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Coronaviracism in the U.S.A.

Black America’s COVID19 mortality rate is 2.4 times higher, than their white American counterparts. After George Floyd’s kerbside murder, the mortality rate of the average black guy in the street, must have shot up too. African-American communities feel like they’re fighting two pandemics at the same time, COVID19 and racism. As a church leader put it, ‘There's COVID-19 and there's COVID-1619 — the year when slavery came to America.’ Black America Can’t Breathe! Even before George was caught on camera, pleading to the white cop, ‘I CAN’T BREATHE!’, America was already fighting for air, facing its worst public health crisis for a generation. 100,000 Americans have failed to make it past the first six months of 2020. With a significantly larger proportion of that body count being black. Needless to say, the inherent racism within the American Health System doesn’t work in their favour. If the Cops don’t get ya… With Coronavirus seeking out and then decimating African-Americ...

Donald Trump: The Eminem of Politics?

In the song ‘Without Me’ , Marshall Mathers (Eminem) talks about the public needing his alter ego Slim Shady, 'Cause we need a little controversy, Cause it feels so empty without me.’ The same could be said of Mr Orange in The Whitehouse. What will we have to write about if we don’t have the 45 th  President? The meme makers will be redundant. The outraged will have little to be outraged about. Politics will be handed back to the politicians. Boo! Disapproval Rating? Donald’s approval rating is more than 20% down on George ‘Double-Yew’ Bush. Really? Never was there a greyer President, except of course, his Dad. Dangerous Donald survived impeachment which is more than Tricky Dicky did, who quit before the heat really got turned up. The other two were forgettable professional politicians, Andrew Johnson (Lincoln’s Vice President) and Bill Clinton (husband to crooked Hilary). The thing about Donald is that he’s so deliciously amateur, a car crash waiting to happen. W...