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Count Every Vote : Election Aftermath in Pennsylvania

  Today, November 5, 2020, marks the second day of counting the votes of the 2020 Presidential Election. This day and perhaps the weekend marks the beginning of a new day. Nevada claims it will finalize its tally over the weekend. Georgia, despite the loss of a member of its Election Commission staff to Covid-19, is rapidly adding up its votes as the results of Fulton, its largest populated county is released. The results show a razor thin lead of Mr. Trump, the incumbent, over Mr. Biden of less than 15,000 votes.  If Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada are declared for the Biden /Harris ticket this should give him a victory in the race for the White House. Whether or not Pennsylvania has finished with its tally.  Many throughout the Philadelphia area have engaged in marches to ensure every vote is counted but the complaints were more than just about the election. Many of the speaker address the economic problems caused by the pandemic. One speaker spoke of the thousands of ev...

Justice and Police Brutality

Justice is a concept that reaches into every community and every culture. Injustice is viewed as a crime . Tyranny is a cruel oppression the reeks of immoral stench upon the human psychic . For the past few weeks, this nation has witnessed the cruelest oppression ever meted out on a group of people ;whose only crime is the color of their skin . It does not matter whether male or female. It occurs in the U.S., east, west, north, or south. It has its roots in slavery. It has grown with the United States since its inception and has practically strangled its noble ideals with the tentacles of racism and greed. This greed for human flesh and capital had to be justified. Exploitation born of this racism was something good for its recipients. It was justified   as something good by the will of providence. The recipients were cursed and therefore deserving of punishment. They were the descendants of Ham and because of the swarthy color of their skin they could be made to endure the cruel...