‘Starbucks-Quick’ Justice for White Lives: A Philli Cop Murdered a White Child on March 1st, Video was Released March 6th, Cop was Identified and Fired on March 8th and Charged w/Murder Today
/NO NEED FOR WHITES TO BEG, DANCE OR SING FOR JUSTICE IN A WHITE OVER BLACK SYSTEM b/c IT’S RARE THAT NON-WHITE COPS GET AWAY WITH MURDERING WHITE PEOPLE.
From [HERE] A Latino Philadelphia police officer who was fired after he fatally shot a 12-year-old boy in the back in March has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting, the authorities said Monday.
Larry Krasner, the Philadelphia district attorney, said at a news conference on Monday that the officer, Edsaul Mendoza, was arrested on Sunday and had been charged with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and possession of an instrument of crime. He was being held without bail, Mr. Krasner said.
The boy, Thomas Siderio, was fatally shot on March 1 in the city’s Girard Estates neighborhood, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.
At a news conference in March, Danielle Outlaw, the Philadelphia police commissioner, said that four plainclothes officers were completing an investigation in South Philadelphia on March 1 when they saw two youths.
On March 8th the Philadelphia inquirer identified the officer involved as Edsaul Mendoza (apparently journalists discovered his name after they actually did their own independent investigation into the incident. That is, they didn’t simply parrot and rely on police narratives - because a white child was involved. The police and the media have also had no problems or delay with posting the [former] officer’s photograph.)
One week after the incident the cop he was promptly fired apparently without a whole lot of fuss from the Philadelphia police Union, which is usually rigorous with its defense of cops, at least when they murder non-white people.
Mr. Krasner said on Monday that the four officers were surveilling the neighborhood from inside an unmarked police vehicle. They were not looking for Thomas when they saw him and a 17-year-old boy whom the authorities identified only as M.K.
The unmarked police vehicle slowed down and circled the block, Mr. Krasner said, and when it returned, Thomas fired a shot at the car just as its emergency lights turned on.
Brian Collins, an assistant district attorney, said at the news conference that there were “diverging accounts” among the four officers about why they had pulled up next to the boys. Two officers testified that they stopped them as part of a stolen firearm investigation. The other two said that, in addition to the investigation, they also made “a traffic violation stop” because the boys were riding bicycles the wrong way in the street, Mr. Collins said.
Mr. Collins said a grand jury noted a Philadelphia police directive that says plainclothes police officers are not supposed to make routine traffic stops.
After the shot was fired, three of the officers took cover, and Mr. Mendoza “began what can be fairly called a tactically unsound foot chase” of Thomas, Mr. Krasner said. As the chase began, another officer fired one shot “at no target in particular,” and Mr. Mendoza fired three shots at Thomas, Mr. Krasner said.
Thomas was unarmed when the last two shots were fired, having discarded the gun about 40 feet away, Mr. Krasner said. Immediately after he fired the final shot at Thomas, who by that time was on the ground, Mr. Mendoza told a fellow officer that the boy had tossed the gun and pointed to its location, Mr. Krasner said.
“When Officer Mendoza fired the third and fatal shot, he knew the 12-year-old, five-foot-tall, 111-pound Thomas Siderio no longer had a gun and no ability to harm him,” Mr. Krasner said. “But he fired a shot through his back nonetheless that killed him.”
Thomas was later pronounced dead at a hospital, the authorities said.
When Mr. Mendoza fired the third shot, Mr. Krasner said, he was about half a car length away from Thomas and “would have had the opportunity” to clearly see him.
After the shooting, Mr. Krasner said, Mr. Mendoza gave an “untruthful statement” about his position when he fired the final two shots.
“When people make untruthful statements about what happened that are crucial to understanding the death of another person, in the law, that can be interpreted to indicate guilty knowledge, a sense that you need to cover something up because you know that what you did is illegal,” Mr. Krasner said.
Conor Corcoran, a lawyer representing Thomas’s father, whose name is also Thomas Siderio, said that he believed there was not “conclusive evidence” that the boy had fired a gun.
“Until all that information comes to light, I still think it’s very premature and reckless to speculate that my boy even fired a gun to begin with, but we’ll see,” Mr. Corcoran said, referring to Thomas.
In a statement on Monday, John McNesby, president of Lodge No. 5 of the Fraternal Order of Police, said that Mr. Mendoza, “like every other citizen, is entitled to due process, and we are confident that our judicial system will protect this officer’s constitutional right to a fair trial.”
Because the shooting was still being investigated, Mr. Corcoran said it was too soon to speculate on what damages the family would seek. But he said that “for sure, the Philadelphia Police Department is unfortunately going to have to pay for the death of this child.”
There is footage of the shooting that has not been publicly released that Mr. Krasner described as “very, very disturbing and very difficult to watch.”
Mr. Krasner said investigators were looking into other possible factors that had yet to be confirmed, including “indications” that Mr. Mendoza had told Thomas to drop the gun before the boy did so and to “get down” after he dropped the weapon.
The investigation is unfolding at a time when police departments across the country have come under increased scrutiny over accusations of misconduct. In Philadelphia, protesters took to the streets in October 2020 after two police officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man who was armed with a knife. The city later agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Mr. Wallace’s family, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
CDC finds majority of Americans have natural immunity against COVID
/From [HERE] A new CDC study shows that the record number of infections during the Omicron wave gave many Americans infection-induced immunity. Between December 2021 and February 2022, the estimated percentage of the U.S. population with infection-induced antibodies increased from 34% to 58% across all age groups. The largest increases were in children and adolescents (see figure below).
Here are the details from the CDC report:
During December 2021–February 2022, overall U.S. seroprevalence increased from 33.5% (95% CI = 33.1–34.0) to 57.7% (95% CI = 57.1–58.3).
Over the same period, seroprevalence increased from 44.2% (95% CI = 42.8–45.8) to 75.2% (95% CI = 73.6–76.8) among children aged 0–11 years and from 45.6% (95% CI = 44.4–46.9) to 74.2% (95% CI = 72.8–75.5) among persons aged 12–17 years. [Note the very high levels reached for children.]
Seroprevalence increased from 36.5% (95% CI = 35.7–37.4) to 63.7% (95% CI = 62.5–64.8) among adults aged 18–49 years, 28.8% (95% CI = 27.9–29.8) to 49.8% (95% CI = 48.5–51.3) among those aged 50–64 years, and from 19.1% (95% CI = 18.4–19.8) to 33.2% (95% CI = 32.2–34.3) among those aged ≥65 years.
Look at the figure below to more clearly see how the natural immunity increased for different age groups. [MORE]
James Clyburn and Maxine Waters are Among the Congressional Puppeticians Pressuring the FDA to Inject Infants and Children with Experimental, Deadly COVID Treatments
/From [HERE] There is probably no other single issue in American politics today that unites both Democrats and Republicans more than the topic of vaccines, and especially the topic of COVID-19 experimental “vaccines” and issuing as many emergency use authorizations (EUAs) as possible to inject as many people as possible with these deadly shots.
You cannot hold a political office at the federal level today if you are anti-vaccine. Being pro-vaccine and supporting Big Pharma is a requirement for both Democrats and Republicans who want to be elected, and it is the one issue that both previous U.S. President Donald Trump and current U.S. President Joe Biden agree on today.
A group of pro-child abuse and pro-attempted murder of babies and young children members of Congress are now pressuring the FDA to approve COVID-19 vaccines for babies and young children under the age of 5.
They are the members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, originally setup in April of 2020 under then President Donald Trump, and they are upset that the FDA has not issued an EUA for babies and children under the age of 5 so that parents can attempt to murder and abuse their children with one of these deadly shots.
Even though most people in the U.S. have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccines and boosters for quite some time, children under 5 still don’t have vaccine options. Now, lawmakers are asking the FDA to lay out its plans in this age group—and address a perceived delay for Moderna’s product.
Yesterday, Congress’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis sent a letter (PDF) to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, M.D., requesting a briefing on the status of COVID-19 vaccines for the under 5 age group.
The letter comes after U.S. chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci, M.D., indicated on CNN that the FDA is considering holding off on reviewing Moderna’s vaccine candidate in order to authorize it at the same time as Pfizer’s to “not confuse people” with a staggered rollout, the lawmakers wrote. That could lead to a potential delay of several weeks for Moderna’s shot, they said.
Moderna reportedly plans to submit its vaccine for the under-5 age group by the end of April. Pfizer, for its part, is prepping a filing for June, the lawmakers wrote.
Congress is hopeful that the FDA briefing requested would provide scientific rationale for the potential Moderna delay. (Full article.)
These members of Congress are complicit with the criminal act of attempted murder against the nation’s babies and children, and I encourage everyone who reads this to contact them and let them know that they will be held accountable for their actions, if not in this life, then when they die and meet their Creator.
SD Authorities Seek to Wipe Out an $85 Million Jury Award. Say Government Not Responsible After 11 Cops Murdered a Filipino Man They Hogtied, Shocked and Slowly Suffocated to Death
/From [HERE] and [HERE] San Diego County lawyers are seeking to wipe out an $85 million jury award to the family of man who died after being restrained by sheriff’s deputies in 2015, or get a new trial in the lawsuit that generated the case.
County lawyers contend the verdict stemming from the negligence and wrongful death lawsuit was “incurably infected with error” and that the trial was riddled with rulings that hurt the county’s case.
The request is detailed in motions filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego earlier this month by county lawyers. They are the first moves in what will likely be a protracted fight to reduce or completely overturn the verdict returned March 15 in favor of the family of Lucky Phounsy.
One motion asks U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Huff to set aside the verdict, contending the evidence was not sufficient to support the jury’s conclusion, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. A second seeks a new trial, or a reduction in the award, arguing there were a series of trial errors and that the amount awarded was excessive.
Phounsy, 32, died on April 13, 2015.
It took nearly seven full years from the confrontation inside Phounsy’s home — which involved a dozen deputies at one point — to the jury verdict. Lawyers for the family plowed through reams of documents and conducted more than 70 depositions.
The case twice went to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, as county lawyers fought for qualified immunity — legal protection from lawsuits that government officials can claim — for the deputies and officials involved in the death.
Both attempts failed, but they added years, and perhaps hundreds of thousands in costs, to the case. In September, the case finally went to trial — but ended up with a hung jury. A second trial began in February and this time ended with the $85 million verdict.
Phounsy died after a struggle during which deputies put him in maximum restraints — a way of immobilizing someone by binding their ankles with a strap and tethering it to a second strap around the waist.
The way Phounsy was restrained, and that deputies did not properly monitor his condition for nearly 30 minutes and that his head was forcibly pressed down while he was in an ambulance to the hospital by another deputy, caused him to slowly suffocate, lawyers for the family said.
Paramedics put a sock over his face on the way to hospital, according to the lawsuit. Phounsy’s heart stopped on the way to the hospital. He was resuscitated, but died several days later.
The county medical examiner concluded his death was accidental and the result of the long struggle with deputies, combined with the effects of the drug ecstasy he had taken several days before.
But lawyers for the family disputed that conclusion and argued that the conduct of the deputies caused him to suffocate to death.
They pointed to deputies binding Phounsy’s hands and ankles in restraints, failing to monitor his vital signs and continuing to restrain him when one deputy forcibly held his head down while he was in an ambulance.
Fatal encounter
The 32-year-old Phounsy had gone to a music festival four days before the April 13, 2015, confrontation, where he ingested the drug Ecstasy, court records say. He returned home but, perhaps because of the effects of the drug, he was unable to sleep for three days.
On the day of his son’s birthday he became more erratic and paranoid, Fleming said. His wife Loan and other family members said he should go to the hospital. But as they readied for the trip, Phounsy called 911 himself and told the dispatcher that his family was in danger, and someone was trying to harm them.
His wife then got on the phone and told the dispatcher Phounsy was unarmed. Two deputies arrived, went inside and began to speak with him. When one tried to handcuff him, getting one cuff on his wrist, Phounsy became alarmed. A deputy fired a Taser, and Phounsy began to fight back.
Soon 10 more deputies had arrived. They tackled him and Tasered him twice more, and struck him several times with batons. Phounsy was put in the restraints, taken outside the home and eventually to the hospital.
In the ambulance, former Deputy Richard Fischer held Phounsy’s head down toward his chest for nearly the entire ride, the restraints still in place. Fisher later said he did so because Phounsy was continuing to struggle.
When Phounsy arrived at the hospital his heart had stopped. A week later he was removed from life support and died.
Years after the incident, in 2019, Fischer pleaded guilty to battery charges in an unrelated case following accusations brought by 16 women who said he had fondled, hugged or tried to kiss them. He was fired from the department, which has since paid out nearly $5 million in settlements from those cases. [MORE]
Lawyers for the family must still file their arguments opposing the county motions. In a statement, attorneys Mark Fleming and Timothy Scott said the county is still evading responsibility for Phounsy’s death.
“The rehashed arguments raised by the County have already been rejected" by courts several times,” said Scott. Fleming said that the bid to cut the money award disrespects “both the value of Lucky’s life and the enormity of his loss to his family, as well as the hard work and careful consideration of the jury.”
Chicago Straw Boss is Alarmed @ the Success of Private Security Cops, who are Hirable/Fireable and Controllable by Citizens, Have a Legal Duty to Protect, Not Immune and Only Act in Defense of Others
/An essential difference between private security workers and police officers is that security workers possess no government authority or right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on other people. Unprovoked violence against others or the use of “force” is the basis of all social evils and can only be used in the sense of attack not defense. As explained in FUNKTIONARY, “Unfortunately, governments only function by force. Once established, they put laws into effect by threatening persecution, imprisonment, fine, or death against all who don't comply with those laws--including the use of the force continuum.”[MORE]
From [HERE] Alarmed by growing numbers of carjackings and other street crimes, several neighborhoods on Chicago’s affluent North Side have signed up for patrols by armed off-duty police officers to create what some security companies are calling virtual gated communities.
At least five neighborhoods in or adjacent to Chicago’s North Side have added patrols for the first time in the past six months or are planning to sign up for patrols with P4 Security Solutions LLC, said Paul Ohm, executive vice president and principal.
The officers, who ride in marked security cars equipped with overhead lights, cameras and high-tech communications tools, aren’t tasked with making arrests, even though they are allowed to carry guns because they are sworn police officers. They contact 911 in an emergency and act as a deterrent, Mr. Ohm said.
The willingness of neighborhood associations to pay for security in neighborhoods such as Lincoln Park, Bucktown and Lakeview comes amid a surge of crime in Chicago and other cities, where interest in private security is also on the rise.
Sean Meehan, director of sales and marketing at United Security Inc. in Red Bank, N.J., said that he has received numerous calls for the first time in the past year from people in the Northeast looking to add security patrols in their neighborhoods, even though his company mostly guards malls, offices and other businesses.
“It’s crime,” he said. “Straight up crime—and the people in those areas not feeling safe.”
In San Francisco, Alan Byard, a licensed police officer who works for private clients under a program dating to the Gold Rush, said he has seen a big increase in interest in his services. Before the pandemic, he said he had 75 clients in the Marina area. Today, he has 175.
“As the pandemic was getting into the first six months, the clients started calling me up and saying, ‘Crime is out of control, what can you do?’” he said.
Private security patrols on public streets aren’t new, but they have more typically been found in gated communities and downtown business districts.
“It’s a force multiplier,” said Alderman Brian Hopkins, whose Chicago district includes Bucktown, one of the neighborhoods that has recently begun the patrols. “You actually do have police officers on the street. They just happen to be in security vehicles as opposed to police cars, but their experience comes with them.”
Data compiled by P4 from the Chicago Police Department show that reported crimes in the area it patrols in Bucktown were up 30% for the first quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2021, but reported crimes were up by 47% and 86% in two similar nearby neighborhoods.
Private patrols can reduce crime in areas they serve, said Jens Ludwig, head of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. But they tend to exacerbate racial and economic divisions that are already wide in the city, he added, and could potentially reduce political pressure to attack the problem at a citywide level. “That would be the open question and potential big concern,” he said. [that makes no sense, he is playing with his slavery. there would be political pressure to have the same results citywide]
The contracts with services like P4 typically require the formation of a new neighborhood association, which raises funds to pay for the service. Sometimes, only one or two neighbors will foot the bill, P4 officials said. In one section of Lincoln Park, neighbors were seeking contributions of $100 a month from anyone interested in pitching in, with a goal of raising $175,000 a year, according to a letter distributed to homeowners.
Josh Lane, a 34-year-old Bucktown resident, said he was knocked to the ground and robbed last summer by two young men with a fake gun when he was out walking his dog, Dante, one of several incidents that spurred the community to action.
His injuries weren’t serious and the robbers only made off with $12, his bank card and an old cellphone, Mr. Lane said. Shortly after that, the neighborhood began holding meetings and set up a new neighborhood association that is paying for the patrols.
Mr. Lane says he still feels generally safe in the neighborhood and has mixed feelings about the patrols.
“It’s a little like a dystopian sci-fi movie when you see the flashing green lights go by,” said Mr. Lane, who works in the medical-publishing business. He said he is also uneasy about the patrols being armed, fearing that they will eventually harm someone.
“The guys who attacked me were stupid kids, but they don’t deserve to get shot,” he said.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has expressed skepticism about the program. “People are concerned about their security, I’m concerned about their security,” she said in a December media briefing in which she called private security patrolling public streets a slippery slope. “Responsibility under state law and local law to patrol our streets lies exclusively with the Chicago Police Department.” [observe that there is no citation to any law here - because there is no legal support for her stupid opinion. People certainly can patrol their own neighborhoods.]
She declined to comment further through a spokesman. [Interesting because as a strawboss she is a spokesman for her white elite masters, parroting their statements and fulfilling their desires]
The Chicago Police Department said it encourages everyone to help police by reporting crimes and urges people not to take matters into their own hands. It declined to comment further. [yes people indeed have natural rights to defend themselves, their property and the right come to the defense of others]
On a recent afternoon in Bucktown, Colton Jeralds, a police officer on weekends in Pecatonica, Ill., radioed P4’s operations center to begin his shift on the neighborhood security detail. He drove a late-model Hyundai SUV and wore a black short-sleeve shirt with a bulletproof vest. He had a Glock 43 9mm handgun strapped to his left hip.
He slowly circled the perimeter of the 24-block area, which includes a bookstore, a perfume shop and cafes, then weaved through tree-lined neighborhood streets and alleys with a mix of newer mansions and traditional two- and three-story brick homes and apartments. He covers the entire area for the start of his shift, then splits it with another officer for the rest.
He said he enjoys talking to residents, helping dig them out of the snow, securing packages and alerting them to things like an open garage door. Many shifts are uneventful. A recent highlight was meeting with a man who had contacted him through a private social-media channel open to residents to discuss several packages that had been stolen from the man’s porch.
“I do think people notice us and they know that we are here patrolling the streets. I think that it has helped,” he said.
Jim Higgins, owner of Club Lucky, an Italian restaurant in the middle of the patrolled area, said last summer had been a particularly tough time but the patrols are starting to make people feel safer.
“I think people’s comfort has been raised. It’s a pretty small area that they patrol, so you’ll be walking your dog or your baby or going to the store and within a half-hour you’ll see them at least once—maybe every 20 minutes,” he said.
Racists See Things in Accord w/Their Beliefs: LAPD Believed a Latino Man's Phone was a Gun So They Shot Him w/o Warning. Cops Release Video/Audio They Never Saw or Heard Before Shooting to Justify It
/From [HERE] Video posted online this week by the Los Angeles Police Department shows two officers approach a man they believed was armed with a gun in South L.A. in March and immediately shoot him.
Jose Barrera, 45, did not have a gun or any other weapon, but was holding a black cellphone and waving it around. He survived.
The shooting is the latest in which LAPD officers opened fire after misjudging the threat posed by an individual, in part based on inaccurate claims from others — including 911 callers — that the people were brandishing firearms.
The video is a remixed and edited version of reality in that it is a compilation of video and audio taken from different sources and audio. Only the uncut body cam video would show exactly what the officers saw and when they saw it - said info is the only information relevant as to whether their shooting was justified.
In the video from Barrera’s shooting that the department posted to YouTube on Thursday, a 911 caller tells a dispatcher in Spanish that a man with a gun is pointing it at people along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The dispatcher asks the man if it is a small gun, and he then says he doesn’t know exactly what the man is holding.
However, police don’t answer or hear 911 calls; the dispatch does. The dispatch then communicate directly to police in what is generally called a “radio run.” The cops in this incident didn’t talk to whomever called. Obviously, cops are trained to respond to what they perceive with their own senses in the present moment as it happens.
The call went out over the police radio as a man pointing an “unknown type handgun at passersby.”
Later, as responding officers Tatiana Bohorquez and Manuel Rios are driving toward the scene, a voice can be heard on the radio stating, “He does have a handgun, and he’s firing at a house right now.” Silent gun shots ….. heard by the dispatch or police? how fantastic.
“Oh, s—,” Bohorquez, who is driving, can be heard saying.
Next in the remixed video, Rios, in the passenger seat, then opens the passenger side door of the patrol vehicle as it is still moving and holds his handgun at the ready in his right hand.
“You might have to shoot. You might have to shoot,” Bohorquez says as they pull up near Barrera.
Rios then immediately opens fire, seeming to fire four rounds down the street at Barrera.
No “passerby[s]” were present or being threatened.
Cops never warned the Latino Man, gave him any orders or announced even their presence.
Timestamps on the body-worn video the department posted showed that the officers then waited about 10 minutes to begin approaching Barrera with a group of other officers. Barrera was handcuffed and taken to a local hospital for treatment.
England’s National Health Service Data Shows that Only 5,115 People Died Solely Due to COVID. The Remaining 109k Deaths Occurred to Persons who Had Fatal Pre-existing Conditions such as Heart Disease
/From [HERE] The UK Government claims over 160,000 people have died of Covid-19 in England since March 2020, and they have used these claimed deaths to frighten people into compliance with ridiculous rules for the past two years.
But reports published by England’s National Health Service (NHS) reveal that as of 20th April 2022, just 5,115 people have died of Covid-19 in England since the alleged pandemic began.
And the same reports also reveal that Covid-19 deaths have increased by 176% compared to the number of alleged deaths that occurred prior to the first Covid-19 injection being administered in England. Is this what we would expect to see if the jabs are 95% effective at preventing death?
The NHS has been publishing a weekly report on the number of Covid-19 deaths to have occurred in England’s hospitals since the beginning of the alleged Covid-19 pandemic.
Heres the table taken from the ‘COVID-19 total deaths – weekly summaries’ report published 21st April 2022 –
The report shows us that the NHS claim 114,721 people have died in hospitals in England after testing positive for Covid-19 since March 2020. But what’s suprising here is the extremely low number of people who had no pre-existing conditions and have died of Covid-19 alone.
Of the 114,721 deaths just 5,115 have been solely attributed to Covid-19, and 109,606 deaths have occurred among people suffering with pre-existing conditions such as chronic kidney disease, chronic pulmonary disease, and heart disease among several others.
This equates to just 4.45% of all alleged Covid-19 deaths since March 2020 being solely due to Covid-19. Yet the UK Government claims over 150,000 people have died of Covid-19 in England within 28 days of a positive test since March 2020.
However, there is something else that is unusual about these figures that can only be realised once we look at the numbers in a historical report.
The first Covid-19 injection was administered in England on the 9th December 2020, and as we will all know through endless propaganda, it was claimed to be 95% effective at preventing infection, hospitalisation and death.
The claim that it was 95% effective at preventing infection is both deeply troubling and hilarious when you look at the Covid-19 case rates in England at the moment. Official data from the UK Health Security Agency shows the Covid-19 case-rates per 100,000 are highest among the triple vaccinated in all age groups.
The data actually shows Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against infection has fallen to minus-391% among triple jabbed 60-69-year-olds, and between minus-298% and minus-324% among those aged 30 to 59.
All other age groups have also suffered a significant drop in vaccine effectiveness with figures showingall triple vaccinated adults now between 3 and 5 times more likely to be infected with Covid-19 than unvaccinated adults. [MORE]
Economics Professor at Michigan State University Estimates that COVID Injections Have Killed at Least 300,000 Americans
/How Many People Died from the Covid-19 Inoculation? An Estimate Based on a Survey of the United States Population (Working Paper)
By Mark Skidmore
Mark Skidmore is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University where he holds the Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy. His research focuses on topics in public finance, regional economics, and the economics of natural disasters. Mark created the Lighthouse Economics website and blog to share economic research and information relevant for navigating tumultuous times.
Executive Summary
From [HERE] This paper examines potential fatalities and injuries from the Covid-19 inoculation using an online “Covid-19 Health Experiences Survey” administered to a representative sample of the US population. The sample is composed of 3,000 respondents balanced on age, gender, and income to the extent possible. The survey was administered in December 2021, collecting information regarding respondents’ experiences with the Covid-19 illness and the Covid-19 inoculations as well as Covid-19 health experiences within respondents’ social circles. The survey also collected respondent economic and demographic information. Using these data, I find the following:
Covid-19 inoculation-related fatalities:
Assuming that all the respondents who know somebody who they believe died from the inoculation actually died from the inoculation, estimated fatalities are about 308,000.
Subtracting out those who may have died regardless of inoculation yields an estimated 294,000 inoculation-induced fatalities. This is an initial first pass estimate—more evaluation is needed.
Factors associated with being inoculated:
The likelihood of being inoculated is significantly less for those who identify themselves as African American, Hispanic, and Asian, and Republican or Independent. Democrats, Caucasians, and more the highly educated are more likely to be inoculated.
Those who indicated that they obtain information about Covid-19 from alternative news sources were less likely to be inoculated. Those who obtain information from mainstream news and official government source are more likely to be inoculated.
Knowing someone who experienced a significant health problem from the Covid-19 illness increased the likelihood of being inoculated.
Knowing someone who had been injured by the Covid-19 inoculation substantially reduced the likelihood of being inoculated.
The official position of the US government is that the Covid-19 inoculations have resulted in nine fatalities (CDC, 2022). The experiences shared by hundreds of respondents in this survey suggests that many people died or were injured following inoculation. Which data are more believable—nine fatalities or as many as 300,000 fatalities? Surveys have limitations in assessing the impacts of health interventions. However, this type of evaluation offers an important point of triangulation. The experiences of people captured in surveys generally should be consistent with official government data. In the case of Covid-19 inoculations, there is a tremendous divergence which should be cause for further inquiry. My hope is that this research will motivate a full and transparent examination by independent health and medical scholars to ascertain the degree of harm being caused by the Covid-19 inoculations.
The full paper can be accessed at: How Many People Died from the Covid-19 Inoculations? An Estimate Based on a Survey of the United States Population
American Airlines Pilot who Went Into Cardiac Arrest Minutes after Landing Plane says COVID Injection Caused His Heart to Stop
/From [HERE] An American Airlines pilot suffered cardiac arrest minutes after landing his plane. Thankfully he survived, and he fully believes the Covid-19 injection he was forced to get by his employers is to blame.
Steve Kirsch sat down for an interview with Josh Yoder of US Freedom Flyers about American Airlines Captain Bob Snow. Snow had a cardiac arrest minutes after landing the plane. He nearly died.
According to Snow, it’s pretty clear that his cardiac arrest was due to the experimental COVID vaccine that American Airlines forced him to take to keep his job.
Key points in the video interview below include:
How Snow knows it was the vaccine and not just “bad luck”
American Airlines never called Snow in the hospital even though it was their fault he took the vaccine and almost died. You’d think he’d get a call from the CEO. Instead, the only thing they did was fly his family to the hospital to meet with him.
We need to be testing every vaccinated pilot with EKG, D-dimer, troponin, and cardiac MRIs to assess their health. This is for their health and for the safety of the flying public. The airlines and/or FAA should be requiring this. Myocarditis can be subclinical so pilots may not know they are injured.
The airlines are NOT doing the screenings required to assess pilot health and passenger safety. Presumably, this is because doing those screenings would: 1) reveal to the public how unsafe the vaccines are and increase vaccine hesitancy, and 2) disqualify too many pilots. Yoder estimates that 30% of the pilots may need to be disqualified due to heart conditions caused by the vaccine. Therefore, the most likely outcome is that the airlines will pretend this incident never happened and the CDC will claim without evidence that there is no link to the vaccine like they usually do. The press will give them a pass on this and not ask any hard questions.
When a plane goes down and people are killed, it’s OK for the airlines because the insurance companies will pay and everyone will pretend it was just a freak accident that couldn’t have been avoided.
Wisconsin Family Launches Billboard Campaign that Claims Hospital COVID Treatment Protocols Killed Their Daughter Grace
/From [HERE] On October 13, 2021, Grace Schara passed away at Ascension’s St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Wisconsin. Her parents say the doctors and hospital killed Grace by their insistence to follow ineffective COVID treatment protocols.
On Oct. 13, 2021, at 7:27 pm, beautiful Grace Schara—an inquisitive young woman with Down-Syndrome—died a tragic and preventable death at a Wisconsin hospital. Rather than using treatments proven to combat COVID-19, Ascension’s St. Elizabeth’s Hospital followed the U.S. government’s ineffective COVID-19 treatment protocols, for which they reap significant financial rewards. On the final day of Grace’s life, as her doctor assured her parents she was doing well, Dr. Gavin Shokar also “unilaterally labeled Grace a DNR and ordered a lethal combination of IV sedatives and narcotics”—a fatal combination of the drugs Precedex, Lorazepam, and Morphine—which were administered over an incredibly short period of time. Notably, all three drugs are manufactured by mRNA “vaccine” maker and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
The Schara family is still speaking out about their daughter’s tragic death. The family of Grace Shara is now running over a dozen billboards in the FOX Valley area.
From the press release:
Grace was admitted to St. Elizabeth’s for Covid-19 respiratory issues, but was recovering before a doctor began giving sedatives to her.
Dr. Gavin Shokar, MD, apparently found it so likely she would die from his administration of Precedex – a powerful sedative used in surgery – that he wrote his own do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order on her a mere eight minutes after giving her the maximum dose. When Grace was still alive Shokar then combined Precedex with Lorazepam (another powerful sedative) and a Morphine push within minutes of one another on Grace’s last day to finish her off. A 14-year ICU nurse, Hollee McInnis, delivered the lethal dosage.
“Each of these medicines, on their own, have an increased risk of serious or life-threatening breathing problems and cardiac arrest,” said a doctor familiar with Grace’s case. “There’s an additive effect when used in combination. To use them like they did in a person with a diagnosis of acute respiratory distress is beyond believable as to intention,” she said.
A DNR order is legally required to be discussed with family and consented to in writing, neither of which occurred in Grace’s case. Grace was not given a DNR bracelet, which is required by law. In fact, family members were never told Grace had a DNR designation until her last breaths, when doctors and nurses did nothing to help her, despite the family telling them Grace didn’t have a DNR. Apathetic medical staff allowed Grace to die as her sister at her bedside helplessly begged them to revive her, while her parents – who were not allowed in her room – watched her die via FaceTime.
Remdesivir = Run Death is Near: FDA Rubber-Stamps Remdesivir for Infants w/o Evidence of Safety. Experimental Drug Used To Treat COVID in Hospitals Causes Liver/Heart/Kidney Failure and Kills Adults
/From [CHD] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved the use of the antiviral therapy, remdesivir, to treat COVID-19 in infants four weeks and older.
Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a press release:
“As COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children, some of whom do not currently have a vaccination option, there continues to be a need for safe and effective COVID-19 treatment options for this population.
“Today’s approval of the first COVID-19 therapeutic for this population demonstrates the agency’s commitment to that need.”
According to the press release, the FDA’s decision to approve the therapy, marketed under the name Veklury, is supported by a clinical study conducted on infants 4 weeks and older weighing a minimum of 6.6 pounds.
The study is underway and will not be completed until February 2023. There are no published results.
However, Gilead Sciences, maker of remdesivir and sponsor of the study, provided the following details in a company press release:
A total of 53 hospitalized pediatric patients were enrolled in the clinical study.
72% suffered adverse events.
21% suffered serious adverse events determined to be unrelated to the drug.
Three children died from either underlying conditions or COVID-19.
Nevertheless, Gilead Science assured that “no new safety signals were apparent for patients treated with Veklury.”
The study was of single-arm, open-label design.
A single-arm study has no control group, making it impossible to compare its effectiveness against standard of care.
Open-label means participants and investigators were aware they were receiving the drug, making it impossible to separate placebo from drug effect.
Studies show little or no benefit
Beyond the absence of any publicly available data on the efficacy and safety of this drug in humans of this age, available studies on older subjects indicate remdesivir offers no more than a meager benefit to those who survive its use.
In fact, this is why the World Health Organization (WHO) in November 2020 recommended against the use of remdesivir to treat COVID-19. The WHO only recently (April 22, 2022) updated its recommendation to support the drug’s use in patients who are at high risk for hospitalization.
Nevertheless, the FDA explains its long-standing support of remdesivir use in adults here, citing six studies that had the greatest impact on the agency’s position.
Here is a summary of the findings of each study from the FDA’s webpage:
ACTT-1 Trial: Time to clinical recovery was shortened from 15 days to 10 through the use of remdesivir. There was no difference in mortality. The drug was no better than placebo when administered to patients who required high-flow oxygen, non-invasive respiratory support, mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at baseline. A benefit was seen only in patients who required low levels of supplemental oxygen.
Discovery Trial: There was no clinical benefit of remdesivir in hospitalized patients who were symptomatic for >7 days and who required supplemental oxygen. There was no difference in mortality between remdesivir and standard of care. Investigators judged three of 429 participants who received remdesivir died from the drug.
WHO Solidarity Trial: Remdesivir did not decrease in-hospital mortality or the need for mechanical ventilation compared to standard of care. Four hundred and forty patients in this study were also enrolled in the Discovery trial above.
Journal of the American Medical Association (moderate disease): After 10 days of treatment with remdesivir, clinical status was not significantly different from standard of care.
New England Journal of Medicine (severe disease): No difference between five and 10 days of remdesivir treatment. No placebo group, thus “the magnitude of benefit cannot be determined.”
PINETREE study: Three consecutive days of IV remdesivir resulted in an 87% relative reduction in the risk of hospitalization or death when compared to placebo.
As demonstrated, the first five studies used to justify the FDA’s approval of remdesivir showed little, if any, benefit to hospitalized patients with moderate or severe disease.
This is in contrast to the sufficiently proven benefit of off-label use of the previously licensed medications hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
Only the PINETREE study investigated the benefit of remdesivir for outpatient use. In that study, the drug provided a substantial benefit in preventing hospitalization when given in three separate doses over three days.
However, only eight individuals under the age of 18 were enrolled in the study, and none were younger than 12.
The primary endpoint, a composite of COVID-19-related hospitalization or death from any cause, did not occur in the under-18 group.
In other words, the study — funded by Gilead Sciences — showed the drug offered no benefit in this cohort.
Nevertheless, in reporting on the FDA’s approval of remdesivir for infants and young children, CNN found someone to support the FDA’s decision.
CNN wrote:
“The FDA’s approval of remdesivir for young children is ‘great,’ said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an instructor in clinical medicine and associate research scientist in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University.”
Safety ‘not established’ in pediatric patients
Not only is there scant evidence that remdesivir is an effective treatment for COVID-19, the drug’s safety is debatable.
With regard to its use in infants, even the FDA must acknowledge nobody knows how safe it is.
After all, the manufacturer’s label states:
“The safety and effectiveness of VEKLURY (remdesivir) have not been established in pediatric patients younger than 12 years of age or weighing less than 40 kg.”
With regard to pharmacokinetics (where the drug distributes in the body) the label states:
“The pharmacokinetics of VEKLURY in pediatric patients have not been evaluated.”
An indictment of the drug regulatory process
Let’s reflect on what the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research saidregarding the approval of remdesivir for treating COVID-19 in infants 4 weeks and older :
“As COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children, some of whom do not currently have a vaccination option, there continues to be a need for safe and effective COVID-19 treatment options for this population. Today’s approval of the first COVID-19 therapeutic for this population demonstrates the agency’s commitment to that need.”
To summarize:
Some children do not have a vaccination option.
They need a safe and effective treatment.
The FDA meets that need by approving a drug with no safety and efficacy record in children.
Safety and efficacy apparently can be conveniently established by fiat, not evidence.
In the end, the FDA’s approval of remdesivir is not an assurance of the drug’s safety and efficacy but an indication the agency is no longer interested in protecting the public from potentially harmful and ineffective therapies — or, in other words, in doing its job.
There will undoubtedly be doctors like Griffin who welcome this approval.
However, I don’t believe every pediatrician will accept the FDA’s guidance so readily.
It’s not easy to place an intravenous line to administer remdesivir in the tiny vein of an irritable baby coming from home with a positive rapid test. And then do it again the next day. And the day after that.
At some point, clinicians’ sensibilities will be challenged enough to compel them to actually examine how the FDA arrived at its conclusions.
Guidelines are meaningless if doctors choose not to abide by them.
Following the Science or the Bullshit? Numerous Studies Worldwide Demonstrate Children have Zero Risk of Death from COVID and the Risks from Experimental, Deadly COVID Shots Outweigh Any Benefit
/Children have virtually zero risk of serious complications from COVID. From [HERE] A large study conducted in Germany posted on medRxiv showed zero deaths for children ages 5-11 and a case fatality rate of three per million in all children without comorbidities.
A Johns Hopkins study monitoring 48,000 children diagnosed with COVID showed a zero mortality rate in children under 18 without comorbidities.
A study in Nature Medicine demonstrated that children under 18 with no comorbidities had virtually no risk of death.
Data from England and Wales, published by the UK Office of National Statistics on January 17, 2022, revealed that throughout 2020 and 2021, only one child under the age of five, without comorbidities, had died from COVID in the two countries, whose total population is 60 million.
According to The Lancet, the infection fatality rate (IFR) from coronavirus in all children age seven and younger is 0.0023%. Nearly all fatalities in this age group had one or more underlying health conditions. With the emergence of the Omicron variant, the IFR is even lower.
The medical literature also shows that healthy children are more easily able to heal from this virus than adults and therefore do not need this vaccine.
A study in Nature Communications from April suggests children’s bodies clear the virus more easily than adults.
A study in Nature Immunology, published in December, demonstrated how children efficiently mount effective, robust and sustained immune responses.
In addition, most children already have had COVID and have fully recovered. Recent studies show waning effectiveness of the COVID vaccine in children 5–11 years old after the first few weeks.
According to the CDC, at least 58% of kids already have natural immunity.
A recent study showed the effectiveness of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine in 5- to 11-year-olds was only 12% after a seven-week period of observation.
The government of New South Wales, Australia publishes a weekly COVID-19 Surveillance Report that recently showed that 4 in every 5 deaths from COVID-19 were in the vaccinated.
Recent data from the UK Health Security Agency confirms deaths are rising dramatically among the triple vaccinated population while declining steadily among the unvaccinated population in England. Their most recent figures showed the fully vaccinated accounted for 9 in every 10 COVID-19 deaths over the past month; and the triple vaccinated accounted for 4 in every 5 COVID deaths.
It’s time to follow the science. The risks demonstrably outweigh the benefits of COVID vaccination in young children.
While the CDC says that myocarditis is a mild disease, cardiologists know otherwise. CDC’s own preliminary data, reported at the February 4, 2022 ACIP meeting, revealed that nearly half of the young people diagnosed with myocarditis still had symptoms three months later, and 39% had their activity restricted by their physician. We know this serious adverse event frequently occurs in teenagers. But no one knows how often it occurs in younger children. This is of major concern for babies and younger children.
A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseasesout of Hong Kong showed 1 out of every 2,700 12- to 17-year-old boys were diagnosed with myocarditis following the 2nd dose of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine, or 37 per 100,000 vaccinated.
A study from Kaiser posted on medRxiv found the same rate of myocarditis in 12- to 17-year-old American boys, 1 in 2,700.
VAERS Data
VAERS COVID-19 vaccine data from Dec. 14, 2020, to March 25, 2022 shows:
Overall: 1,205,755 adverse events, including 214,521 rated as serious and 26,396 deaths.
For 12- to 17-year-olds: 30,771 adverse events, including 1,771 rated as serious and 43 deaths.
For 5- to 11-year-olds: 9,771 adverse events, including 234 rated as serious and 5 deaths.
The science was never on their side.
Pfizer’s application for EUA of two doses of its vaccine failed in clinical trials as it did not produce antibodies in children 2 to 5 years old. They were forced to withdraw the application in February 2022 and will now apply to the FDA for a three-dose series once more data is available in early April. Take part in our “Protect the Children: Don’t Break our Hearts” campaign to stop the FDA’s approval.
Pfizer was ordered by a U.S. District Judge to release the data submitted to FDA from its clinical trials in support of a COVID-19 vaccine license. Prior to the ruling, the FDA planned to suppress the data for the next 75 years which the agency claimed was necessary, in part, because of its “limited resources.”
This denied the American people access to the information that would have allowed them to make a decision based on informed consent. Pfizer released a 38-page report including an Appendix: “LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST,” that lists 1,291 different adverse events.
This is one of the most dangerous vaccines in the history of the U.S. vaccination program and we at Children’s Health Defense have called upon the FDA to remove it from the marketplace. Also, we ask that Congress overturn the Emergency Powers Act that allows Federal officials to take away the rights of citizens, repeal the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act and the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program that provides immunity to vaccine manufacturers.
Report Shows "The State of Black America" Hasn't Progressed Since 1965. But Urban League Urges Powerless Blacks to Keep Voting for Better [Masters] Dems to Solve Disparities Caused by White Supremacy
/POWERLESS CLASS. Voting heavily for Black and friendly White politicians has not helped Black people solve their problem of neutralizing white supremacy and the system of authority.
Amos Wilson states, ‘The VESTED INTERESTS ARE ever quick to remind the Black electorate of the historical struggles necessary to achieve their right to vote. It indicts the community for its electoral apathy and seeks to evoke guilt feelings in those who do not participate in the electoral process — making such ritualistic participation emblematic of democracy and first-class citizenship. This is of special interest when it is realized that very few, if any, of the major political, economic and social goals achieved by Black America, including the Voting Rights Act, were accomplished through Black voting prowess. The ballot box has been a relatively impotent weapon in the achievement of major victories by the Black community. Suddenly vigorous protest and direct-action legal suits and extralegal processes such as boycotts, sit-ins, and the like, which were used so effectively by the community to achieve its sociopolitical ends and to fight injustice and oppression, have fallen far behind the election of Black politicians to achieve the same ends. [MORE]
From [FINAL CALL] The National Urban League’s recent finding that the current State of Black America is grim is unsurprising.
And in 2022, since ratification of America’s Constitution in 1788, the League’s Equality Index finds that Blacks are about three-fifths along the way to experiencing equal status with White Americans.
The Black-White disparity persists across virtually every line or indicator of life and quality of life in the United States. Beyond the statistical gaps and lack of opportunity, a 2022 State of Black America opinion poll revealed the constant mental anguish and insecurity Blacks endure. Blacks were far more likely than Whites to worry “about being paid less, passed over, having to work harder for the same amount, and even being discriminated against,” the poll found.
Blacks were more worried about basic survival, putting food on the table, getting enough working hours, losing a job, being unable to pay the mortgage, and spending savings to make ends meet.
When it comes to the numbers, the median Black household income was $43,862 versus $63,823 for Whites. Blacks still trail Whites in homeownership, the traditional path to wealth building in the country, and their homes were valued less than Whites.
Urban League president Marc Morial noted that there has been almost zero change in Black wealth since the heyday of civil rights. Black-White wealth disparity has increased, he admitted.
unquestioned beliefs own black PEOPLE. Many sheEple belive they live in a democracy and that a democracy is a good thing b/c that’s what they are programmed to believe.
ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY
democracy - a commercial form of "government" (exploitation and theft via force, deception and involuntary participation) of the mob, by the mob, and/or the mob, i.e., Mob-Rule. 2) a guise rubber stamping of an alternative royalty into overruling power. 3) the worst possible form of government because the majority rules whether they be good, evil, or misled by a minority. 4) slavery of the people, by the people, for the people. 5) equality achieved through force. 6) a system where only the majority need to befooled. 7) advertised equality. 8) a parody of a free society that only ethical anarchism or voluntaryism can usher into existence. "Democracy has always been seen (and is still seen today) as equality of rights (granted privileges), not conditions. To the hypothetical equality of rights there has always corresponded a substantial inequality of conditions. And instead of being related to the nature of their individuality, differences between people have always been those marked by the different basic conditions they live in as they struggle against the suffocating artificial divisions imposed on them by power." —Alfred M. Bonanno. Democracy is a euphonious term created mainly to serve as sheepskin for Leviathan, Doggy and the Crimethlnc. All-Stars. 9) Dictatorship camouflaged as freedom 10) a whitewashed plutocracy with a pastel eggshell finish. Democracy, next to "monetized debt," and direct taxation (on labor) is the biggest con-game perpetrated on a population. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain and sustain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that lie, they make wonderfully submissive and self-maintained slaves.[MORE]
The death rate of Black men from prostate cancer has nearly tripled, according to the report. Black women were nearly 60 percent more likely to die in childbirth and 31 percent more likely to die from breast cancer. On average Blacks could expect to live four years less than Whites, added the report, which was released April 12.
According to federal statistics, in police interactions Blacks were more likely to suffer use of force and threats than Whites and, if arrested, Blacks were three times more likely to go to jail.
That’s not all: While in 2020 Black voters were praised for stopping the “assault on democracy” by defeating the reelection bid of Donald Trump, there has been an all-out assault on Black voting rights. Trumpsters and Trump-lite political leaders and activists are working at the local and state level to curb voting rights: Some propose private police forces to investigate voting in urban areas. Others want to erect more barriers to voting. And in states like Florida, congressional districts are being redrawn to eliminate, limit or dilute Black voting areas.
Mr. Morial described the effort as political operatives, state and federal lawmakers and even violent extremists working to “dismantle” American democracy. He called for a “national mobilization to protect and defend our most sacred constitutional right.” “The anti-democracy wave that began to rise after record-high Black voting rates in 2008 and crested with the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder to gut the Voting Rights Act has now broken against ‘The Big Lie,’ the relentless campaign to invalidate the 2020 election,” Mr. Morial noted in an essay, “Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy.”
Gerrymandering, voter suppression, misinformation, and intimidation are the tools being used to exclude Black voters and mainly benefit the Republican Party. “Politicians have used these tactics for generations, to exclude voters of color and to give their parties an edge,” Mr. Morial said. “But never before has the nation seen such an insidious and coordinated campaign to obliterate the very principle of ‘one person, one vote’ from the political process.”
These harrowing statistics, the anxiety and woe should lead us to decide to act differently than we have been acting. Despite warnings from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan against a blind faith in this world’s politics, the benevolence of White people, or moral appeals to White conscience, we have somehow believed that American society can change and fully embrace and include millions of the descendants of her once slaves.
She cannot.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned us that America could not provide jobs for the millions of her own unemployed let alone provide good jobs for a people she despises and hates. He warned against believing in the false promises of an age-old enemy and believing in a fairy tale like transformation of an evil doer into an angel. His warnings have been true, and the country continues to go backward in race relations while a seething cauldron of race hatred against Black children, women and men erupts daily.
White people fear for their future and are fed up with acting in ways that show respect for Black and non-White people. They have simply had enough, which accounts for their love of past president Trump and those of his ilk. Anti-Blackness is only going to increase as will race-based clashes, humiliation, disrespect and murder. Wishing for better times and appealing to the moral conscience of an immoral nation is a foolish thing.
Our salvation lies in harnessing our economic, cultural, political and spiritual unity to the plow of self-determination, self-independence and self-sacrifice. With a spending power of trillions of dollars, brilliant Black men and women across every discipline and much of the world seeking alternatives to U.S. domination, our internal unity and external relations can yield great progress.
And with that progress can come the proper harnessing of politics, economics and an independent vision that can improve our condition. This is the day of America’s downfall, and every indicator is bearing witness to the time. The time demands that we abandon all hope in the children of our former slavemasters and strike out on our own. We have nothing to lose but our chains and God Himself is with us.
Harvard University Releases a Report Describing How It Unjustly Enriched Itself from Slavery by Owning Black Slaves and Teaching Eugenics
/From [HERE] Harvard University has released a report detailing the school's involvement in the U.S. slave trade, including faculty and staff owning slaves and professors teaching racial eugenics.
The full report contains “a list of human beings enslaved by prominent Harvard affiliates” [HERE]
In 2019, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow formed a committee that included representatives from all the schools on campus, and asked them to uncover Harvard's ties to slavery.
The committee's work should "have a strong grounding in rigorous research and critical perspectives that will inform not only our understanding of facts, but also how we might address the ramifications of what we learn," he said at the time.
The committee found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.
Some of those who were enslaved lived on campus and were responsible for providing care for Harvard's presidents, professors and students.
Additionally, the report discovered many of the university's donors profited directly from the slave trade in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Some used labor from enslaved people in the Caribbean and the American South. Others obtained their wealth from selling goods to plantations. Donors in the textile industry sourced cotton that was grown by enslaved persons.
"During the first half of the 19th century, more than a third of the money donated or promised to Harvard by private individuals came from just five men who made their fortunes from slavery and slave-produced commodities," the report said.
The university also heavily supported the study of eugenics, the concept of encouraging selective breeding for the purpose of purifying the human race.
Dudley Allen Sargent, director of Harvard's Hemenway Gymnasium from 1879 to 1919, "implemented a 'physical education' program that involved intrusive physical examinations, anthropometric measurements, and the photographing of unclothed Harvard and Radcliffe students," according to the study.
Harvard outlined several next steps it said it would take in an attempt to atone for its involvement in the slave trade, including monetary reparations for Black and Indigenous students who are descendants of enslaved persons in the U.S.
"The profound harm caused by the university's entanglements with slavery and its legacies cannot be valued in monetary terms alone," the study said. "Nevertheless, financial expenditures are a necessary predicate to and foundation for redress."
The Legacy of Slavery Fund will be kept in an endowment "strategically invested to support implementation of these recommendations," the report said.
The Ivy League school also plans to further partner with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through initiatives, such as appointing visiting HBCU professors to Harvard for one year and subsidizing summer, semester or yearlong studies at Harvard for HBCU students.
The school said it is working to identify Black and Indigenous students who are direct descendants of people enslaved in the U.S.
"We further recommend that, in recognition of this lineage, the university engage with these descendants through dialogue, programming, information sharing, relationship building, and educational support," it said.
The recommendations will be evaluated through annual reports, Harvard said.
