The March on Washington (60 Years Later)

 

The 60th anniversary of the March on Washington took place in Washington, D.C. Organizers of the march included Martin Luther King III, his wife and Drum Major Institue President Arndrea Waters King, daughter Yolanda (or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s granddaughter), and National Action Network leader Rev. Al Sharpton. We see a right-wing backlash so vicious that far-right MAGA extremists want to revert to the 1950's instead of going forward in the 21st century. Jealous people in Georgia desire to target Fulton DA Fani Willis because she is fulfilling her duty to make sure that Trump and 18 other indicted people face accountability. The 60th anniversary is a continuation, not a commemoration. Many of the speakers in the rally spoke up for justice and equality for all people in the human race. They spoke out against gun violence, against racism, against sexism, and against anti-Semitsm. It's our duty to not only speak up against evil. We have to be active in constructive actions in helping society to grow. We have to expose liars like Ramaswamy who called Presley and Kendi as the "Modern KKK." The KKK murdered people, raped people, and burned down black churches to the ground. This stuff from Ramaswamy shows his racism and ignorance of history. Constructive actions must be done by us. These actions can be going on in city councils, working in the school system, registering people to vote, running for office, volunteering, mentoring kids, defending democratic rights, building up communities, working in STEM to help humanity, and being a light of wisdom for people. Each of us has a gift, and it is very important to be inspired by our audacious ancestors in making sure that the Dream in the future will develop into total fruition.

A lot has changed since August 28, 1963, when the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom began. Technology has massively evolved to include iPhones, Netflix, Meta, and artificial intelligence. Yet, victory for liberty and justice is not a reality yet. When voting rights are less now in 2023 than in 1965, then we have a serious problem. Our outrage at the status quo is justified. Many human beings today face police brutality, poverty, sexism, poverty (and other forms of economic oppression), xenophobia, and other forms of bigotry. The 1963 March on Washington and the overall civil rights movement was about bringing diverse people together in order to bring the federal government to fulfill its responsibilities to the people. The federal government has the responsibility to ensure the general welfare and promote justice for all in an indivisible fashion. That is not our reality now when states ban books, restrict voting rights, and seek to harm the free speech rights of peaceful protesters. 

The criminal justice system, the wealth gap, and health care disparities will not be solved by moderate prescriptions or MAGA rhetoric. These evils can only be solved by structural and revolutionary change among all levels of government. The deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the 3 black people in Jacksonville, Florida show the epidemic of hate crimes in America. It shows that racism is a reality that seeks to destroy black lives literally. It's our just right to stand up for black lives from the poor and the homeless to others of every background. It is important to realize that the 1963 March on Washington (which was organized by tons of people like John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Cleveland Robinson, Bayard Rusin, Daisy Bates, Ann Arnold Hedgeman, A. Philip Randolph, etc.) wasn't just about the fight to end legalized Jim Crow apartheid. The march was about ending poverty, advancing a living wage, developing workers' rights, having fair education, developing housing, ending police brutality, and desiring full citizenship among black people. 

Grassroots organizing is one major avenue where solutions are enacted, and the black freedom struggle overall has been always inspirational. Reactionary politicians like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (who advanced a shoot-on-sight policy against undocumented immigrants which is abhorrent) and four times indictment Donald Trump may want to have a vendetta against progressives, but we seek the opposite in promoting progressive values. It is not enough to end Jim Crow apartheid which should be gone. We have to also promote egalitarianism in making sure that economic and racial equality is real via a radical redistribution of economic and political power. It's the reality that when Dr. King promoted these aims including opposing imperialism (and the Vietnam War) via his Poor People's Campaign, that he would be assassinated in 1968. So, we have to be clear to unite with like-minded people to defend democratic freedoms wholeheartedly.

By Timothy

Track and Field Results from the 2023 Championships.

 

Some great news is that Sha'Cari Richardson won the 2023 World Track and Championships today. We knew it was coming. We knew when she would get the torch, and she got it by her own merit. She refuted the haters, overcame obstacles, and is now the fastest woman this year. She won in a record time of 10.65 seconds. She knew that she had to run the race of her life, and she did just that. She won against the greatest competition of women's track and field 100m athletes in human history. It's that important. Sha'Cari Richardson gave an interview after the victory outlining the point that hard work does pay off. Sha'Cari Richardson won gold, Shericka Jackson of Jamaica won silver, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won bronze from Jamaica. In the 100m hurdles of men, Grant Holloway won gold from America with a time of 12.96 seconds, Hansle Parchment from Jamaica won silver with a time of 13.07, and Daniel Roberts of America won bronze with a time of 13.07.

There are more results from the 2023 World Track and Field Championships. For the 200 m, Shericka Jackson won gold from Jamaica (almost reaching Flo Jo's record from 1988), Gabrielle Thomas from America won silver, and Sha'Carri Richardson won bronze from America.  For the men's 200m race, Noah Lyles won gold for America, Erriyon Knighton won silver, and Letsile Tebogo from Botswana won bronze. For the men's 400m, Antonio Watson won gold from Jamaica, Matthew Hudson-Smith won silver from the UK, and Quincy Hall won bronze from America.

There are more results from Thursday's 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. For the men's 400 m race, Antonio Watson of Jamaica won gold, Matthew Hudson-Smith won silver, and Quincy Hall of America won bronze. For the 400m hurdles, Karsten Warholm of Norway won gold, Kyrion McMaster of the British Virgin Islands won silver, and Rai Benjamin of America won bronze. For the men's long jump, Miltiadis Tentoglou won gold from Greece, Wayne Pinnock won silver from Jamaica, and Tajay Gayle won bronze from Jamaica. For the 400m women's race, Marileidy Paulino won gold from the Dominican Republic, Natali Kaczmarek from Poland won silver, and Sada Williams from Barbados won bronze. For the 100m hurdles of women, Danielle Williams of Jamaica won gold, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico won silver, and the American Kendra Harrison won bronze. For the 400m hurdles for women, Femke Bol of the Netherlands won gold, Shamier Little from America won silver, and Rushell Clayton from Jamaica won bronze. From the women's hammer throw, Camyrn Rogers from Canada won gold, Janee' Kassanvoid from America won silver, and DeAnna Price from America won bronze.

Involving the 2023 World Track and Field Championships in Budapest, Hungary, new developments are here. Soufiane El Bakkali won gold in the 3000 m men's steeplechase from Morocco, Lamecha Girma from Ethiopia won silver, and Abraham Kibiwot won bronze in Kenya. Part of the men's high jump, Gianmarco Tamberi won gold from Italy, JuVaughn Harrison won silver from America, and Mutaz Essa Barshim won bronze from Qatar. As for the women's 1500 meters, Faith Kipyegon won gold from Kenya, Diribe Welteji from Ethiopia won silver, and Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands won bronze. As for the women's discus throw, Laulauga Tausaga-Collins won gold from America, Valerie Allman won silver from America, and Feng Bin from China won bronze.

There have been a lot of results in the 2023 World Track and Field Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The winners of the Women's 10,000 m race are Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia winning gold, Letesenbet Gidy of Ethiopia winning silver, and Ejgayehu Taye from Ethiopia winning bronze. For the 20km race walk, Alvaro won gold from Spain, Perseus Karlstrom from Sweden won silver, and Caio Bonfim from Brazil won bronze. For the men's shot put, Ryan Crouser from America won gold, Leonardo Fabbri from Italy won silver, and Joe Kovacs won bronze from America. For the 4 X 400 m mixed relay (meaning including men and women), America won gold in the world record time of 3:08:80, Great Britain won silver with the time of 3:11:06, and the Czech Republic won bronze with the time of 3:11:98.

By Timothy

The Nicene Council and The Holy Trinity.

 The Nicene Council story is one of the most important stories in Christianity and in spirituality in general. It is about a heroic young bishop against heretics like Arius and Constantine who wanted control and power. The lie is that the Nicene Council invented the Trinity, but the Trinity doctrine existed in the early church centuries before the Nicene Council. Jehovah's Witnesses, Gnostics, and other people in various faiths are anti-Trinitarian, but I do believe in the Trinity.  Constantine was once a pagan, and he never invented the doctrine of the Trinity. The term Trinitas was used by Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch in ca. 180 A.D. The term of Trinity was also used by Tertullian almost 100 years before the Nicene council. Athenagoras said the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit simultaneously exist as one God. Praxeas promoted the heresy of Monarchianism or that the Father became the Son, and the Son became the Spirit. This is modalism or what the Oneness teaches now. The Trinity was resisted by Gnostics and Arians. Modalism was promoted in Rome. Roman Catholicism as we know it today never existed in the early church as the early church never embraced purgatory, Mary being the Ever Virgin, or the Pope being the head of the church. Even the apostle Peter was married and had children. The early church had bishops and institutions functioning in equal space as Cyprian said no man is a bishop among bishops. It would be after the 300's A.D. when the Catholic Church formed claiming falsely that the Bishop of Rome has primacy over all churches of the world. By 312 A.D., Emperor Constantine of Rome claimed to have witnessed a vision of God of seeing the shape of a cross in front of the sun. Then, he saw the Greek words of toutoi nika or in this sign conquer. Constantine then put his soldiers with the X on their shields to defeat his enemies. He told his friend Eusebius this story. Constantine allowed the end of the persecution of Christians that existed since the edict of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. Constantine unified church and state which is against what Yeshua said of renders things to God things belong to God and render things to Caesar separately. Then, we saw a paganism infiltrate certain churches. Soon, icon, relics, veneration of images, and other heresies came into the apostate church (not the true church). Constantine didn't care about theological issues that much. 

Many future popes called themselves the Vicar of Church is blasphemous as God needs no representative on Earth. Arius was a bishop who opposed the bishop Alexander. Bishop Alexander of Alexandria, Egypt believed in the Trinity, but Arius was a heretic who thought that Jesus Christ was a created being. Bishop Alexander had a synod and denounced Arius's views. Arius forgets that Jesus in the NT is called the only Begotten Son of God and other views show Jesus Christ's existence before Creation. Arius believed that Yeshua was a created being not the eternal God in the flesh. Arius's friend Eusebius knew of Constantine and his family, so Constantine wanted this piece. Constantine convened the Nicene Council to deal with theological questions. It ended by Juen of 325 A.D. Arius debated Alexander. Alexander believed that Jesus Christ was the of the same substance (or homoousia) being God. Bishop Alexander and the young deacon Athanasius worked hard to debate and defend the Trinity. Athanasius said that the Scriptures prove that Jesus Christ was the same substance of nature as God. Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia believed that Christ was a created being. At first, Constantine banished Arius. By 333 A.D., Constantine agreed with Arius not being banished with the help of his friend Eusebius. Constantine was baptized on his death bed in 337 A.D. Arius suddenly died on his way to visit Constantinople where his friend Eusebius lived at. Constantine's son Constantius was a total Arian. He bashed Athanasius from Alexandria. Athanasius was attacked during his church service by Arians who brought 5,000 Roman soldiers with them in 353 A.D. Other creeds like in Constantinople would disavow the term substance. This would change after Constantius death in 361. Arians split apart. Athanasius passed away in 373 A.D. after writing books to refute the Arian heresy. His other important works include his Letters to Serapion, which defends the divinity of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, you know the truth. 

By Timothy