AFRICAN LATINO ASIAN & ALL AMERICANS’ HARMONY TRAGICALLY EXPLOITED

The reason Police and all communities must work together is to prevent lunatics and extremists from disrupting harmony within people of goodwill. As communities make progress they heat up ethnic and racial and tension to interrupt peaceful debates. Great Police Intelligence missed by just a few minutes unfortunate fatal ambush of two innocent minority New York Policemen.

Africans say if you throw stone into a market, it might hit members of your family as Police Lieu and Ramos. A reminder of how hard we must work to bring folks together, even for a President. Some lunatics everywhere sought notoriety that have killed folks of different races, Presidents, politicians, soldiers and policemen off and on active duty. Americans must condemn together all fatalities, not politicize Iraq Generals or civil Police insubordination against elected leaders.

How do we know a leader? The one that is bold enough to support the powerless, minority and women in the face of status quo or the rich and powerful. President Lyndon Johnson lost the United States Southern votes for his support and enforcement of Civil Right. Praise, do not vilify Mayor Bill de Blasio that dared expressed what every father told his black son: obey police first and complain later. New York must focus on tragic deaths of policemen and youths, not politics.

There is enough goodwill within United States of America not to go back to the dark ages of the sixties when Civil Rights and violence competed. Indeed ugly incidents where minorities, young people and police are at one another's throat is more common when anarchy sets in and police and soldiers disrespect constitutional civilian leaders, never in USA. The lives of police, soldiers, Blue and Black matter. Lives must not be taken with impunity. See Amaduo Diallo mother's plea.

Another distraction by Mr. 911, former N. Y City Mayor Rudy Giuliani brags about his work with Mafia in New York City but we did not see Police gunned down nor did we see members of the Mafia gunned down by police on the streets. Yet he continues to blame Mayor de Blasio, the President, Black and Civil leaders for the loss of two innocent police lives they all condemned.

Guns of lunatic killers politicized must not overshadow Obama's Economy growing at 5% annual rate in third quarter, best since 2003. He has delivered for the Latinos: Si, he can for all. He will make more difference for blacks; encourages more jobs to lower crimes and unemployment in the black communities. Indeed, Republicans use Blacks lack of jobs and low wages against him. While Congress starved state governments of infrastructure and jobs for women and minorities.

USA Partnership in Africa and African America communities is not exclusive. Attorney General Eric Holder enforced Civil Rights backed by a determined President that appointed judges and changed other disproportional jail times that made it difficult for criminalized youths to get jobs. Punishment for crack lowered to that of powder cocaine. Just as President Bush is remembered for combating AIDs in Africa, Obama will be remembered for fighting Ebola politics and more.

Those that thought the rest of Obama tenure will be lame duck are thinking again as President Reagan said: they have not seen anything yet. There is no doubt that bourgeoisie Batista Cuban illegal Government itself; overthrown by Castro over five decades ago still generates strong emotional reaction in Florida amongst the older folks, but not amongst the new generation. Yet some powerful Latino conservatives want sanctions on Cuban that only punish common people.

Obama had been called all kinds of names as American stooge by most Latin American leaders. The friction between United States and Cuba became a distraction at home and at Organization of American States. They are now praising Obama for his bold and historic initiative for dialogue with Cuba. President Maduro of Venezuela called the act, a brave historically necessary gesture. Brazil President Rousseff never thought this moment will come marking a change in civilization.

The real problem of Conservative Right is: they cannot stand up to the powerful at home. They think only Richard Nixon can go to China, Ronald Reagan can break Soviet Union but Jefferson Clinton could not visit Vietnam and Obama must not visit Cuba. That is, only a Conservative President can negotiate with the enemy. If Democratic President does, he is a traitor. Hogwash!

Based on this false sense of patriotism, Cuban American Presidential candidates like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz blasted Obama for lifting sanctions on Cuba though their own parents had gained from the Cuban immigration privileges not extended to Haitian Americans. These two were also prominent in opposing Obama's immigration deferment actions. It was interesting that while opposing Obama on DACA, Rubio had a DACA plan ready to gain political advantage.

What Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and African American Dr. Ben Carson fail to realize is that because Obama can, does not mean they can. No matter how much they condemn everything Obama does to appease the Republican, their time to become the Party Presidential nominee is far off in terms of years and generation. You can take that to the bank. A Comprehensive Immigration bill, Rubio had supported in the Senate caused him to lose his conservative supporters in polls.

The Pope encouraged the dialogue between United States and Cuban. Just as previous Popes encouraged dialogue with Germany and Poland. Obama has two more years to foster American and Cuban dialogue. Before Cuba, there were climate, military and investment agreements with China's President Xi Jinping and formed an international coalition against ISIL his critics claimed was not good enough. If he had followed them, ISIL would be ruling Syria with chemical weapon.

After all the praises for Republicans' choice of Vladimir Putin as “principled and most powerful leader” Obama's sanction on Putin was working before the drop in oil prices made it worse. Unfortunately, it is the same Republicans that want to punish Putin into a corner. Ignoring the fact that Russia is still a world nuclear power; until it starts fighting back the only way it knows.

Every crisis has been exploited and turned into football match, regardless of the victims. Yoruba say every child is born alive the same way, no matter the glory of their blood and status in life. White, Blue and Black live matter!

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Articles by Farouk Martins Aresa