. Oh, my god. I’m los­ing my breath,” Eric Harris says as he strug­gles on the ground fol­low­ing the April 2 shoot­ing, which flew under the radar until video emerged a week later.
“Fuck your breath, “Shut the fuck up!”  One of the Savages shout­ed at Harris.
“You shouldn’t have fuck­ing ran!” anoth­er of the sav­ages screamed.
Eric Harris was pro­nounced dead less than an hour later.
In actu­al­i­ty he may have died right there as the bunch of sav­ages dressed in police attire knelt on his head and kept squeez­ing as the life drained out of him.
Eric Harris died as Eric Garner did.
As tens of thou­sands, arguably mil­lions, tens of mil­lions over the decades, have died at the hands of white Americans and their enforcers.

FUCK YOUR BREATH

The nar­ra­tive sur­round­ing the mur­der of Eric Harris is that 73 year-old Robert Bates the pay-to-play wannabe cop should not have been involved in the sting oper­a­tion which brought Harris down.
The total­i­ty of the dis­cus­sion com­plete­ly excludes the fact that there was absolute­ly no need to ini­ti­ate the use of a taser under the con­di­tions in the video as there were sev­er­al cops on top of Harris who was already sub­dued, includ­ing kneel­ing on his head.
I used the term mur­der in this case despite what we see in the video of mis­ter Bates’s appar­ent shock after fir­ing his weapon.
I do not believe Robert Bates is guilty of murder.
As a for­mer police offi­cer, I am inclined to give him the ben­e­fit of what we saw in the video.
He did not intend to pull and fire his weapon into Eric Harris.
The Department which allowed him to par­tic­i­pate in that sting must be held accountable.
The real mur­der­ers are the oth­er sav­ages, those who shout­ed exple­tives at a sub­dued Eric Harris, ridi­cul­ing his claim that he was los­ing his breath.
Eric Garner was choked to death on Staten Island by macho cop Daniel Pantaleo .
Garner told police sev­er­al times he could not breathe, Pantaleo kept up the pres­sure until Eric Garner was dead.
The NYPD and it’s sup­port­ers still do not get it, they claim if you can­not breath you can­not talk.
What absolute ignorance.
By that mea­sure they are allowed to apply pres­sure to a sus­pect until he can­not speak.
Only then are these demons con­vinced that some­one may actu­al­ly be hav­ing seri­ous prob­lems breathing.
When they have no breath left.
As the world saw Eric Garner is lay­ing in a cemetery.
Daniel Pantaleo did not even have to answer to a court of law for mur­der­ing him in plain view of the entire world.
There is a cal­lous dis­re­gard for the life of black peo­ple in America.
The police are just the enforcers, the real prob­lem is the white struc­ture which stands behind and allows it because it serves their interest.

The Wall Street Journal one of the Nation’s lead­ing Conservative Publication,and an enti­ty no one could accuse of being slack in it’s sup­port of cops,stated in a Aug. 7^th.2013 Article Titled, Rise of the war­rior cop.
Quote: “Since the 1960s, in response to a range of per­ceived threats, law-enforce­ment agen­cies across the U.S., at every lev­el of gov­ern­ment, have been blur­ring the line between police offi­cer and sol­dier. Driven by mar­tial rhetoric and the avail­abil­i­ty of mil­i­tary-style equip­ment — from bay­o­nets and M‑16 rifles to armored per­son­nel car­ri­ers — American police forces have often adopt­ed a mind-set pre­vi­ous­ly reserved for the bat­tle­field. The war on drugs and, more recent­ly, post‑9/​11 anti-ter­ror­ism efforts have cre­at­ed a new fig­ure on the U.S. scene: the war­rior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harsh­ly with tar­get­ed wrong­do­ers, and a grow­ing threat to famil­iar American liberties”.

The per­ceived wrong­do­ers are America’s black male.
Every arrest is esca­lat­ed into a mil­i­tary style event.
Events which under nor­mal cir­cum­stances would not raise an eye­brow were they done in the nor­mal ways of policing.
The idea that a sus­pect would run seem to be some­thing incon­ceiv­able these days.
One of the rea­son for this are laws which make it a crime to run from police.
This gives the new war­rior cop the idea that he now has the right to mur­der a flee­ing suspect.
The war­rior cop is now cop, pros­e­cu­tor, judge and executioner.
To hell with the pre­sump­tion of inno­cence, to hell with due process.
Welcome to the world of the Patriot Act and the new police state.

At the begin­ning of this Article I asked who “who will save Black-America?
I asked that ques­tion in the con­text of the way in which the black talk­ing-heads who hap­pen to make it onto tele­vi­sion allow the dis­cus­sion to go.
They all seem some­how stuck in the throes of slav­ery , unable to extri­cate them­selves from the nar­ra­tive designed by the slave-master.
The killing of Eric Harris was avoid­able. Yes Harris was engaged in a crime but if America is to be believed, cops do not get to apply the death penal­ty at their leisure and discretion.

A flee­ing sus­pect is not an anom­aly, faced with prison peo­ple run , it is a nor­mal human reaction.
It is not a licence for sadis­tic sav­ages to kill someone.
More and more the world is get­ting a view into the sor­did bel­ly which is America’s mytho­log­i­cal Justice system.
A sys­tem which sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly allows it’s agents to unlaw­ful­ly kill it’s own cit­i­zens with­out con­se­quence, while berat­ing oth­er nations about civ­il and human rights.
The hypocrisy is stun­ning yet under­stand­able by those who always main­tained that America’s crim­i­nal Justice sys­tem was actu­al­ly two sep­a­rate sys­tems, one for whites and one for every­one else.
The poor pathet­ic black talk­ing heads are unable to see that the real tragedy of Eric Harris’ killing is not that he was shot by an old man, but that after he was shot a group of sav­ages act­ing under the aus­pices of the law, knelt on his head until he was dead, all while hurl­ing exple­tive-laced insults at him.

The new default posi­tion is that a black man who was tick­et­ed as a col­lege stu­dent for jay-walk­ing may be jus­ti­fi­ably killed forty years lat­er, because he received that ticket.
Now any­one famil­iar with America’s sys­tem of jus­tice under­stands how young black men are tar­get­ed by law-enforcement.
For a young black male to avoid police con­tact he must almost make him­self invisible.
This makes every black male killed by police, deserv­ing of death.
Until the almost 40 mil­lion black peo­ple in America decide enough is enough there will be no change.

Nothing gets my blood boil­ing than to hear peo­ple on National tele­vi­sion pars­ing and ratio­nal­iz­ing away murder.
Murder is mur­der, to the white peo­ple who seek to blow smoke up peo­ples prover­bial ass stop already.
Not all black peo­ple are stu­pid. You defend mur­der because it’s not your unarmed loved ones who are being gunned down in cold blood.
Lets cut to the chase, when you go on tele­vi­sion to talk about law enforce­ment as if you are the sole author­i­ty on how the laws are to be enforced you make your­selves look stupid.
We are well aware a lot of you are quite con­tent with police mur­der­ing peo­ple of color.
It’s with the same cal­lous dis­patch with which many of you speak about bomb­ing oth­er coun­tries, so we do under­stand that as long as you are not affect­ed by the killings it, quite kosher.

• Now that I have said my piece lets look at some sim­ple rules that police are sup­posed to abide by .
  You do not use lethal force[fire at a flee­ing per­son] unless the per­son pos­es a threat to your life as an offi­cer or that of anoth­er person.
• This means if the flee­ing sus­pect has a gun and is fir­ing at the offi­cer while run­ning away the offi­cer is jus­ti­fied in using lethal force to neu­tral­ize the threat.[take the sus­pect out.
• An offi­cer may also use lethal force if a flee­ing sus­pect pos­es immi­nent threat to the life of another.even though the sus­pect may not be armed, if the sus­pect is run­ning away with a child and has expressed an intent to harm the child , an offi­cer is jus­ti­fied in using lethal force.
• I Believe by now most peo­ple have seen the bru­tal and cal­lous slay­ing of 50-year-old Walter Scott by 33-year-old South Carolina cop Michael Slager.

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There is no way to jus­ti­fy what we saw in that video, yet there are peo­ple try­ing their darnedest to make you believe that some­thing may have tran­spired in the gap between the dash-cam video and mis­ter Santana’s cell-phone video.
I am here to tell you that whether some­thing occurred or not , what­ev­er it is, at the time when Michael Slager dis­charged his weapon 8 times hit­ting Walter Scott 5 times, Walter Scott was run­ning away.
Walter Scott posed absolute­ly no threat to the armed police offi­cer or any­one else.
That is the rea­son his depart­ment quick­ly fired him and he is sit­ting in a jail cell on mur­der charges.

Slager’s Department knows when offi­cers may jus­ti­fi­ably shoot some­one and they know when they can­not legal­ly do so.
This was a bad shoot­ing. Not only is it bad it came at a time when there is increased scruti­ny of police use of dead­ly force across the coun­try, in the wake of the killing of sev­er­al unarmed men large­ly African-American.
I don’t know whether Michael Slager is a racist, that is not my argument.
There are African-Americans who say the stop was for a friv­o­lous infrac­tion I disagree .
The stop was sup­pos­ed­ly about a bro­ken tail light on a Mercedes auto­mo­bile that Walter Scott was driving.
Police have a right and a respon­si­bil­i­ty to police our streets.
They use minor traf­fic infrac­tions such as bro­ken tail lights to tamp down on more seri­ous offences.
Of course Mister Scott sup­pos­ed­ly did not have the papers for the car.
An offi­cer nev­er knows whats going to hap­pen when he/​she ini­ti­ates a traf­fic stop.
Traffic stops for what appear to be minor infrac­tions some­times yield great law-enforce­ment rewards.
What upsets peo­ple of col­or is when police abuse the pow­er to make those traf­fic stops. Using that pow­er to intim­i­date and harass, or tar­get them for tax revenue.
During the stop Officer Slager was pret­ty cour­te­ous, so was mis­ter Scott. Of course none of that mat­ter anymore.
There was no jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the mas­sive esca­la­tion which end­ed in the death of Walter Scott.

Nothing to the con­trary they tell you is any­thing but blow­ing smoke up your behind. It was mur­der plain and simple.
Slager may be a racist, he may not be a racist, the prob­lem with police is the cul­tur­al dis­re­spect they have for black people.
Walter Scott is a vic­tim and Michael Slager may very well be a vic­tim of that cul­tur­al dis­re­spect as well.
Michael Slager would nev­er pull the trig­ger at a 50 year ‑old white male run­ning away , in which case he would not be sit­ting in a jail cell today.
The entire sys­tem is on tri­al, police offi­cers are not held account­able in America. There is a cult-like wor­ship of cops which cre­ates the impres­sion that they can do no wrong.
I too believe in the rule of law.
I spent a good part of my life enforc­ing laws. I have spent my entire life observ­ing and obey­ing laws.
With that said, when the laws are applied uneven­ly or used as a tool of oppres­sion of any of our cit­i­zens then the entire rule of law becomes a lie, and a fraud.
The unde­ni­able truth of it all is that police kill because they get away with it more often than not.
This lack of account­abil­i­ty cre­ates more killings by those we hire to pro­tect us.
Unfortunately for us, the peo­ple we hire to pro­tect us are becom­ing the peo­ple who pose the great­est exis­ten­tial threat to us.

No I will not offer a sub-text about the great work offi­cers do and the risk they take !
I will leave that to the uncon­scionable police apol­o­gists whose inter­ests are served by the elim­i­na­tion of the feared black man.
Every police offi­cer takes the oath of his/​her free will.
That includ­ed me when I signed up as a young recruit in 1982.
I removed a lot of guns from the streets I was also instru­men­tal in help­ing to secure the incar­cer­a­tion of seri­ous felons dur­ing my stint.
I have been shot at on many occa­sions. I did the job in one of the world’s tough­est cities, Kingston Jamaica.
Oh by the way I was also shot in the line of duty.
None of my life expe­ri­ences taught me that the wan­ton waste of life we are wit­ness­ing by police today in America is justified.
Don’t buy it for one minute.
The ACLU in a recent report , details that for the month of January 2015 Cops across the United States killed over 100 people.
That’s aver­age of 1’200 peo­ple annu­al­ly. https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​o​v​e​r​-​1​0​0​-​p​e​o​p​l​e​-​w​e​r​e​-​k​i​l​l​e​d​-​b​y​-​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​i​n​-​m​a​r​c​h​-​h​o​w​-​m​a​n​y​-​m​o​r​e​-​w​i​l​l​-​i​t​-​t​a​ke/

The advent of video and cell­phone cam­eras have opened a win­dow to what peo­ple have com­plained about all along.

States are large­ly com­fort­able with the police as fear­some enforcers, after all they are pre­cious lit­tle more than tax-col­lec­tors. They keep the peas­ants in check and fill cof­fers with enforce­ment rev­enue, large­ly on the backs of the poor­est and those least able to afford it.
What’s not to like ?
When was the last time you heard a Governor vig­or­ous­ly speak out in defense of cit­i­zens who are vic­tims of police abuse?
Even when they are forced to respond to the atroc­i­ties hap­pen­ing in their states their reac­tion is more def­er­ence to police than empa­thy to the vic­tims of their brutish aggression.
Cruise down any high­way on a sun­ny day police cruis­ers every­where in bush­es or have motorists pulled over, some­times at great dan­ger to the pub­lic because of where they chose to pull motorists over.
Some still actu­al­ly believe they are there for their pro​tec​tion​.By the way In have a bridge for sale. 
Cruise down the same high­way on a rainy day and you are hard pressed to see a sin­gle squad car.
If you have a fend­er-ben­der you are like­ly to be told that there are not enough offi­cers and those who on duty are already attend­ing to accidents.
The truth is they put them out there to col­lect rev­enue when it’s sun­ny, you are on your own when it rains.
These police killings occur because white peo­ple want it to . They have no prob­lem with white cops killing black men, they nev­er did.
Until the guns are trained on their sons they do not see a problem.
You know how it is “those peo­ple must be contained”?
They were pret­ty cool with the Klan-lynch­ings , they are cool with the cop-lynchings.
The only thing changed are the uniforms.

See also: https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​p​o​l​i​c​e​-​b​r​u​t​a​l​i​t​y​-​i​s​-​t​y​r​a​n​ny/

After 34 years of ser­vice to the Jamaica Constabulary Force Owen Ellington attend­ed an impromp­tu meet­ing at Kings House, at the time of the meet­ing it was report­ed that Portia Simpson Miller, the nation’s Prime Minister was on a flight out of the country.
Peter Bunting the coun­try’s nation­al secu­ri­ty min­is­ter announced then that he was advised by Ellington that he was step­ping down from his post and would pro­ceed on leave July 1^st 2014, after which he would for­mal­ly depart the Department.

The nation was nev­er for­mal­ly told the real rea­son why the pub­lic ser­vant of 34 years sud­den­ly stepped down.

Ellington was a fan of the elites of upper St. Andrew.
He was seen as a reformer who had fired unprece­dent­ed amounts of offi­cers from the depart­ment who were alleged to have con­tra­vened the depart­men­t’s rules or were active­ly involved in crimes.
Ellington also took the con­tro­ver­sial step of mak­ing the depart­men­t’s week­ly pub­li­ca­tion (the force orders) a pub­lic document.
This pub­li­ca­tion was out­raged when Ellington took that step, we felt then and still believe now, that a pri­vate inter­nal memo which cat­a­logs per­son­nel and oth­er depart­ment pro­to­cols has no busi­ness in the hands of mem­bers of the pub­lic, unless through a court order for spe­cial circumstances.

Ellington was hired as police com­mis­sion­er under the Jamaica Labor Party Administration of Bruce Golding.
He was respon­si­ble as police chief, for rout­ing Christopher (Dudus) Coke from his strong-hold in 2010, dur­ing which an esti­mat­ed 73 peo­ple lost their lives.
Police Officers and mem­bers of the mil­i­tary were wound­ed and killed, police sta­tions were torched, oth­ers took sus­tained gun­fire from heav­i­ly armed mercenaries.
Despite Ellington’s attempts at reform and house clean­ing of the force, there were forces at work in Jamaica which were paint­ing a dif­fer­ent pic­ture of events.
This includ­ed the Jamaican’s for Justice,(JFJ), Families against state ter­ror­ism (FAST) , the Peace Management Initiative,(PMI) , (INDECOM) and others.
Some of these groups became pro­fes­sion­al agi­ta­tors against the crime fight­ing efforts of the police.
The head of Jamaicans for Justice Carolyn Gomes, rode to fame on the backs of police, cop­ping a nation­al hon­or in the process, pos­ing as a cham­pi­on for social justice.[sic]

Gomes and oth­ers fed infor­ma­tion to their han­dlers in Washington DC , London, and Ottowa that there was mas­sive ille­gal killings by the JCF.
They cre­at­ed fic­ti­tious death squads and cre­at­ed the impres­sion that the mem­bers of the JCF were a bunch of mur­der­ing lunatics.
In many cas­es their reports were void of data sup­port­ive of their claims of ram­pant extra-judi­cial killing by police.
In oth­er instances their reports used data already cred­i­bly debunked.
Their one-sided reports did not take into account the num­ber of offi­cers killed or wound­ed in encoun­ters where lethal force was employed by police.
Neither did those reports take into account the bru­tal­i­ty and deprav­i­ty of the coun­try’s criminals.
This does not mean that there were not police offi­cers who were engaged in crim­i­nal actions. or were in fact guilty of extra-judi­cial killings.
The notion that he entire JCF was an out of con­trol killer orga­ni­za­tion was far from the truth.
Unfortunately for hard work­ing mem­bers of the depart­ment they had no one in their cor­ner despite their sac­ri­fices, not even Owen Ellington.

Charges of mas­sive extra-judi­cial killings, death squads and the Tivoli events of 2010 are rumored to be the events which cause Ellington to sud­den­ly step aside.
At the time Ellington stepped aside he indi­cat­ed that his deci­sion to retire was based on the need to sep­a­rate him­self from the lead­er­ship and man­age­ment of the Force pri­or to the begin­ning of the immi­nent Commission of Enquiry into the con­duct of the Operations of the Security Forces in Western Kingston and oth­er areas dur­ing the lim­it­ed State of Emergency in 2010.

A June 13.2013 New York Times Article report­ed on the American Federal Law which affects coun­tries with which the United States have bilat­er­al secu­ri­ty arrangements.
The 16-year-old law that bars American aid to for­eign secu­ri­ty forces that vio­late human rights is draw­ing unusu­al fire from some top mil­i­tary com­man­ders who say it under­mines their abil­i­ty to train the troops to fight mil­i­tants and drug traffickers.
The com­plaints about the law’s require­ments come from sev­er­al rank­ing admi­rals and gen­er­als, includ­ing Adm. William H. McRaven, a mem­ber of the Navy SEALs who led the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and who now heads the Special Operations Command, as well as senior com­man­ders who over­see oper­a­tions in Africa and in Latin America.
At issue is the so-called Leahy amend­ment, a 1997 pro­vi­sion to a for­eign aid bill named after its author, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, which bars the United States from pro­vid­ing train­ing or equip­ment to for­eign troops or units who com­mit “gross human rights vio­la­tions” like rape, mur­der or torture.

The revised law empha­sizes that the United States must sus­pend aid to an entire unit even if only one or two mem­bers are impli­cat­ed in human rights vio­la­tions. Assistance to the unit is sus­pend­ed while the alle­ga­tion is inves­ti­gat­ed. Aid can­not be restored until the home coun­try deals with the cul­prits, a process that can take weeks or months, if it hap­pens at all, crit­ics say.
Assistance to some Jamaican secu­ri­ty forces, for exam­ple, has been sus­pend­ed while the State Department exam­ines human rights alle­ga­tions stem­ming from an oper­a­tion in 2010 to arrest the drug lord Christopher Coke, whom the United States had request­ed for extradition.
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The United States was instru­men­tal in the Christopher Coke issue.
They demand­ed that Coke be extra­dit­ed after then Prime Minister Bruce Golding said he would not have Gays in his cabinet.
The Americans knew full well that Golding was the mem­ber of par­lia­ment from Tivoli gardens.
They also knew that extra­dit­ing Christopher Coke was a lose, lose for Golding.
It did not mat­ter, they want­ed Golding gone, and gone he was.
They want­ed a pup­pet in office, they have one.

Today Barack Obama is in Jamaica. Jamaicans at home and abroad are ecsta­t­ic about Obama’s visit.
As Obama vis­its places and Sites in Jamaica , includ­ing the Bob Marley Museum, Jamaica’s eupho­ria is gross­ly misplaced.
Because of America’s manip­u­la­tion there is more crime in Jamaica than ever before.
More Jamaicans have been deport­ed from the United States than any oth­er nation in this Hemisphere.
In many cas­es the Jamaicans deport­ed were crim­i­nal­ized for minor infrac­tions like sell­ing a few mar­i­jua­na cig­ars or for Domestic infractions.
On the streets of America, cops killed hun­dreds of peo­ple all across the nation, usu­al­ly under ques­tion­able circumstances.
There isn’t even uni­formed report­ing or cat­a­loging of those killed by police.
The vic­tims are more often than not ‚unarmed black men killed by white police officers.
Most of the abus­es and mur­der offi­cers com­mit are brushed aside. Cops basi­cal­ly kill at will,the sto­ry is usu­al­ly the same “I feared for my life”.

But none of that mat­ter, police depart­ments receive more and more equip­ment more and more aid, despite their record of abuse and mur­der of minor­i­ty groups in America.
So what will Jamaica derive from Obama visit?
Obama’s vis­it is the first of an American pres­i­dent to the coun­try since Reagan did in 1982.
Has human rights abus­es ceased in Jamaica, which would neces­si­tate a pres­i­den­tial visit?
Human rights abus­es are more ram­pant in the United States that at any oth­er time.

So the whole premise of the Leahy amend­ment is a self serv­ing talk down to small­er poor­er nations.
Portia Simpson Miller will have these images of her­self and Obama.
She will use them as val­i­da­tion for the failed poli­cies of her cor­rupt klep­to­ma­ni­ac administration.
She will say it means her par­ty is on the right track.
She will say Obama’s vis­it is val­i­da­tion of the course she is on and vin­di­ca­tion of her personally.
In fact , Obama’s vis­it is noth­ing more than pay-back to Portia for not being Bruce Golding on the gay issue.

People are always ask­ing President Obama and our First Lady, Michelle Obama how they man­age to keep them­selves and their chil­dren down to earth. Well, basi­cal­ly all you need is a moth­er to keep it real. Mrs. Obama has that in her moth­er Marian Robinson, who lives with the fam­i­ly, in the White House, and Malia and Sasha have that with their moth­er, who keeps it real, even when she’s doing press tours.

Recently, when the First Lady sat down for an appear­ance on “Live! With Kelly and Michael” they asked her about Sasha and Malia appear­ance on Time magazine’s “Most influ­en­tial teens of 2014″ list . While Mrs. Obama could have said some nice, fluffy words and pre­tend­ed to be hon­ored by the dis­tinc­tion, she dis­missed the title as a bit ridiculous.

“Yeah, I don’t know why – they’re not influ­en­tial; they just live here. They have done noth­ing to gain any influence.” 

In fact Mrs. Obama says she doesn’t even think the daugh­ters have even heard about the arti­cle.

“I don’t even think that they real­ize that they’re influ­en­tial. I don’t think any­body showed them that arti­cle, so don’t men­tion it!” 

Basically, the arti­cle said these two were influ­en­tial because Malia’s appear­ance at Coachella was more talked about than some of the con­cert acts and Sasha’s uni­corn sweater sold out with a quick­ness on Asos. So yeah, while they do have some pop cul­tur­al pull, Auntie Chelle is gen­er­al­ly right, they haven’t done any­thing yet. They still have plen­ty of time though.

The recipe to stay­ing hum­ble? A Black mama who keeps it real. You can watch Mrs. Obama’s full inter­view in the video below.
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The most sweep­ing civ­il rights leg­is­la­tion passed by Congress since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, the Civil Rights Act pro­hib­it­ed racial dis­crim­i­na­tion in employ­ment and edu­ca­tion and out­lawed racial seg­re­ga­tion in pub­lic places such as schools, bus­es, parks and swim­ming pools. In addi­tion, the bill laid impor­tant ground­work for a num­ber of oth­er pieces of leg­is­la­tion – includ­ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which set strict rules for pro­tect­ing the right of African Americans to vote – that have since been used to enforce equal rights for women as well as all minori­ties.[History​.com]

Democratic President Lyndon Johnson signed the Act into LawJuly 2^nd 1962 after the death of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
For the sign­ing of the his­toric leg­is­la­tion, Johnson invit­ed hun­dreds of guests to a tele­vised cer­e­mo­ny in the White House’s East Room. After using more than 75 pens to sign the bill, he gave them away as memen­toes of the his­toric occa­sion, accord­ing to tra­di­tion. One of the first pens went to Dr Martin Luther King, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), who called it one of his most cher­ished possessions.
I include this bit of American History for some per­spec­tive on why rel­e­vant and just mes­sage of Religious free­dom gets lost in the noise because the mes­sen­gers have dirty hands.

After sign­ing the land­mark leg­is­la­tion into law President Johnson won the elec­tions of 1964 by a lop­sided mar­gin over his Republican rival Barry Goldwater Johnson, who had suc­cess­ful­ly asso­ci­at­ed him­self with Kennedy’s pop­u­lar­i­ty, won 61.1% of the pop­u­lar vote.
Johnson served his term but did not stand for re-elec­tion four years later.
White Racists in the coun­try incensed at Johnson for what they saw as a betray­al ran from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.
Ironically it was the Republican Party which was more aligned with the caus­es of blacks previously.

1. Abraham Lincoln issued the pre­lim­i­nary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22^nd, 1862. It stip­u­lat­ed that if the Southern states did not cease their rebel­lion by January 1^st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect.
   

Lincoln did sign the Emancipation dec­la­ra­tion on January 1^st 1863.
Blacks grav­i­tat­ed to the Republican Party as a result. 
Notwithstanding, it was Democrats Bobby Kennedy,Lyndon Johnson and John F Kennedy’s push, which saw the Civil Rights Act become law.
Arguably both the Emancipation Declaration and the land­mark Civil Rights Act signed by Johnson, came at crit­i­cal times when the sign­ers were left with lit­tle choice but to sign both Acts into law.
Both Lincoln and Johnson may have had great­ness thrust upon them as a result of the way events unfolded.

After Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law , racist Democrats and Republicans lit­er­al­ly hijacked the Republican Party.
Democrats have not won the South in nation­al elec­tions since.
Today blacks make up rough­ly 12% of the nation’s population.
Blacks are the most loy­al vot­ers in the Democrat Party.
The Republican par­ty has not hid­den its hos­til­i­ty to blacks and black causes. 
In fact, the only notable Republic at the recent march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 50^th com­mem­o­ra­tion of the now infa­mous blood-Sunday, was for­mer President G W Bush and his wife Laura.

Such is their dis­dain and revul­sion for black Americans and what’s impor­tant to us.
Republican can­di­dates run­ning for office vie to see who can be the most dis­re­spect­ful to blacks.
Because of that blacks are left with no ambiguity,the repub­li­can par­ty does not want or care for their support
So blacks who are not total­ly stuck in uncle-tom’s ‑cab­in can­not sup­port or vote for the Republican party.
The Democrat par­ty has not only tak­en blacks and their vote for grant­ed the par­ty does noth­ing for the black community.

In recent and ongo­ing instances of police slaugh­ter of unarmed black men, the par­ty has been con­spic­u­ous­ly silent. 
The demo­c­rat par­ty has an almost pas­sive aggres­sive rela­tion­ship with blacks.
One which says I don’t like you , but I will tol­er­ate you for your vote.
There is not a sin­gle black United States Senator in the Democrat Party, despite black­’s loy­al and pre­dictable sup­port for the party.

Based on that, it is time for blacks to form anoth­er polit­i­cal par­ty in America, their own par­ty, one which is open to all but led by blacks.
An Independent par­ty, then vote whole-sale for that party.
This new par­ty may not win a nation­al elec­tion any­time soon.
But it posi­tions our votes in a way which makes it imper­a­tive that those who need our sup­port must come to us.
Those wish­ing to form admin­is­tra­tions will be forced to lis­ten to and acqui­esce to our our con­cerns and demands.
The demands of our com­mu­ni­ty must be front and cen­ter, if they dare renege, we remove our sup­port en-block ‚and it’s back to the bal­lot box­es we go.
Change will not come because we ask for it.
Change comes when we demand it.