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The Stand Your Ground Law & It’s Implications

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on July 21, 2018

Posted in: Social Commentary. Tagged: America, Human Condition, Life, NYC, politics, Racism, Social Behavior, Social Commentary, Stand Your Ground Law, THEJNSREPORT. Leave a comment

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: The Stand Your Ground Law & It’s Implications

By now everyone in the U.S has probably heard of the Stand Your Ground Law (unless you live under a rock) which was brought to public consciousness with the high profile murder case of George Zimmerman who gunned down 17 year old Trayvon Martin in his father’s neighborhood in Florida back in 2012. George Zimmerman a disgusting excuse for a human-being whose prejudice & racist attitude coupled with the use of the “Stand Your Ground Law” allowed him to basically get away with murdering an African American kid. Make no mistake, a 17 year old is still just a kid. This was a grown man with a hatred of people of color and the desire to become law enforcement who failed to become an officer of the law despite his numerous attempts.

His unhealthy obsession with becoming a police officer drove him to study criminal justice and self defense in particular because he wanted to have a legal means of killing people of color. Despite all the facts of the case America’s stubborn racist mindset and rigged judicial system along with “Lord Voldemort” himself Mark O’Meara convinced a jury that only one person was allowed to use the Stand Your Ground Law when the confrontation occurred between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.

Due to his death at the hands of George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin was unable to testify that he was stalked, attacked, wrestled to the ground as he fought valiantly for his life and ultimately shot at point blank range by George Zimmerman in the dark of night while rain fell.

Without rehashing all the details of that night the implications are clear. If you are a person of color and in particular an African American male/female child or adult, young or old, your life can be taken (without remedy) by anyone be it an ordinary citizen or a police officer. Open season was declared with the not guilty verdict. How did America allow this to happen? The answer is America has always allowed this to happen. Her soil is saturated and drunken full with the blood and bodies of innumerable African American people while the judicial system regards their lost lives as foot notes not worthy of mention and rightfully taken by anyone who sees fit to do so.

People can point to the “holocaust” it’s survivors and the descendants of survivors with empathy and remembrance along with monetary compensation for them to help with their recovery from those concentration camps. Under former President Obama, America gave $12 million dollars to “Jewish” holocaust survivors and/or their descendants. What do people point to when it comes to the innumerable number of African/Afro – American lives lost to slavery, rape, murder, public lynching, Jim Crow, & convict leasing programs not to mention the mass incarceration of Afro-Americans brought on by the Clinton era? Nothing…not a peep.

“Stand Your Ground” is just another legal affront to African American people and should be stricken from the law books. One should not be afforded the protections of Stand Your Ground” when initiating a conflict and then claiming self defense to justify murder. Do you notice when a person of color tries to use “Stand Your Ground” that defense isn’t allowed? What are we to do? As it stands we’re currently damned if we do, double damned if we don’t. Perhaps with backs to the wall the answer is (if there is no legal recourse or protection for African-American people) to arm yourselves anyway. Personally, I think it better to have a chance at self defense than no defense at all. Fuck a system that doesn’t give a shit whether you live or die so long as money can be made off your talents, your labor, your physical body, your life, your property, and your intellect. This onslaught can’t go on unchecked and unchallenged.

What I know from experience is that it’s only when you stand up for yourself that people respect you. What incentive is there to change anything if the people affected aren’t willing to fight for the change?

The Presidential Race

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on October 10, 2016

Posted in: Politics, Social Commentary. Tagged: America, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, politics, Social Behavior, Social Commentary, THEJNSREPORT. Leave a comment

With all the latest media hoopla and Donald Trump’s incendiary words with regards to women caught on tape we ask the following poll question

Who’s Got Your Vote?

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on February 25, 2016

Posted in: Politics, Social Commentary. Tagged: politics, Presidential Race, The Presidency, THEJNSREPORT, U.S.A. Leave a comment

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Who’s Got Your Vote?

With the year going by quickly and the last vestiges of President Obama’s last term in office coming to an end the country faces the future with uncertainty as to who will be the next president of the U.S. At last look it appears the race comes down to Donald Trump vs Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio for republican nomination. On the democratic side we see Hillary Clinton vs Bernie Sanders.

I’m left with the impression that there is no “dog” in the race I really want to see as president. So I’ll turn this question to the public. If you had to pick one out of the current candidates for president whether it’s Democrat or Republican Or Independent who’s got your vote?

President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on November 21, 2014

Posted in: Politics, Social Commentary. Tagged: Executive Order, Government, Immigration Reform, Obama, People, Policy, politics, president, President Obama, U.S Constitution. Leave a comment

WAR & POW’s

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on June 11, 2014

Posted in: Politics, Social Commentary. Tagged: Afghanistan, American soldier, Bowe Berghdal, Government, Military, Oath, politics, POW, Taliban, the Taliban, War. Leave a comment

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: WAR & POW’S

Written by Akan Bosemann

Not all of the facts are known just yet but everyone seems to be weighing in with their two cents on the release of Bowe Berghdal and whether he’s a traitor or not. I have some questions to ask. What would cause a soldier to desert? If they knew he had left his post in the past, what were the specifics of those incidents? Why was he not returned home or discharged? What was happening there in Afghanistan with American troop presence occupying and fighting “Taliban” and/or insurgents?

Next question I need answers to is the condition of this American soldier since his capture and imprisonment (for let’s all say it together) FIVE (5) years in the custody of the Taliban? With the President announcing that the war would be over and troops pulled out of Afghanistan how would that news impact Berghdal’s well being in the custody of the Taliban?

I’ve heard some statements from service men talking about oaths taken and broken by this man to the military and his military brethren. I’ll lean on the bible with reference to oaths in which it says we are to swear no oath at all. Simply let one’s answer be Yes or No.

Matthew 5:34 – 37 “But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.”

I’ll ask if one’s belief is that the cause one thought he/she was fighting for turned out not to be what he/she was led to believe it was about in fact and one had “sworn” an oath does that mean one can’t change their mind and decide to no longer fight for something they no longer believe in?

Perhaps we should all reserve judgment until we know all the facts in this story.

Ban On Outdoor Cigarette Smoking

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on April 18, 2014

Posted in: Health, Nature - Environment, Social Commentary. Tagged: Ban, Cancer, Carcinogens, Cigarette Smoking, Cigars, Freedom, Fresh Air, health, Lobby, Multi-Billion Dollar Enterprise, Outdoor, politics, Secondhand Smoke, toxins, Trillion Dollar Enterprise. Leave a comment

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: BAN ON OUTDOOR CIGAR/CIGARETTE SMOKING

I don’t know about you but I enjoy being outdoors in sunshine with a gentle breeze and plenty of fresh air. That being said one thing I can’t stand is the smell of cigarettes and cigar smoke. Besides the heinous odor they put out, the dangerous second-hand smoke I and many other passersby receive from smokers out in the open air is infuriating to no end.

It’d be one thing if the only person affected by smoking was the real smoker. The fact that concentrated plumes of second-hand smoke expelled outdoors travel, and are 5x more concentrated than the pull of smoke the first smoker inhales.

I can’t count the number of times while walking the horrible plumes of cancer causing smoke hit me in the face causing me to search for the offending party to walk briskly in front of them in order not to experience it again.

Sometimes I’m lucky enough to do just that and some times the wind aids the offending party by blowing in all directions. Why is this poison legal and Cannabis not? The answer to me is obvious. One kills people, the other kills cancer cells and helps with a multitude of ailments.

One is a controlled Multi-Billion Dollar Enterprise, the other a burgeoning Trillion Dollar Enterprise if made legal. Corporations that have that much money and lobby power make sure what’s good & free for all, isn’t and made illegal while the other kills and is readily available. It even kills those who don’t regularly imbibe it because of its ability to affect 2nd and 3rd parties. I’m in favor of a city-wide ban on smoking cigars/cigarettes outdoors. All that said…

Sports 2014

Posted by THEJNSREPORT on February 10, 2014

Posted in: Social Commentary, Sports. Tagged: 2014, Aloe Blacc, Gay Athletes, Homophobia, Michael Sam, Openly Gay Athletes, politics, sexual orientation, sports, Vladimir Putin, Winter Olympics. 2 Comments

Welcome to THEJNSREPORT’S: Gay Athletes in Pro Sports 2014

Aloe Blacc’s “The Man” is the theme for this post. See the video on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm660vIn8Tg

Waking up to the news of Mizzou football player Michael Sam’s coming out this morning was a surreal trip in which we found ourselves asking the question much like in the Matrix, whether we were dreaming or not. Nope we’re not dreaming.

A proud Afro-American man (Michael Sam) stood up today and stole the thunder many would use against him in the media, or boardrooms, and various other “closets” and let everyone look, listen, and understand who he is.

Ultimately, Sam’s statement means that all of us not just in sports, or media but in everyday life to face the controversial if not taboo subject of sexual orientation, bullying, discrimination, and equal employment opportunities that would be denied to many people based on criteria that isn’t supposed to be part of the hiring process, but in reality plays a role in whether one finds employment in a certain industries or not.

Pro Football much like most male dominant sports and the military proves a formidable platform to take on the spectacle of gay athletes and whether openly gay athletes can coexist in the heterosexual male testosterone based concept of masculinity in team sports and the Locker Room in particular. Team unity/cohesion are often mentioned as issues as to whether an openly gay athlete can succeed at the pro level.

To that I think that if people didn’t know an athlete’s orientation before it was disclosed and rather focused on the skills and talents and work ethic of the athlete, letting the person’s performance speak rather than their prejudices or stereotypes this would be a non issue.

Much has been said of Vladimir Putin’s remarks in Russia yet the Winter Olympics still go on. Gay athletes have competed and won Gold medals already so what are we really talking about today? In the end I think personal projections of personal insecurity cause people to judge others based on their sexual orientation.

What does a man or woman have to fear from another man or woman if they are secure in their own sexuality? Performance in the work place is really all that should be discussed at this point. Is the potential employee capable of performing the job they are applying for?

If the answer is yes, there’s nothing left to say other than you’re hired. Michael Sam’s ethnicity is also worth mention in this subject because often in the black community it’s viewed as the lowest of the low for a black man to be gay let alone open about it. What’s the first insult one hears whether in jest or a rap lyric as one of the most disrespectful ways to address another male? Call him a faggot, punk bitch, or bitch N@(**@.

One things for sure the stereotype of gay athletes being mostly effeminate, weak, figure skaters, or queens is starkly if not immediately dispelled when looking at Michael Sam. Kudos to Mr. Sam and this monumental moment in history during Black History Month 2014.