The Middle East Eye headline: The Vast Majority of Israelis Believe There Are No Innocents in Gaza. Its no wonder children in Gaza are used as target practice. Israeli soldiers aim for the heart and head. A UN reports estimates that over 61,000 children have been killed or maimed. We don't know how many were buried under rumble. That young people can serve in an Army and agree to shoot and to kill children is appalling. These are supposedly intelligent young people. The future! What does it take for a solid number of them to say no to their Zionist superiors?
Palestine is occupied by people who refuse to recognize their humanity. I'm reminded of the KKK and citizen militia groups targeted black Americans for hunting practice. And you wonder why most black Americans who vote in the US recognize an uncomfortable similarity with the people of Palestine!
While I look with my mind's eye at those fallen Gazan children and remember here in the US the deaths of Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and Breonna Taylor and so many we have heard of and those we haven't, I'm among that 92% of black women asked to find the ever-elusive election poll or register for a mail-in-ballot and vote, once again, for the democrats. And I have to see in actuality the news reports of more dead children, more starving children, victims of a genocide, despite the recent ceasefire, and know that there are Democrats in the House and Senate who support the sending of weapons to Israel.
Let's not forget the ICE raids. Video has captured people being dragged into the streets from their homes at night or from their jobs, handcuffed and shoved into vans only to be disappeared into detention centers.
The Republicans have morphed into MAGA clones, bowing to the Dear Leader. It's a party of right-wing Christian nationalists armed with corporate and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) capital but with no conscience. Unfortunately, this fascist regime is leading us toward an America only for the millionaires and billionaires where Gaza's rumble is painted over in gold. Israel has goals that don't include the existence of Palestinians.
And the Goebbels creating the narrative that will stand for history will write of this era that all is well. Most important, Americans will stand at mandatory rallies repeating after the creators of propaganda, all is well.
Twenty-seven of 47 Democrats voted to block the sale of arms to Israel in July, according to UPI, however, Biden didn't call for a complete end to all weapons shipment to Israel and neither did Obama. Besides armed personnel carriers and bombs, Trump sent 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters at 3.8 billion dollars to Israel this year.
While AIPAC is finally becoming increasingly toxic for the Democrats, nonetheless, too many still receive donations from AIPAC right along with the Mitch McConnells and Ted Cruz. The Democrats receiving donations from AIPAC include, Chuck Schumer, 1,725,324, Dick Durbin, 1,126,020, Shondel Brown, 1,028,686, according to Biden received some 4,346,264 from AIPAC. According to Politico, Richie Torres and Pete Aguilar receive money from AIPAC. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, writes a Truthout report, has close ties with AIPAC and other hardline pro-Israeli lobby groups. AIPAC was involved in 389 races, including 26 Senate races and 363 House races.
Genocide is in but diversity, equity, and inclusion are out. Black women are moronic, according to the deceased martyr of the right-wing Christian nationalists. We, black Americans, are, of course, all criminals. And where are the democrats when black Americans and black women are taking hit after hit? Who is standing up for us? Are black Americans, similar to the way Gazans are treated, as a people no longer wanted? Republicans are hateful of everyone who isnt moneyed, particularly black Americans.
It would seem that more Democrats are fearful of Israel than they are of losing the votes of black Americans. Or is it, that the Democrats will wait until the last minute and remind black Americans, particularly black women, that we have to go for the lesser of the two evils. Again. Or this one for sure will remember the 92% of black women who are consistent.
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In 1956, W. E. B. Du Bois writes that Democrats have disappeared because no two evils exist. Only one evil party exists, and there isn't any viable third party. If a third party dares to form and seriously compete with the Democratic Party that new party will be accused of seeking to overthrow this government. That party and its members will be called a communist party, Du Bois writes, consisting of communist members.
Today, and Du Bois meant, in his day, advocates of a true democracy stand in danger of losing employment or landing in jail. Those accusing the advocates of supporting democracy would be liars or insane or criminals. No matter! These witnesses need give no proof for their charges and may not even be known or appear in person.
Sounds as if Du Bois knew of the crisis, we confront today with a fascist regime threatening to do away altogether with any institution or law that was hard won, after years of protests and sacrifice of lives, including the Voting Rights Act. The Civil Rights era was underway in 1956 when Du Bois was writing this article. Blacks and allies were still fighting to sit at public facilities and be served, to attend colleges and universities, to use public transportation as first class citizens, and to vote. As Du Bois noted, the corporations partnered with whatever administration was in the White House to benefit the interests of the shareholders. Today, in the US, we have mega corporations buying media outlets and newspapers. And the buying spree has no end in sight!
In 1956, Du Bois asked: What has the [Eisenhower] administration done to rescue Negro workers, the most impoverished group in the nation, half of whom receive less than half the medium wage of the nation? We are still asking the same of a democratic as well as the current regime of an anti-democratic cabel, that is trying to fire Lisa Cook, Board Member of the Federal Reserves. He has removed the Joint Chief of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown. Trump and his regime of fascists hasn't met a black he wants to remind in their position. Those positions, according to the Goebbel's narrative, were DEI hires! In other words, second rate!
What has changed? A question about our allies: Are there more lukewarm allies of black America, of democracy, than ever before? The current regime in Washington D. C. is using DEI to remove competent and overly qualified black Americans.
How are the Democrats responding to this outrage? How about the latino/as?
As Du Bois writes, we educate our young to want wealth. To value wealth. Not decency or compassion. Empathy. Success is measured by income. It's not a matter of your morals. Even the religious I encounter seem to do good because there's some points being chalked up somewhere. The more points, the better your chance to land in heaven. It's not feasible to empathize with another group of people suffering or dying as the result of cruel campaigns of extermination.
It's no wonder we have so many looking upward to save their own souls for an afterlife while ignoring the destruction of lives here on Earth!
We want money in vast amounts, writes Du Bois, no matter how we get it.
And is this democracy? Freedom? And the end of the day, to say to yourself in the mirror, all is well? Is that it?
In 1956, Du Bois decided not to vote. I'm not sure we have the luxury, again, to say we can't vote. It's 2025 and black Americans are still forced to smile at the fearful and avoid the hateful, if at all possible. Now, it doesn't seem possible
And we have a government shut down in the US!
What are we to do next, black America?
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