THE REAL REAWAKENING ROYAL STORY

FEW OF THE OLD & NEW WORLD MONARCHS

First and foremost, we wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land on which we live & pay our respect to their elders of the past & present, from all nations who gave their lives for all their enduring praiseworthy causes.

Our story is not about blaming or condescending the successive families who are in the Royal system of pedigree that has been around for ‘millions of years’ around the world, but Revealing Real Royal Reformations of Amenities & Duties.

Inviting the Prince William & Princess Kate to visit Australia and the attention of the Australian people and government is becoming unstoppable like the rest of the Royals, again and again. How on earth these ancient novelties of Royal Receptions continue to occur expenses paid for, while the natives endure and live under extremely challenging mental and physical living conditions are so overwhelming with so little help from the Royal sympathizer, Australian government, who continues to bring the Royal families, honoring the commands of the bygone era pledges, buy AUKUS submarines...

Like the rest of Royals, Prince William’s brother, Harry has also been here before, costing the people, for the purpose of training with the Australian army no apparent significance except for routine Royal duties that attracted Media doing Hongi.

Honestly, the expenses paid were taken from so many who have lived in Struggle Street giving up their land and assets to receive bare or no essential benefits.

For those who complain trying to bury the truth must know that “if you shut up & try to bury the truth, it will but grow even bigger.” “No one is more hated than who speaks the truth.” –Plato

It’s time Australia should recognize all its past mistakes earnestly, not only in words and on paper, and respect the Indigenous people and all other black people that live here like all other immigrants who called Australia Home.

Brits also must accept changes; one thing we all should try to instigate in our lives is accepting and making changes if we have to see a better outcome. We can’t continue doing the same thing for generations and expect a miracle. One thing is for sure, all the Royals around the world have lived a lavish lifestyle without a real day jobs except timeless visits. It’s time for the new breeds to find a way to be independent without being restrained or live in iron curtailed structures for life.

Honestly, it is a mentality that is willing and able to reflect on past experiences, past actions and their outcomes. It is only through such reflections that one learns one’s strengths, weaknesses and the environment and conditions in which actions were undertaken and what could have been done differently that could have resulted in a positive outcome. It is not enough to admit collective failure. One needs to evaluate one’s role in the failure. Especially, so much fighting is happening around the world we live in.

No one can justify how the visits of Prince Williams and family will bring the changes required in Australia. Prime Minister Albanese was just softening his voice to be a loyal Royalist than being the true blue Aussie.

There are lots of our modern day messiahs. The trouble is they get killed as soon as people notice their passion and compassion restricting their individualism. And those saviors or advocates never demanded to be revered as they considered themselves as one of us. We must not forget civil rights advocates of our time like Martin Luther King, Jr. and all others as noble examples.

“How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, you shall reap what you sow… How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

Can any government, being elected to the office, come up with new policies that are completely different from the incumbent in order to preserve its rule of law rather than continuously doing the same thing over and over, again and again?

Another exceptional news is Prince Harry & Meghan Markle, the Duchess, were forsaking their palace life to live a simple life like that of the Buddha’s, but promised to become part time Royals. It’s hard to understand why their decision is a complicated issue to no longer live on people’s payments and search for their own identity and independence before they leave this planet to RIP.

It’s good to experience the lives of laypeople with no strings attached. What about if the people decided to completely abandon the system of Kingdoms in general like some other countries around the world that have done so. How complicated would that be? What are the benefits of keeping a primeval novelty namesake?

The Sussex finally understood their responsibilities thanks to the social media influences to feed them with vital information and to fulfil their humanistic duties like everyone without depending on the imperial livelihood.

How long do we continue to worship this bygone era system of government with no relevance to today’s changing hands on job for the Royals rather than someone (PM) is doing the required duty and the sitting family enjoy visiting and socializing in the name of diplomatic friendship. Really? We can still continue to have Santa Claus to keep tradition running Christian old dazzling with no other significance.

History told us that in any royal aristocracy nobility and prominence have always been the honored code of ethics before people.

However, as time goes by, the archaic UK’s Royal protocol has eventually gave way to the new unceremonious way of dealing with the new rules of the new generations, thereby, allowing Meghan’s long estranged parents to join the new Royally customized wedding gala, to give their daughter away as a deserving parents, officially.

The travel around the Royal ruled countries was nothing but an outdated Royal P.R. stunt doing no welfares for the impoverished people gathering to have fun with unlike foreign arrivals. Besides the presence of Royalty activity and diplomatic ventures, nothing has been accomplished to abolish people’s long standing ongoing lifestyle difficulties miss managed by the power and status hungry hippos.

What a decorated and various medal display of lifestyle with insignificant hard works and combat activities when the real work is done by the elected parliamentarians. Hey, that was every boy & girls dream to grow up and become Prince and Princesses, right? Unfortunately, my dreams like some of you weren’t a suckccessful one.

Please, don’t judge our shared opinions. It worked and awakened so many unsuspecting megalomaniacs and we’re not cynical but hoping for optimistic anticipation for the long standing iron curtain, HRH Royal titles & etiquettes of the aristocracies around the world to change for the better.

As we’ve continuously informed the public, change will come to every country to listen and accept it or suffer the consequences, because whether they like it or not the new breeds of generations are going to do what’s right and supporting everyone nevertheless.

Any valued information we’ve posted on the internet was showing significant change and reverberated by individuals who have the power, status, familiarity and all other impressions. We must remember that if we can’t think greater than how we feel, we can never change.

Australia, the Republic issue will happen, eventually and it will not be as hard as 1999, YES. This is not going to be life time subservience. We can’t change the ignorance, domination, invasion, or whatever you want to call it, of the past, but we can change the dirt to shape our future only by forgiveness, empathy, compassion & Real Reconciliation.

The truth might hurt but must be told regardless. To stand for the truth, what is good and right is the hardest choice of all because they require moral clarity and courageous acts of conscience. One must have fundamental convictions and moral principles to speak the truth and to do good and the right thing and in so doing define the moment instead of being defined by the moment & very few lingering prejudices.

In the face of evil, the question in our morality is always a clear one. We can choose to be silent; we can choose to be defenders and accomplices of evil, we can choose to blindfold ourselves in the face of evil or get in the faces of evil doers or we have a choice to damn evil, condone it or openly accept it.

We all have our own unique cultural predispositions while growing up in different social and educational settings that may not gratify everyone.   

We all have stories to tell regardless of their values. Those of us who have a story, it can be extremely helpful if we speak up, we can contribute that awareness to other people, because once again, when somebody gives up hope and being judged, that is when the unhappy thoughts start and if we can restore hope to people, it doesn’t take much.

It’s maybe upsetting to some, but the truth must be told without incriminating people. To determine what exactly happened during those times, one must see a documentary:

For those who complain trying to bury the truth must know that “if you shut up & try to bury the truth, it will but grow even bigger.”

Fundamental changes are necessary to live together without dividing the people and the country. We must speak the truth, do the right thing and proclaim that the powerful and political groups do not possess even a basic understanding of the country and that they do not represent any country in their conduct or decisions making. Enough is enough, what’s happened in the past, locally or globally, can’t be retrieved, let’s forgive and move forward by building bridges, as communal entity, not restrictive boundaries.

The unity and connections we are going to create and the strong, transparent relationships and communication wherever we live with all people, groups and individuals are what we need to build a robust and more secure society. In true unity we can achieve all our hopes and dreams

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” –Martin Luther King Jr.

You know what, man created the system, laws, rules…man can change anything. Therefore, it’s time to change the guiding lights that was built long time ago only to serve its creators.

“No amount of regret can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”

Is that a Fair Dinkum assessment?

Let’s advance Australia Fair(ly)!

Let’s all not take sides or condone it, but stand up to the problem!

LET US ALL LIVE IN PEACE BEFORE WE RIP!

Read other reflections on leaders, Royalties, different business bogusness & immoral dealings time immemorial:  https://timeforchangesociety.blogspot.com/2019/08/who-can-we-trust.html

Also read more considerations & reconciliations: https://simenehmakonnen.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-is-australia-day.html

THE MIDDLE WEST Vs THE MIDDLE EAST

The way things look and the manners of leaders the world have at the moment is very terrifying and the World War III can breakout anytime.

It’s very hard to imagine this war can be started by the country of the Christian religions, worshiping God & Jesus Christ and on the other, Muslim religions, worshiping Allah & prophet Muhammed as the stories of their sermons in the bible and Quran tell all.

Who is fighting who? Is this an old crusade of the human race struggles for supremacy, religion and control that never restored? This new age war, again, confirms that the bottling up of never-ending grievances will continue forever either way as skirmished or veiled injuries, again.

The fight as we know it is in the Middle East at the moment, as the map really shows, but it’s the war of Middle West with Middle East countries supported by the Western countries. The old classifications of the map’s location names also need to change as the designed fitting correctly shows.

Also, the old name of Middle East is not correct as the map shows; it’s aligned with the newly designed global locations accordingly. Enough for that, not to west time arguing about positions when the truth the matter is why are any fights allowed by any country or powerful countries to attack another, without strategic peace negotiations by the UN Security Council, just because some countries are building nuclear powers? Hello, what’s the call of AUKUS agreement, costing $4.7billion and part of that costing Australia $1.6 billion, may not even be delivered, preparing to construct nuclear submarines while its people have no housing and others who are getting help from NDIS is prohibited for insignificant reasons and trying to prevent war countries torturing humanity. Please, make sense, let’s all practice the old fighting preaches of “Make love not war”.

Violence and war will never end until we honestly listen to those who have suffered. It’s absolutely immoral to build arms of human destructions in the modern age when our world’s population is in need of food and other essentials to survive and thrive. Like all other countries, Australia is boasting to buy Japanese frigate for billions of dollars while its people, like all other countries, need housing and all the other human needs. Seriously, who are they going to fight, why are they harboring so much hostility, why can we help each other and live peacefully until our unavoidable fate haunts us. We need to change our bygone era mindset. It certainly is not possible to feel true happiness when all wars cause all of us to suffer.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” –Martin Luther King Jr.

You know what; humans created the system, laws, rules…humans can change anything. Therefore, it’s time to change the notions, wars and the guiding lights that was built long time ago only to serve its creators & the powerful.

The problem of building up arms and nuclear powers, which few countries are strutting to do just that in the new era, disappointingly, irrespective of their impoverished people striving to put meals on the table for their families.

Nonetheless, no powerful country should get air bases, military operation centers, ship docking ports in any country around the world, involve in encouraging and facilitating others to destroy the livelihood of other countries nor they take part to destroy the less fortunate and powerless countries violently unprovoked just because…, without notifying the UN Security Council for strategic peace negotiations and permissions to disarm if and only if the nuclear power building countries are failing to negotiate.

How long do the peace organizations have to wait and see the unacceptable genocide by starvations and destructions of the livelihoods of the innocent people for the small killings that were done to Israel by perpetrators that obviously happen everywhere? That surely can’t be an excuse to start war in the whole Middle East countries. Not taking sides, but disappointed to see the peace solution hasn’t taken place for so long.

It’s an unfortunate dilemma that the less fortunate or powerful countries have to follow the rules and commands of the powerful nations otherwise they will not be assisted in anything if they don’t. All the less powerful and underdeveloped countries have to abide by the rules of the powerful in a diplomatic stance whether they like it or not and because all the other distressed are following the same old scenario too.

With the help of western powerful countries, Israel will continue to destroy and invade Gaza and close by other Arab countries in order to live in peace. At least that’s what Israel thinks. With this sort of domination, the war will continue endlessly as usual. By all means our peace loving humanitarian organizations and legal systems should try to end this fateful war before further lives and livelihoods are decimated. Enough is enough. The world watched pitifully, Israel to cross the finish line as a winner, but not to be. Nevertheless, so many lives lost immorally.  It’s time to do things differently and humanely. This also applies to all the other wars that are going on in the rest of the world we live in.

We must strongly remember that in any war no one has managed to kill the country’s leaders or perpetrators and the unfortunate military personnel end up killing innocent civilians and destroy their livelihoods and centuries old monuments whether they like it or not to fulfil their sense of duty. For instance, they can’t kill Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, or leaders of any fighting countries, but their people. Just emphasizing the turmoil, but we are not suggesting killing the leaders will solve any solution, because they all are doing by the practiced systems of political strategies they’ve learned locally and globally peppered with their own self-images.

In all honesty, any living being is a precious thing and will never be born again and must not be destroyed. Nevertheless, all beings are doing what, how… they know and have been thru the practices before and duplicate them to do their surviving chores. No one deserves to be punished unjustly and die heartlessly for serving their country.

TIME FOR CHANGE SOCIETY IS A STRONG ADVOCATE OF PEACE & HUMANE HABITS OF SOLVING GLOBAL PROBLEMS, NOT BY WARFARE.

It’s a pity that the less fortunate countries can’t get the developing help they need if they don’t bow their heads for the powerful. When is the time for all countries to be independent to give their views and make their own choices without being pressured by the dominants?

 So many meetings of the selected countries leaders & humanitarian civil services who remain to fail the relentless ‘seesfire’ but talk about ceasefire as an important part of the meeting while the genocide by starvations and livelihood destructions continue even by the initiator of the negotiations. Will the world see PEACE in the ‘Middle East’?

God, whatever happened to an honest dialogues and diplomatic discussions before anything else?

The question is whatever happened to the World Leagues, International Law, the UN Security councils, the World Peace organizations…? So many peace and humanity based civil service organizations having so many summits, but so little or no perceptible outcomes & N-O R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Nevertheless, the Middle East war that was on since 1948 will continue covertly with new tech weapons, amid the loss of so many lives and the devastating impacts of destructions.

However, it’s praiseworthy and splendid that all the influence worthy leaders meet for shared or peaceful commitments, some under pressure, to take the memorable photos together.

Please, try to grasp the message, before you try to revolt with the messenger. We have no hate for any country, just worrying that the world’s peace is under threat before your & everybody’s unavoidable time comes to pass away. Nobody lives forever, why are we fighting? Is that justified?

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TIME FOR CHANGE, FOLKS!

LET’S USE ALL THE INSPIRATIONS & PROCLAMATIONS FOR CHANGE

 Emancipation Proclamation 

I have read the story of Emancipation Proclamation issued on January 1, 1863 by then United States President, Abraham Lincoln and following that declaration, again on February 1, 1865, Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that outlawed slavery in the United States. It’s time for change!

Honestly speaking, as I lived thru lots of stories of slaves and racial disparities, though faced with those indiscriminately perpetrated innuendos, either deliberately or stereotypically, then in 2008, I remarkably lived to see the first black president, Barack Obama, elected and sworn into the highest office in the land.

Also, the story of Oprah, the media mogul’s meteoric rise from tears to success was mesmerizing and stunningly nuanced as she battles an alcohol addiction like many of her African American fellow men and women who have resigned to alcohol, similar to that of the indigenous people in Australia, to ease their intolerable suffering to go on in life with enormous frustration and hopelessness.

Just to name a few, I also saw most of Martin Luther King’s chunk of the prolific speech “I have a dream”, Rosa Parks the “iron lady” who boarded the Montgomery City bus and refused to give up her seat courteously, Malcolm X, some of his articulate and passionate moments to cast off the shackles of racism "by any means necessary”.  Jesse Jackson, the two time Democratic presidential candidate, who became one of the most influential African Americans, rose to prominence presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988 winning 16 state contests and millions of votes making him the first viable African American Democratic presidential candidate before Obama. I remember “that one” vividly; he mesmerized and shook everyone by delivering stunning speeches, but it wasn’t the right time to be. Let’s face it credit to him for building bridges for Obama to cross the highly torrential rivers.

My biggest message to my fellow complaining comrades, if you think you are being discriminated and having rough time considering what the past generations had endured, take their courage for your contentment to go on. Don’t worry…the door is widely open now.

There are more lights to emerge. Enjoy the ride wisely. After all is being said and done, no one lives forever; it’s time for change and move forward irrepressibly and empathetically with no hostility, understanding our human nature frailties that may creep in occasionally.

Today, black candidates serve multiple purposes, honoring the total legacies of Dr. King’s prophetic words that focus on the issues of civil rights, highlighting the use of nonviolence to promote change, calling people into public services and humanity to embrace and live with one another without preconditions.

However, we can’t continue living in the past anymore, whether we like it or not errors do happen. We have the choice to move forward with a comprehensive social change, compromise, recognition and resolution.

The greatest anti-apartheid hero and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela, said, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” True, we all have learned from the society we have lived in.

Most importantly, that visionary and dream story astonishingly fulfilled when Barack Obama became the first black President of the United States of America.

“The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.” –Barack Obama

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.” –Malcolm X

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. - Abraham Lincoln

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” –Barack Obama

“Whatever we do echoes for generations.” –Barack Obama

Do your part!

NO VINDICTIVE THINKING, IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE

 HAPPY UNITED NATIONS DAY

Let’s also reflect on the official creation of the United Nations Day, today, October 24, 1945.

As we all know, the theme of the United Nations is let us continue to work together to unleash the power of humanity and give people the opportunity to live freely, think freely, talk freely, breathe freely, and love freely. And in the face of difficult challenges, let us prove that we are capable of building a better world together.

That’s just the way it is

To appreciate how playing with the fire of racial hatred is so tense with unintended consequences & it will be good for all to remember that mutual recognition is a precondition for social trust. A sense of self-worth by any group in society is only partially internal; it also depends on the willingness of other competing groups in the general public to acknowledge the worth of the other.

That vow was badly broken for a while now. Now, hopefully, during the American presidential election of 2024, Kamala Harris is crusading to bring back all the memories of peaceful living, reassert nonviolent legacies into the Whitehouse (People’s House), once again, to work together as “a perfect union”.

When one country attacks another, other countries should not be supporting with arms, must also avoid instigating and provoking the volatile situations. The only league established for this nature of predicament, the United Nations, should use the rule of law and try to find ways of preserving peace from start to end with channel of communications first and foremost and the rest of other member countries should refrain, unless they reject, from stirring up the dust on both foes only to produce more dirt.

What surprises us is, while we continue to commemorate and mourn showing our empathy “Lest We Forget” for all those who have lost their lives gratuitously but obediently, the world is still continuing to amass weapons of mass destructions.

We no longer live in the draconian time of “see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil”. It’s time to speak what’s on our mind, especially, if it is deemed prejudicial to our society.

In truth, we all have our own unique cultural predispositions while growing up in different social and educational settings that may not gratify everyone.

Reverence is long overdue, empathetically. Nevertheless, this is not a blame or hostility for the arrogances, invasions or maltreatments of the past or whatever you want to call it. It’s absolutely essential to know history, how far society has come travelling a stifling journey and to give the concept of sorry and reconciliation for the significance this day upholds.

This may sound so harsh but take a heed or make no mistake that anything is possible if we mindfully put our heart in anything we do. Change is possible.

We need to break free from negative emotions of the past & outdated beliefs of generational scenario, inherited collective mind-patterns that have kept our parents & ancestors in captivity, without blaming anyone, creating so much of their suffering for eternities manifesting in our misery today.

Knowledge isn’t generally the driver of our behaviors. We often don’t do what we should do because of inattention, apathy, avoidance, fear of ostracism, racism, being too busy, confronting an unsupportive environment, a negative attitude or habit or routine without being labelled a pushover. 

Any society should learn from the outdated past systems of governance or any covenants and stride forward with renewed approach of openness and accountability in any social relations, business dealings or political capitulations in any endeavors in the rapidly changing world, talking openly without being accused whether against Royals or any managing authority.

The recent visits of Royals to Australia, for whatever reasons, caused a stir among our open society to speak their minds without causing any wrongdoing, just because no one is allowed to say anything against Royals. That’s an outdated policy, if we don’t say anything, nothing will change. I for one like to speak up with respect if I think something is wrong with authorities in our world.

In modern day we’ve breeds of new generations who want new style of governance for an absolute change for society. They couldn’t watch the terrible wars, abuses and uses spreading in the world we live in. All they want is speak what is needed, to create peace using their freedom of speech, rather than seeing Royals doing the same longstanding visits needlessly and doing nothing worthwhile.

What was the purpose of Royal visits? What exactly was being achieved by the visits rather than doing the same deep-rooted touring and to handshake business as usual royalists? I’m only reflecting on what I have seen ever since I can remember what all Royals do for living. Of course, it was splendid to see them up and running.

Remember, we can’t change the past but we can shape up our future only by forgiveness, empathy, consideration and reconciliation.

It’s now time we draw a line under the differences of the past and work together to build consensus around a proposal for change without hostility.

No matter what has happened in the past, we can’t obliterate history. What we can do now, nevertheless, is forgive and move on knowing that the benefits are much greater than playing politics in a continuous vicious cycle to fix the past hefty maltreatments and all delinquencies with so much substantiated mendacities for vengeance.

Also, what we believe individually and collectively, whether good or bad, right or wrong, true or false, will be determined by our creed, values, beliefs and principles that will shape the final outcome. 

It is a mentality that is willing and able to reflect on the past experiences, past actions and their outcomes. It is only through such reflections that one learns one’s strengths, weaknesses and the environment and conditions in which actions were undertaken and what could have been done differently that could have resulted in a constructive outcome. It is not enough to admit collective failure. One needs to evaluate one’s role in the failure.

Today, it’s not enough to create change at the level of symptoms and structures. We need to work together even more deeply to change the underlying paradigms of thought and to connect with our deeper sources of creativity and self in a heterogeneous society.

The process of unifying people is difficult and the road to agreement is often littered with the debris of historical grievances, animosity and resentment.

However, we can’t continue living in the past anymore, whether we like it or not errors do happen. We have the choice to move forward with a comprehensive social change, compromise, recognition and resolution. “I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” –Abraham Lincoln

However, we are all interconnected humans fundamentally and we can’t afford to abandon our moralities and privileges to coexist harmoniously.

Today, because of all those who made the difference before us and those who are making the change for a better society now, we’re able to live side by side even though the road to change is still far away from reaching “the mountain top”.

A better and more peaceful world can only be attained by societies developing basic principles of altruism, supporting others thru individual empowerment, practicing non-violence and self-development thru inner transformation.

It’s not rational anymore to accept that the “western” world is democratic, and the rest is “undemocratic”. This is a misconception that merely rests on vindictive thinking of dichotomy and things don’t have to be accepted just the way it is anymore.

The rule of law or democracy is not an advantage that you can automatically get because you are in a certain environmental location or upbringing. It is rather an innate virtue we all humans are entitled to enjoy. If we accept anything, the old-fashioned way, “That’s just the way it is”, nothing will change and neither can we.

Anything we do doesn’t have to be “That’s just the way it is”. If we want change or different outcome, we’ve to try doing differently.

You know what, society created the system, law, rules… society can change anything. Therefore, it’s time to change those old guiding lights that was built long time ago only to serve its creators.

May those who have lost their lives in all unjustly maltreatments and wars in our past and to this modern day, Rest In Peace, and also sending condolences to their grieving families and loved ones.

The truth might hurt but must be told, regardless.

Let’s all not take sides or condone it but stand up to the problem.

Let’s all stand up for change!

HAPPY AFRIKANS DESCENT DAY

 DAY TO SHARE THE PAST & LIVE THE PRESENT ‘DESCENTLY’

First and foremost, we wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, Australia, on which we live and pay our respect to their elders of the past, present, from all nations who gave their lives for all their enduring praiseworthy causes.

The truth might hurt but must be told, regardless. We all have our own unique cultural predispositions while growing up in different social and educational settings that may not gratify everyone.

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

Without going back further, just starting from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama, the shackles of chain and the knees that pushed the people of color down for centuries have been torn apart by the descendant of the Lion King from Afrika, in 2009.

As we’ve seen the emotions of the people who couldn’t take it any more back in 2009 voted to put the pulsating Barack Obama in office. Since then, America slipped back to its racial profiling and abuses by the very people who took oath in office to obey and serve everyone equally and unconditionally. Just when we thought America has learned about a perfect leadership that managed a perfect union on the land, they need to start all over again, to vote and put the same dynamic leadership that awakened the nation, again. “Whatever we do echoes for generations.” –Barack Obama

We no longer live in the draconian time of “see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil”. It’s time to speak what’s on our mind, especially, if it is deemed prejudicial to our society.

A better and more peaceful world can only be attained by societies developing basic principles of altruism, supporting others thru individual empowerment, practicing non-violence and self-development thru inner transformation. “There’s no vaccine for racism.” –Kamala Harris

It’s not rational anymore to accept that the “western” world is democratic, and the rest is “undemocratic”. This is a misconception that merely rests on vindictive thinking of dichotomy and things don’t have to be accepted just the way it is anymore.

In the face of evil, the question in our morality is always a clear one. We can choose to be silent; we can choose to be defenders and accomplices of evil, we can choose to blindfold ourselves in the face of evil or get in the faces of evil doers or we have a choice to be damn evil to condone it or openly accept it.

The message is clear, all of us who teach and preach to others to do things differently, have the choice, seek the opportunity to make the difference, refrain from being doing the same thing and playing by the same rule again, again and again. Make no mistake time to heed, refocus and transform the way we deliver our speeches and speak honest opinions to connect with others.

One must remember the rule of law or democracy is not an advantage that we can automatically get because we are in a certain environmental location or upbringing. It is rather an innate virtue we all humans are entitled to enjoy. If we accept anything, “That’s just the way it is”, nothing will change and neither can we.

There is no stronger weapon against inequality and no better path to equal opportunity than an education that unravels our genetically given potential to live together decently as a human race.

We all have our own unique cultural predispositions while growing up in different social and educational settings that may not gratify everyone.

Reverence is long overdue, empathetically. Nevertheless, this is not a blame or hostility for the arrogances, invasions or maltreatments of the past or whatever you want to call it. It’s absolutely essential to know history, how far society has come travelling a stifling journey and to give the concept of sorry and reconciliation for the significance this day upholds.

This may sound so harsh but take a heed or make no mistake that anything is possible if we mindfully put our heart in anything we do. Change is possible.

We need to break free from negative emotions of the past & outdated beliefs of generational scenario, inherited collective mind-patterns that have kept our parents & ancestors in captivity, without blaming anyone, creating so much of their suffering for eternities manifesting in our misery today.

Any society should learn from the outdated past systems of governance or any covenants and stride forward with renewed approach of openness and accountability in any social relations, business dealings or political capitulations in any endeavors in the rapidly changing world.

We can’t change the past but we can shape up our future only by forgiveness, empathy, consideration and reconciliation.

It's now time we draw a line under the differences of the past and work together to build consensus around a proposal for change without hostility.

No matter what has happened in the past, we can’t obliterate history. What we can do now, nevertheless, is forgive and move on knowing that the benefits are much greater than playing politics in a continuous vicious cycle to fix the past hefty maltreatments and all delinquencies with so much substantiated mendacities for vengeance.

“The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

What we believe individually and collectively, whether good or bad, right or wrong, true or false, will be determined by our creed, values, beliefs and principles that will shape the final outcome.  

It is a mentality that is willing and able to reflect on the past experiences, past actions and their outcomes. It is only through such reflections that one learns one’s strengths, weaknesses and the environment and conditions in which actions were undertaken and what could have been done differently that could have resulted in a constructive outcome. It is not enough to admit collective failure. One needs to evaluate one’s role in the failure.

However, any failure can be turned into an opportunity to learn and grow. I say it can, because it requires a particular attitude to benefit from our failure. Without that mentality, all our failures will go to waste. This is true in political affairs as it is in personal life for a leader, contender as well as a follower. So, what is that mentality?

Today, it’s not enough to create change at the level of symptoms and structures. We need to work together even more deeply to change the underlying paradigms of thought and to connect with our deeper sources of creativity and self in a heterogeneous society.

The process of unifying people is difficult and the road to agreement is often littered with the debris of historical grievances, animosity and resentment.

However, we can’t continue living in the past anymore, whether we like it or not errors do happen. We have the choice to move forward with a comprehensive social change, compromise, recognition and resolution. “I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.” –Abraham Lincoln

However, we are all interconnected humans fundamentally and we can’t afford to abandon our moralities and privileges to coexist harmoniously.

Today, because of all those who made the difference before us and those who are making the change for a better society now, we’re able to live side by side even though the road to change is still far away from reaching “the mountain top”.

As wounds of the past still lingering around in their respective territories, Afrikans are genuinely making a solid declaration that they no longer allow, to be scrambled by authoritative and hungry, foreign or domestic, hippos to satisfy their voracious appetite.

It’s time that all Afrikan countries must also give up their colonial names and replace it with descent names that fit into the culture and their country of origin vetoed and voted by the voice of the people, regardless of the geographical locations.

The greatest anti-apartheid hero and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela, said, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

Here is also one good act to follow: “May we uphold the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

May those who have lost their lives in all unjustly maltreatments and wars in our past and to this modern day, Rest In Peace, and also sending condolences to their grieving families and loved ones.

A SHORT LIVED STORY OF ROBERT NESTA MARLEY

 UNIVERSALLY KNOWN AS BOB MARLEY

His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a British citizen plantation superintendent on a working visit to Jamaica met his mother, a black teenager, named Cedella Booker. Cedella Booker's teen beauty attracted Norval Sinclair Marley and he moved in to live together with her and naturally Cedella became pregnant.

After persevering for nine months, Cedella Booker delivered the baby peacefully on the Thursday afternoon of February 6, 1945, in Nine Mile village, a district in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. She named the baby Robert Nesta Marley after his father who was nowhere to be found in Jamaica.

In February of 1966, Robert Nesta Marley married to Rita whose full name was Alfarita Constantia Marley OJ, OD, now lives in Miami, USA, is a Cuban-born Jamaican singer, songwriter and entrepreneur, while she was a backing vocalist for Bob Marley with the Wailers band.

A melanoma that started under Bob Marley’s big toenail wounded him while he was playing football in 1977. Marley was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma under this toenail. Bob Marley was very much into football and he was a very good player.

He battled with this injury and his doctor advised him to amputate his right big toe. He did not accept the amputation advice because he believed in Rasta No Abide Amputation. His melanoma spread, or metastasized, to other areas of his body and tragically cut his life short. Contrary to popular belief, the melanoma was not caused by a football injury, but rather was a symptom of the already existing cancer.

Despite his illness, he continued touring and was in the process of scheduling a world tour in 1980.

While Marley was flying home from Germany to Jamaica, his vital functions worsened. After landing in Miami, Florida, he was taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention. Bob Marley died on 11 May 1981 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami (now University of Miami Hospital) at the age of 36. The spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain caused his death. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life”.

He was a member of the Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox Church and was baptized Berhane Selassie (Light of the Trinity) and he had become a Christian Rasta. His funeral celebration was a combination of Ethiopian Orthodox and Rastafarianism grace. Bob Marley was a singer, song writer, guitarist, composer and a footballer, buried back home near his birthplace in Nine Mile village, Jamaica.

The Marley Legacy

Some of my Favorites among the rest of his songs are Redemption Song, Three Little Birds (don't worry 'bout a thing, 'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright!), Is This Love, So Much Trouble In The World, Positive Vibration, Lively Up Yourself, Africa Unite and in fact all his songs are liberating.

In 1986, in honor of her famous husband, Rita Marley decided to convert Bob Marley's home into the Bob Marley Museum, became the Founder and Chairperson of the Robert Marley Foundation in 2000, the Bob Marley Trust and the Bob Marley Group of Companies.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

WHO IS IN THE MIDDLE, IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

LET’S ALL NOT TAKE SIDES, BUT STAND UP TO THE PROBLEM

THE NEVER ENDING STOOOORYYYYY…! I can’t & am not pleased to sing the movie story.

The US’s tactical association with Israel will continue to affect the prospects of peace in the Middle East forever given its unparalleled support and everybody’s guess why has the US been so involved in the region? Does the US foreign policy in the Middle East, especially between Israel & Palestine, unequivocally and equally validated to bring peace? Do you think Palestinian rights and democracy has been equally valued as their counterparts? What have we learned from the war’s loss of lives & destructions between Russia & Ukraine?

The claims that Hamas has launched rockets against Israel is not an excuse to massacre innocent civilians & decimate everything they own, although Hamas is so frustrated that their people’s lives are confined to limited improvements, developments and impossible to make any progresses in the Middle East, doesn’t, likewise, qualify them to kill Israeli civilians out of a continuing and overwhelming anger. However, it seems that’s the only predictable routine they’ve got to scream to the world for help for so long.

On the other hand, Israel can make any type of weaponry and advancements in any areas of assailant technology, but when it comes to other countries like Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran and so forth, they’re not allowed to make any global weapons developments without being indicted for whatever the reason. Israel is aware that they are living on the brink of a volatile sinkhole surrounded by very tolerant and benign Arab communities.

Unfortunately, our world has changed so much since the word terrorism has been created out of people, fighting for their rights, who are subjugated and subjected, to live an immobile and stagnated existence because of unrelenting dominations. I am not condoning to the acts of evil by all involved. I am truly and consciously defining the term based on who is committing the actions, for what purpose, as I see it.

Mind you, every time rockets are launched by few disgruntled individuals, it’s hard to comprehend why massacre innocent civilians and decimate their properties and livelihood. This should be a strong warning that unfortunately, next time when this sort of devastations happens in any country, instead of emotionally destroying innocent people and their property, it may not be an easy operation, humanely & patiently why not hunt for the perpetrators to face their ordeal.

In all conscience, the lighthearted publicity stunt US aid donations of 100 million for the crisis in Gaza will not bring back the dead or inconceivable destructions that took place.

Because this remorseless conundrum has been going on for so long in the Middle East peace process, the world has changed forever in terms of respect for humanity and moral practices. Time and again, we all need to raise our voices for this and all other never-ending wars to end or share the blood of innocent children, all equally treasured like Jewish children, on our hands.

Come on people! Please, make your honest conscious evaluations without hatred against Muslims, Islam religion, Jews, Judaism or Christianity and me for telling you my concern and what I care about or taking no sides against humanity, they should be allowed to live side by side with respect practicing their Asalaam Aleikum or Shalom Aleichem?

It seems to me that in the course of human events, most people face their own defining moments when they least expect it. Often that moment arrives when we are forced to make a choice between doing good, doing evil or remaining indifferent because we just do not care or exasperated for so long.

Also not making a choice or indifference is the easiest choice to make; it requires no thinking at all. The choice between good and evil is paralyzing not because there is actual moral ambiguity or uncertainty in choosing but because evil & indifference is so much more attractive, seductive and appears to offer greater rewards no matter how long.

To stand for the truth, what is good and right, is the hardest choice of all because they require moral clarity and courageous acts of conscience. One must have fundamental convictions and moral principles to speak the truth and to do good and the right thing and in so doing define the moment instead of being defined by the moment & very few lingering prejudices.

In the face of evil, the question in our morality is always a clear one. We can choose to be silent; we can choose to be defenders and accomplices of evil; we can choose to blindfold ourselves in the face of evil or get in the faces of evil doers or we have a choice to be damn evil to condone it or openly accept it.

What are your thoughts and choices about this never-ending war, which keep affecting global peace & creating dreadful human relations, to let the world community to do something about it?

“Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today, it’s not enough to create change at the level of symptoms and structures. We need to work together even more deeply to change the underlying paradigms of thought and to connect with our deeper sources of creativity and self in a heterogeneous society.

The process of unifying people is difficult and the road to agreement is often littered with the debris of historical grievances, animosity and resentment.

However, any failure can be turned into an opportunity to learn and grow. I say it can, because it requires a particular attitude to benefit from our failure. Without that mentality, all our failures will go to waste. This is true in political affairs as it is in personal life for a leader as well as a follower. So, what is that mentality?

It is a mentality that is willing and able to reflect on past experiences, past actions and their outcomes. It is only through such reflections that one learns one’s strengths, weaknesses and the environment and conditions in which actions were undertaken and what could have been done differently that could have resulted in a positive outcome. It is not enough to admit collective failure. One needs to evaluate one’s role in the failure.

These days in age, we don’t need guns and weapons of mass destruction to change courses of disagreement, but by engaging in dialogues, sharing practical concepts as an interconnected society we can write and re-write differences until we get it right, peacefully.

Nevertheless, this is a wakeup call for all humanity and government officials to take heed and reaffirm the responsibility for their own actions or face this ongoing inevitable fate again & again for generations to come. I’m not violent or inciting violence but commenting my own assessment as I’ve lived through this and all sorts of incidents, war and cruelty and demanding for change.

We’ve the choice to live together in harmony or continue to live in a world of hate and inequality.

Let’s anticipate eliminating shared problems that have entrenched us for so long by redefining the way we perceive its symbolic grounds without blaming one or the other. If we do so by using all of our senses, we may empathize rather than trivialize.

Our condolences to all the families, loved ones & friends who have lost everything.