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Why COVID19 America Can’t Breathe!

The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, was the straw that finally broke Black America’s back. They collectively screamed, ‘Enough is enough!’ In the six years since Black Lives Matter, went from a hashtag to an International Movement, has anything really changed in the America of Donald Trump? For George Floyd, there’s an endless list of names you can replace his with. Breonna Taylor, Armaud Arbery,  Eric Garner,  Jamar Clark, Marcus Golden, Cordale Hardy, on and on it goes. So, when will the killing of black people actually matter and when will it stop?   Coronavirus: The other knee on Black America’s neck. George’s televised death coincided with a Coronavirus pandemic, that goes out of its way to devastate Black America. With African Americans only making up 14% of the population, one third of U.S. COVID19 deaths come from their community. Why is this? For a start Black Americans hold down dangerous frontline jobs. Then they go home to densely populated a...

COVID19 KEEF20

My Money's on the Unbreakable Stone!   COVID-19 isn’t going away any time soon and nor is the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards. In fact, if Coronavirus got within 2 metres of our Keef’s ox-like constitution, it would wave a makeshift flag of surrender. Mutter ‘how the f*** is he still breathing’, turn tale and head for the hills! Never, to be heard of again. Good riddance to bad rubbish!    Vote Richards? We’d all like to be back on Planet Earth 2020BC: Before Coronavirus. The pandemic that's cut us off from the outside world, our families and all our besties. Did we do anything to it? I think not. Most of us didn’t even know what IT was until a month ago. But it took it upon itself to turn the whole world upside down, without so much as a by your leave. If Keef was in charge, he’d declare war on it! Excess is his middle name.   So how did Keef survive the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s? While so many of his musical buddies barely made i...