The FBI is investigating the death of George Floyd, black man who was pinned on the neck by a police officer and later died in custody. Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison joins The Beat with Ari Melber’s breaking coverage on the latest from the FBI and the protests. While the officers involved have yet to be charged, Ellison argues a “quick arrest” might “make people feel better about justice” it is “important” for investigators to “take the time to make sure that these charges, if they are brought forward, stick.
‘Haunted’: Minnesota Attorney General responds to death and investigation of George Floyd
@ June 8, 2020 3:33 PM
Ya want a “break”. Ya can’t ‘brek’ because of the pain from the hurtful Truth?
Well go and take a listen to that ole time calypso by the Mighty Sparrow:
“The Lion & Donkey”.
Let the Kool-aid Kiddy Koochie-Koo be the young up-start lion full of bravado and the poor ole pop-down “Millsy” will play the part of the stupid naked as**hole donkey.
After you feel the miller’s foot then you will ‘know’ who is really king!
After that you, my sweet little KK darling, will be one red yard fowl that will crow blue murder!
@John
This link is for you.
The movement has the richest man’s support.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-instagram-angry-customer-email-black-lives-matter-support-2020-6
Miller @ 4:01PM
That’s your idea of a sensible contribution or are you exampling the worthlessness of personal attacks on BU? But to continue your use of Sparrow, we like it so.
Anyhow I ought to have known better than to respond to you. I will take up no more space under this important blogpost with you.
It was a deliberate, calculating, cold-blooded murder caught on video and the charges should have been 1st degree murder…..even after his bladder came loose and he was already dead, that piece of shit racist refused to remove his knee off his neck.
https://www.facebook.com/nia.redirectcommunity/videos/3441218085898095/?t=48
@ Khaleel Kothdiwala June 8, 2020 4:17 PM
You can’t help yourself. Once a red yard-fowl always a red foul poochie-licker.
We know how to yank your WC chain stained with the red dye from the shi**t of yard-fowls of your ‘common’ breed unable to discharge any germ of intelligence without a political bias.
How come the BU household or indeed, the ‘Nation’ or ‘dead Advocate, have not heard a word of official support or concern expressed about the blatant murder of George Floyd from your red Majesty?
Or is this a case of not wanting to rock the IMF approved BOSS boat?
The miller has had his fill of you. Bye, little fella with the ‘cheeky’ red lips!
Boris Johnson has made a speech about the death of George Floyd. Yet our fast-talking, hand flaring, finger-pointing despotic president has remained silent. You can fool all of the people some of the time; some of the people all of the time; but not all of the people all of the time.
Archbishop Viganò’s letter to President Trump: There is an eternal struggle between good and evil
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has released this powerful letter today to President Trump warning him that the current crises over the coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd riots are a part of the eternal spiritual struggle between the forces of good and evil. He encourages the president to continue the fight on behalf of the “children of light.”
Quite possibly THE singularly most outspoken Catholic clergy on the planet today and he is so badly needed.
People in UK want Nelson’s shitstained statue gone, let’s see when they are forced to remove if the corrupt rats in Barbados parliament will fight to keep it to continue their colonial nastiness against their own people…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/toppling-statues-nelsons-column-should-be-next-slavery?fbclid=IwAR1L8tn2TBVw1hDtf2q9ABueMobogajSnZYXmkTTG7zPvxnesrxxBXqKEKM
These criminals have always been thieves and demons….and the house negros in Barbados worked so hard for decades to emulate them..
“Britain has committed unquantifiable acts of cultural terrorism – tearing down statues and palaces, and erasing the historical memory of other great civilisations during an imperial era whose supposed greatness we are now, so ironically, very precious about preserving intact.
And we knew what we were doing at the time. One detail that has always struck me is how, when the British destroyed the centuries-old Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860 and gave a little dog they’d stolen as a gift to Queen Victoria, she humorously named it “Looty”. This is one of the long list of things we are content to forget while sucking on the opium of “historical integrity” we claim our colonial statues represent.”
It would appear that Hal’s comments on June 8, 2020 @ 9:23 am have upset the young man – KK.
Hal has a body of work behind him that was built on the foundation of academia, observation, life experience and living in a large metropolis.
Hal is qualified to vent his displeasure at Mia’s government non response to the murder of George Floyd. He is a man of the soil with an ancestral line that sacrificed their blood to enrich a small white elite class.
It is preposterous that an island built on slavery with a majority African descended population should refuse to align themselves with the black cause.
Mia’ s government will find it difficult to clamp down on further demonstrations. This is a battle that they cannot win.
One wonders how long this government or the next elected one will be able to keep the shackles on their African descended population. It is time to loosen those shackles.
@TLSN June 8, 2020 6:15 PM
Austin is entitled, like anyone else, to a opinion on the matter. However that entitlement does not extend to wilfully distorting reality (as you equally seek to do) and couching his diction in a wantonly provocative manner.
I love this man, he is BANG on the money!
This STOPPED being about George Floyd a LONG time ago, SHAME on all those making it an EXCUSE to PILLAGE and exert VIOLENCE!
What a wonderful mentor this gentleman could be to people of all colours and of all ages. The voice of Martin Luther King came to mind as I listened to him – Clear, Well-reasoned and Impassioned. Beautiful.
https://www.facebook.com/MartinCostelloUK/videos/916619722132825/
Nobody respects you when you are silent in the face of evil.
NOBODY.
You learn something new everyday.
The BBC just had a programme on the Zanzibar revolution. This island is located just of Tanzania and was under Arab/muslim rule for centuries. The Portuguese and the British at some point governed the island.
It was a transit island for the Eastern slave trade. The African population were under the thumb of the minority East Indian and Arab communities.
The abused and mistreated African population in 1963 revolted. They massacred a large number of Arabs and burnt down the Asian businesses shops. As well as committing other atrocities. However they managed to win back their island.
There is a common thread here. Why do minorities communities seek to dominate and humiliate the citizens of black majority countries?
Do your own research. The link below is a start. Mia needs to speak out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6rX5MHdXW7E
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“There is a common thread here. Why do minorities communities seek to dominate and humiliate the citizens of black majority countries?”
simple answer….sell out negro rats, BLACK TRAITORS in the parliament who enable, condone and make absolutely sure that domination AGAINST THEIR OWN PEOPLE continues as long as they are getting their cut..their bribes, opportunities to ROB THEIR PEOPLE…just like as has been happening in Barbados for over 50 years…the sell out black faces calling themselves leaders, misleading the population for their own self aggrandizement..
@TLSN
There is a simpler test. I once went to a supermarket in Brixton and every employee was Asian, from the cleaners to the managers. It became clear, that in the heart of the black cultural community, an employer (I think it was Tesco’s) could only find suitable Asian staff, even at the low-paid, low skilled jobs.
It told me straight away who was likely doing the employing, or what the hirer thought of black people. There was no need for surveys, and empirical research or other bogus nonsense.
Go to any fast food restaurant in London and look at the customers, then look at the people behind the counter. I wrote about this in 2011, following the Duggan uprisings in Tottenham
Had to be said must be shared worldwide.
“In theory, however, it is still technically possible for the British Parliament to REPEAL the Barbados Independence Act which granted Her Majesty-in-Council the power to make Barbados’ Independence Order,” the report adds.”
The above is serious business and should be taken very seriously.
African leaders need to dismantle and get rid of every piece of colonial law sitting on their statute books and make sure they have their OWN Constitutions. Barbados never had its own Constitution, is still a racist, apartheid slave society, that the population is forced to fund generationally against themselves; and to add insult and disrespect to injury, the Constitution was designed to keep the population in generational poverty to benefit a filthy, racist minority of thieves.
The Constitution they have was drafted and designed for them in UK using 16th century slave laws and can very well be repealed at any time, it is worthless to the African descended on the island and the fraud leaders who sell out their people at every opportunity are only allowed to make anendments that never benefit the majority Black population who still believe in a sham independence they dont have and is not real.
That is how they were brainwashed and programmed to remain docile slaves to their own detriment and stagnant futures, this did not happen to them alone.
So in reality, the African leaders, except Rwanda, who seem to be the only African state to date, that we know of, with leaders who do have the intellectual capacity to see ahead, but we know they PAID very heavily in African BLOOD to learn, understand and accept that that skill exists within them and should be used to benefit their own people.
If everyone did not learn anything from UKs brutality against the African descended from the Caribbean when they cruelly devised the Windrush scam against the African descended post slavery/emancipation and implemented it in the summer of 1948 to rebuild UK after Hitler’s 1940s bombing and despite the UNs 30 Articles of Human Rights ratified in the winter of 1948 which apparently UK did not believe also applies to the African descended and still don’t; these crimes were devised to last 2 generations ending in misery for many born in the Caribbean and other places before they implemented their scam independence in some islands/countries in the 60s, 70s and 80s; which stiil has many of their Windrush victims from that era suffering and dying in poverty and in horrible conditions after rebuilding the UK, they will never learn.
If African leaders and African people don’t learn anything from these continous colonial crimes against themselves generationally , they never will. Again, get all colonizers out of Africa, get China and France out of Africa and keep them all out.
I have noticed that David Commissiong has found his voice over two Cuban nurses injured in a bit of vandalism, but he is dumb when it comes to the savage murder of George Floyd and the banning of the David Denny supportive march on Saturday.
Cuba is not in CARICOM, but it is right he should express a view. However, his convenient radicalism does not wash. Mr Commissiong is either a radical or an opportunist. He can’t have it both ways. Plse remind me of his current view on Hyatt?
Read what Michel and Gerald Aboud, the Lebanese businessmen, had to say about the George Floyd protesters. And still Barbadians go out and buy chicken and tat from their fast food restaurants and cheap stores. Barbadians must ban their businesses and anyone who goes in to their shops should be socially isolated.
I have said on numerous occasions, that we complain about Europeans, but these shady people from Asia and the Middle East are far worse.
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@ Hal
IN TODAY’S BARBADOS NATION NEWSPAPER THERE IS A FRONT PAGE ARTICLE ON A LAWYER CALLING OUT LOCAL POLICE BRUTALITY TO BLACK BAJANS.
THE NUMBER OF ASSES WHO COMMENTED AND ATTACKED BEFORE ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT I MADE IT UP.
IT SEEMS COMMISSONG AND BLACK BAJAN POLITICIANS DON’T SEE THEMSELVES AS BLACK.
DAVID COMMISSONG THE OPPORTUNIST RATHER TAKE UP FOR HIS DICTATOR BUDDIES MADURO AND CASTRO.
PM ‘must declare Black Lives Matter’
In the wake of Saturday’s aborted Black Lives Matter demonstration, Prime Minister Mia Mottley should speak out against the injustices facing black people in the US, Pan Africanist Dr Deryck Murray has urged.
But Dr Murray, the last Director of the Government’s disbanded Commission on Pan-African Affairs, said he believes that the protest, organized by the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, was undermined even before it began.
In an interview with Barbados TODAY, Dr Murray, the Director of the Centre for Hybrid Studies and a lecturer in Science, History and Culture at the University of the West Indies, said that following the extrajudicial killing of Floyd by a white police officer on May 25, Government should have taken a strong stance and supported the Black Lives Matter movement.
Dr Murray said: “As a country, we should have responded to what happened in the US and when I say as a country I mean either our Minister of Foreign Affairs or our Prime Minister should have spoken directly to what happened in the same way that several international agencies, the University of the West Indies [and] several governments spoke out against what is seen as ongoing injustice and police brutality in the US of whites against black people.
“The first response a country with over 95 per cent of its population being black, the first response we should have given should have been from our leadership and so the Prime Minister really should have commented on the situation and expressed Barbados’ concern. This is important because for almost any other ethnic group if an injustice like that happens anywhere in the world you are certain to hear an outcry from either ethic groups from the originating country whether it be China, India or somewhere in Europe, so by this account it should have been heard from the highest level.”
“I think the Government of Barbados, the [Attorney General] and the police should do whatever is necessary to allow as many people as possible to protest peacefully and to let the United States know through its Embassy and the media that what is happening has been happening for too long and is not acceptable.”
https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/06/09/pm-must-declare-black-lives-matter/
@Miller June 8, 2020 10:39 AM “…philosophically-naïve Germans…”
The Germans were NOT naïve in ANY way. They knew exactly what they were doing, just as the Minnesota policemen knew exactly what they were doing. The Germans were wicked. The Minnesota policemen are wicked.
Most people can tell right from wrong by age 4. Most jurisdictions require people as young as 13 to answer for their misdeeds. One does not have to be literate to know right from wrong. And one certainly does not need to read dead white men to tell right from wrong. Are you trying to tell me that before the dead white men were born to teach the rest of the world, the rest of the world did not know right from wrong. That is an entirely laughable idea.
Stupseee!!!
So many people have such addled brains.
@ BAJE June 9, 2020 4:01 PM “CASTRO.”
The dead Fidel still renting a place in your silly head?
Lol!
Cuhdear Bajan
June 9, 2020 4:07 PM
Right on, quite right. Right for sure. And particularly the part that people know right from wrong even as a child. Darn true.
Why you think when you tiefing the mangoes or the tape ball breaks the neighbour’s window you run like hell? That is not only acknowledgment of a misdeed, but refusing to take responsibility for it.
Hal Austin
June 9, 2020 4:36 AM
Hal, the first thing that black communities and the diaspora needs to do is for leaders to communicate a message of progress, to stop eating garbage pushed to them, manufactured in some sweat shop in the east and packaged with a popular label. To stop taking the deliberately placed, from the 70’s, poison drugs (yes, while criminalising marijuana they were deliberately placing the worst possible illegal drugs into black communities), to stop the demeaning music, to focus on education and self improvement.
That needs to be the message.
@ cuhdear aka @silly ass woman
@ BAJE June 9, 2020 4:01 PM “CASTRO.”
The dead Fidel still renting a place in your silly head?
Lol!
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FOR YOUR IGNORANCE THERE WERE TWO CASTRO’S BROTHERS BOTH DICTATORS IN CUBA FIRST FIDEL AND THEN RAUL.
FIDEL MAYBE DEAD HOWEVER HIS BROTHER RAUL CASTRO IS STILL PART OF THE CUBA’S POWER STRUCTURE.
I WONDER WHO REALLY HAS THE SILLY HEAD.
Raul Castro to lead Cuba’s Communist Party until 2021
Raul Castro said Thursday that he expected his successor Miguel Diaz-Canel to serve two five-year terms as Cuban president, and eventually take his place as head of the Communist Party when he retires from the position in 2021.
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It was the first time Castro laid out a clear vision for the nation’s power structure after his retirement or death, a vision in which Diaz-Canel is the Castro family’s true successor as Cuban leader.
Fidel Castro’s brother left the presidency Thursday after 12 years in office when the National Assembly approved 57-year-old Diaz-Canel as his successor.
In a half-hour speech, Diaz-Canel told the nation that Castro, 86, would remain the country’s ultimate authority as head of the Communist Party.
https://www.france24.com/en/20180419-raul-castro-leadership-cuba-communist-party-2021-diaz-canel
@BAJE June 9, 2020 5:14 PM “Raul Castro to lead Cuba’s Communist Party until 2021”
Lemme whisper something in your ear.
I know how to use Google. And Wikipedia too.
But don’t tell Hal that I do so.
Raúl Castro, born, 3 June 1931. Aged 89 going hard on 90.
Soon he will go the way of all flesh.
And if you smell something funny in your nostrils, it is not an allergy. It is the smell of the dead Fidel who occupies the place where your brain should be.
@Cuhdear aka @sillyasswoman
MUST BE A CLOSE RELATIVE OF @waru.
YOU ARE THE ONE WHO MENTIONED FIDEL, I SAID CASTRO.
YOU SHOULD STICK TO GROWING VEGETABLES SINCE THEY DON’T HAVE A BRIAN WHICH MAKES YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON.
Are you still singing?
Hope you get supper.
One thing I will add. People need to encourage cooperation all across the board. The police in question, from what we’ve heard so far, was a bad person. Period. He could have been Greek, Swedish, Cambodian, from another continent. He made bad choices and will pay for them. When I like or dislike someone, or condone or don’t condone their actions, or agree or disagree with someone, it’s not a race thing. It’s about the person, individually. People make individual decisions. Let’s remember that it’s not the color or culture, but the character of a person that counts.
@ robert lucas / @ John
WHILST YOU TWO IDIOTS HAVE YOUR HEADS FAR UP TRUMPS ASS WHERE YOU CAN NO LONGER RECOGNIZE REALITY AND BLAME BLACKS FOR EVERYTHING THE BELOW INFORMATION SHOULD BE A WAKEUP CALL FOR YOUR NONSENSE.
IT WAS A WHITE WOMAN WHO BURNED THE WENDY’S FAST FOOD AFTER THE BLACK MAN WAS MURDERED BY THE ATLANTA POLICE AND NOT THE BLACK PROTESTERS AS YOU IDIOTS LIKE TO ALLEGE.
Arrest warrant issued for woman who allegedly set Wendy’s in Atlanta on fire
An arrest warrant was issued on Saturday by Atlanta fire officials for a 29-year-old woman accused of setting fire to a Wendy’s restaurant hours after Rayshard Brooks was seen on surveillance video fatally shot by a police officer.
Natalie White was charged with first-degree arson by Atlanta Fire Rescue Department Fire Investigators for torching the Wendy’s on University Avenue on June 13.
The fast-food restaurant was set on fire after 27-year-old Brooks was shot in the back by former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe. The shooting was captured on cameras from the police dash camera, body cameras, bystanders and the restaurant’s surveillance camera.
Protests erupted at the Wendy’s and at some point White allegedly set fire to the building.
The inside of the brick property was destroyed. “This is an ongoing investigation and additional arrests are possible,” fire officials said.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of White or anyone who has information related to this crime is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS or the Arson Tip Line at 1-800-282-5804.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/arrest-warrant-issued-woman-allegedly-set-wendys-atlanta-195953133–abc-news-topstories.html
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SECONDLY I LEARNED THIS WEEK THAT THE BLACK WALL STREET IN TULSA OKALOMA WHERE THERE HAD BEEN MANY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES BLACK OWNED WAS NOT BURNED TO THE GROUND BY BLACK PROTESTERS YEARS AGO THE AREA WAS BURNED DOWN BY WHITES.
The Tulsa race massacre (also called the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, or the Black Wall Street Massacre)[9][10][11][12][13][14] took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] It has been called “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.”[15] The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as “Black Wall Street”.
More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and as many as 6,000 black residents were interned at large facilities, many for several days.[16][17] The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead. A 2001 state commission examination of events was able to confirm 36 dead, 26 black and 10 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates and other records.[1]:114 The commission gave overall estimates from 75–100 to 150–300 dead.[1]:13, 23
The massacre began over Memorial Day weekend after 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a black shoeshiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, the 17-year-old white elevator operator of the nearby Drexel Building. He was taken into custody. After the arrest, rumors spread through the city that Dick Rowland was to be lynched. Upon hearing reports that a mob of hundreds of white men had gathered around the jail where Dick Rowland was being kept, a group of 75 black men, some of whom were armed, arrived at the jail with the intention of helping to ensure Dick Rowland would not be lynched. The sheriff persuaded the group of black men to leave the jail, assuring them that he had the situation under control. As the group of black men was leaving the premises, complying with the sheriff’s request, a member of the mob of white men attempted to disarm one of the black men. A shot was fired, and then according to the reports of the sheriff, “all hell broke loose”. At the end of the firefight, 12 people were killed: 10 white and 2 black.[18] As news of these deaths spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded.[2] White rioters rampaged through the black neighborhood that night and morning killing men and burning and looting stores and homes, and only around noon the next day did Oklahoma National Guard troops manage to get control of the situation by declaring martial law. About 10,000 black people were left homeless, and property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property (equivalent to $32.25 million in 2019). Their property was never recovered nor were they compensated for it.
Many survivors left Tulsa, while black and white residents who stayed in the city were silent for decades about the terror, violence, and losses of the event. The massacre was largely omitted from local, state, and national histories.
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=black+wall+street+tulsa+race+riot+of+1921&fr=yfp-t-s-m&fp=1&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
It’s like a bunch of squirrels going at it in the mind, the original person no longer able to understand things for themselves. Seen it many a time. Sad. Hope for the best.
@ Crusoe
You are absolutely right. Sadly, Barbados has so much to offer, but there is a stubbornness, a reluctance to listen to reasoned arguments and proposals.
I have worked with global leaders, and instinctively always measure them against the potential of Barbadians, and I can say, hand on heart, we have nothing to worry about. Our battle is not with those people, but with ourselves.
I once spent an entire evening with a senior Barbadian lawyer, a QC, on a visit to London and he spent the entire evening trying to impress how good a lawyer he was. Sadly, until then I thought he was one of the outstanding lawyers in the English-speaking world of his generation. He left me convinced of his insecurity.
@Crusoe, there are two good books to read*: Medical Apartheid, and The Truth About the Drug Companies. Another good book is ADHD Nation.
As our politicians play silly games, and the masses engage in juvenile party politics, the time to reverse this steady decline is drifting away. Time is short.
You make one think.
I was very very Wrong, what the police did to George Floyd.
But, ” TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT ”
Spreading COVID-19 by having Public Protests was VERY VERY WRONG, too. IT WAS VERY RESPECTFUL to George Floyd and to his Family. If you must create more chaos and spread Hatred… please don’t do it During this GLOBAL PANDEMIC. i Personally feel that a George and his family would feel the Same.
BRING PEACE and Love
to this tiny world.
In the name of everything that is Correct.
L O V E I S T H E A N S W E R