Early steps by the 2025 Project included the attacks on Black Studies & Diversity Equity & Inclusion policies & offices
Abidogun, Jamaine M
Just listen – It is chilling!
Project 2025 co-author recorded assuring Trump’s support of his work in new video (msnbc.com)
Jamaine Abidogun
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Gloria Emeagwali
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It would be good to hear some sound personal opinions from Gloria who actually lives over there.
I get some cues from here : https://www.facebook.com/arogerswright
There’s no gainsaying the fact that the half a billion dollars in the Democrats’ campaign war chest is being used , among other things, to disparage and destroy whatever good Donald Trump may be said to represent; so, it’s no surprise to know that people - night soil men and soil women types are being paid handsomely to empty their garbage pails on Trump who was almost assassinated by more than one bullet, failing which they ( some of those who hate and oppose him) are now resorting to character assassination and other low-level tricks of the trade, true to form and led by the evil spirit that confirms ”The first casualty of war is the truth”
The direction in which this war of words is moving is frightening; it looks like the United States is heading for a race war; at breakneck speed the train is hurtling headlong in that direction. Race War. Civil War. Black and White - Black and Night….back in the day, Fresh …Small Talk
Today, some of the Democrat partisans trying to paint Trump, a former President of the United States, as a racist - in other words, the United States a place with its own unique racial histories has got to a stage where some of the Democrats would love to polarise the nation even more - like never before ( perhaps a winning strategy?) and hope that all “the people of colour” will vote for Kamala
( I complain to my Better Half that I have never seen a photo of Kamala wearing a dress, that I’ve never seen her legs - and she asks me why don’t I make the same demands about Trump, as if I’d be even remotely interested in the kind of underwear he or Stormy Daniels wears. After all, it should be a reasonable, legit request that a non-misogynist guy would like to see the legs of the wannabe first female president of the United States and that from my point of view, legs like Miss Black America can pass the test…Miss India too, not to speak of Miss Tamil-Nadu and Miss Jamaica ! )
What’s so puzzling about that MSNBC video is that the subject matter seems to be shrouded in mystery - it is being sold as a secret policy paper. The fact is that just about anybody, including e.g. David Icke can be interviewed and say all kinds of damaging things, the very stuff out of which conspiracy theory webs are spun….
I’m probably still asking the wrong question and that ‘s why I'm not getting an answer. The question: Who's funding Defiant Lawyers ?
It’s the most race-based, anti-Trump propaganda on the internet, with lots of videos on the subject matter started in this thread : Project 2025 -but must we believe everything we hear or read.
I must believe that Jesus created this world because John said so in a book -the Gospel according to John ?
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One thing that we have in common is that we’re both looking forward to the opening night of the Coronation Convention in Chicago.
( I dream that since Netanyahu doesn’t want his nightmare to come true, his nightmare of having to engage Hezbollah & Iran in a war that could unexpectedly escalate into an unanticipated and unprecedented holocaust for which he will only have himself to blame - in the coming days, he will therefore succumb to whatever ceasefire overtures and thereby blow a new gust of wind in Kamala Harris’ sails - giving both Joe Biden and her and their messenger Anthony Blinken the credit.
Whether or not Netanyahu prefers her to his other pro-Israel friend, Donald J Trump, there is no getting away from the fact that Israel would not emerge unscathed after a full scale war with her powerful adversaries in that neighbourhood this time around and that’s why in the name of pikuach nefesh it is imperative to seek peace and pursue it, now, when we’re still alive.)
Just like a woman, in your case an American woman, you find it “more than offensive” that I think that it would be proper, wise, and just to check out Kamala’s legs before casting or wasting a ballot on her. Where is your sense of humour? So you think that I was being serious? Me innerested in Kamala’s legs? My Better Half would definitely poison my coffee. I joked with my Better Half about having never seen Kamala’s legs and thank God that she didn’t think that it was a mortal sin; after all the US Presidential Election is not the same as a beauty contest or a beauty vs the beast contest, in which case the sayings are two : 1. “age before beauty” and 2. “all’s fair in love and war “. I understand that for some Americans this presidential election is more or less a war between Democrats and Republicans, and that’s why somebody almost assassinated Trump the other day and he emerged triumphantly out of the attempted assassination with a clenched fist, blood running down his cheek…
Now if Kamala was a Muslim and was wearing a hijab to cover her hair, she would probably win the sympathy of some of the Muslim sisters. She does seem to be aware of her physicality - of her body : just the other day ( healthy curiosity ) I asked Pa Google - no offence meant, I could have also asked Ma Google the question, How tall is Kamala Harris ? -and found in passing, that her mother was even shorter ( 1.52 m)
In the name of decency let’s hope that something similar doesn't happen with Kamala…and - God forbid - that no one tries to eliminate her….
I see that you and Gloria have your knives out for Trump. Why are you so aggressive?
I also understand that to avert being labelled a male chauvinist pig I had better sign up for some of your courses…
Re - “ to stop the teaching of black history in public schools (govt K through 12 grades) and critical race theory in colleges and universities.”
I don’t believe a word of it . It couldn’t possibly be true because there's no way that anyone would get away with it , since to begin with, any such legislation would be unlawful and criminal too. So there.
Kamala on the other hand can promise all the rose gardens and perfumes in heaven, promise to build three million houses and give free lunches to newly arrived immigrants during her first year and maybe fund the whole enterprise by executive decree…
A favourite poster : Sojourner Truth : Ain't I A Woman?
Cheers!
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
“I don’t believe a word of it . It couldn’t possibly
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Gloria In Excelsis Emeagwali,
Whilst crediting you with mostly being just and fair when arguing your case (although you sometimes went overboard in your altercations with dear Professor Kenneth Harrow) and whilst admiring your consistency and your - for me - impeccable Afrocentric credentials ( I suppose that it comes with the territory you research and teach) you must admit that it’s not easy to underestimate / ”misunderestimate” anyone’s intelligence or capacity for duplicity, malevolence and hypocrisy. Quite accidentally, yesterday, this item popped up on Dr Google:
us presidents and vice presidents intelligence ratings
If you want to be more specific :
Donald Trump IQ ( 150)
Kamala Harris IQ (110)
As Fela put it in Lady ( Lady - lyrics)
“If you call am “woman”
African woman no go 'gree
She go say, she go say, "I be lady, oh"
“She go want take cigar before anybody”
“ She want sit down For table before anybody” etc etc etc
On the other hand , Kamala is not an African Woman - not exactly, nor has she ever said that she is or was. Just ask her the question, “ Are you an African woman ?” and let’s see if she won’t start telling you all about her ancestral village in India.
Last night , whilst waiting for the Convention to begin ( 6 hrs time difference between Stockholm and Chicago) ) I listened to this : The system has been designed to W0RK against Black Americans which raises sub-questions about the Blackness and the Black Americanness of e.g. Barack Obama “We Were Eight Years in Power” and you looking forward to four to eight years of Kamala who can’t stop smiling from ear to ear, and laughing , as it were, surprised by herself being looked upon as Africa-America’s latest & wannabe greatest Messiah, the Great Black Hope…Has she said anything yet about Reparations?
BTW, I’m not impressed by anyone with such a low IQ, by hook and by crook, hellbent on being elected / appointed /anointed commander-in-chief, but it suggests that in this case, she could be more easily controlled by her handlers - and I’m sure that she has plenty of them to be subservient to - husband, vice-president, senior senators, congressmen, old man Biden, etc, maybe some former boyfriend, in the way that Paul recommended.
You know the song, “ I felt so good, I told the leader how to follow”
Anyway, USA is not supposed to be a Geniocracy - in which case no Old Genocide Joe would ever be president. The USA was designed as a government by ballot and not by e.g. the bullet by which they wanted to eliminate Trump.
I don’t believe that that youth man was the one that pulled the trigger either.
Re - all the hullabaloo about Project 2025.
It’s like Trump’s court cases. Suddenly, just in time to try to thwart his 2nd term ambitions, a flurry of court cases , Stormy Daniels flaunting her rump all over the place in the courtroom, the storming of the capitol on the 6th of January and and, of course, the last minute attempted assassination of Trump on July 14, 2024 at 12:11 AM GMT…
July 14, Bastille Day, the birthday of Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria, also my birthday. Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth is good at working out those kinds of synchronicities, but even if you’re not superstitious, these days and dates are significant , take for instance Rishi Sunak ( infinitely more personable, intelligent, polished and accomplished than e.g Kamala Harris) setting the 4th of July as the UK’s election day - the day that USA celebrated their Independence from the UK
Suddenly, like some dubious Apocrypha, “Project 25” has been lifted out of nowhere and is being splashed on the anti-Trump websites as some kind of centrepiece of Trump’s altar
First of all, project 25 is not an official policy paper. The ideas contained there do not appear to be part of today’s Republican Party manifesto. Most importantly, what does Trump himself say about all that - very different from asking what Jesus says about the New Testament, because Jesus is not here to deny or confirm his divinity, since he is supposedly yet to return from Heaven….
I have checked you reference to Judge Upholds Arizona Law Banning Ethnic Studies and, think that it’s outrageous, If true - or partly true in its intentions, I understand it as the White Man getting jittery and almost overwhelmed by paranoia, the white man's demographic nightmare that he is about to lose his ethnic majority status - about which this election is going to be a litmus test in polarised USA , getting more polarised by the hour through the counterproductive, incessant racist, anti-racist, hate- filled gobbledegook being spewed by among others, Defiant Lawyers - and orchestrated by the wild left to undermine and sabotage America. It’s something like “ the enemy within” . Experience should teach unity. The best of intentions to make America Great Again must establish the foundations on which to build the dream and Abraham Lincoln the Republican’s realisation that “A house divided against itself cannot stand”
I also have certain reservations with regard to the teaching of some kinds of Ethnic Studies. You must admit that some of the revolutionary and militant teaching could be regarded as subversive when it aims at the overthrow - by violent or illegal/ unlawful, means that may still be subsumed under the general category of “ by any means necessary”
You say that I “saw the blood dripping down Trump’s face but you did not see his Nazi sign!”
How do you account for Trump’s popularity ? That his supporters are “ Nazi”?
You say that Trump “ actually started the process of arming Ukraine” -I thought that it was Biden that had some murky family business dealings over there and that Trump has said that Russia's military operation and Hamas’ terror attack of October 7 would not have happened if it was he Trump and not old man Biden that was in the saddle….
Jamaican Patois (NOT English!)
Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
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Abidogun, Jamaine M
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Machiavelli says that if you cannot be both loved and feared, then it’s better to be feared. What seems to be so slowly evolving is certain elements in the nation ( USA) united in hatred of Donald Trump, their main propaganda pitch being that Trump is “a threat to democracy ” and what they consider to be their imperative : ”To defeat Trump “ , two pithy slogans that are gaining traction….
Bob Woodward’s account from six years ago is the most telling.
The smiling Kamala of course would like to be loved
She also has her faults, she has also been calling Trump names
When a Nigerian is angry or disagrees with you, the first thing he says is “idiot !”
The whole of Kohelet / Ecclesiastes Chapter 9 is instructive in that regard :
“concerning a live dog [it is said that] he is better than a dead lion.”
So, what's the point of quoting what Mad Dog Mattis said ?
What some retired, former sycophants, psychopaths and sadists have to say about Trump now that they have nothing to fear, is not of great consequence .
It would seem that in spite of Trump’s language and those aspects of his behaviour that may not be praiseworthy , he is still the darling of the right-wing Evangelical fundamentalists, maybe because of the abortion issue, because of their belief in the inerrant word of God according to Bereshit - Genesis - Chapter 12 in which the Almighty says to Abraham,
” And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will aggrandize your name, and [you shall] be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you."
Add to that the Evangelicals support for the construction of the third Beit Hamikdash which they believe will precipitate the return of Jesus from planet heaven to planet earth.
As Alexander the Great put it, “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
I’m looking forward to hearing how the hopeful, wannabe “ First Gentleman” Doug Emhoff is going to be praise-singing his African American wife tonight…
Jimi Hendrix :
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Unfortunately, since I have no dog in the fight, I’m following a principle of Justice by suspending all judgement till I’ve heard from the accused, Trump himself .
Donald J.Trump@realDonaldTrump
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Many thanks for this much from you, because it explains everything, thereby confirming you as a great teacher :
“This legislation was a bipartisan bill (not initiated by Trump) that he signed after Congress did its work in 2019.
https://apnews.com/article/c4834e48841d97c5a93312b1bf75302a
That was Trump before he lost the next election. It is not that he is not a racist, it's that he had nothing to gain from opposing this legislation. Remember this man was a Democrat until he decided he wanted to be President. Party lines, platforms, etc mean nothing to him. “
Re - “ Please watch the full video.” Which video ?
The stuff put out by “Defiant Lawyers” is more pugnacious…
I have been following Push Black for over a decade, mostly on Facebook
Re -Trump wanting “ to push forward his own goals for power beyond the Constitution.”, surely there are checks and balances in place to checkmate any unconstitutional moves? He himself joked that he would be a dictator for just one day
The USA Today article is deeply shocking. My question still is: Since the USA is not a dictatorship, post-civil rights legislation, how could all this have been allowed to happen? I don’t get it - the library / school board gets a directive ( from where ?) that such and such a book is henceforth banned , and that certain courses are no longer legal , just like that , and compliance with the order is instantaneous? From where do such directives derive their powers? Such directives are not in the spirit of this sentence from the 2nd paragraph of The Declaration of Independence :
“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
If necessary, shouldn't banning the teaching of those aspects of American history go all the way to the Supreme Court, for redress ? ( That was an interesting court case Bush v Gore in which the learned lawyers offered various interpretations of the US Constitution's intentions)
And that was some showy political theatre last night, very American ( could have been scripted by Tennessee Williams or a post Civil Rights William Faulkner but not James Baldwin or Malcolm X or Louis Farrakhan) : the Obamas, the empathic 2nd gentleman - a ”blended family” man, Bernie…
Tonight it’s Hilary’s dude, and for balance, in the name of justice and fair play, yea, for good measure, some oval office testimonies from Monica Lewinsky would also be well appreciated
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“I cannot quite figure out how we have laws that ban felons from voting, but we don't have one to ban them from becoming President.”
This is the kind of rhetorical one-liner that we should expect issuing from Lady Camela who has an unenviable record as a former state prosecutor, unenviable to the extent that some of the people who are displeased with her must be exaggerating when they say that once upon a time she went the extra mile to try to send as many black folks as possible to the penitentiary or the gallows, and now she wants all the Black folks to vote for her & Walz
“But he is already convicted - 34 times to be exact. I cannot quite figure out how we have laws that ban felons from voting, but we don't have one to ban them from becoming President.”
These are the kinds of lines ( I almost wrote” lies”) that we are to expect will be issuing from her lips when she accepts her party’s coronation later, tonight, as if she doesn't know that the one who she claims as her Lord and Saviour died a criminal’s death
“ I'll never forget, no way
They crucified Jesus Christ
I'll never forget, no way
They sold Marcus Garvey for rice,
I'll never forget, no way
They turned their backs on Paul Bogle,
So don't you forget, know you
Who you are and where you stand in the struggle”
(Bob Marley : So Much Things To Say)
I just listened to this review (Christian) of “Jesus in the Talmud” by Peter Schäfer
It’s a general topic : Jesus in the Talmud
It’s also a general understanding that “ No one is above the law” just as it’s a general understanding that there’s no smoke without fire, and that Trump’s sudden plethora of court cases have been politically motivated ( witch hunt) as is claimed was the case with Jesus, and Nelson Mandela too ( Robben Island)
That a convicted person can still be eligible to be elected “ leader of the free world” suggests to me that theologically speaking, these days, the US being mainly Christian territory , the US President probably enjoys a semi-transcendental status which does not mean that he is semi-divine - since according to Paul - all - Joe Biden , Kamala Harris, Tim Walz , Bill Clinton included, are sinners, according to Paul’s one liner that “ All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. Assuming that that could be possibly true, then in reality, what’s the basis of this New Testament holier-than thou Pharisaic attitude of Luke 18:9-14 ?
What about Biden, the sitting President in the US or the Prime Minister for example in Israel, do they enjoy immunity from prosecution - and if ever found guilty of any kind of criminal transgression / corruption / war crime/ crimes against humanity, what happens then?
I suspect that the losers would like to see a new law come into force retroactively in the US, some kind of Article 419 stating unequivocally in black and white that “Anyone who has been convicted of a felony shall not be eligible to contest a Presidential Election in the United States of America.”
One of Baba’s favourites : Hari Om Sharan
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Peace, yes. At least we also have this in common : I’m looking forward to what Kamala Harris will be saying this evening. Since you say that “ What is unequivocal is that Trump only stands for Trump.”, maybe he has this song in mind, about her, and , maybe, such is Kamala’s charm and her hidden powers of persuasion that she will convince Trump himself to vote for her.
You know how it is, some politicians are like chameleons. I don’t suppose that when she visits her ancestral village ,she tells the folks over there that she’s an “African” or “Black”, or a “Black Woman”
And I pray that Trump doesn’t ever lose control -and - violence in thought, word or deed, at the next debate, threaten or talk about wanting to grab her by the anywhere - because then the dream of making America great again would definitely be all over
You remember that sometime ago your former president once referred to Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” ?
BTW, hopefully, someday a Native American will be President of the United States.
Americans (USA) are usually proud of their presidents and especially during the ideological cold war would have liked the rest of the world to toe the line and emulate American freedom & democracy, yet surprisingly, today, with China and Russia’s fait accompli of taking over Africa, the Caribbean, South America without even firing a shot you don’t have anything good to say about Donald Trump who was democratically elected and served as the 45th President of the United States.
Apart from trying to entice me to “buy” “Trump’s Bible” , you seem to be unwilling to mention Trump’s many other achievements and accomplishments during his tenure as president - such as the economy for example, and nota bene : He didn’t start any wars; on the contrary , he says that if he had been president ( instead of Biden) it would not have been necessary for Russia to embark on their military operation in Ukraine, and of course, that Hamas would have thought twice and not have done October 7th ( the equivalent of al-Qaeda’s 9-11)
Even as the prospect of the outbreak of the third world war looms over Europe, here’s one of the latest repercussions : Mali Orders Swedish Envoy to Leave Amid Russia-Ukraine Conflict - much more could be said about this….
Mingus : The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Gloria Emeagwali
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