Black people in America voted a guy that authored the Crime bill that incarcerated blacks by their numbers and a woman that was AG when it happened as VP over a guy that gave them the First Step Act which helped over 3k prisoners get their freedom.

I have been thinking..

First, let me state clearly my bias, so that is doesn't look like I'm pretending to be objective.

When it comes to the American version of liberalism (because it is different from liberalism over here, South of Europe.) I think it is more politics and virtue signalling than

actual liberalism.

I do not like virtue signallers and I have done a fair bit of research on a lot of liberal policies like the American great state; the welfare state which has done more harm than good to the same people it pretends to help. Everything it said it was going to

end has not only gotten worse since the 1960s, its failure has also been rationalised and the programs expanded regardless the fact that it has done a lot more damage.

I don't think liberal politicians in America actually want to help. I think they pander to everyone and their

sole end is the number of votes they get.

How does a "liberal" president start wars and conflicts. That's an oxymoron. I can go on for days about every policy that was made to help and has only made things worse. So that's where my bias lies. I think liberal politicians are

full of shit.

I prefer my devil dressed as the devil. Not dressed as an angel with flowing wings that lets me put my guard down to my assured destruction.

So....... I have been thinking.

My history with doubting the media started when I was in secondary school. I won't go into it because this is not the thread for that.

But like Mandela said "One of the mistakes that the outside world makes is to think that their enemies should be our enemies,"

″Our attitude toward any country is determined by the attitude of that country toward our struggle.″

So.. allow me fly of a tangent here, a lot of Africans have inherited an enemy in Trump even when they do not have logically justifiable reasons to hate him...

But again, that's not the point.

The point is, how can I - I imagine I'm an African American living in the USA, who can vote- justify voting a man who had direct impact in creating the system which disproportionately adversely affects people in my community.

What could be the reason behind choosing that person over a guy that has acted in good faith towards my community, who signed a bill that is aimed at reversing the adverse effects of the system created by this first guy and who has delivered on his campaign promise to reduce the

unemployment rate in my community to the lowest in history.

What reason could I logically have?

The problems in my community have always been there regardless who is president, even when a black man like me was president, these problems persisted.

So what reasons do I have to choose someone who has a hand in my problems over someone who has acted in good faith towards my community?

Every white conservative is a racist by default to the liberal party. That's what they say to put them on the defense.

Trump's tax policy put actual real money in the pockets of low income earners. The black community is overrepresented in this class. The deregulation and lowering taxes on businesses means black businesses can do better.

Again, I won't list everything because, again...

that is not the point.

The point is, how do I choose that guy over this guy.

That's where the media comes in.

You tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.

Somehow Biden is not a racist for his Crime bill that disproportionately affected the black community but

Trump. The same Trump that was the darling of American pop culture, who had been a celebrity for decades, in the public eye then suddenly became a racist when he contested for president as a republican.

We can talk about his attitude, maybe he's not presidential. He doesn't have a filter, he says what he thinks. He shouldn't sound so crude for a president, but you cannot point to one piece of legislation he has authored that incarcerated black people disproportionately.

I think it's all down to people not fact checking the media.

The media shapes narratives, and since words become thoughts. The media plays mind control.

I have always had a distrust of the media. It's the same thing the government is doing over here to shape the EndSars

narrative not as one which we have visibly seen to be peaceful, but as violent arsonists. Those who aren't emotionally invested in the struggle would not bother fact checking this, but it stays in their subconscious, so instead of supporting the movement when the conversation is

had, they are against it.

The media in the same capacity helped paint a former dictator as a reformed democrat even though just a few years ago he was talking about monkey being soaked in baboon blood.

But you only know what the media tells you if you're not invested enough

to do your own research.

It is exactly the same way I see it, call put Trump on everything and with time everyone would believe he's indeed an evil person.

Paint the other guy in a good light and eventually he'll become the good guy.

So the point off all these is not the USA, its politics, its people or even its elections.

The point I want you to take out of all these is that the media has power over your mind if you give it to them.

In the words of Damian Marley - " And you're over 10 and you watch CNN and believe everything, you're in too deep."

Only children should believe everything they see on TV by default. As an adult, your world view shouldn't be entirely shaped by what you hear on the news.

Olóyè writing to you from the #CouncilofChiefs