All Causes are not our cause...

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 Gaza is a fait accompli. The world community has thrown in the towel allowing a scorched earth campaign by the Zionists to eradicate the hapless, helpless, and hungry Palestinians. Apparently the surrounding  Arab countries do not give af. Why should we (as Black folks care)? The tRump administration will pipeline the gasoline from Saudi Arabia to Nut N' Yahoo to fuel the total elimination of the remaining elderly, infirmed, women and children. North Africans and people from the Middle East immigrating to the United States - including the Palestinians - are classified as "white." More importantly, they realize that asperation like 80% in Dearborn (MI) did by casting their votes for stinky without the brain (who told these Muslims that he plans on reimplementing the infamous Muslim ban) on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Black folks who are not well-off, well-heeled, or wealthy like 50 Cents or Kodac Black or Waka flocka or any other numbskull rapper supporting chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka klueless the klown, should rally around our community (not worry so much about who these rappers are supporting, the Palestinians, gays, trans, white women or pronouns) because trumpty dumpty's threats to deciminate the social safety net are not empty promises. 90% of all Black folks over 67-years of age rely heavily on Medicare and social security, not a pension. The average $1,200/month payment is already insufficient to meet basic needs. Project 2025 promises to curtail the entitlement, claw back COLA gains, raise the retirement age, before eventually cutting benefits altogether to pay for yet another tax cut for the wealthiest 1%. The Black middle-class will not come out of tRump's first two years (before the mid-term elections after which sanity will have returned to the body politic) unscathed. Many Black folks in the DMV are over indexed from GS-03 through GS-18 in the federal merit - i.e., civil service - system. The coveted jobs accord federal employees generous benefits and better-than-average working conditions, and good six figure salaries upon acheiving seniority. It is not unusual for families to enjoy $1m combined annual income in a two income household in the PG County suburb of Washington DC. But if chump is able to implement "Schedule F (for failure)," he will be able to reclassify hundreds of union-represented federal employees making them "at will" subject to termination without cause. While the plan is legally questionable because of existing collective bargaining agreements, the current crop of radical, right-wing article III court trump appointees makes the status of these federal employees uncertain. Poor Black folks will suffer by unrestrained, state-sponsored police violence; police departments liberated from consent decrees, and free to rampage and brutalize the most vulnerable denizens in our communities who are not criminals but forced by circumstances to live in crime-ridden, drug-drenched communities. Black folks not already disenchanted by our failed efforts to align with groups who piggyback off the advances made by us should take a lesson from how white women threw Black women under the bus in the '24 election.

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