Volume 25 Issue 34

September 20, 2020

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IF DONALD TRUMP WAS BLACK Have you ever heard the phrase, “sing through your pain?”

Well, today, we all should be singing Negro spirituals to guide people out of the madness that is surrounding the country we know as America, and the commander in chief who reigns.

To get right to it, President Donald Trump’s bizarre and rude behavior while in office makes you wonder -- would he get away with it -- if he was BLACK?

Not likely, but for the sake of things, let us share some of the things he’s done and let you make your own determination.

DOCUMENTED LIES! Donald Trump has been the ONLY president that has to have “fact checkers” verifying his statements during live press conferences and confirming whether his tweets are reporting falsehoods.

According to the Fact Checker’s database, has made more

than 20,000 false or misleading claims.

The database noted it took President Trump 827 days to top 10,000 false and misleading claims, with an average of 12 claims a day.

But on July 9, the president crossed the 20,000 mark — an average of 23 claims a day over a 14-month period, which included the events leading up to his impeachment trial, the worldwide pandemic that crashed the economy

and the eruption of protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody.

The coronavirus pandemic has really ramped up Trump’s misleading statements, it seems.

His comments regarding COVID-19/ coronavirus has reached nearly 1,000 false claims, according to the database.

President Barack Obama would never have gotten away with saying the things that Turmp cont’d page 4

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EARLY VOTING MATTERS

BLACK MAN GETTING BEAT DOWN Another video has gone viral and shocking photos have been released of yet another Black man being beaten down by police.

This one survived -but left unconscious -for allegedly failing to show his ID. According to reports, Roderick Walker, his girlfriend Juanita Davis, their 5-monthold son, and Davis’ 5-year-old son from a previous relationship, had dropped off a rental car and paid a man $10 to drive them home. Police stopped the vehicle they were in for a broken taillight.

Initial reports indicated Walker and his family were passengers in a Lyft,

but the rideshare company confirmed there was no Lyft ride activated during that time.

Lyft tweeted, “We’ve been made aware of a disturbing incident in Georgia. While we confirmed this did not happen during a Lyft ride, we unequivocally stand against racism and unnecessary use of force. We are in contact w/ @Georgia_ NAACP.” Things quickly escalated as officers asked for the driver’s license, but the driver did not provide one.

Officers also asked for the passengers’ driver’s Walker cont’d page 6

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Voting Matters!

Voting Matter because your family matters, your children and your community matters. If you can check any of the following boxes, voting should matter to you! ☐ Results of the Vote (Election) will determine if your tax dollars will be spent for Black wellbeing and the public good. ☐ Voting will decide if Medicare can be extended to the uninsured and the underinsured. ☐ Voting will decide if quality healthcare is available for diabetes and high blood pressure. ☐ Voting will decide if private insurance will be abolished or changed. ☐ Voting will decide if you will squeeze a dollar until the eagle grins when faced with the choice of paying rent, buying medicine and food, utilities, car note or METRO fares. ☐ Voting can decide if the ball, lock and chain of student loans and tuition can be released. ☐ Voting will decide which leaders for

the city, state, and presidency, and if they have a spine to support controversial reforms for police.

• Voting will decide if ex-felons can vote.

Reminder, 1 in 4 Black men are incarcerated in jails or penitentiaries, on probation or waiting to be sentenced. ☐ Voting can decide if leaders will be elected that will continue your Social Security check or raid the trust funds for toy weapon systems. ☐ Voting can decide who will occupy the most powerful office in the land-The presidency and SenateCongress. ☐ Voting can elect leaders who will oppose Voter Suppression and the destruction of the Post Office. ☐ Voting can decide if 1% of the people can decide the destiny of 99%. Will billionaires’ rule or will WE THE PEOPLE RULE? ☐ Voting can decide WAR or PEACE, and LIFE or DEATH for tens of millions. ☐ Voting can decide if the loser of an election will peacefully transfer power.

Remember the words of Madeline Albright, I paraphrase, “it is more important that an election is fair than who wins.”

RUN TO THE POLLS AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! AND….IT DOES! - AANI

A Revival of God

Consciousness Bobby E. Mills, PhD

Trump Lied: Americans Died The momentary spectacle of a Presidential election is fleeting, but the soul/ character of America is eternal. In order to be a Godly leader, an individual must be free from demonicaddictions. Perpetual lying is a demonicaddiction, because telling the same lies over and over again does not make them truths. Thus, the father of lies is the devil.

This is why the Bible declares that: “God hates a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.” Because: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”

Moreover, Christian Right Evangelicals should know that: “The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.” Therefore, given the colossal-spiritualmoral-failure of the Trump Presidency what America needs now is godly-component-

presidential-leadership in order to repair the spiritual-breach among Americans, because the Office of the Presidency belongs to the American people.

God-fearing Americans know that a fourhundred-years old Demonic-WhitePr iv ileg e - O r ie nted Mindset is difficult to spiritually overcome.

Racism drives individuals insane, because racial privilege (racism) is a lie. Lies kill both soul and body.

Trump’s lies are not only killing physical bodies, but the democratic soul of America as well as. It’s not about “RIGHT” or “LEFT”.

It’s about the salvation/ survival of a nationstate, because moralcourage and spiritualgoodwill should triumph over demonicfear. God warns US to fear not, because Jesus has overcome the sins of the world, death, and the grave.

Hence, only godliness and goodness can engender the collective unity of a god-fearing freedom loving people.

For almost four years President Trump has been demonicallyguiding America into a vision that only benefits him and his family; not American families.

America, public-morality depends on knowledge of God. Where there

is spiritual-ignorance or rejection of God crime and sin run rule. Holding the Bible upside down in front of a church is an example of lack of spiritual knowledge of God. God says: “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepth the law, happy is he.” In order for any nation to democratically function well, individuals must know God’s spiritual-laws and be willing to keep them: Ten Commandments.

Fear of a man is sinful, because it can hamper righteousness/ godliness. Fear of the Lord is spiritualliberation, because: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”

Wisdom is its own eternal reward. Therefore, GOP Politicians fear God. He can kill both body and soul! Therefore, please God. Do not fear POTUS #45 and hispolitical-base, because: “As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”

(Hebrews 9: 27). Sadly, the “I and I alone can fix-it” Presidentialleader has caused untold confusion, mayhem and death and in his bold-phraseology on November 3, VOTERS should say: “YOU ARE FIRED”.

Selah!

- AANI

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Blacks say ‘no’ to COVID-19 trials Researchers are having a tough time recruiting minorities to participate in clinical trials in the multi-billiondollar effort to get a coronavirus vaccine on the market. It doesn’t help that one person participating in a COVID-19 trial has been left paralyzed, according to reports.

One trial was halted when the test subject suffered spinal cord

damage, according to reports. AstraZeneca, which is running the global trial of the vaccine it produced with Oxford University, said the trial volunteer recovered from a severe inflammation of the spinal cord and is no longer hospitalized.

So, it is not shocking that not everyone is enthused to be the paid “guinea pigs” in the name of science.

Study subjects in trials are supposed to reflect the population that’s affected, but of the 350,000 people who’ve registered online for a coronavirus clinical trial, only 10% are Black or Latino, according to Dr. Jim Kublin, executive director of operations for the Covid-19 Prevention Network.

That is problematic because more than half of US

coronavirus cases have been among Black and Latino people. Moderna and Pfizer, the two US companies currently in Phase 3 trials, are having challenges getting a diverse group of participants.

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, gave the Moderna trial a “C” grade for recruiting minorities.

“From the first week

AFRAMNEWS.COM 3 I saw the numbers, they were not as encouraging as I would have liked,” Collins said.

The United States government is aiming to develop and deliver 300 million doses of a Coronavirus vaccine

by January, but if not enough minorities enroll, the panel of experts who monitor the trials could force a delay.

Black leaders agree that it’s a challenge to recruit Black people into the vaccine trials. and expect to finish enrollment in September.

“When we Black people hear ‘clinical

trials,’ we think ‘we’re not going to be researched on,’ and that’s across economic status and across educational status, not just one sector,” Renee Mahaffey Harris, president of The Center for Closing the Health Gap in Cincinnati, told CNN. Can you blame Black folks for not trusting?

Not if we remember the doomed Black men who were used and abused in the Tuskegee Experiment.

As outlined on the Centers for Disease Control website, in Tuskegee cont’d page 7

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ARE WE DONE? Attorney General William Barr shocked many across the nation this week when he publicly compared the minimized and coordinated lockdowns due to the coronavirus to the institution of slavery, one of the greatest atrocities of mankind.

The comment was made while Barr was participating in a Constitution Day celebration hosted by Hillsdale College.

The event’s host asked Barr to explain the “constitutional hurdles for forbidding a church from meeting during Covid-19, to which Barr replied,

“You know, putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest.

Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” A round of applause came from the crowd filled with mostly conservatives/white people, but more mouths across the nation were agape as many wondered how a lockdown for public safety could equate to the hundreds of years of forced labor, no pay, no schooling, rape and abuse tied to the enslavement of people.

Critics say Trump and his team are doing everything they can to steer potential Trump voters away from the reality that COVID-19 is deadly, and not going away anytime soon without proper safety precautions, including social distancing and wearing masks, in which the president has been an opponent.

The president has expressed concerns that heavy restrictions due to COVID-19 could negatively impact businesses and the economy, which is high on his priority

list ahead of the November election.

Barr has come out swinging in defense of Trump, backing up his views.

“Most of the governors do what bureaucrats always do, which is they ... defy common sense.

They treat free citizens as babies that can’t take responsibility for themselves and

others,” Barr said, adding, “We have to give business people an opportunity, tell them what the rules are you know the masks, which rule of masks, you had this month...and then let them try to adapt their business to that and you’ll have ingenuity and people will at least have the freedom to try to earn a living.”

His statement, “freedom to earn a living,” is a far stretch from the bondage of slavery, with no pay, to which he should never have mentioned. Are we done yet with this foolishness?

VOTE

Big or small, the Census is for us all.

Children should be included on your 2020 Census form—and not just children related to you, but any kids living at your address most of the time. When babies and children are included, the programs that support them get the funding they need.

Count your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, foster kids, and the children of any friends or relatives staying with you, even if it’s only temporary. Babies count, too! Even if they’re still in the hospital, as long as they were born by April 1, 2020, make sure the person completing the Census for your address includes them on the form.

For more information about the 2020 Census, visit 2020Census.gov or call 844-330-2020. | #2020Census #CountAllKids

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Walker cont’d

licenses.

At some point, the officers got into a physical altercation with Walker.

Video shows Walker on the ground with two deputies on top of him. One of the deputies repeatedly punched Walker in the face, drawing blood.

You hear a woman screaming at the cops to stop punching, and the deputy responded, “He’s biting my hand.”

“I’m gonna die!” and “I can’t breathe,” Walker was heard saying while one of the officers pressed his body weight on him.

Davis recorded the video, which was released on social media.

“After being made aware of a video posted on social media involving a Deputy using physical force on a man, Sheriff Victor Hill ordered his entire Internal Affairs Unit to come in and begin an investigation that has been ongoing since 8 p.m.,” the Clayton County Sheriff ’s Office said.

The deputy has since been terminated.

Walker’s attorney, Shean Williams, compared the incident to George Floyd’s death and is demanding criminal charges be filed against the officers involved.

This is becoming all too common. Will it ever end? Not likely, and the videos and photos will continue to

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The public hearing will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 by telephone and video conference call on the Zoom virtual meeting platform.

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