My observations on the BCF Convention and why President Trump will eventually win 2020 elections

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 I am watching the Black Caucus Foundation Convention that kicked off in August 2020 and will resume in October 2020.The Convention has many speakers from the political legislative platform like Senators, House Representatives and Congresswoman Aayana Presley .

Today's session was as per following :
Monday, Sep 28, 2020
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST
6th Annual State of African American Small Businesses: A Call to Action – Now is the Time
This Issue Forum will focus on what we must do now to advance the conversation about building Black wealth through entrepreneurship. As a community, we have talked about the problems and danced around solutions for decades. Now is the time for change and we must come together to act. Sponsored by McDonald's, General Motors, CSX.
6th Annual State of African American Small Businesses: A Call to Action – Now is the Time
SPEAKER(S):

Panelist: Greg Campbell , Managing Partner & CEO , Medingenii Capital and Rainmaker Inc Honorary Host: Donald M. Payne , Member of Congress representing New Jersey's 10th Congressional District , U.S. House of Representatives Moderator: Jill L. Johnson , Chief Executive Officer , Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership Panelist: Jim Lowry , Senior Advisor , The Boston Consulting Group Panelist: JaNay Queen Nazaire , Chief Strategy Officer , Living Cities Panelist: Tanya Van Court , Founder and CEO , Goalsetter
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM EST
Addressing the Black Amputation Epidemic
Black Americans face an epidemic of amputation of their legs and feet as a result of a diabetes related circulatory condition called peripheral artery disease (PAD). Black Americans lose limbs at a rate three times that of others. It doesn't have to be this way. Boston Scientific and these leading physicians will discuss practical preventative, clinical, and policy solutions to close the gap with this disparity and save black limbs.
Addressing the Black Amputation Epidemic
SPEAKER(S):

Panelist: Foluso Fakorede , CEO , Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi Moderator: Dr Michael R Jaff , Chief Medical Officer , Boston Scientific Panelist: Chamika Hawkins-Taylor , Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacy Practice , Xavier University Panelist: Paul Michael , Medical Director , JFK Wound Management and Preservation Center
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM EST
Investing in the community: Minority Banks and community development financial institutions
"Ending redlining: how minority banks and community development financial institutions can ensure equitable recovery for the black community".
Investing in the community: Minority Banks and community development financial institutions
SPEAKER(S):

Honorary Host: Gregory W. Meeks , Member of Congress , U.S. House of Representatives Panellist: Kenneth Kelly , Chairman , National Bankers Association Panellist: Ted Archer , Executive Director, Global Philanthropy , JPMorgan Chase Panellist: David Clunie , Executive Director , Black Economic Alliance Moderator: Hope Knight , Greater Jamaica Development Corporation Panelist: Aron Betru , Managing Director , Center for Financial Markets Milken Institute Panelist: Lisa Mensah , President and CEO , Opportunity Finance Network
6:00 PM - 6:45 PM EST
Leveraging Your Power, Influence and Currency to Make Transformative Societal Changes
Join founding members of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund for a discussion on how Black and Brown executives are leveraging their individual and collective power, influence, and currency in conjunction with corporate and community organizations to make transformative societal changes by addressing systemic racism and racial inequity.

The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund focuses on ending long-standing structural and systemic racism that has impacted Black- and Brown-led nonprofits in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Sponsored by Fidelity Investments

Leveraging Your Power, Influence and Currency to Make Transformative Societal Changes
SPEAKER(S):

Panellist: Pamela Everhart , Head of Regional Public Affairs & Community Relations , Fidelity Investments Panellist: Former U.S. Senator William "Mo" Cowan , President, Global Government Affairs and Policy and Developed Markets , General Electric Panellist: Myechia Minter-Jordan , President and CEO , DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Health Advancement and Catalyst Institute Host: Wendy John , Head of Global Diversity & Inclusion , Fidelity Investments Panellist: Quincy Miller , President and Vice Chairman , Eastern Bank

The issues addressed range from basic subsistence and denial of rights as welfare and employment rights as to credit and financing being denied on the basis of the businesses having Afro American owners or representatives.

When I filmed the short video in this post I was gasping at how speakers still find themselves having to explain discrimination to the panel mediator, like is the case of the Senator speaking at the time.

To deny that the situation is extreme to the point where it can still go further down the line of the worst is the same as denying the Jewish Holocaust or African Slavery because the historical fact is undeniable and there is abundant evidence to suggest that the AA community is not in a disadvantaged position because of social problems caused by single parenthood or social care in or during young Afro Americans lives but simply because there is margin within the mechanisms of society to refuse to acknowledge rights to the AA and work against them by denying them rights based on them not filling the criteria.

We can take the example of George Flloyd who died a few months ago and though holding a job as a security during lockdown found himself without any money or rights and even when cashing a cheque was falsely accused of being forging a cheque, only because of being AA.

I know of people in Britain who during lockdown were offered money by the British Government, more than they were entitled , they are all Eastern European, Polish and Russian. I have not heard of any Portuguese or African in Britain who was not going up the walls in despair with regulations enforcing the closure of their business.

The same occurs in the US , there is margin within the mechanisms of society to reward people of certain localities ( and implicitly ethnicity) while denying business funds or furloughs to people of other areas because there is estimation that their business was not so severely impacted or they are single and therefore should have their own savings or be ok while 8 weeks unemployed.

When leaders like the one I filmed speaking on the background of this short video, have to over explain a serious problem to other leaders mediating panels, we can only assume that there is not an alienation on the part of certain AA leaders but that they actually benefit more from the situation being bad for their community than better for their community as they have the opportunity to rule over others, play the leader and miss on using their leadership position to actually bring change for their own community who has gone through the Civil Right movement not to be a community but to be equal to their counterparts in American society.

The overwhelming presence of Democratic politicians and the embarrassing absence of Republicans in this Convention is rather surprising as the Democratic party did more to destroy Chicago and other areas by promoting European immigration - thousands of Nazis migrated from Ukraine, Poland and other European cities to the US to work in factories that excluded automatically and without mercy AA relegating and containing them further trapped in the inner city.

Having Hillary Clinton apologising for the past and having not one single Black Democratic apologising for the past of their own party is a serious indicative that most of the politicians promising change in this Convention are doing so from a commercial political perspective and not really engaging in a healing partnership with a community that was not protesting when black flags signalling dead soldiers were disproportionately visible in AA neighbourhoods under Obama presidency.

Those black flags will only be kept away from AA windows if the Democrat party comes clean in relation to wars abroad and to the funding and creation of terrorist groups like ISIS because AA community has been as always victim of the most highly violent form of terrorism at the hands of the Democratic party and even if they , contrary to Hillary Clinton , don't acknowledge past mistakes and apologise, the run down estates in New York and Chicago, the thousands of Afro Americans with criminal record because they were pushed to jail by laws made by them, don't lie , not even those black flags lie .

Lying is also denying the past, not just living in denial. So how can AA's now so disengaged with NAAPC and Black Caucus Foundation believe again in anything they are saying when there is no accountability for the past?

General Powell and General Bolton , classic Republicans now turned Democratic figures of publicity against President Trump signify wars abroad. So many others as well now talking about their formal boss but what does it signify now to want something , to need something and to have their own right denied? To be pushed down more and more? The Democratic party does not know now but will know on the 1st week of November 2020 when they lose the Presidential elections and by then hopefully, the party will address the need to fully apologise for twenty decades ( Clintons plus Obama presidency) of lack of will , lack of power, lack of common sense to simply abolish the prisons where the members of their communities still are transported from prison to Court in shackles like they were in slavery and still work for free like they worked during slavery.

President Trump will win the elections on one policy only : Foreign Policy, where the Democratic party still refuse to acknowledge Wars abroad have to stop, refugees machines have to stop and oil exploitation abroad has to stop. President Trump did all that already and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

So if he can't bring peace at home, who can, because the shackles are still here and so is forced labour with no freedom!

Ariane Brito