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A video of the murder of Rayshard Brooks went viral overnight, sparking public outrage from the African community in Atlanta and beyond.

The May 25 murder of an African man, 46-year-old George Floyd, by the state of Minnesota in the form of the Minneapolis police department continues to incite and ignite the world. 

Ahmaud Arbery died on his feet, refusing to cower in the face of white power.  

On Friday, May 29, 2020, three days into militant protests that have rocked the foundation of the colonialist capitalAPSPuhuru.orgist world, African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela broadcast this message, which has been slightly edited here and which can be found in its original video version on the Burning Spear TV channel on YouTube:

Colonized people are 100 times more likely to die in California, the world’s fifth largest economy, than in Oceania where the mean Gross Domestic Product ranks 183rd globally. Out of California’s population of 39.5 million, slightly below the Oceania population of 42.67 million, 3,700 have died from COVID-19. The COVID-19 death toll in the Pacific Islands is 121 lives.

“The latest overall COVID-19 mortality rate for Black Americans is 2.4 times as high as the rate for Whites and 2.2 times as high as the rate for Asians and Latinos,” a new study released on May 20 by the APM Research Lab revealed.

“As millions of civilians in conflict-scarred nations teeter on the brink of starvation, famine is a very real and dangerous possibility,” World Food Project (WFP) chief David Beasley told the United Nations Security Council, according to the UN News on April 21.

While the world is caught in a dervish of COVID-9 pandemania, the U.S. has used the first four months of this year to administer more airstrikes in Somalia than it did during the entire presidency of Barack Obama.

“I’m happy to report you stayed classy, San Diego.”  That is how San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer addressed the community as local beaches and parks reopened on April 27.  That class, however, was San Diego’s white ruling class.