Rest in peace, George Floyd — "I Can't breathe either in Belgium"

 

Black people are more likely than any other race to die, to be incarcerated, and to experience oppression globally.

People and institutions may oppress those who speak or write the truth due to a complex interplay of power dynamics, fear of consequences, and the maintenance of control. Individuals in positions of authority often feel threatened when the truth undermines their power or exposes wrongdoing, leading to retaliation against truth-tellers.

 

This fear is amplified by the potential for personal or professional repercussions, such as losing a job, facing legal action, or damaging relationships, which can deter individuals from being honest.

 

Institutional, individual, and governmental oppressions are often systemic, designed to maintain control through mechanisms like the suppression of freedom of speech, the manipulation of information, and the creation of a culture of fear and hatred.

 

Dystopian literature illustrates how authoritarian governments and institutions use mass surveillance, propaganda, controlled media, and the alteration of history to eliminate critical thinking and opposition. This is the problem I have been facing for years on my Blogger blog.

 

Gone are the days when bloggers make choices of going for the right blog, thinking that it will give them the chance to express their views. Institutional crimes against writers and efforts to silence writers are on the rise. Those responsible don’t care because they have the power to do whatever they like with impunity.

 

The fear of being a target of unseen forces and losing your job, friends, and businesses haunts many business owners and entrepreneurs. The result is one of the serious ailments of society, forcing people to lie to avoid rejection or to maintain harmony, making the truth seem threatening.

 

Even when they do speak the truth, their voices are frequently distorted, appropriated, or dismissed, reinforcing existing power imbalances. I remember our genuine health blog, “Secrets of AIDS and Ebola Journal,” which was deliberately destroyed. I wrote on the front page, “Articles not in relation to what the WHO and CDC want you to know.” It was changed to “Articles are in relation to what the WHO and CDC want you to know.”

 

I feel very sorry for people, governments, and institutions that continue to mislead the world. I am an African; I know my roots; therefore, I know where I come from, which is why I speak in proverbs. “A child who wouldn’t like the mother to sleep by crying the whole night will also not sleep. You feel you have the power to make me miserable, but that will consume you, too.

 

The Blackman doesn’t have a platform to make his voice heard, and the law doesn’t favor him either, even if he is not guilty, so my only option is to write, and I will keep on writing until the manipulation of my blog is stopped and all the damage done to my Blogger is restored.

 

"The “HOME' of my blog has been disabled countless times, and the more they disable it, the more I fix the issue. I was forced to make an extra “home” into my “header” due to the constant disabling. This is purposefully done to make navigation difficult for readers. Some of the categories, such as News, Africa, and others, when clicked in search engines, take the reader to empty pages, and the related-post widget has been manipulated; therefore, it's not in order. 

 

The phrase "the evil that men do lives after them" is not an exaggeration. Individuals, institutions, and governments not only get their rewards for their negative actions or wrongdoings against humanity, but their children may also receive their lasting consequences long after their death. That’s why some families never progress.

 

Black people are more likely than any other race to die, to be incarcerated, and to experience oppression globally. I never stop thinking about George Floyd's terrible demise. I can't breathe either, so don't forget me, but rest in peace, my brother.

 

THE ONLY THING GOOGLE AND BELGIUM CAN DO IS DENY ACCESS TO MY READERS AND USE TRAFFIC AS A WEAPON AGAINST ME, BUT THEY CAN'T KILL ME BECAUSE GOD ONLY HAS THAT AUTHORITY. 

WE ARE NOW IN DECEMBER, YET PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE GOD AND THEREFORE RULE THIS WORLD. HOWEVER, MANY OF THEM WILL NOT EVEN LIVE TO SEE JANUARY OF 2026 BECAUSE OF THEIR WICKEDNESS. 

IN THIS WORLD, WHAT YOU SOW IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WILL REAP. NO ONE WILL SOW BANANAS AND REAP ORANGES. THAT MAKES SENSE. THE REASON THEY SAY, "THE EVIL THAT MEN DO WILL STAY AFTER THEM," AND TO ME, THEIR CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN WILL RECEIVE THEIR SHARES OF PUNISHMENT TOO.

GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDERER, DEREK CHAUVIN, GIVEN 22.5 YEARS IN PRISON

 

Derek Chauvin, the racist police officer that murdered George Floyd

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison on Friday afternoon for the murder of George Floyd last May. 

 

Handed down by Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill, the sentence was greater than what legal experts predicted.

 

“Determining the appropriate sentence in any case, and in this case, is a legal analysis. It's applying the rule of law to the facts of an individual and specific case,” Cahill said from the Hennepin County courthouse just after 2:30 p.m.

 

“This sentence is not based on emotion or sympathy. At the same time I want to acknowledge the deep and tremendous pain that all the families are feeling, especially the Floyd family.”

 

The increased sentence comes after the judge in May agreed with prosecutors that there were aggravating factors when Chauvin fatally knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes that warranted a departure from the presumptive sentence length.

 

Cahill, in his earlier ruling, concluded that Chauvin abused his “position of trust and authority” as a police officer and displayed “particular cruelty” when he knelt on Floyd’s neck during his arrest, an action that rendered Floyd unresponsive.

 

Floyd was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. 

 

On April 20, Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder and manslaughter as well as third-degree murder. 

 

Since the criminal counts stemmed from one action, Chauvin killing Floyd, the sentence is based on only the second-degree murder conviction, the most serious of the crimes for which he was found guilty. 

Per state guidelines, the maximum sentence for unintentional murder in the second degree is 40 years, but because Chauvin has no previous criminal record, the presumptive sentence was 12 1/2 years, with an acceptable deviation range of 10 years and 9 months to 15 years.

 

But because Cahill agreed with the prosecution’s aggravating factors motion, the judge had the discretion to increase the sentence.

 

The common prediction among legal experts was that Cahill would decide on a 30-year sentence, double the high end of the presumptive sentence, and it was what the head prosecutor, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D), requested in a motion at the beginning of the month. 

 

Members of Floyd’s family were present in the courtroom for the sentencing.

 

Floyd’s murder was the catalyst for nationwide protests decrying police brutality and systemic racism last summer.

 

His death also spurred the creation of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a sweeping police reform bill that Congress has been working to reach a bipartisan consensus on for months.

 

Chauvin declined to give a formal statement in court due to “additional legal matters” but expressed his condolences to the Floyd family.

 

He also said that there would be “some other information in the future that would be of interest.”

Exit The Tiger Trump, Enter The Dragon Biden, As The Next US President

Trump embraces the sad end of his second-term presidential ambitions as Biden wins the presidential race 

Worldwide, many world leaders, Americans, and non-Americans were disappointed after Trump lost his second-term bid to be in office as the president, while others too are jubilating for America witnessing Biden becoming the new president.

However, as an African writer, with a different perception of how each American president, including Obama, committed many crimes against humanity in Africa, I don't care who becomes the president of the United States of America. As a matter of fact, Biden will also not be good for Africa. Time will tell.

Decades after slavery, African-Americans, still treated like garbage, danced through the principal streets of America, jubilating because the first African-American, Barack Obama, had been declared the president of the United States of America. 

Like the Israelites under bondage in Egypt, they thought Barack Obama would deliver them from hardships. What did we see during the administration of President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden? 

Racism increased significantly, and African-Americans, as usual, became subjects of police discrimination and brutality. As a matter of fact, many African-Americans were shot and killed under the nose of Obama.

As previously said in one of my articles, "RACISM IS PART OF AMERICA'S CONSTITUTION," Trump knew that the reason he followed the same racist path was to promote white supremacy. Little did he know that it would cost him today.

Whether Russia interfered in America's election or not, Trump won, but the sad and brutal murder of George Floyd, which shook the racist foundation of America, called for a change in that country but not Donald Trump. He refused to address racial issues dividing the country. 

Many even emphasized that there is going to be a civil war in America, as racial issues turn ugly. When people are oppressed, their only hope is for a change, and that change depends on elections. Therefore, I am not surprised that Joe Biden has won the presidential race.

My concern is, how would Biden also treat Africa? Because every American president swears to abide by the constitution, and part of this constitution is carrying out global depopulation, especially on the African continent.

Before colonization, the only disease in Africa was malaria; the rest—HIV/AIDS, Ebola, tuberculosis, nodding disease, Burkitt's lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, and Lassa fever—were man-made diseases or artificially created and deliberately inflicted on the African population.

Each US president collaborates with European countries' leaders that once colonized Africa to run down the continent. Together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), they test and spread diseases in Africa.

While such nefarious activities are going on, they get massive support from the media with false and misleading information about man-made diseases in Africa. For example, they said monkeys responsible for HIV/AIDS, bats responsible for Ebola, and finally, calling 'nodding disease' a strange disease.

The world needs better and more sincere leaders to deal with these lies that continue to destroy this world, but since it's a crime, they are not interested in doing it.

The tiger, Donald Trump, who thinks he is right to do everything he likes, is now out; here comes Biden, the dragon, who is coming to spit fire on Africa. In the political history of America, you can't get any American leader that improved the lives of the common African; all of them, including Obama, an African, committed a crime in Africa.

Let America jubilate with Biden; we Africans are not interested in jubilation. we will sit and open our eyes and watch what will unfold under Joe Biden administration. on the continent, billions of wealth are stolen yearly, but the people are treated like 'shit-hole nations.'

Why Joe Biden Needs To Call Every American President A Racist Before Trump

Biden accuses Trump of racism, an issue he couldn't solve in his entire life in America until changes after the murder of George Floyd

It's now on air, television and in the newspapers, Joe Biden accusing Donald Trump, a racist American president, promoting racism in the United States of America. 

According to Joe Biden, the kind of Trump as president has never been realized in the political history of America, saying Trump lacks leadership skills to handle the coronavirus crisis in America. 

Politics is said to be a dirty game but I think people will not dispute the fact that it is also full of hate, hypocrisy, lies, and deceptions. 

I don't care who is the president of the United States of America, since every American president, whether Democrat or Republican, commits a crime in Africa.

Today, Joe Biden who wants to kick Trump out of the office and become the next American president is calling Donald Trump a racist. 

Institutional racism has been in America decades after the abolition of slavery, yet no American leader I know, including Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Obama, etc, did anything significant about it to change the situation in America.

Related post:  RACISM IS PART OF AMERICA'S CONSTITUTION

Obama was the 44th president of America and Joe Biden was the vice-president. For eight years what did Obama and Biden do to improve the systematic abuse and oppression of African-Americans, until the brutal murder of George? 

Why is Joe Biden now using George Floyd's death for a political campaign against Trump? Would he call Trump a racist if George Floyd hadn't been killed? This is what I mean by the hypocrisy of politics.

There are so many records revealing the systematic killings of African-Americans by white police officers. 

According to an old publication that appeared in the 'Washington Examiner,' on October 1, 2016, "Murder far worse for blacks under Obama."

The paper explained further that, "Donald Trump's pitch for black votes is that the condition of African-Americans is terrible decades after being failed by Democratic policies." 

The problem with Americans is, they don't care whether the US government commits a crime in Africa or not. They only analyzed the political issues in the country and decide who to vote for.

However, being an African writer, from a continent that has suffered a great deal at the hands of foreign governments, including the United States of America, I consider Joe Biden a hypocrite since he failed to call other American presidents Racists before Trump.

And I strongly believe that true Americans will never vote for Joe Biden because he is a hypocrite.

The Intrepid ‘Public Enemy’s Role In The Emancipation Of Black People Through Music

Left, Flavor Flav and Chuck D

In the 1930s, the name commonly used to describe individuals whose activities are seen as a threat became the name of a controversial African-American hip-hop group in the late 80s, as ‘Public Enemy.’ 

How did this musical group that later became so famous revolutionize racist America through their music? And what role did they play in bringing African-Americans, or Black people in general, this far before the continuation of the 'Black Lives Matter' force?

400 years ago, a ship carrying human cargo from Africa landed at the shores of the United States of America. Decades after the abolition of slavery, physical and psychological abuse, and denial of freedom and equal opportunities, African-Americans have put the bitter memories of slavery behind them to move forward.

Thousands of African-Americans have excelled in a manner that has shocked institutionalized-racist America. Instead of being recommended, camouflaged-democratic-racist America is now killing the African-Americans they brought from Africa to build their colonies with blood, sweat, and tears because they don't want them to be successful.  

"God's ways are mysterious," they say; out of the lion carcass, the sweet honey was formed. Surviving the brutal ordeal of slavery through spiritual music, African-Americans now dominate R&B and the hip-hop music scene, which started very early with Public Enemy and Run D.M.C. before inspiring many music groups such as A Tribe Called Quest, Nutty By Nature, and other independent musicians such as LL Cool J, KRS-One, Queen Latifah, and many others.

When Public Enemy made their presence felt in the musical mainstream in the late 1980s, their intention was to seek recognition for the Black man, not only African-Americans. They demonstrated that through the names of their music: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Fear of a Black Planet, Rebel without a Pause, and, most famously, Fight the Power.

The politically conscious and eloquent Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, popularly known as Chuck D, with William Jonathan Drayton, better known as Flavor Flav (no longer with the group), expressed the oppression and persecution of Black people, or African-Americans, through music, despite the victories of the Civil Rights movement in the 60s.

The group, through the video 'Can't Truss It,' showed how the slave masters abused their power and cruelly dehumanized and raped African-American women, slaves. The music group 'Public Enemy,' itself, wasn't violent, but the message of the music was sharper than a double-edged sword. In reality, their music changed and improved the lives of African-Americans in a way they weren't expecting.

Public Enemy's 'Fight The Power' music video is an example of the cry for justice that has eluded African-Americans in a so-called democratic America. 

Since the eruption of demonstrations after the brutal murder of George Floyd, Google, the owner of YouTube, has denied the access of showing the videos of Public Enemy on other platforms. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk

The African-Americans music group, 'Public Enemy'

However, a movement under the slogan 'Black Lives Matter,' which exists but has been inactive for some time, suddenly jumped in to continue the similar work of Public Enemy, following the murder of the African-American, George Floyd, by white racist police, spreading to Europe and other countries around the globe.

African-Americans still have a long way to go, but if, through civil rights movements, organizations, and music, they have reached so far, then the victory of collapsing the built-in institutional racism in America is much closer than expected.

African-Americans, or Black people in general, shall overcome.

Priti Patel and Britain’s Double Standards on Black Lives Matter

Priti Patel, a British politician and member of Parliament

On May 25, 2020, a 46-year-old African-American or Black man called George Floyd was brutally murdered by white racist police officers in the United States of America. This sparked demonstrations, riots, and looting around the world, including in America and the United Kingdom.

DO BLACK LIVES MATTER IN BELGIUM?

Defaced statue of King Leopold II following the demonstrations over the brutal murder of George Floyd 

In Ghana, my country of birth, there is a proverb which says: "Out of every misfortune comes a blessing," that means even though it's unfortunate George Floyd, the African-American, brutally murdered by white police officers is dead and gone, yet the outcome of his death has changed the mind of how many people view black people.

The brutal murder of George Floyd, an African-American in the United States of America, by racist white police officers, sparked riots and demonstrations across the globe, including some European countries, that saw the barbaric and inhuman video of the officer who pinned down Mr. Floyd by kneeling on his neck for approximately 9 minutes.

The black man has no mouth to speak, has no platform to make his voice heard, thus, so-called America and European powers have taken it as an opportunity to cause damage and destabilize the economies on the African continent, just to create pressure, panic, fear, and difficulties for African leaders to depend on them.

The pain they are not ready to pass through is what they unleash on Africans, including African-Americans because slavery has been abolished, colonial power has succumbed to independence, and Apartheid has bowed to democracy. 

Europeans and American leaders continue to cause damage to the continent of Africa with all kinds of brutalities, including biological weapons, such as HIV-Aids, Ebola, Burkitt's lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma and nodding disease. 

False and corrupt scientists supporting the lies of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, called the latter 'Strange Disease.'

Belgium is no different from other European countries and the United States of America that for years continue to kill Africans and looted their countries to enrich themselves. Congo was then the personal property of Belgium, known as 'Belgian-Congo, under the rulership of the lunatic King Leopold II, who maimed and killed over 10 million Congolese.

What's their crime? They failed to supply the quantity of rubber Leopold II wants them to produce in a day for the demand of the automobile industry in Europe and the United States of America. Men's hands were chopped, genitals were tied, and huts burned down. Children and women were not spared. They were brutally dismembered. 

Despite the magnitude of those horrible crimes against humanity, Belgium mocked the victims and congratulated the perpetrator, King Leopold II, by naming streets after him throughout Belgium and built statues in his honour. We don’t have to blame God, for the evil in this world, because God is not part of this. 

My Experience in Belgium as a writer

As a matter of fact, I have been in Belgium not too long, yet I think twenty years in the country is long enough to tell anyone my experience in a country which history with black people is so bitter that many even consider their pets, such as dogs and cats valuable than the black man. 

Even though things are rapidly changing in Belgium, they still have a lot to do to show the world that they are civilized people. Today, I see black Belgians that have studied very high given them the opportunity to work in good establishments like the white Belgians. Today, I see a black man, Vincent Kompany, as the captain of Belgium's National Team, "The Red Devils."

Belgium has no respect for the black man just like how some view African-Americans. In my efforts to my books, I became a laughing stock just because a black man is writing books. I can still remember the question a woman asked me, "You, you write books?' 

This question even reveals how shallow-minded some Belgians are, even though many of their journalists haven't even written a single book, yet many of them underestimate an African journalist that has written eight books. 

I have a philosophy they know very well, I don't respect anyone who doesn't respect me. I will keep that philosophy until the time I will go down into my grave.

When one of the Belgian Royal Family, Queen Matilde, followed me on Twitter, she thought that could help from hitting against Belgium. After seeing a series of attacks of my articles still coming, she quickly unfollowed. I tweeted, "She can't bribe me or buy my compromise."

After demonstrations spread across the United States of America and some European countries, some of the reachable statues of Leopold II were defaced. 

Years back, I wrote to the then Belgium Prime Minister, Charles Michel, and the Royal Family in Brussels, painstakingly explaining why Leopold II's statues need to be demolished and streets named after him changed. If there is no statue of Adolf Hitler for killing six million Jews, there shouldn't be Leopold's statue for killing 10 million Africans.

The gentleman, then Belgium Prime Minister, Charles Michel, wrote to me but the Royal Family failed to do so, yet Belgium is a country that once had a so-called intelligent woman called Annemie Turtelboom, who was then the Justice Minister. In fact, the black man in Belgium has never had any justice in the country till now.

Many Belgians have no respect for black people because they are ignorant and insincere to admit the fact that without Congo, Belgium will be one of the poorest countries in Europe. They continue to disrespect black people today but the fact is it is not necessary for a black man to trumpet about his intelligence as most of the white people do.

Because they know too well that the black man is not stupid the reason they don't want to give black people a breathing space. Out of jealousy and hate, they find it hard to watch a black man progressing and will do everything to bring him down.

Some years back when I went to the notorious Stuivenberg Hospital in Antwerp to investigate the abnormally high death of Africans in that hospital, they call me a crazy man but today, that same hospital is one of the safest hospitals after publishing my book about the stealing of black people body organs in the hospital.

There will be a time, whether dead or alive in Belgium, there will be no single Leopold II statue anywhere in the country and all the names of streets named after him will be changed before they will enjoy the peace they are looking for ages yet they can't find.

GEORGE FLOYD'S EMOTIONAL POEM OF AGONY BEFORE HIS DEATH

The late George Floyd, pinned with the knee of a white policeman on his neck

Centuries after the abolition of slavery, African-Americans that sacrificed their lives to build what we know as the United States of America today, are still facing the challenges of better integration and acceptance in society as Americans.

In a country that preaches about democracy and an effective law system, the world shouldn't have witnessed such ugly scenes of injustice against black people. Donald Trump once called African countries 'Shithole Nations' the same way African-Americans are treated.

On May 25, an African-American from Minneapolis identified as George Floyd, was pinned down and handcuffed by white police officers, with one of the knees pressed against Floyd’s neck for about 9 minutes. 

The 46 year-old-man, who was having difficulties in breathing pleaded for his life but all his efforts fell on deaf ears. These are his last words before his death.

"It's my face man
I didn't do nothing serious man
please
please
please I can't breathe
please man
please somebody
please man
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
please

(inaudible)
man can't breathe, my face
just get up
I can't breathe
please (inaudible)
I can't breathe sh*t
I will

I can't move
mama
mama
I can't
my knee
my nuts
I'm through
I'm through

I'm claustrophobic
my stomach hurt
my neck hurts
everything hurts
some water or something
please
please

I can't breathe officer
don't kill me
they gon' kill me man
come on man
I cannot breathe
I cannot breathe
they gon' kill me
they gon' kill me
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
please sir
please
please
please I can't breathe"


After these words, George Floyd stopped pleading, and shortly after that, he was pronounced dead.

Coronavirus

In a country, that coronavirus has killed a higher percentage of African-Americans than the whites, many black people think there is a sinister plot to kill them. Some even believe that white Americans that hate black people purposely join the police force to show their brutalities against black people in the United States of America.