Vol. 50 No. 43
February 13, 2020 -February 19, 2020
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue till they have resisted either with words or blows or words or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. —Fredrick Douglass (1849)
Is President Trump A Product Of Divine Intervention? By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor
“In 2016, President Trump had never run for a political office before. He was caught spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on call women, cheating thousands of people via his fraudulent companies, and the GOP supported and voted for him.” (President Donald J. Trump is introduced on stage Saturday, March 2, 2019, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Md. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)) As Americans, everyone is given the freedom to believe what they can conceive. To African Americans, President Barak Obama was a Golden Child, a spiritual entity, who brought truth to power and transformed America and the world. He will always be idolized by Black Americans as the first Black President of the United States, and that can never be taken away from his/our legacy. Many African Americans will state that they never expected in 2008, that a Black man would become president of the United States. The spiritual and religious side of the Black community would say that their prayers were answered, and Ex-President Obama’s election was divinely inspired. Similarly, many evangelicals believe that the only explanation for President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory was also “Divine Intervention.” “It truly explains the Trump victory, I have no doubt. No man can take the credit. Only the strong right arm of a merciful God. But that was in harmony with the believers interceding on behalf of the American election last night in Jerusalem, praying in concert with those of us praying in America,” says reporter Garth Kant of WND. It is obvious that this thinking was from White evangelicals, who made up 25% of all 2016 voters who supported Trump. The polls also showed that 52% of Catholics voted for the GOP, after most of them voted for ExPresident Obama in the previous
presidential elections. In 2016, President Trump had never run for a political office before. He was caught spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on call women, cheating thousands of people via his fraudulent companies, and the GOP supported and voted for him. When evangelicals say they operate on biblical principles, but they vote for Trump, something is fundamentally wrong. When our founding fathers said they were people of faith, and the foundation of our civilization is the Bible, but a system of millions in slavery was created, we must ask the question, why? Would slavery be part of biblical teaching? The media has determined that President Trump has lied over 15,000 times in the last 3 years he has been in office. The most ironic thing about these records is most Trump supporters don’t believe they are true. As a result of the impeachment, more American support Trump than ever before. “And, prayers are so specific,” says Ex-Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) “We prayed for elections by county and cities and districts. We literally watched results follow the faithful effectual prayers of righteous people who had humbled themselves and cried out to God for his mercy. This wasn’t credit for us; this was clearly the Lord’s gracious doing.” For the last thousands of years, White people have believed they have a divine right to rule the planet through economics,
politics, educational right, and army’s might. With only 10% of the inhabitants of the planet identified as White, this group on the planet is preparing for war. Instead of preparing for climate change and ensuring that all Americans have excellent health care, the president is destroying the system and taking away our powerful standing in the world. At the State of the Union Address, the President gave one Black mother and her daughter a scholarship but refused to discuss how the administration plans to fix millions of Black students and schools that are decaying in inner cities. It is easy to talk about one brother who has benefited from an inner city program, but nothing is being done about mass incarceration of millions of Black men who are being destroyed by the system. If you are a conservative Black or White, and you believe that the economic system is working for you, just open your eyes. Companies are closing up all over the country, and technology is putting millions out of work. In the impeachment the Democrats proved that our president is a criminal, and he is destroying the quality of life in America. Don’t be fooled. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BlackPressUSA.com or the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
The Children Are Our Future: National Action Network’s First West Coast Conference Shouts Education By Tanu Henry | California Black Media
Governor Newsom speaks at the National Action Network, western regional conference, Margaret Fortune, president and CEO Fortune School, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Rev. Tecoy Porter, Sacramento NAN Education may not have been the official theme of the National Action Network’s first Western
Regional Conference. But it was clearly the primary focus of the gathering.
The civil rights organization convened the meeting Feb. 5 through Feb. 7, at the Genesis Church in South Sacramento, where the Rev. Tecoy Porter - he also serves as president of the Sacramento chapter of NAN - is the pastor. “A special word of welcome must go to all our friends, family and generous guests who have traveled far and wide to be here with us,” said the Rev. Jonathan Moseley, Western Regional Director of NAN, in his welcome statement to guests. “We have a lot of work ahead of us in this most important year (continued on page 3)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is now a prison inmate in Texas By Matt Hamilton Staff Writer Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, once a respected law enforcement leader who was convicted of thwarting a federal investigation into his department’s violent, scandalplagued jail system, has reported to a Texas prison to begin a threeyear term behind bars. Baca, 77, arrived Tuesday at the Federal Correctional Institution La Tuna, a low-security prison outside El Paso, according to a representative for the facility. The start of his incarceration followed years of legal wrangling and was an ignominious coda to the career of a man who once led the nation’s largest sheriff’s agency and won plaudits for pushing inmate education initiatives and tackling issues of homelessness and mental health. The former sheriff, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, was sentenced in 2017 to three years in lockup after a jury found he oversaw the plan to interfere with the federal probe into inmate abuses in the county jail system and later lied to prosecutors about his role. The conviction was upheld by
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is now behind bars at a low-security federal prison outside El Paso.(Nick Ut / Associated Press) the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year, and in January the Supreme Court denied Baca’s long-shot request to have his case reviewed. Baca had remained free while his appeals were pending. “While Sheriff Baca’s trial and sentencing were replete with significant legal errors, Sheriff Baca approaches the sentence he will serve with the same humility and respect for the law that he demonstrated during his 50-year career with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,”
said Nathan Hochman, his longtime defense attorney. Baca was the last in a group of Sheriff’s Department employees — from low-level deputies to Baca’s second-in-command — to be accused of playing a role in the 2011 scandal, which involved hiding an inmate who was an FBI informant and threatening to arrest the agent who was leading the investigation. All 10 of those who faced charges in the case either pleaded guilty or were (continued on page 6)