I had a professor at Cal State Long Beach who constantly trashed America as racist, oppressive, and irredeemable. He mocked the Constitution, capitalism, and virtually every American institution.
At the end of the semester, he gave an emotional story about how his mother crawled through sewer pipes to reach America.
So I raised my hand and asked: if America is this irredeemable, oppressive country, why did she risk everything to come here? And why are neither of you interested in going back?
He didn’t answer the question. Instead he called me disrespectful.
That’s because much of this ideology is not rooted in reality testing. It’s institutional theater rewarded by academia, media, and activism.
The system incentivizes moral denunciation of America while simultaneously depending on the opportunities America uniquely provides.
God I’m in tears in court right now after 7months of fighting for a teenager that was raped and aborted for, they tried to sabotaged this case through the DPP but I fought tooth and nail and made sure I obtained my own certified true copy and pushed ahead with every resources available to me and today judgement was served,the pedophile is going on trial and finally moving from the magistrate court to the high court where he would be formerly jailed for his crimes. I never stopped at the court but followed it up at the DPP and finally yesterday I was given my own copy 😍
I was vilified for standing by this young girl, most of the men in her compound who are pedophile apologist called me all sorts of names and threaten me, one even called me gay just but I dealt with them fully and even sued one to court and he was begging for his life not to enter jail.
Today I’m having the last laugh,I have always fought for children and teenagers to be free from the shackles of pedophiles and today th
A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.
It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.
Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.
Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.
The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.
It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.
The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.
When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.
Incase you’re shocked, this guy sells Yoruba caps like the one he’s wearing for N15,000 that most likely doesn’t cost more than N1,500 to make.
A big part of him can’t comprehend how another entrepreneur can decide not to inflate price of their own product more than necessary.
Now this is mind blowing
Joe Rogan “Kids Wish Network:
- They raised $127 million
- They paid to solicitors $109 million
- They spent percentage on direct cash
- Aid to the actual kids is ONLY 2.5%
- Look at the Cancer Fund of America. LESS THAN 1% went to the actual thing”
I would never endorse a post like this!!!
Please do not ask Celebrities to make sacrifices the people themselves are not ready to make.
Celebrities are Citizens like you. If majority of the people are quiet, why should we blame celebrities?
Also not all celebrities wish to speak on social issues. So it’s unfair to manipulate us into speaking about certain topics because even when we speak, we get attacked!
We can’t force people into advocacy simply because their line of work has made them famous.
Let me give an example:
Nigerians will see their fellow Nigerian being brutalized by the police.. instead of coming together to stop it that very moment, some will pass by, some others will watch, some others will record. Then same Nigerians will come online to attack Celebrities for not speaking against police brutality.
When Nigerians truly want change, The people will not wait for any celebrity. The people will become their own celebrities and they will lead and take charge!