February 21, 2021
GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
Vol. 26, Issue 05
“Addressing Current & Historical Realties Affecting Our Community”
TEXANS UNPREPARED FOR WINTER SLAP! By: N.L. Preston
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
By: Roy Douglas Malonson
Hypocrisy at its finest: What a White man can get away with, a Black man would get lynched for half, and this “unspoken but well understood” rule of thumb is something that African Americans have been aware of for generations. And White people know it too, they just once pretended to ignore it, that is, until their “Proud Boy” criminal-in-chief Donald Trump became president of the United States of America. It’s been hell ever since. We want you think about something. Imagine if Barack Obama did or said half the things Trump did, the country’s first Black president would have been impeached -- with MORE than enough votes to kick him out of the White House -- or even assassinated while Trump keeps getting passes for no other reason than he was born rich - AND WHITE! The world of Trump is CRIMINAL and goes
against all of the JUSTICE that Obama was feverishly working to bring to America. A revisit of all of the atrocious and egregious acts Trump committed while in office shows how racist this country is – and how much racism certain “shades” of political leaders are willing to turn a blind eye to in order to protect one of their own. Republicans – we are talking about you! Trump has been wreaking havoc on America even before he became president, but his “rock star” celebrity status - with no political background - made him a “Teflon Don” Godfather that Francis Ford Coppola could not even conceive. The last four years have seen Trump commit one offense after another, with no Republicans willing to speak up or out against him, for fear of retaliation from him Criminal Justice and his base, possibly loscont’d page 4 ing their seats. It’s been a
Texas was brought to its knees this past week after a historic winter storm blew in, bringing temperatures the Lone Star State hasn’t seen in over the last 70 years. At one point, CenterPoint Energy, which serves the Houston area, was feverishly working to restore service to nearly 1.27 million people who were impacted by outages. It was a “blame game,” with both the Governor of Texas and the Houston mayor pointing fingers at Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), saying it was responsible for the state not being prepared to handle the epic cold, leaving millions of residents without power, water pipes bursting in homes statewide, hotels closures limiting places to evacuate to, and dozens of people dying from either cold exposure, house fires and carbon monoxide poisoning while just trying to stay warm. “Neither the City of Houston nor Harris County controls or regulates ERCOT or the power generators. The power outages are the responsibility of the state,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner tweeted. He also acknowledged that he, too, was without power and frustrated. As the Energy Capital of the World, Houston is the headquarters and the intellectual capital for virtually every segment of the energy industry including exploration, production, transmission, marketing, supply, and technology. Houston employs nearly a third of the nation’s jobs in oil and gas extraction and has specific
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WASH YOUR HANDS FREQUENTLY • AVOID PUBLIC SPACES OR EVENTS WITH MORE THAN 10 PATRONS • SANITIZE AND STOCK UP • AVOID TOUCHING YOUR EYES, NOSE AND MOUTH • PRACTICE GOOD HYGIENE