HOPE and VICTORY

Jerel Shaw 4/29/2020 People are showing that they are fed-up - om all fronts.  Not a day passes where pinned-up inertia is finding a way to come alive by expressing anger, hopelessness, and frustration in how the world is being run. Now that there is much anything new to report about.  We all know that virus pandemic known as COVID-19 seems to have blindsided the whole world.  The misery, pain, and confusion are immeasurable consequences that will problem be with humans on earth until the end.  It's a  disease that even our smartest humans seems to be clueless, or are slow with finding answers to help arrest this virus.  However, the must telling revelation comes in the reality that the world (once again) will never be the same. Call it a laboratory experiment that went wrong; act of God; or something caused by climate chain but whatever it else our leaders are having to change their plans on the run.  The greatest revelation is showing how malign leaders are trying to main

Might sound complicated and a little mystifying, but I vicariously feel pain when others are bullied or violated and its more intense when the one causing the main is indifferent to other's pain.  It's nothing that I wish on others, or even feel that no one should have to endure - this includes individuals, groups and nations. I don't think my feeling may be intrinsically related to my being somewhat of a empath, and it very well can be, but the foundation is maybe based in my personal experience.  I've been there before, more than once as a victim of bullying, but being there   only adds sustenance to the argument that says bullying is a crime that comes in different degrees (yes, misdemeanor or felony and everything in between). Living in a country that equates itself with being exceptional makes it even harder to swallow when I see that this mystique of exceptionalism includes the propensity to belittle others. But, as I said, it's a crime that can's d

Society has been proliferated with data coming from research that examines the real status of Americans.  But, no matter how profound and informative the data may be, humans have what one would call a 'selective perception' opting to believe a lie before the truth. Hence, hoping vs. reality seem to have clashed since the beginning of time. Currently, the government is supposedly determining the amount of direct funding that it would issue to its (some) citizens to help them overcome the ravages of a virus pandemic that has placed society in and obit of uncertainty.  And, while those in government are acting like they care it's arguable that our capitalistic system are revealing holes in human response.  To be perfectly clear, the banks, wall street, airlines are really the priority - just like before.  Every profit making entity supersedes human concerns for those most at risk, i.e., the elderly, disabled, and citizens in general.  Now people would like to hope that this

Small Things Matter:  Prolific and Thoughtful Advocacy for Elders Submitted by:  Jerel Shaw Let's face it, the world would be screwed without the expertise of lawyers helping people when they've been wronged.  Then of course, this reality (helping) is predicated on the a myriad of competing conflicting interests in our capitalist society - in others words, everybody has to get paid. From the guy who was just blindsided by an errant vehicle who is lucky to be alive to the child who just unfortunately didn't survive when a out-of-control vehicle came out of nowhere onto the sidewalk in both the the lawyers and the claimant or their survivals can be well compensated if the lawyer works his magic.  From stifling class action lawsuits to million dollar lawsuits, the likelihood of the inevitable occurrence of disagreements often are the supply that demand that lawyers are needed.  And, unfortunately if  there's  money (profit) then without that element one ca

Jerel Shaw @jerelshaw Presently, I am finishing a book that I envision being published before the end of 2019.  I find it a unique essay in the sense that the reader will find an interweaving of prolong dichotomy that separates the Africa roots from what we call Black American diaspora.  It's been a long process of disenfranchising American Blacks from their ancestral roots.  The book is not a history lesson on how blacks have through slavery have evolved from the motherland to a foreign land, but it is a commentary filled with flashes 'what if'. The  transatlantic slave trade  began in the 15th century, after the Portuguese started exploring the coast of West Africa. At first the number of enslaved Africans taken was small. In about 1650, however, with the development of plantations on the newly colonised Caribbean islands and American mainland, the  trade  grew.  The slave  for America until 1808 - that's nearly two centuries of shifting black souls from their

Jerel Shaw @jerelshaw So, Trump calls it a "witch hunt" and the Democrats says that he's broken the law.  Either way, it's costing the taxpayer lots of money.  Let's say that that hypothetically it is a political witch hunt; and, the Democrats have decided that they've found an incontrovertible smoking gun to finally get rid of Trump.  Now if this is true, did anyone break the law by not pointing out how Lawmakers overall are breaking the laws and not paying a price?   Let's take a look. So after a two-year-long investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russian interference in the US election, and the president’s efforts to obstruct that investigation, and the dramatic unveiling of the final report by special counsel Robert Mueller, and then Mueller’s own testimony before Congress, and a myriad of other potential offenses, this phone call to Ukraine is what finally spurred the Democrats to start the process of impeachment. But why, after ev