The Second Coming
America and the world are livid. These election results beg the question: When will folks realize what they are up against and unite? Trump got more Hispanic votes than any other candidate since JFK. He called them rapists, animals, and crooks, yet 45% rode him to victory. Blacks are saying Kamala is not Black enough. Maybe they would prefer a Black candidate from the Ghetto who speaks Ebonics.
Contributors: Ola George, Theo Edwards, and J. Reynold Weeks for YAME Digital
2024 US Election
America and the world are livid
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They say, "The eyes are the windows of the soul." Looking into the mirror, we see that America's soul is decidedly murky. The world was under the illusion that we Americans were so much better, but the election outcome indicates otherwise.
Something fundamentally wrong
Vanity Fair, the popular Condé Nast culture fashion, and current affairs magazine published a digital cover featuring a close-up image of him alongside the words: “34 felony counts, 1 conviction, 2 pending cases, 2 impeachments, and 6 bankruptcies, 4 more years—the 47th American president.”
In the wake of Trump’s victory. We have now elected a President with no guardrails. A man who promised to be a dictator from day one! A man who openly vowed to get rid of the Department of Education, which is a dog whistle for defunding Public Schools. The last time we checked that’s where most minorities send their kids to get an education. We have now elected a man who promised to gut down the EPA and has shown his disdain for NATO. We have now elected a man who at the ‘height of the pandemic in 2020, while the dead bodies of Americans were being dumped in trenches, secretly shipped our much-needed medications to Russia’ ~ Wall Street Journal. He now has control of the Congress, the Senate, the Justice Department, and the Supreme Court.
These election results beg the question: When will folks realize what they are up against and unite? Trump got more Hispanic votes than any other candidate since JFK. He called them rapists, animals, and crooks, yet 45% rode him to victory. Blacks are saying Kamala is not Black enough. Maybe they would prefer a Black candidate from the Ghetto who speaks Ebonics.
Analysts say race and gender played a significant role in Harris’s defeat, but so did voter disillusionment. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a scathing statement on the Democratic Party's ‘disastrous’ campaign after Vice President Kamala Harris lost.
Reflections Through a Dark Mirror
Jerry Seinfeld had it right: "It would be a nice world if it weren't for the people."
We have made our bed, and now we must lie in it. We must live with the decisions of this democratic process. For some, there is hope and joy; for others, there is worry and despair. Regardless of how you feel, we must face the outcome together. Considering everything that happened during his 45th term, it is difficult for us to understand the electorate's decision. However, we must now move forward, hoping that our democracy will not be destroyed in the process.
While we may have voted as a country, real change occurs in our local communities within America. We need to focus on our values and promote ideals that benefit everyone, one neighbor at a time.
Does this task feel overwhelming, naive, and overly hopeful? Without a doubt! But what’s the alternative? Destruction, division, and chaos await us if we don’t act!
Where we go from here is uncertain, but we hope America will do her best to act rightly, regardless of who is in D.C. God Bless us all!
Jonathan Pie | @JonathanPieNews
Trump wins the White House. Again. The Democrats blew it. Again. A depressing yet predictable result.
Contributors: Ola George, Theo Edwards, and J. Reynold Weeks for YAME DigitalIt's not that Kamala Harris lost; it's that America itself has lost. Share your thoughts!
UN Top Court Says Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories is Illegal
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel should stop settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and end its "illegal" occupation of those areas and the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.
By Raffi Berg, BBC News, London
The result could have consequences for Israel over its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza
It also says Israel should end all settlement activity there, in the landmark case.
By Raffi Berg, BBC News, LondonThe UN's top court has said Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is against international law, in a landmark opinion.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel should stop settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and end its "illegal" occupation of those areas and the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.
The court's advisory opinion is not legally binding but still carries significant political weight. It marks the first time the ICJ has delivered a position on the legality of the 57-year occupation.
The ICJ, based at The Hague in the Netherlands, has been examining the issue since the beginning of last year, at the request of the UN General Assembly.
The court was specifically asked to give its view on Israel's policies and practices towards the Palestinians, and on the legal status of the occupation.
Delivering the court's findings, ICJ President Nawaf Salam said it had found that "Israel's... continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal."
"The State of Israel is under the obligation to bring an end to its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible," he said.
The court also said Israel should evacuate all of its settlers and pay reparations to Palestinians for damages caused by the occupation.
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967. The court said the settlements were illegal. Israel has consistently disputed that they are against international law.
Israel also claims sovereignty over the whole of Jerusalem, which it considers its indivisible capital - something which is not accepted by the vast majority of the international community.