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Opinion: What Happens When Accountability Dies By Kenneth Howard Smith, Guest Columnist WEST SACRAMENTO, CA [IFS] -- In the days since the shooting, gratitude goes first to the people who risked their safety to document what unfolded—and to the cameraman who stayed in the storm of chaos so that truth could not be erased. What they captured matters, because what follows is a struggle between fact and fiction. It is unsettling how easily a lie takes hold when people forget what values they once stood for. The official story came quickly:  “She used her vehicle as a weapon.”   “She disobeyed commands.”   “She was blocking the road.”  As if three bullets could make any of that right. From the outset, the contradictions have been glaring. Officials claim an ICE vehicle was immobilized in the snow, yet images show mostly bare pavement. Both accounts cannot be true. One hopes nearby security footage emerges soon, because the story being told doesn’t align with what witnesse...

  THE LIE THAT FED A NATION — AND STARVED THE TRUTH   THE WELFARE QUEEN MYTH — BUILT IN THE 1970s The modern lie took shape during  Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign , when he began telling stories of a mythical “welfare queen” in Chicago—Black, fraudulent, lavish. The problem?  THE LIE THAT FED A NATION — AND STARVED THE TRUTH By SDC News One “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pockets. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” —  Lyndon B. Johnson , 1960s (recounted by Bill Moyers) APACHE JUNCTION, AZ [IFS] -- That sentence is not a metaphor. It is a  manual . And America has followed it faithfully for more than four centuries. 1619–1865: THE ORIGINAL ECONOMIC SCAM In  August 1619 , the first enslaved Africans were sold in English-controlled Virginia. For the next  246 years , Black labor was unpaid, uncompensated, and fo...

  When Law and Order Failed: Wilmington 1898 and the American Pattern We Were Never Taught By SDC News One IFS News Staff Writers WILMINGTON, N.C. [IFS] -— On November 10, 1898, in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, armed white mobs overthrew a democratically elected, multiracial local government. It remains the only successful coup d’état in United States history. For decades, it was misnamed a “race riot,” buried in textbooks, and softened by euphemisms. The truth is harsher—and more instructive. That morning, following weeks of coordinated propaganda and intimidation, white supremacists led by prominent businessmen, politicians, and newspaper editors marched through Wilmington. They burned the offices of The Daily Record , the city’s Black-owned newspaper, then hunted Black citizens through the streets. At least 60 people were killed—some estimates are higher. Black leaders were forced onto trains at gunpoint and exiled. By nightfall, the city’s elected officials h...

Diego   María  de la  Concepción   Juan   Nepomuceno   Estanislao  de la  Rivera  y  Barrientos   Acosta  y  Rodríguez ,   known   as   Diego   Rivera   (December   8,   1886   –   November   24,   1957)   was   a   prominent   Mexican   painter   and   the   husband   of   Frida Kahlo .   His   large   wall   works   in   fresco   helped   establish   the   Mexican   Mural   Movement   in   Mexican   art.   Between   1922   and   1953,   Rivera   painted   murals   among   others   in   Mexico City ,   Chapingo ,   Cuernavaca ,   San   Francisco,   Detroit,   and   New   York   City.   In   1931,   a   retrospective ...