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The war on Iran is an immoral, unjust war, even if you think Iran over the years has been a terrorist, rogue regime (as I do). Let me breakdown my justification.

Our President is on record accusing President Obama, and Presidential candidate Harris of going to war with Iran if elected. He is on record stating he would be the anti-war President, the anti-regime change president, and so forth. But the record is clear, Republican President Ronald Reagan, both George Bush Sr. & Jr. and now Donald Trump have all bombed Middle East countries, so he's continuing the tradition. No one can name one thing Iran has done since Trump got in office to warrant this agenda in his second term. If it was about Iran's history, he could've done this in the first term...but he didn't, in fact I don't think he was ever close to doing it back then because he had military leaders willing to reign him in. For the second term, he ran a whole election campaign on being the peace President, even created a Global Board of Peace, but in less than 15 months, he has bombed 7 countries in 2025, and in 2026 he's already initiated a Coup d'État in Venezuela and now a major war in Iran, the end result of which won't be known for years. It was all a con job!

So why now? The only thing that makes perfect sense as to why now is Israel. Particularly since the 2023 invasion on Gaza, Netanyahu has been pressuring the US to bomb Iran. With the US so fully onboard in creating genocide there, very simply Netanyahu wants to strike while the iron is hot. Never mind Iran took the diplomatic negotiations seriously, made historic concessions regarding their nuclear program trying at all costs to avoid war, but the reality is the US & Israel had already agreed that war was inevitable. The Prime Minister understood the power of war to unite his country, and Trump, craving to have the same autonomy as the Prime Minister is hoping for the same.

That craving to be autocratic is why Trump is yet again destroying our democracy by intentionally violating our laws and norms when it comes to following the Constitution. With Republican control of Congress, Trump knows his party in large measure will be loyal regardless of what he does. Most Presidents use the first two years of their term when their party is dominant in Congress to push an aggressive agenda, but Trump's flagrant disregard for our Constitution is historically devastating as he wills the Executive Branch to have complete control over every facet of government while he is in office. Sometimes the way you do something speaks more than the act itself. Our President is itching to move on from the narrative of the Epstein files, where he is prominently

I learned in elementary school that two wrongs don't make a right. I learned in high school that the ends don't always justify the means. What I learned from my seminary training is that the bible is replete with scapegoat narratives, where perpetrators of violence and other forms of oppression use the immorality of others as justification to engage in immorality (often at a greater scale) themselves.

I wrote my book because George Floyd's death helped me recognize how police brutality is the bedrock of violent scapegoating, and how law enforcement demonizes and criminalizes in the name of the "divine" agenda of law and order to justify abusing power. And now we watch many Jews justify Israel's genocide in Gaza, and we will watch Christian Nationalists in America justify attacking Venezuela & Iran exploiting the power of scapegoating. As we pray to the God who is sovereign over all nations during these perilous times, I pray that God give me the fortitude to complete my doctoral studies on the perverted theology of scapegoating and how to reverse engineer it.

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Data: Federal immigration officers involved in 19 shootings in Trump's second term In at least 19 incidents, federal immigration officers have fired guns at civilians under President Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown. In addition to the five killed, at least eight have been injured.

Because of the God-given revelations within my award-winning book, the Lord has granted me favor in being accepted into the Ph.D. in Theology program at the University of South Africa. My research will build upon the work inaugurated in my book bringing robust academic rigor into examining the theological dynamics of police brutality, comparing the phenomenon here in the West with its manifestation in South Africa.

To God Be the Glory!!

Scapegoating Women of Color:

Consider Imane Khelif- Algerian boxer who was born a female at birth, has identified as a female all her life, participated in the 2020 Olympics as a female boxer with no controversy, but because she whooped a white female in 46 seconds this week in the Olympics and her opponent played the victim card, now folks want to challenge her gender.

Consider Kamala Harris- VP of the United States, who was birthed from a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, has identified as both Indian and black all her life, has been a black female politician for decades, but now, because she has stolen the political headlines by "knocking out" President Trump, who has been rendered weak, and vulnerable, his questioning of her race, an assault tactic he has used before with Obama, folks are now challenging her ethnicity.

Speaking of Obama, I remember the frenzy around the attack of his race, and whether he was born here in the US, both from folks who are from the race of privilege and from folks who look like us. Clearly we haven't learned the lesson from our history.

When I look at the attacks on this female boxer who is a woman of color, I am saddened to see how white folk once again have mastered the art of getting black people to attack our own. We are programed to scapegoat folks when we ourselves know too well how it feels to be scapegoated.

These are both exceptional, talented, accomplished women of color in a multitude of ways. I am ashamed of how we are so quick to appropriate the oppressors' tools to ignore the value of becoming educated before commenting, dismissing nuance and sensitivity, preferring to pander to emotionalism and prejudice vs seeing complexity and someone different than us as still worthy of being treated humanely.

We got work to do!

Derek Chauvin- former Minneapolis police officer with a troubled history of police misconduct, murders George Floyd, calls his supervisor afterwards characterizing the confrontation as a "medical incident."

Sean Grayson- now fired Illinois sheriff's deputy, worked at 6 different police departments within 4 years, accused of violating police policy, filing false police reports, claims Sonya Massey charged him with a pot of boiling water.

When dysfunctional officers with a history of police misconduct engage in criminal acts, the police leadership who hired them and unleashed them on the public should also be fired.

Chicago Community Chorus and Brass Solidarity led the community in the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Billy Briggs took this picture! I cant believe he was out in the blizzard and got this shot! That what it takes to get a beautifil pic of 38th & Chicago.
Photo: Billy Briggs

Keeping Hope Alive

Exciting to see how things came together!