ON THE EVE OF Nov 3, 2020 Presidential Election

-Evangelicals are seemly having a change of heart

 

During the 2016 Presidential Election a considerable number of the evangelicals strongly disapproved of Trump’s behavior but could not imagine voting for someone who would be a Democrat. Therefore, an expression was concocted: “The lesser of two evils”. As they looked toward the Democratic Party platform headed by Hillary Clinton, and its position on things such as:

.Abortion and LGBTQ Rights

 

The consensus was enough to render candidate Trump as the lesser of the two evils

 

According one of the popular evangelicals, Wayne Grudem, author and seminary professor, conceded in The Christian Post that candidate Trump was:

>Egotistical

>Bombastic and

> Brash

 

Albeit, that concluded consensus fact did exist, the thought of consciousness was, yes, such a plight is evident-but that he represented an “unusual opportunity” to defeat:

>Pro-Abortion

>Pro-Gender-confusion

>Anti-religious liberty

>Tax and spend

>Big Government liberalism uniquely associated with Hillary Clinton

 

However, now at this juncture, on the eve of the Nov 2020 election-there is an inadvertent concern over Trump’s perceived exploitation of Christianity. This has become a bone of contention, and is enough for a paradigm shift to change the minds of some evangelicals.

 

In addition, some theologians have argued that the appropriate Christianity for teaching purposes is contrary to the Southern Methodist University edits and beliefs. Factually speaking, one of the Southern Methodist Officials wrote an article for the paper titled” “Should we call Donald Trump ‘antichrist’?” The article further stated, that policies is being done that become a culture-infecting spread of the gangrene of sinful –exploitation of boasting and strife-stirring.

 

Even from a conservative evangelical perspective the so-called gains of Trump’s presidency are increasingly being weighed against the losses incurred. Also the editor of Christianity Today, wrote an article calling for Trump to be remove from office, his comments, “If we don’t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come”

 

As we now face the Nov 2020 election, the school of thought is that most conservative evangelicals will still vote for Trump. However, that being said, a significant group will not, and that minority group  have concluded he is, in fact, the worse of the two evils this time, and they will either not vote for Trump, and shall consider a vote for a candidate, not a Republican, perhaps for the first time ever in their lives, case and point Cindy Mc Cain the wife of the late Senator John Mc Cain has thrown her support toward the other political party

 

Steve Braxton, CEO, Business Adviser, Corporate Board of Director, Life Coach, Author and Freelance Writer & International Blogger, http://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs/

 

THE KIDNAPPING CLUB-Asinine and Embolic Pro-slavery activities

 

This critical essay traces the facts of little known insights and Intel about selling freed Black New Yorkers into slavery by the City of New York cops. It is the recollection of an asinine outright act of racism met with financial opportunity by men like Isaiah Rynders, who accrued immense wealth, legally, but by nefarious ways and means.

 

As the nation’s most populist city amid most of its history, New York has been uniquely affected by such dynamic as this outrageous act of inhumane treatment of people of color. All during decades before the Civil War, when the Gotham’s police force was becoming regulated and professionalized, as the City of Manhattan erupted into riotous violence over the very meaning of diversity, inclusion and equality.

 

In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city’s soul: the abolitionists continued fighting for freedom. The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, and all in Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

 

We need only look to and reflect on the current clashes between protestors and law enforcements officers in Illinois, Ohio, Portland, Atlanta, up to Kenosha, Minnesota and other cities and states that are but flashpoints in the annuals of history of policing in America. While today’s police emerge from a diatribes of a hodge-podge of national and international display of iterations of vituperative attacks of behavioral patterns

 

Looking back on the by-gone era of the earliest and most storied forces, that of New York City police officers, which tends to offer the free world of modern American real upfront and close lessons in the intricacies of the problems between the Black Community and officers are sworn to uphold the law. Which chronicles a long history that is the bleak, inhumane, and demoralizing treatment of the indigenous populist of America?

 

Paradigm Shift for change

Moreover, these past situations also vividly remind us that real genuine and authentic change must be a need and has  to be supported when systematic racism and  oppression are met by others who bravely battles against abject racial discrimination-working toward Diversity, Inclusion and Equality.

 

No one individual embodied the brawling roughness of New York policing like Isaiah Rynders who would rise to become the Captain of the U.S. Marshals. He was known for his thunderous voice, a powerful memory, and a penchant for histrionics, Rynders made an immediate impact on New York City. Black New Yorkers was his main target of attacks and destruction. For decades he patrolled the streets looking to apprehend runaways who had escaped enslavement in the south and found freedom in Manhattan. There was a Fugitive Slave Clause that required free cities like New York for self-emancipated slaves to be returned to their southern owners, and NYPD officers like Rynders was more than willing to comply. He very conveniently absorbed their malice and hatred for Blacks into the reference for the nation foundering document-as a compromise over self-emancipated slaves, for which he and his men were paid very handsomely to do so.

 

This was a long history of bleak and demoralizing instances during that by-gone era.  Such situations and circumstances serves as a reminder that real change will only happen by learning the collective American experience, one in which those who supported systems of oppression was met by others who bravely battled against such injustices of discriminatory tactics

 

 

I digress; Rynders became a Democratic elder statesman during and after the war. As a matter of fact, New York City stood at the ready to defend the cotton farming trade with the Southern States. Rynders embraced and embodied the newspaper like The New York Weekly Caucasian, considered one of the nation’s most prominent promoters of white supremacist, its ideology, and was a most unfriendly place and atmosphere for African Americans.

 

One hundred and fifty years later, policing has changed somewhat-but the tensions between the nation’s Black Communities and policing are still evident and cast in the same old mold. People of color have been fully aware of such history for generations, due to being the object of so much of the violent quest for “law and order”.

 

Currently, there seem to be more Americans of the other persuasion, who are now interested in learning more about the fraught of history of the inhumane treatment of browns and blacks by law enforcement officers in America.

 

For the first time they have come to realize that since the incidents and happening of the latest killings of George Floyd, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor and other untold situations regard modern expressions of concern and sensitivity of the deeper and deadly struggles of oppressions being encountered by Brown and Black people stretching back to America’s earliest beginnings

Steve Braxton, freelance writer & blogger, storyteller, narrators & orator-hall-of-fame enshrined, linkedin.com/steve-braxton-939aa420,http://blogspot.com/money_making-blogs,

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

I have been selected by the SPLC to be one of the National Representatives to participate in a data-gathering survey initiative for insights and Intel of Voter Suppression that now Permeates our Nation. This survey will give the SPLC the chance and purposes to respond with legal services for those who are victims of discrimination in the following ways:

.Voting Rights-Hate Groups-Discrimination and Intolerance

.Immigration Reform, and the Civil Rights Movement

Know This: The 1965 Voting Rights Act enfranchised millions of Black, Brown, Native Americans, Latinx, and Asian American citizens. In particular, those who were previously denied an equal opportunity to cast a vote at the ballot box. However, are you aware that in 2013, The Shelby vs Holder Act gutted and altered the initial version of the 1965 Voting Rights Decision?

That ruling suggested that the 1965 Voting Rights document and its people contained therein are considered "Post-Racial"  and that voters of color no longer needed protection.

And since then we have witnessed an avalanche and tidal wave of State Laws sweeping across the country with the specific purposes that are designed to suppress the vote of the very same communities that the 1965 Voting Rights Act was created to protect.  

Some States has gone so far as to deploy Voter Suppression tactics in the following ways:

.Purging Voter Rolls-Restricting Voting Rights-Block returning citizens 

.Instituting voter ID Laws-Limiting Access to voting by US Mail

.And other measures that disproportionately affect Low-Income, Black Brown, Latinx, and Asian American Voters

Moreover, the SPLC is destined, deliberately, and intentionally not going to let that happen. For over 50 years the SPLC had led the fight to turn the promise of the Civil Rights Movement into reality for people who face Systematic Racism and the manacles chains of Discrimination.

The intent is that all of the voter suppression laws can, and will be overturned. Because the SPLC shall continue to fight with every Fiber of their Being to grasp and muster the resiliency to make sure that every election is fair, honest, and that justice is served for all with regards to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality.

I am asking all of you my social media family, friends, and followers to join in this extremely worthwhile noble cause for the sake of all humanity, in particular, Black, Brown, Latinx, and Asian Americans

You can view the SPLC website here: www.splcenter.org or drop them a note at 400 Washington Ave, Montgomery, Alabama 36104, (334)956-8200. Be sure to note and mentioned my name

Very important that you be an activist for justice-silence create fertile ground for hate and discrimination to grow. Let your voice be heard in these difficult and trying times

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THE FINAL COUNT DOWN OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTAL SHOW 

Instead of facing off in a regular televised virtual debate on the evening of Oct 15, 2020, the night ending up being separate dueling town halls session on ABC & NBC television networks.

Donald Trump at NBC and Joe Biden at ABC. A situation, that an enormity of people cast in a nightmare of an alternate universe of viewing. Some Americans found hope by viewing old films from varied spheres of other-dimensional eras. Such as science-fiction series on Amazon Prime.

Those who watched while switching from the focus of one dialogue, and sometimes on to the other. The most striking contrast revealed was how much louder Trump was during his event than the Biden event was It seemed that Trump shouts a lot, while Biden is more of a calm and relaxed talker.

Another difference noticed and became ostensibly was when Trump has to deal with something he does not like, such as the moderator Savannah Guthrie's, who asks many questions about his debt and the taxes. During such times he would spur out a lot of expletives and defensive words. Most did not form a recognizable sentence, or an idea, nor did not contain accurate or truthful information when fact-checked. However, his words always form a defense wall of noise against unwelcome and unwanted inquiries. 

Moreover, when Biden was asked a challenging question, for example, the question of "does Trump deserved any credit for peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirate ---Biden Used some tact and diplomacy: He let the change advance far enough to dissipate some of its energy, and then he struck back. In essence, Biden allowed that Trump did deserve a little credit, but not much. And rather than arguing the point he offered a different focus on a thought of the process and thinking about foreign policy. Biden shared the fact and the impact of success and trust by allies, which is a view and the acceptance of  America's integral reputation in the free world since Trump has been the president. 

Trump's demeanor as a supposed businessman-his focus and recall. Err on his approach that everything is a war, every question as an attack, and every attack requires a counterpunch. 

Biden, on the other hand, career politician, VP of the U.S., season and mature elder statesman, treated each instance as an invited opportunity to enlightened and raise the consciousness of awareness. When he was challenged on fracking and the green new deal-he did not counterpunch but rather made a counter-offer

Trump seemly possess the propensity to make enemies. Immediately after the debate, he instructed his campaign to release this tweet: "President Trump soundly defeated NBC's Savannah Guthrie in her role as the debate opponent and Joe Biden surrogate. President masterfully handled Guthrie's attacks and interacted warmly and effectively with the voters in the room"

Biden, did no such nonsense, as a matter of fact, after the debate he lingered in the hall talking, taking, and answering questions face-to-face with the participants, which was really appreciated by all, as a testament of the humanist of his persona.

One of Trump's spokesperson said that the Biden event was "an episode of Mister Rogers Neighborhood"-done in the abject behavior of Trump's lack of authentic style. Well, that comment by Trump's spokesperson showed their ineptitude and horrid lack of knowledge when it comes to what the classic children's program was hosted by Mr. Fred Rogers for many years.

The Show Mr. Rogers produced and hosted provided joy for children as it really was in the pursuance to ally fear. But Of Course, In Trump's world allaying fear is the last he wants to do. The approach in his world is to:

~Incite Fear-Stroke Fear-Manipulate Fear and

~Exploit all the Wherewithal of Fear

!That he can possibly muster the strength to orchestrate

However, I hasten to add, this happens for at least some people, for the least amount of time, for a limited number of people. BTW for the sake of those limited number of people Mr. Rogers Children ran for numerous decades. It seems that the orange man; tenure is destined for only a mere four seasons. #NUFFSED#

STEVE BRAXTON, CEO, BUSINESS ADVISOR, CORPORATE BOARD OF DIRECTOR'S, LIFE COACH. FREELANCE WRITER & BLOGGER, HTTP://BLOG.FEEDSPOT.COM/MOLNEY_MAKING_NLOGS/