in the past months, we have had a few things happen that might be of interest but one has to wonder, or let us say I asked the question what if?  I saw a picture of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky and their baby and couldn’t help but smile. This is where I started to wonder what if, you see in July 2019 A$AP Rocky was arrested in Stockholm Sweden because his entourage got into a fight with someone on the street. Silly him, he recorded the incident and posted it on Instagram. He was arrested and detained in Stockholm.  The interesting thing is that Al Sharpton was initially contacted by Rocky’s family to help with his release, yes the same Al Sharpton who is always first on the scene to talk about racism, Police Brutality, etc. The same one who didn’t know Trump was racist. You would think he would be able to do something (Ha ha).  we all know how that turned out.

Then-president Trump Tweeted his support for A$AP Rocky, the former US Ambassador to Sweden asked the US government to do something,  well after a few days, Rocky was released and was given a  suspended sentence, although he was asked to pay $12,000  in damages. Then deputy Prime Minster of Sweden said that President Trump threatened Sweden with sanctions if Rocky wasn’t released.  I thought Whoa!!!! but Trump is a racist!!!!!!! , he couldn’t have done this to help a rapper who kept getting into trouble, could he ?? Moreover, he didn’t have to……….  Up until Today Trump hasn’t said anything about that, much like he didn’t say anything about what he did for Jennifer Hudson, they came out to say it.   As much as Trump is blamed for everything, even the balloon that was shot out of the sky a few days ago, he has been out of office for a few years and still getting the blame .. interesting!!!!!

I couldn’t help but think, had Trump not done this, A$AP Rocky wouldn’t have been released, and the union between Rihanna and Rocky wouldn’t have happened. When it comes to Biden, only God knows what he would have done. The women Biden chooses have interesting similarities.

At the end of the day, I don’t demand love from my politicians/representatives,  for I don’t know them  I only know what they show me or tell me, I only ask that they do right by me.

Let’s remember Rev Al is the same one who didn’t know Trump was racist until he became President.

You couldn’t ask for a perfect start to black history month, This whole event was perfectly put together to the point where one has to wonder if this whole thing was a celebration or a political event of some sort.

It might sound crazy but it seems to me that we only identify ourselves through misery and pain. Almost as if we only identify blackness with pain, after all, misery does love company.  Make no mistake I’m not justifying what happened, in no way will any sane person do that, but we cannot say the end justifies the means in this case. What we do know is someone is going to get a big payout at the end, we just don’t know who yet.

Do you know what will be very interesting?  If the family had asked, all, including the politicians that this event is made private, and also the prevention of making this a political affair. Now,  that would have been a shocker to the people who attended, especially, the politicians. They didn’t Tyre Nichols, so I’m finding it hard to believe they were that sympathetic.

It is funny how Kamala Harris used the occasion to tell people that the George Floyd act should be passed as if to say that if that act had been in place,  this wouldn’t have happened, let us not forget these officers had body cams. Moreover, if this was as important to her as she makes It out to be, she should be talking to her boss, not to the family who just lost a loved one.

May this Gentleman Rest in Peace, he didn’t have to die, and the fact that we always have to use someone’s death to make a political statement is strange, also these are people who should have been politically responsible… The funny thing is that we don’t want to be treated as disposable, hell we cry every day and every night about being treated as though we are disposable, after everything we have been through, but then we treat each other just like the way we hate to be treated! 

This brings me to my topic.  Today I’m talking about the World Economic Forum. an event that takes place every year. Let me enlighten you. The World Economic Forum is a meeting of the most powerful people in the world, of course with power comes influence and money.  This event as I stated already, happens every year at a place called Davos, in Switzerland. They meet and decide world policy. Every influencer be it an actor, people in positions of power, or just plain rich, etc has been to the World Economic Forum in Davos at one time or another.  Arent we curious to know what happens there?? This isn’t a conspiracy theory, and it is hardly a secret at all,  they release a report of their meetings every year, and this year’s report is about 100 pages.  .  Anyone can get a report of these yearly meetings if they so choose, it’s no secret at all.  The World Economic Forum even has a website where people can go and read whatever information they want.  Again these people shape Global policy. 

my question is if these people are the ones responsible for current events in today’s world. why arent we more informed about this??? informed enough to ask questions ??

At the end of the day we are more concerned with things we cannot control, and those things become our natural opium, we are not concerned about policy and where these people are taking the world, some of these powerful people were elected by their nations.

People like

Brad Pitt

Angelina Jolie

Jeff Bezos

Jack Ma

Donald Trump

Will-I AM

Matt Damon

Richard Gere

Condoleezza Rice

George Bush

Joe Biden

Hillary Clinton

Bono

Leonardo Dicarprio

John Kerry

Pharrell

Forest Whitaker

Bill Gates

Barack Obama

Just to name a few, just anyone who is someone in this world has been to Davos, our own black billionaires have been there, these people shape global policy yet we hardly know that this meeting takes place. I think we should do a better job of being and staying informed. I’m not here to give anyone a history lesson, I’m asking the question of us being more informed about world affairs. Today we have no excuse.

As black people we say we believe in so-called White supremacy,  well the first thing about white supremacy is that it is Global and international, if anyone thinks I’m lying all they have to do is look at the institution of slavery, slavery was international, it is almost as if there was an international coordination,  and also an international coordination when it was abolished. Other examples are Wall Street, trading, etc. Everything happens globally, the world is too vast and broad for us to limit ourselves to one country. International Affairs is a must.

THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

1. Democrats did say Trump stole the election. Hillary Clinton went around saying this, somehow everyone has forgotten about that, people like Maxine Walters and others did go to congress that day asking, Vice president JOE BIDEN, who is our current president, not to certify the results. (Trump’s Win).
2. Trump heard about some people planning to start some sort of violence during the protest, she asked Nancy Pelosi to deploy the National Guard to keep the protest orderly, well she refused. well, they say there is no evidence of that like there is evidence of every conversation they ever had between one another.

I wonder why they want to keep this going, during  Trump’s presidency,  everyone claimed they had evidence of  Russia collusion. That Russia helped Trump to win the election. That turned out to be false and a waste of Tax Payer’s money.  Now let us come to the FBI raid.  When it comes to these things people don’t even remember a month ago let alone go into research and read some history.  There is the president’s records act, enacted in 1978.   the short version of this is that presidents do take some records home, when they do, the national archives can request these documents back, depending on what they are.  They couldn’t him on that act so they are trying to get him on espionage, saying he sold nuclear secrets to Russia, if i didn’t know better I could swear, they were obsessed with Russia, first, there was Russian collusion, which turned out to be false, now this… the public shouldn’t be believing this, in fact, we should be thinking of the future and our survival for that matter and how to combat inflation. 

 This brings me to the Britney Griner case, why do people believe Russia is being harsh when it is a sovereign nation and has the right to enact its own laws? People in our country don’t understand that you cannot do anything you want in this universe!!!!!!.  if you do, there are consequences.  Every country is different, marijuana has been legal in Europe, and the Netherlands for a long time, but they don’t just put it in their pockets while travelling to some other country where it might be illegal. There are some countries that have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to anything considered a narcotic, and they have their reasons for that.  Therefore when travelling one should do their homework before travelling, here are a few countries that have to impose harsh penalties on offenders,  we have North Korea, which everyone would suspect they do, Japan, Vietnam, China, Iran, Indonesia ( in this country, you can face the death penalty by firing squad) why you might ask, well they are struggling with a severe drug epidemic, so they enacted a zero-tolerance policy. Sweden also did the same thing since too many people were developing drug addictions, we sit in front of our TVs thinking well we should be allowed to do what we want everywhere, even in some other countries. This has nothing to do with. before you go to other countries, read their policies, and their laws,  even Sweden has a zero-tolerance policy therefore if you have anything with any narcotic in it, you need to throw it away before going. For example, I will never take hemp seed oil to any of these countries and that is that.

Now gas prices,  when this began, we were told it was because of the war in Ukraine, which was totally false, although prices have gone down a little bit, we still haven’t been told why this happened, One reason is inflation, but there are other factors that we are not being told. if you ask me, this deserves a protest, but no one is protesting these things…A recession is coming, we don’t know how bad it is going to be, yet we are being told all these lies and that the recession wouldn’t be that bad because the job market is still strong, but a recession,  is a slow process that is what people don’t get. The funny thing is they just signed the inflation reduction act, which is supposed to combat inflation, it is $400 billion, how do you combat inflation by printing more ?????? …These are interesting times.

Funny they are all on the same page when it comes to money, This is why I say Policy, not people, I cannot blame them for putting their interests first, I blame the common man for not paying attention to what is going on, this is news that no one really knows about or hardly care!. We are caught up in the emotions of politics and we just go with the flow.   

Trump at least tried to do something for the common man, but can I blame him for trying to enrich himself in the process, NO!!!! No matter how the rich hate each other, if it’s a business that they will all benefit from, they will put their differences aside, even if it is just for one minute. Never mind political parties, they all belong to the Rich class!!!

The sad thing is that people won’t admit that they voted their emotions and fell for the “feel good’ politics democrats tell us all the time, they won’t admit they didn’t like Trump as a Character and not his policies, fun fact when Trump was in office, gas prices were a lot lower, try $2.38 (This was the national average).  I got to give it to Joe, his pretending worked,  if people didn’t vote their emotions, if they did their homework and research, they would have found out that Biden’s racism was and is well documented.

Funny on the Jimmy Kimmel show, he said they have done a lot of great things but they just don’t know how to tell us. He still got away with this on national TV, he openly insulted the intelligence of the audience by saying, ” Oh we have done a lot of great things, we just need to communicate it better, ” Like saying we just have to simplify the language, you know you are not as smart as we are to understand what we have done “.

On that same show, he talked about a  lot more biracial couples on TV, he actually listed that as one of his achievements. I guess by his standards everything is fine!!!! Never mind gas, food, etc. Oh, don’t forget, if you want to drive for free, get an electric car!.

The Concept of inflation is a complex one and many don’t grasp that concept very well. This is why they can blame everything and everyone else with a straight face on national TV and get away with it.  I don’t want to bore you with the mathematical concept of inflation but what they are telling us is not true. Gas prices started going up before the war in Ukraine. Many economists predict a recession is just around the corner. Things are not looking good!!!!!!

      Let’s see how politically aware we are, it may or may not come as a surprise that the democrats can single-handedly pass anything they want now because they control both houses, they really don’t need republicans, even though they still try to blame Republicans for their failed promises. The midterm elections are upon us again, the question is will there be a shift????  Cause nothing has been done, from the lift every voice plan to all other plans they told us they were going to do. California has passed some sort of reparations committee, and this is just to study who should receive it, it’s funny,  I’m wondering why states like Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Virginia, etc. didn’t participate in that study. These states were directly involved in slavery.

      The midterms are fast approaching, things are changing although gas is still expensive, inflation is at an all-time high, things are not looking good for the Democrats,  but ever since Joe Biden has been in office, then he and his fellow Democrats have had the power to do so much without needing republican support, but pretending there is still some sort of resistance from Republicans. The republicans now don’t have an excuse, they control the white house to both houses of Congress, and according to some news sources, the president has signed 87 executive orders so far. Now as it stands they can pass anything they want, they can make all the changes they want, and more importantly, they can make the changes they promised black people, at least do some of the things that they outlined in the “lift every voice” plan.  Joe Biden has yet to surpass Trump on what he did for black people, I wouldn’t say he did much but at least it was something we can point to, Well with Joe we are being asked to wait, right ???  

1. Expansion of enterprise zones
2. More funds to HBCUs ( Executive order 13779)
3. First Step Act
4. Music Modernization Act

 To end this I said this and I will say it again, I like the Music Modernization Act because the music industry has treated black people, some died penniless, so I’m looking at this from a black perspective, but that is just me though.

Brothers and sisters all I can say is “be careful” with your vote, especially this mid-term election.