Burning in paradise

Tag: politics

  • Minnesota & ICE

    First and foremost, I am proud as a US citizen that people are hitting the streets, staging protest and trying to get corporation’s and the government’s attention with strikes and economic withholding on today, January 30th, 2026. I believe these are important steps to take in trying to get these corporations to listen to the general public.

    With that being said as a Black American, it’s important to acknowledge that these kind of actions should have been happening years, if not decades ago, when government agents and police officer killed multiple black and brown Americans in cities all over the United States. Today we are seeing large amount of white Americans standing up and speaking out now that they see that men and women like Renee Good and Alex Pretti (Americans that look like them) can be shot and killed like they’ve been doing to Black and “minority” Americans for decades.

    And even in their protest, we can still see the division of racism at work as they have keep names like Keith Porter Jr. out of the forefront. Names like Liam Conejo Ramos a 5 year old preschool detained by ICE or Geraldo Lunas Campos that was choked to death while in custody at a detention center. Not including a list of names that most Americans aren’t aware of that have suffered, died, and torture in Detention Centers,

    The people of Minnesota are chanting things like, “Say her name” and I wonder if they understand that this chant was first used with Breonna Taylor in 2020 in her wrongful murder.

    I hope the people of Minnesota understand that these are just their first steps in the fight of injustice that have been happening since the wrongful lynching of Emmett Till and prior. Now it’s time to do the knowledge, read and understand what has happened in this country and what continues to happen in this country on a daily basis again the black and brown.

    Since 2018, we’ve heard of women being raped and sexual assault in these detention faculties and the powers at be stating that it’s not responsible for it’s staffs actions. Not until March 2025 did CBP state that they would have zero tolerance policy on rapes and sexual assaults. Even though rape and sexual assault have been a disgustingly unlawful action for years, so how when these women are considered, “illegal alien” it deems them to be treated as subhuman without rights.

    Doing the right things isn’t something that lawful or unlawful, look at our history: Fugitive Slave Act, the Black Codes, Jim Crow. And right now the president and other government officials sanctioning these occupations from city to city causing chaos, causing civil unrest, in the “name” of “justice”. Lying to the American people about what happened even those we all just saw what happened online via video recording.

    Agencies like ICE and CBP are nothing but fraternities for racist bigots and losers wanting to cause harm. Sometimes again their own raza, because somehow they see themselves as superior. When actually the same racist they’re wanting to be, would arrest them and confine to detention center if they didn’t have the same uniform. Agencies like ICE and CBP are only the latest agencies causing injustice in American communities. Acting as a modern day gestapo. But don’t forget about the action of the FBI and CIA in the 60s, The NSA and their usage of the Patriot Act, and now Corporations like Google, Meta, and Open Al using your consumer information against you to drive up prices and gouge you at every corner.

    These offensives on the American people run deep and I hope that you understand what it means to stand up and fight. Educate yourself, look up information, unlearn harmful stereotypes, and don’t believe everything that politicians and news anchors are spewing over the air ways. They want us to be divided and fight over insignificant things like race. When the real issues are much larger.

  • America has a problem with crossing the line. for years americans have used politics and religion to cross the line and then try and return to their day-to-day lives as if what the did was moral or right. and it’s been allowed, turned a blind eye to, permitted in some insistences. then when that same line is crossed to infringe on their rights they sympathy and understanding. they want revenge, they want to get even. it’s an eye for an eye on the land of free. some much so that it’s citizen are blind to their neighbors and community members. pushing others into isolation and hysteria because when you aren’t of anything, you have nothing to lose. instead of us americans coming together on issues that can benefits us as a country, health care, standards of living, minimum wage, we fight at the sight of our perceive like rival gang member. fighting and killing each other for a cause long forgotten and a moment of prideful ignorance because we justified in what were doing, because the other side is wrong. but ain’t nobody bigger than the program, if you cross the line, someone else is going to cross the line to get even. if you kill mines, best believe i’m going to kill yours. is the American way. it’s in our leaders, it’s in our institutions, our news, our school, our people, our children. if a kids at the playground right now gets pushed, they’re going to push back. as a country we can’t play the moral high ground, go to church, and indulge in disorder all in the same day. either let it all go to shit, as we go an eye for an eye to the end or lets stop the lies.

  • trump’s raid of dc

    the increased military presence in D.C. isn’t going to change the city in the long term. America loves taking a military approach with everything as our military has been one of our best assets. but all that does it make things happen with force. and forcing Americans to do anything usually results in a large amount of push back. i don’t think you change a cities culture by having more agents and officers making more arrest. that’s just going to cause a larger distrust between citizens and law enforcement. targeting high volume areas where young adults go out to drink and have a good time, doesn’t make me feel safe, it makes me want to avoid d.c. all together. and agents targeting lower income communities where law enforcer knows that they don’t have the public trust seems more predatory than anything else.
    to “fix” the crime problems of d.c. you have to create opportunities for people to make money and have self-worth and have love for the communities that they are in and apart of. like a lot of us cities, the cost of living is beyond what the average American can afford, and rather than fall behind people are going to start taking risk to make up for the difference.
    mobilizing military and government offices on everyday people is only going to cause descent

  • i use to think that killing was a bad thing, at least that was the way i was programmed or raised to believe. but i don’t think that it is as simple as good and bad. and i don’t think that killing is inherently evil. i believe that some people are too quick because they’re immature and/or lazy. and America as a whole has that apart of our ethic. the whole “shoot first ask, questions later” approach has brought forth a lot of unnecessary death. i understand if it’s a life or death situation, if your a soldier or you back is against the wall but it seems cowards will have the advantage and claim they were in fear for their life just so that the courts will justify their cowardice as valor.

    i can respect a man that is slow to kill and understands the weight behind of pulling a trigger. a man that is tough without a gun, a man that will toss his gun to the side and fight with his hands.

    but then there’s the other side. the guys that bought a gun and are looking for a reason. guys that wouldn’t kill with their hands. an ignorant man driven by fear and pride. a guy that’s never thrown a punch. guys that are male but not men. these people deserve hell and slow death. they belong with the abusers, the rapist, the ones that claim to be men and take from the weak and poor.

    i don’t believe that everyone is built to face the death of another person. some of us need to be protected and contribute to community and society in different manners. but i think it’s important to know where you stand, can you protect yourself? could you kill someone if you had to and can you live with your decision to justifiability take another man life? and when i say justifiability i don’t mean the legal system saying it’s okay. i mean can you sit with that weight on your soul? if god takes you today, can you answer for your actions?

    that’s the man, the father, the brother, the protector i work towards being. that’s a true killer. and i pray that you can either be that or have someone that can be that for you. because very few men are as honorable as they claim to be.

  • America’s Problem with DEI

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/birmingham-mayor-trashes-trumps-dei-executive-order-alabama-fication-us-government?intcmp=tw_fnc

    First day and Trump has signed an executive order to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As someone that kind of watches politics from the outside and doesn’t really participate too much, I can see why Trump, Republicans, and more importantly White Americans would want to dissolve DEI.

    For 100s of years some white Americans have been able to live an exclusive lifestyle, meaning that in some instances they’ve been favored or allowed a life that the majority of minorities have only been able to watch from the outside. 

    If we are honest, the American public has always been divided. Though law markers have passed bills and laws, America’s culture hasn’t been accepting of these changes. These changes have been abrupt, and real change takes time. 

    DEI was originally enforced to allow minorities an opportunity at getting a foot in the door, at a time where the majority of place wouldn’t permit people of color a fair shot or equal opportunity as their white counterparts. Again, Abruptly forcing change instead of resolving racial issues that had created these issues in the first place. 

    Today, White Americans are feeling as if they’re losing power because they can no longer decide who can and who can not step into their “safe spaces”. Places that were exclusively white for years, now have many different faces that don’t remain inside the box White American had them in. And though these minorities aren’t breaking the law, they are unapologetically being themselves. Minorities are no longer living in fear as past generations did and are proud of who and what they are. 

    For years White Americans have been told that other races and ethnic groups were beneath them, for whatever reason they believe. Now they’re seeing that what they once believed, what their father and grandfather once told them may be a lie. And rather than change, they’d rather close the door. 

    Because these DEI laws aren’t only allowing racial minorities into traditionally white space, but also members of the LGBTQ+ community. A community that a lot of Americans have taken issue with and though their issues are not resolved, the LGBTQ+ community are welcomed in these spaces but culturally nothing has changed. 

    White American could feel that they are losing their ground in these places. Even though they outnumber these communities, White Americans don’t want to share these places. Just the very sight of a minority is affront to them.

    America’s been fighting against these changes for generations, both sides passing down the torch to keep the battle going. Both feeling justified in their actions. Both white Americans and minorities are in our own bubbles that are clashing together like a venn diagram, each thinking that the other group is out to get them. 

  • What the fuck Elon?!

    What the fuck is Elon doing? A Nazis-ish salute. We might be fucked. This is the president’s man, this the guy that we all looked at, at some point, as the genius of our time. And now he’s doing nazi salutes and cosplaying as a gamer. 

    It’s the old saying you hear when you and your friends start making money and you see how some people act now that they got a little something something to spare, money can’t unlame you. Money can’t make you cool. You can see when a rich kid has all the gear, the new Supreme, the LV this or that but they can’t seem to put a fit together to save their life. Elon is that, has all the money and resources a man could ever need but for some reason he wants to look cool to gamers and now political types.

    Now you can’t deny that dude is smart, maybe this is some kind of play to get government funding for spaceships or underground tunnels or whatever he’s trying to do this week. But whatever his reason is, I’m good. I don’t need no expectation. I’ve had enough interactions with people to understand when you see someone show their true colors you believe them. It’s not like anything Elon does is going to affect me. 

    Other than these spam trump ads that keep popping up under every tweet. I don’t like teslas, I think that the technology just isn’t there entirely. It’s a working concept but I’ve never had anything with a battery that didn’t need to be replaced after a while. Batteries aren’t no forever my guy. And batteries are expensive. And I’m definitely not trying to go to Mars anytime soon. I’ll let them explore and figure that shit out and maybe my offspring can go in 100 years when it’s all figured out. After they’ve raped aliens and taken their resource as their plan for manifest destiny 2.0. You know with robot slave that eventually turn this into a scene from I,Robot

    Yeah, Elon I don’t know what you on, but thank you for being your-goofy-ass-self. I see you dawg.

  • Bad Bunny: The Rabbit Hole Behind the Pebble

    DeBi TiRAR Mas FOTos has captured me in way that, I wasn’t expecting. Everyday I peel another layer and find a deeper meaning to the album. Hearing those horn on BAILE INoLVIDABLE… it’s a time machine that takes me to the beach in my mother hometown of Miche.

    So I’ve been searching for more, the meaning behind the songs. I often find myself loving certain songs and not really understanding my attraction to it and in a weird way, with just a little effort, I find a deep rabbit hole behind a small pebble. Here’s what I’ve found so far:

    Here are some screen captures from Bad Bunny’s Interview with Zane Lowe

    This short film depicts an elder Puerto Rican who lives in modern day Puerto Rico, hinting subtly at what’s changed in Puerto Rico from when he was a young man. This couldn’t have come a better time given what happening in Puerto Rico.

    Another familiar face joins Jimmy Fallon for the Tonight Show. Bad Bunny has stopped by the Tonight Show a few times before making this his 4th time. He and Jimmy Fallon seemingly have a great friendship. So much so that they even did a surprise pop-up show on the metro in NYC.