VIOLENT AMERICA UNDER A TWISTED DEMOCRACY

Violence and Racism have soiled the American flag

Over the decades, the United States government has interfered in other countries’ political affairs, criticizing and calling for a change. But today, our generation has lived to see the country that always preaches about democracy, could be one of the most violent and racially divided countries in the world.

 

America has completely deviated from the path of democracy towards anarchy because of the continuous system of institutional racism, discrimination, political greed, and Apartheid system of government, under conditions of suffrage, political hate, and medical deceptions.

 

Until recently, that is after the death of George Floyd, all American leaders did nothing significant about racism in the country. Caucasian cops kill blacks with impunity as the whole world, including the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Holland, watches without a word.

 

Therefore, baffles me if Joe Biden is now accusing Trump of racism and violence in his speeches, when for decades every American leader, including Obama and Biden himself, supported every crime against black people in the United States of America and Europe.

 

Every American or European leader is not a fool, they know that racial violence can cause havoc and destruction but nobody cares because they are interested to oppress black people than making their lives better. They scream “White power,” because they fear the power of the black man.

 

“White people will fully understand the cruelty and the wickedness of the black man, if black people will rise against the white man and do exactly what they did to black people in slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, killing, hanging, racism, discrimination, burning and lynching, but we shall not do that because black people are civilized.”- Joel Savage

 

America is bleeding because Donald Trump knows that about 70% of the population is racist, therefore, he is not doing anything about the political violence that has erupted in the country and he is not willing to do anything about the members of the Ku Klux Klan in police uniforms pumping bullets into unarmed blacks.

 

What has happened in the past and current situation in America, don’t reflect on anything about America’s version of democracy. In my opinion, the killings of innocent people, the political and medical crimes around the globe, have eventually come back to take their sweet revenge on America.

HORRIFIC IMAGES OF A SAD JOURNEY AND BRUTALITIES AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS

African-Americans were subjected to all kinds of cruelties, including lynching and hanging because of the colour of the skin

How much more can African-Americans take? According to history, the first slave ship from Africa arrived in the US colony of Virginia in 1619. From there on, without any rest African slaves, struggling to be accepted as human beings or Americans, today, were subjected to all kinds of cruelties, dehumanization, and discrimination.

This article is to present in images of the horror, killings, racism, discrimination that have been perpetrated against African-Americans, ever since they disembarked from the slave ships till today.

The beginning of the sad story of African-Americans

• Image of the Cape Coast Castle, where thousands of African slaves were shipped from Africa to the United States of America

• How African slaves were crammed into a ship and taken away to America

• Thousands of African-American slaves under brutal conditions, worked with tears in the cotton fields. 

• The Klu Klux Klan, a racial hate group, terrorized African-Americans and burned down their houses

• African-Americans were lynched and hanged by white Americans because of the colour of his skins

• Police brutality against blacks in America has been taking place for ages with impunity

It will be an infinite task if I have to continue posting horrific images of brutalities against African-Americans. The African-Americans never called for slavery but the wake up one morning to see themselves in a strange land. They never called for the lynching and hanging but they have been caught in between such crimes with impunity.

There is a significant Ghanaian proverb which says, "A child who wouldn't allow his or her parents to sleep by crying the whole night, will also not sleep. If it's the wish or desire for some people to kill blacks or cause them harm because of the colour of the skin or hate, they will never know peace.

They will never have the sweet taste of peace because when the rain falls, it doesn't fall on one man's roof. Since violence affects everyone in society, they will have their share and impact on society from the senseless racial problem and hate they started.

THE USE OF BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS

Are blacks important when it comes to politics in America? Hillary Clinton, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z.

There was a time in America when the black man couldn't vote, on public transport, he had to stand for the white to sit down, and he was deprived of many things because of his color.

Racism was so strong that the Ku Klux Klan was happy to be recognized as a hate group. Hanging and the lynching of black people occurred repeatedly with impunity because their skin color was considered inferior.

Like a movie, blacks are killed daily. In fact, it's easy to see the body of a black on the streets of America shot by the police than a white American, so I am now wondering why all of a sudden American politicians are now using the people they once rejected and ignored to solicit votes?

African-Americans, like native Africans, had suffered a great deal. They didn't call for slavery, but greed and cheap labor. America and Europe's desire for so much inspired them to invade Africa and capture Africans across the Atlantic to Europe and America as slaves.

Many believe that slavery still exists in many ways after the abolition, but the question is: Does it also exist in politics? The recent images of Hillary Clinton with Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z are another example of how black people are used by some politicians, and then later the police assassin bullets turn on them.

Just imagine the nature of America's politics now. It's in a complete crisis that many don't even know what comes tomorrow. Hypocrisy, blackmailing, witch-hunting, and other criminal activities are now what America's politics are made of. 

If 'Black Lives Matter' in America, it should have been the task of every American, including Hillary Clinton, to show it, but not Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, or Patrisse Cullors. Thus, in my opinion, Hillary Clinton's dependence on black celebrities for votes is pure hypocrisy and fake. There is no love behind this.

I live in Belgium. There is no statute of Adolf Hitler because he killed six million Jews, but there is a statue of Leopold II because he killed over ten million Africans, including women and children. Many American politicians visit Brussels, but none have told the Belgian government to demolish it.

Respect is not a commodity sold at the supermarket. So if Africans and African-Americans want to be respected, they should begin to think and do everything as human beings. That will break the psychological chain still holding many people.

African-Americans can forget everything, but they shouldn't forget this story. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951. They became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. 

Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. 

Such an emotional story should be in the mind of African-Americans daily and ponder over it to determine if America really loves and cares about them, or only when votes are needed in American politics.