Marilyn Mosby madness is maddening
Marilyn Mosby. AP.
The fact that Marilyn Mosby, the fiercely courageous, passionate and determined former Baltimore City state’s attorney, has now been reduced to asking, requesting, begging President Joe Biden for grace, mercy and justice in the form of a pardon is so sickening to me I have not the adequate words to illuminate my disgust. Mosby saw a grave injustice – the brutal murder of Freddie Gray at the hands of the police – and used her position to do something about it. And because Mosby had the audacity to attempt to hold Gray’s murderers accountable, a target was placed on her back, front and every other part of her. That target turned into a potential 40-year prison sentence for the brutal and gruesome “crime” of withdrawing funds from her own retirement savings to purchase a home. And though she “luckily” received a sentence of “time served,” the fact that she even potentially faced prison time for standing for justice for Black people speaks volumes about this country and its (in)justice system. Shout out to all who spoke out on Mosby’s behalf and to Mosby for continuing to fight to fully clear her name. But know that the silence from President Biden stinks to holy hell. I’m voting for him in November because I recognize Trump and Project 2025 adherents mean us absolute death and destruction. But the Biden “no response” to Mosby is opening the door wider to that dangerous democracy-ending clown Trump waltzing back into the White House.
National Caribbean American Heritage Month
Flags of the Caribbean.
June is National Caribbean American Heritage Month and recognizing the contributions of these sisters and brothers to Pan-African progress is long past due. Caribbean American immigrants and residents of Caribbean U.S. territories have a long tradition of contributing to Black empowerment and self-determination. And often, they’ve done so without most Blackfolk even knowing it. is insane. W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, VP Kamala Harris, Stokely Carmichael, Walter Rodney, Malcolm X, Gen. Colin Powell, James Weldon Johnson, Celia Cruz, Shirley Chisholm, Joy Ann Reid, Claude McKay, Estelle, Sidney Poiter and Michael Manley are just a few examples of millions of Pan-African game-changers with Caribbean roots. Truth be told, there’s no Black (Pan-African) history without the history of our people in and of the Caribbean.
This Ain’t Ordinary
Screenshot of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and screenshot of the upside-down American flag hangin outside his home symbolizing the insurrectionists’ ‘stop the steal’ movement. Alito also flew ‘An Appeal to Heaven’ flag (white with green pine tree) used by white christian nationaists.
According to the Christian calendar, we have already passed through the Lenten/Easter season and the season of Pentecost. We’re months away from the other major Christian holy season – the Advent/Christmas season – which places us right now in what that calendar refers to as “Ordinary Times.” But yo, there’s absolutely nothing ordinary about these times. We’ve got a U.S. Supreme Court justice letting his insurrectionist freak flags fly (hello Samuel Alito). Justice Clarence Thomas and wife Karen, I mean Virginia, are openly in bed with insurrectionists. Tennessee ousting democratically-elected Democrats because they could. Multiple white enclaves in urban areas across America have seceded from their cities and formed their own white klan hoods. GOP members are targeting progressive DAs across the country who have the nerve to fight for justice for the people beyond just the white, wealthy and well-connected. White nationalists have taken over whole school boards, city councils and an entire political party. And they’ve gutted any and all forms of scholarships and programs in use for roughly 40-ish years to help Blacks who suffered under 400 years of uninterrupted affirmative action for white people. They’re even threatening to end HBCUs. And those who teach truth in K-college public schools have been criminalized in favor of preserving a white myth of America. I keep hearing people say, “We Blackfolk have been through this before.” Yeah, but no. This that we’re going through now, and potentially facing in the near future… this is different.
