(Toronto, ON. VL Press 3.3.2023) Since the COVID pandemic, the paradigm shift occurring is happening at a rapid pace.
As we approach the spring and finish Q1, there are lots to consider in business, community and life going forward to make this your biggest and best year yet.
Over the course of our work into systemic and institutional racism, there is endless discoveries regarding the issues affecting communities that dampers business production and community growth.
In order to make this your best year our articles and blogs will be geared towards solutions that benefit society, the economy and business.
For those who are new to The Reset Community you are welcomed with immense love and light.
For those who have been with us since our beginnings, we thank you tremendously and appreciate you.
Our goal is new year, new you, new earth order. What does this look like?
Well, we’re going to redefine the narrative. One of the first things required in this new year for a new you is to realize societies around the world have been duped.
The history taught keeps all levels of society in the dark when it comes to truth. It’s as though truth has become the enemy. Whether you are university or college educated or whether you have no education, the system we live in has one name and it’s called Duped. Technically, there should only be two parties….The Duped and The Unduped.
You get to decide this year which you choose to be to make this your biggest and best year yet. To be or not to be duped!
Our articles going forward are going to reveal what we’ve discovered with solutions. This information is going to require strong souls, minds and hearts ready for real action.
It was the early 2000s and for the first time Melanated women were being recognized on a larger scale internationally in film, fashion, music and art. Corporations were rolling the beginning of their diversity platforms and Canada’s Suzanne Boyd was right their at the forefront of it all.
A style fashionista then and to this day, Boyd rocked the fashion world when she launched the unforgettable “Suede” magazine.
It was ahead of its time. The magazine was sharp, feminine, sassy, provocative and most of all, it was ours. A magazine for Melanated women by a Melanated woman. Different from other magazines for People of Colour.
As a young women growing up in the fashion and entertainment world before becoming an Entrepreneur in Pubic Relations and Mediation, Suede was everything for me and my crew of young fashionistas in the hair, beauty, acting and modelling industry.
We reveled in getting our copies of Suede and enjoyed girls night combing through the pages full of inspiration.
“What I loved most about Suede, aside from the fact that the magazine had an actual pulse, is the way every single word, image and article unapologetically celebrated and championed brown girls. As I watch some of my other beloved magazines make excuses about why they can’t (or aren’t) creating content that is honest, inspirational, aspirational, uplifting and informative, I’m reminded that it CAN be done.”
Sometimes our people are met with push back when our work is too good. When it outshines the others. Someone, somewhere finds a reason to end our great work. When that happens we have our minds and hearts to use as memories to remind us and inspire our creative flow and output.
For young fashionistas, Suzanne Boyd was a leader and an influencer before social media platforms and her legacy carries today as the Editor-in-Chief of Zoomer magazine.
Suede magazine ran from 2004 – 2005, printing about 4 issues. After becoming defunct, Suzanne Boyd landed the role as Editor-in-Chief of Zoomer magazine after being headhunted by Moses Znaimer, while she was living in New York.
The magazine may not be here any longer, however we can dream that one day it returns as the market is ripe for such creativity. Until then, those of us who got to experience a piece of fashion history will always remember Suede magazine and most of all the beautiful and talented Suzanne Boyd.
The Suede Manifesto:
Suede Magazine’s Manifesto:
Style is in our DNA. And we, the multi-culti urbanistas stand at a new intersection of street and chic. Our dial is tuned to the catwalk and the corner. We are fashion crazy. We come from the culture on the come up and use fashion to amplify who we are. We revel in the entire spectrum of black beauty and love the skin we’re in. Feel it.
The first substantial settlement of Black Canadians in British North America occurred following the American Revolution. Some, such as Richard Pierpoint, a formerly enslaved man from Bondu (Senegal) and military veteran of the revolution, had gained their freedom by fighting under the British Crown during the war. Most, however, were enslaved and therefore brought to the British territories as spoils of war or as the property of Loyalists.
About 500 to 700 Black people lived in Upper Canada (Ontario) by the time Lieutenant-GovernorJohn Graves Simcoe arrived there in 1792. Simcoe wished to abolish enslavement entirely, but the Upper Canada legislature opposed many of his reforms. Many of the members of both houses of the legislature either enslaved Black people or were from slaveholding families and were therefore concerned over the possible economic impact abolition would bring (see Black Enslavement). Therefore, the Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada, passed on 9 July 1793, was a severely limited version of Simcoe’s intentions. It banned the further importation of slaves into Upper Canada and limited terms of enslavement to nine years. As the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University points out, it is difficult to know which soldiers in the Coloured Corps were free and which were enslaved.
Toward 1812, the prospect of an American invasion posed a major threat to the liberties enjoyed by some Black Canadians, leading many Black men to join the militia. Many understood that American victory could lead to re-enslavement. Free Black men had served in the militia since its organization in 1793. However, the formation of an independent company composed entirely of Black men was not proposed until the eve of the War of 1812, when Richard Pierpoint offered to raise a corps of Black men in the Niagara region. The offer was initially rejected by the Upper Canada government, but reconsidered following the American occupation of Sandwich (Windsor) on 12 July 1812.
By late August, the core of an all-Black Canadian company had formed in Niagara, as part of the 1st Lincoln Militia. But instead of granting Richard Pierpoint command, the honour was bestowed to a local White officer, Captain Robert Runchey. Characterized as a “worthless, troublesome malcontent” by his superiors, Runchey fulfilled his reputation for poor leadership by segregating Black men from other militiamen. In some cases, Runchey hired out Black soldiers as domestic servants to other officers.
Not surprisingly, recruiting in the Niagara Peninsula proved difficult, and “Runchey’s Company of Coloured Men” remained small. In early October, 14 Black soldiers were transferred to the unit from the 3rd York Militia.The majority of men in the corps lived in Upper Canada — in towns and villages in the Niagara region, in York (Toronto) and the Bay of Quinte, near Belleville (seeQuinte West). One of the men, George Martin, from Niagara, had been freed from enslavement by his father, Peter, in 1797.(Four years before that, Peter Martin witnessed and reported the Chloe Cooley incident to Lieutenant-GovernorJohn Graves Simcoe — an event that led to the Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada.)
Once raised to approximately 40 men, the company commenced training at Fort George.
On the morning of 13 October 1812, American forces under Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer III invaded Upper Canada by crossing the Niagara River at Queenston. Runchey’s Company marched to Queenston from Fort George with Major General Roger Sheaffe‘s reinforcements, arriving after Sir Isaac Brock‘s death that same day. The company joined Captain John Norton‘s Six Nations warriors in sniping at the American position from atop Queenston Heights, before forming part of Sheaffe’s battle line.
Alongside the 41st Regiment of Foot and the 49th Foot, Runchey’s Company “fired a single volley with considerable execution, and then charged with a tremendous tumult,” bringing about the Americans’ surrender. Having absented himself on the morning of the battle, Runchey subsequently resigned, and the company was commanded temporarily by Lieutenant James Cooper of the 2nd Lincoln Militia. Cooper was cited in dispatches as having led his men “with great spirit.” (See alsoBattle of Queenston Heights.)
1813 Campaigns
Renamed the “Coloured” or “Black” Corps, the company entered general service and spent the winter at Fort George. On 27 May 1813, a large American force launched an amphibious attack against the fort (seeBattle of Fort George). The Coloured Corps and British troops rushed to the beach to oppose the landing and “exchanged a destructive and rapid fire” with the enemy at short range. The Coloured Corps lost four of its men wounded or captured before it was forced back by naval gunfire. It retreated with Brigadier General John Vincent’s troops to Burlington Heights. For the remainder of the year, the Coloured Corps participated in the blockade of the American army at Fort George, enduring the same harsh conditions and privations as British troops.
Construction of Fort Mississauga
After the British captured Fort Niagara on 19 December 1813, the Coloured Corps was attached to the Royal Engineers to help repair fortifications at the mouth of the Niagara River. Whether racism influenced the authorities’ choice for this duty is not known, as one engineer later reported: “When I visited the Niagara Frontier… I found that a corps of Free Men of Colour had been raised… but had been turned over to that of the Engineers, any necessity for this I never could learn, but it seems to have been the fashion in Canada to heap all kinds of duties upon the latter.”
Toward the spring of 1814, the company was ordered to construct a new fort on the Canadian shore, dubbed Fort Mississauga. With the American navy in control of Lake Ontario, this work was crucial to the security of British forces in the Niagara Peninsula. One British officer later noted that “Mississauga… is a pretty little Fort, and would prevent vessels coming up the river.” These duties consequently prevented the Coloured Corps’ participation in the Niagara campaign that summer, even during the subsequent siege of Fort Erie, in which British forces desperately lacked trained engineer troops.
Disbandment and Legacy
The Royal Engineers continued to employ the Coloured Corps in the Niagara Peninsula for the remainder of the War of 1812. The corps’ zeal in these works duly impressed British engineers, one reporting in February 1815 that “no people could be better calculated to build temporary barracks than these Free Men of Colour, as they are in general expert axemen.”
The company was disbanded on 24 March 1815, following the end of the war. In claiming rewards for their service, many faced adversity and discrimination. Sergeant William Thompson was informed he “must go and look for his pay himself,” while Richard Pierpoint, then in his 70s, was denied his request for passage home to Africa in lieu of a land grant. When grants were distributed in 1821, veterans of the Coloured Corps received only 100 acres, half that of their White counterparts. Many veterans did not settle the land they were granted because it was of poor quality. Despite these inequities, the Coloured Corps defended Canada honourably, setting the precedent for the formation of Black units in future.
A Coloured Corps was again raised in Niagara during the Rebellions of 1837–38, one of several Black or “Coloured” corps that volunteered for service — other units were raised in Toronto, Hamilton, Chatham, and Sandwich (Windsor).
In addition to serving in militia units, other Black Canadians enlisted in the regular British forces and served in Upper Canada. One of their most common roles was as percussionists in military bands. An officer of the 104th Foot recalled the regiment’s bass drummer, Private Henry Grant, accompanying his regiment’s epic winter march through the snow from New Brunswick to Upper Canada between February and April 1813. After reaching Kingston, he and the band took part in the Battle of Sackets Harbor on 29 May 1813, in which several band members were killed.
Other British regiments garrisoned in Canada for long periods recruited Black Canadian musicians in a similar manner, including the 100th Foot, whose cymbal player was Black.
Some British regiments permitted individual Black Canadians to enlist as combatant soldiers during the War of 1812. Several men are known to have served in the ranks of the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles: an unnamed Black man was noted by an American officer as having been killed in action during the defence of Fort George in May 1813 (see Fencibles in the War of 1812). More unusually, the entire pioneer squad (the equivalent of modern combat engineers) of the 104th Foot was comprised of Black Canadians. One of those men, Private John Baker, was wounded at Sackets Harbor and recovered to fight in the battles of Chippawa and Lundy’s Lane during the summer of 1814.
The Coloured Corps, a British unit comprised of black troops, fought with distinction against the Americans, both at Queenston Heights and Fort George. From their perspective, the stakes were high: they fought not just to defend their homes but to preserve their freedom.
“Did our coloured brethren hail [the Americans’] approach? No! On the contrary, they hastened as volunteers … to be foremost to defend the glorious institutions of Great Britain.” Sir Francis Bond Head, an officer in the British Army during the War of 1812.
The Coloured Corps wore blue uniforms that stood out amongst the red uniforms of British regulars.
The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migration of African Peoples, Parks Canada.
Early in 1812, a black settler in Upper Canada who had fought against the Americans during the War of Independence proposed that General Issac Brock raise a contingent of black soldiers to fight for the British Army in Canada. Brock initially turned down the offer. But as he became increasingly desperate for volunteers, he reversed course. Brock ultimately formed “Captain Runchey’s Company of Coloured Men.” The company bore the name of its white officer, Robert Runchey, who had a poor reputation throughout the British Army.
Most of the black men who formed the Coloured Corps were Niagara residents. They recognized the dangers they faced if they should fall into American hands. Although many members of the company were free British subjects, some had formerly been enslaved in the American colonies. The men understood that their status as British subjects might not protect them or their families from enslavement if captured. The men of Runchey’s Coloured Corps fought to defend their homes at the risk of their freedom.
Though led by an undistinguished officer, the Coloured Corps fought with distinction at the Battle of Queenston Heights and at Fort George. They were also known for building Fort Mississauga after the British reclaimed the Niagara region. The battlements and central blockade made of brick, taken in part from the remains of burned houses, still stand today.
When the Corps was discharged in 1815, these black Canadian Loyalists began to petition the Crown to receive the land grants promised for their service. That proved a lengthy process; some men died before receiving their grants. Though some descendants eventually received land, it was usually only a fraction of the amount granted to white British soldiers and their families.
In Memory of All Veterans, Race and Nationality, on this Remembrance Day let us keep in our prayers the souls of the departed and gratitude for our soldiers in the service.
There are numerous reasons to remember our fallen soldiers, veterans and military civilians.
The hard work, training and dedication to serve their country can be a selfless act as well one of opportunity.
Whatever the reason why one decides to join the forces, it is all personal. One thing is for sure, mental health and resources are essential for life after service.
Take for example WWI and WWII were many soldiers were injured. Others suffering mental health and others struggling to find housing or a place in society.
Some have been more fortunate and have gone on to successful careers in the arts, business, politics, education, law and other reputable fields.
For those less fortunate their lives as soldiers was one of experimentation. Secret WWII chemical experiments tested troops by race. The Pentagon admitted decades ago that it used American troops as test subjects in experiments with mustard gas, until now, officials have never spoken about the tests that grouped subjects by race.
For the first time, NPR tracked down some of the men used in the race-based experiments. And it wasn’t just African-Americans. Japanese-Americans were used as test subjects, serving as proxies for the enemy so scientists could explore how mustard gas and other chemicals might affect Japanese troops. Puerto Rican soldiers were also singled out.
All of the World War II experiments with mustard gas were done in secret and weren’t recorded on the subjects’ official military records. Most do not have proof of what they went through. They received no follow-up health care or monitoring of any kind. And they were sworn to secrecy about the tests under threat of dishonorable discharge and military prison time, leaving some unable to receive adequate medical treatment for their injuries, because they couldn’t tell doctors what happened to them.
Army Col. Steve Warren, director of press operations at the Pentagon, acknowledged NPR’s findings and was quick to put distance between today’s military and the World War II experiments.
Two Canadian Second World War veterans exposed to mustard gas and other deadly chemicals in military experiments were the first to receive compensation cheques from the federal government CBC reported in 2004.
The soldiers, retired master corporal Roy Wheeler and retired flight sergeant Bill Tanner, each received $24,000 from the federal government in a small ceremony in Chilliwack, B.C.
They are among thousands of servicemen who were subjected to the experiments between 1940 and 1970.
It’s not only fighting battles or serving in the army that veterans are exposed. The trauma for some are lasting and in some cases leads to death.
The Reset Community event to honour African Canadian Veterans on November 10th, 2022 has a new date for November 25, 2022. Here is the update on our previous press release.
It’s over 20 years since the Rwandan genocide, but for the Canadian soldiers who were there as part of a doomed UN peacekeeping mission, the sights, sounds and smells have not faded from memory reports a CBC news article.
“There was an overpowering stench of death,” said Major Brent Beardsley, who served alongside General Romeo Dallaire (both are now retired).
Rwanda was a country of seven million people in 1994, 85 per cent of them Hutu. Extremists within the Hutu ethnic group had been inflaming cultural tensions for years, blaming the Tutsi minority for economic and social problems.
On April 6 the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana (a Hutu) was shot down. His death sparked a wave of horrific violence in which more than 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi civilians, were massacred.
Over twenty-five years after one of Africa’s most grisly conflicts, many know the story of how the world didn’t stop it in time. But Canadians’ work in rebuilding was a quiet success – and veterans are organizing to make sure they are recognized.
Gloria Galloway reported from Rwanda during the summer of 1994.
There are many things Rwanda veterans say they will never forget about the months they spent in 1994 in a tiny country shattered by genocide.
Corporal Sammy Sampson was part of a four-man team in Gisenyi at the border of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where millions of Rwandan Hutus fled to escape retribution by the rival Tutsis. He watched as Rwandan soldiers burned corpses stacked two-metres high in a mud hut outside the Gisenyi hospital. Afterward, he said, doctors “took us through every ward of the hospital, which turned out to be one of the most traumatic incidents of my life. To see kids maimed, with pieces hacked off of them.”
Pam Rideout, a corporal in the same 1st Canadian Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment as Mr. Sampson, remembers walking up a hill beside her remote communications outpost in central Rwanda and stepping on something with a sickening crunch. “I looked down and my foot was going through the chest cavity of a rotting body.”
Of the 600 Canadian troops who served in Rwanda, half of them – more than double the rate of other recent deployments including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia and Iran – are receiving disability benefits from Veterans Affairs related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
“We have been deployed many places in the world and we’ve seen things, but that one [Rwanda] was just totally out of this world,” said Denis Lebrun, who was the regimental sergeant major for the signals regiment. “It was not a mission, it was a nightmare.”
This Remembrance Day let us not forget! To make a difference in the lives of veterans and provide solutions for the community, support the historic Canadian initiative to erect an African Canadian veterans monument, wall and garden and the veterans village multi-family dwelling mixed use space. Stakeholders are invited to contact TRC for the proposal details at imin@letsresetnow.ca An auction for the interested parties is happening at the African Canadian Remembrance Ball occurring November 25, 2022. Tickets are accessible at Eventbrite. Let’s unite to treat our veterans right!
Updated 11.10.2022 @ 10:43 – NEW DATE FOR EVENT *Date change from November 10, 22022 to new date November 25, 2022
(TO.ON. VLPress 11.4.2022 @ 06:30 EST) It was in the 1950s when Canada’s Negros began to be called ‘Black.’ Up until that time, Negro or Coloured was the identity used by today’s ‘Blacks.’ The same was for our veterans.”This Remembrance, we honour our veterans in their name.” says Kerry Ann Thomas, publicist and member for the Black Veteran Affairs.
On November 25, 2022 inside the Royal Canadian Military Institute will be held the African Canadian Veterans Ball with doors opening at 6:00pm. The event commences at 6:30pm with the Veterans Village Auction. At the auction, participants get an opportunity to view the proposal presentation and bid their way to Canadian history by bidding for sections of the proposal for the Negro Veterans Village. Developers, builders, project mangers, stakeholders and other partners are called on to join us in making Canadian history with the Negro Village multi-family mixed-use dwelling development. To house Entrepreneurs, under served families and those battling mental health along with the historic monument, wall and garden honouring Negro veterans and soldiers.
Veterans such as the late Judge Stanley Grizzle, Judge George Carter, Leonard Braithwaite are few of the many names that will be featured on the veterans wall. “Carter, who served in the Canadian Army from 1944 to 1945, is a founding member of the Toronto Negro Veterans,” writes the Osgoode Hall Law School website.
The United Negro Improvement Association hall at 355 College St was founded by the Jamaican nationalist Marcus Garvey “was the gathering place of the Black community at the time,” Ms. Linda Carter said. Daughter of the later Judge George Carter. “That was the only place to go.”
This year, we seek to ensure more creative and safe spaces for people of the African diaspora and Veterans of Colour. We embark towards our goal to construct a multi-family dwelling to honour Negro veterans. As an historic project for Canada, this event compliments the United Nations Decade for the People of the African Diaspora. Supporters of this Canadian identity, history, and veterans are invited to add their name to this historic project.
The finished product for this project shall include the veterans monument, wall, and garden engraved with the names of Negro veterans and the names of supporters who attend the Veterans Ball on November 25, 2022.
“Every ticket holder and donation is going to be part of the finished project” says Kerry Ann Thomas, organizer for the event.
Tickets are available on Eventbrite. Guests can purchase individual tickets or group tickets for staff, team, youths, cadets, seniors and other veterans. VIP advance tickets is extended to November 18, 2022. General ticket sales closes November 21, 2022. (updated 11.11.22)
All participants in this historic initiative are trailblazers. Immortalized as part of Canadian history and legacy for generations beyond. The event welcomes veteran supporters of all backgrounds and will feature a special Commonwealth commemoration to the late Queen Elizabeth II and a welcome tribute to King Charles III.
Participants for this event also have the option to solidify their advanced sponsorship, partnership or attendance for the 2023 and 2024 Remembrance Ceremony.
Candidates in the recent 2022 Municipal, victory or loss, have an opportunity post election to continue serving Toronto. Being present and participating in this historic initiative allows Candidates to attach their names to a project that honours Veterans of Colour. Missing this event is missing out on a piece of Canadian history. It is a magnificent campaign appreciation event for Candidates and their team for all their hard work.
Elected Candidates and politicians from all levels of government are welcome to submit a written greeting message for the event brochure along with video message for the event. Hashtags can be used on social media #NegroVeterans #VeteransLivesMatterCA #MentalHealth #VeteranMentalHealth #WeRemember #LestWeForget. Congratulations to all Candidates in the 2022 Municipal Elections.
Subscribers for The Reset Community receive 10% discount to the 2022 African Canadian Veterans Ball.
Be connected with a positive initiative for Canadians and the Commonwealth. Extend your legacy in Canadian history.
– 30 – Contact: Kerry Ann Thomas misskerrythomas@yahoo.com
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(Photos L-R:) Kerry Ann Thomas and Judge Stanley G. Grizzle – Canadian Veteran, Kerry Ann Thomas with Hon. Judge George Carter Canadian Veteran. Hon. Judge George Carter at the Peel Art Museum and Archives holding a photo of Canadian veteran from Black Veteran Affairs on display at PAMA.
BY Kerry Ann Thomas | KAT Brand Solutions, Researcher, Reporter 10/14/2022 READ TIME: 3 MINS
IT’S A CULTURE RESET!
Unbelievable! Disappointing and Unacceptable!
A B_lack woman, possibly one of #DonaldTrump’s #minions, out to spew #propaganda and #hatred went on #FOX News #TuckerCarlson to support #WhiteLivesMatter. And they do! Just as all lives matter! But she did so at the expense of ultimately degrading us Melanated women.
Debate this if you wish, but history, the news, books, archaeologists, and scholars have confirmed Africa is home to humanity and civilization. We all know Africa is populated with mostly Melanin Dominant Humans. Which makes MDH women as the mothers of humanity. I didn’t make it that way. I am simply reporting the facts!
As a researcher, human, mother, woman of melanin hue, I am appalled at #CandanceOwen’s Tucker Carlson Tonight statement. She went too far!
When #DaveChappelle made a comedy joke about her personal parts, I felt for her. It was unacceptable for anyone, especially a famous comedian, to speak or even joke in the manner that he did. It was “black humour.” (kindly do your online research for that backstory)
I was shamed at his comments and questioned where were the ‘advocates’ or the ‘feminists’ to address this or to speak up for our women. Candace did defend herself and made a statement to clap back at Chappelle. (Research the backstory)
Now, this Melanin B-lack woman belt out on the airways, “the worse place to be is in a B_lack woman’s womb.” Unacceptable! Her recent statement on Tucker Carlson almost had me throw up.
She too is a B-lack woman who carried a child for nine months. So, is her womb the worse place to be? Or maybe she is not a biological woman, hence her insensitive remarks on a sensitive topic.
Readers, do you have any idea what happened to Negro women during slavery with her baby in the womb as a fetus? She was tortured. For her children to inherit trauma or made to be s3x slaves. These are facts that can be found if you are interested to learn the truth and make a real difference.
There will be more updates on this topic. For now, here are 10 places more dangerous than a B-lack woman’s Womb.
Church (full of lies)
2. Education system (full of false narratives)
3. Medical profession (full of false narratives)
4. TV (full of lies and propaganda)
5. Internet (full of lies, violence and propaganda and luring)
6. Entertainment (degrading)
7. NGOs (raping MDH woman in developing countries and leaving them to raise children on their own or to become prostitutes or forced bestiality recorded for sale and profit)
8. Prison
9. Orphanage
10. The Mind
BONUS two:
11. Underserved communities
12. Pharmaceutical Industry
Candace Owens went too far with her statement on Melanin Dominant women. Using the struggle to overcome from days of slavery and its practices and it turned it into mockery for her platform.
By Kerry Ann Thomas | KAT BRAND Solutions, Reporter, Researcher Read Time: 16 Minutes
IT’S A CULTURE RESET!
Kanye West, an American Hip Hop artist known for being outspoken on many issues and topics recently launched the White Lives Matter initiative. He was featured on FOX News Tucker Carlson Tonight in a recent exclusive interview after causing quite a social media uproar with Diddy and Yasiin Bey jumping into the conversation on social media.
One of the best interviews West has given where he’s more calm and centered. Yet the public, according to West, is out to get him for his controversial views. With some calling his comments anti-Semite or questioning his mental faculty. In the interview, Kanye shared stories about his father, his ex-wife and viewpoints he finds important for making a difference including a soft endorsement for Donald Trump. Something that made him catch heat during Trump’s 2016 run for Presidency and his Make America Great Again campaign where West endorsed Trump for President of the United States.
Although it’s difficult to take everything West says as gold in his Tucker Carlson interview, especially his endorsement for Donald Trump, he does offer some nuggets for further consideration such as White Lives Matter, and the BLM scam. The real scam is not the organization, its is being labelled and living as a race you’re not!
The rapper and fashion designer formerly known as Kanye West is talking about his political beliefs following a stir he caused on social media last week by wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt at his fashion show in Paris and later putting a statement on Instagram calling the Black Lives Matter movement “a scam.”
Yasiin Bey aka Mos DefP. Diddy
The Black Lives Matter Scam
BLM is a group that is dedicated to agitation and presenting selective incidents (while ignoring others) to present a false story about police violence and to use known false information to gain power, raise money, and undermine not only the US but European based societies with false claims of institutional racism.
Brightworks Research published a video on BLM that was taken down by Youtube. Yes, Youtube was banning and pulling Youtubers offline who were making connections to BLM and their fraud. Now that there is a consensus B-lack Lives Matter is a fraud, are all those channels on Youtube and other social media platforms that were were banned, de-platformed or demonetized allowed to sue the media and other affiliates who helped to support silencing of the truth on BLM and their illegal activities? What are the repercussions for those who participated in the cover-up and propaganda?
In the pulled Youtube video, Brightworks explains BLM does not seem to care about B_lack lives unless it can be placed within the context of B_lack oppression. And that they actively look for police killings of B_lack men to fundraise and raise their profile. It also explained Black Lives Matter’s complete lack of interest in the B_lack population’s actual mortality causes and rates.
How The Scam Worked
Some media outlets such as the Washington Examiner agreed with Kanye even before Kanye said what he said. In early January of this year, The Washington Examiner published an article online titled “Black Lives Matter Scam.” Yes readers! And here’s what the article said.
It reads:
The foundation wasn’t even registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a charity. After George Floyd’s murder in May of 2020, tens of millions of dollars were given to this organization from major corporations and celebrities. And now, no one even knows where all that money has gone. Even worse, there doesn’t appear to be anyone in charge of the organization who can provide that information.
Unable to accept the avalanche of money sent its way, BLM channeled donations through Thousand Currents and the Tides Foundation until the IRS approved its application for nonprofit status in December 2020. Around that time, Thousand Currents transferred $66.5 million to BLM — a transaction personally signed off on by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron described BLM as “a giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting in the night with no captain, no discernable crew, and no clear direction.”
According to Candid, a website devoted to tracking nonprofit donations, groups like BLM, which claim to be devoted to racial “equity,” have raised over $25 billion since George Floyd’s death.
The people who donated to BLM deserve to know where their money went wrote The Washington Examiner. So do the people who live in communities that have been devastated by violence. The Washington Examiner called on congress to investigate BLM in that January article. It seems Biden was sleeping at the wheel.
“Everyone knows Black Lives Matter was a scam,” West said. He’s right. The Black Lives Matter movement was built on the lie that Michael Brown was a poor, defenseless victim of a racist police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2015. The myth that he submitted and was shot anyway — “Hands up, don’t shoot” — was a lie. Physical evidence showed that Brown attacked Officer Darren Wilson and attempted to get his gun before he was shot.
The article goes on to say ignored by Black Lives Matter were the thousands of B_lack lives that didn’t matter to activists. The WashingtonPost database lists 145 unarmed B_lack people killed by police since 2015. Some of those unarmed cases include incidents like Brown’s, but unmentioned go all the B_lack people murdered by non-police officers every year. In 2019 alone, for example, 7,484 B_lack people were murdered. Democratic politicians and activists will mourn a criminal like Brown, but 7,000 B_lack murder victims killed by non-police just don’t matter.
The Washington Examiner BLM articled published back in January of this year reported there a financial scam. A Washington Examinerinvestigation found that millions in funds had gone unaccounted for at the Black Lives Matter organization. California and Washington, two states run by Democrats, ordered the organization to cease all fundraising. The BLM Global Network Foundation took in $77 million in 2020, which then went on to line the pockets of its executives and their families.
From the beginning, Black Lives Matter was a scam writes The Washington Examiner.
The movement was built on a lie and was channeled toward anti-police sentiment, exploited by Democratic politicians who think stoking racism helps them and know that talking about the homicides in the cities they run would not. The financial scam was simply the icing on the cake of the political scam, and it’s a scam that Democratic politicians and liberal activists (and journalists) will continue to push without a hint of regret or introspection.
Canada’s Connection to the BLM Scam and Money Laundering
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Canada also has its own BLM that was supported by the Liberal Government and the City of Toronto.
When the Freedom Convoy protest happened, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the public statement calling the protest an “insult to truth,” while showing favour to BLM.
Not only that, a 10,000 square foot building in downtown Toronto was transformed into a new community activism and creative space operated by Black Lives Matter in 2021. The community certainly needs a facility such as this and more more, however it’s unfortunate what is unfolding with Black Lives Matter.
FOXNews reported Black Lives Matter (BLM) moved millions of dollars to a charity in Canada run by the wife of co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors to purchase a mansion that used to be the headquarters of the Communist Party of Canada, according to public records reviewed by the New York Post.
What a coincidence that a Marxist organization with trained Marxists with communists views would be in the same building of the Communist Party of Canada. Receiving transferred funds of $66.5 million signed off personally by Patrisse Khan-Cullors to the Canadian BLM run by Cullors wife. Slick!
According to audited financial statements obtained by the Washington Examiner, the Black Lives Matter organization was granted $8 million to purchase a Toronto mansion in 2021, equivalent to a mere $6.3 million in U.S. dollars.
The money was meant to be used for activities to educate and support black communities, and to purchase and renovate property for charitable use.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed the “Freedom Convoy” trucking protest against a vaxxine mandate as spewing “hateful rhetoric,” while speaking fondly of the Black Lives Matter protests reported FOX News in January of this year in an article written by Emma Colton. “This is a moment for responsible leaders to think carefully about where they stand and who they stand with,” said Trudeau.
M4BJ, which is a non-profit based in Toronto that was set up in part by Janaya Khan, bought the 10,000-square foot mansion for $6.3 million in July 2021. Khan is the wife of Khan-Cullors, a self-professed Marxist who helped found Black Lives Matter Global Foundation Network.
“For BLM Canada to take money from BLM Global Network [Foundation] for a building without consulting the community was unethical,” Canadian BLM activists Sarah Jama and Sahra Soudi recently said. “For BLM Canada to refuse to answer questions from young Black organizers goes against the spirit of movement-building.”
The City of Toronto also funded the organization. After news broke of BLM’s purchase of the building to house Wildseed, the organization faced criticism about accepting funding from the City of Toronto for programming, with community members pointing out that this could create a dependency on state funding.
CP24 reported it is not entirely clear how the purchase of the building is being funded, though Coun. Mike Layton at the time of the report was expected to move a motion at a council meeting to have the city contribute $250,000 to help fund the project.
How does the possible BLM scam affect not only the B_lack community but also White lives and what is behind Kanye’s White Lives Matter message?
In a wide-ranging interviewKanye West shared with Tucker Carlson the simple reason for the message White Lives Matter was “because they do.”
It’s disappointing how in this generation we have come to this point where global citizens have to belt it out that all our lives matter and most of all truth matters. One thing is certain from our research at The Reset Community. For all lives to matter, truth has to matter above all else – not profits.
A distressing realization that humanity overall have been duped by the world stage theatrics. White populations should start observing how they are being played through the various acts of world drama. In order for the government to crack down on certain groups without looking racist, White people must first be made an example of or push certain agenda ideas. Many times this happens through communist tactics. A crappy deal!
In this deal, whether Kanye’s knows or not, Donald Trump does appear to be part of the process to ban truth on social media. With Kanye being used as a pond. By the Oligarchs and the media going after Trump on social media and making an example of him, they are able to go in and make new policies, go after real truthers and in particular those in the conscious community who have been prevalent in the early days of Youtube before being demonetized or lost in the algorithms.
What the powers that be decided to do was go after the truthers. Demonetizing their channels. Then brought in Trump to use truth mixed with propaganda to stir up voters in America and citizens globally with things like Q-Anon. Then Trump got his very charismatic mouth pieces who are B_lack, such as West, to raise his profile during his election for Presidency and is now doing it again to gear up for another election.
Remember that meeting with West and Trump when he was President-elect. Kanye went blonde after his wife checked him into a mental institute after a rant at one of his concerts where he said “Google lied to you. Facebook lied to you. Mark Zuckerberg lied to you.” Along with taking jabs at Jay Z and Beyonce and making other controversial comments.
TODAY | November 22, 2016
Kanye West was under observation at a Los Angeles hospital following an abrupt cancellation of his concert tour. The controversy started during West’s 2016 concert in San Jose, California when he went on a political rant about his support for President-elect Donald Trump, and said he wished B_lack people would stop talking about racism.
West, who was hospitalized for “temporary psychosis,” simply strolled into the Midtown Manhattan building’s lobby, dressed in black with dyed blonde hair, and an entourage in tow. It nearly sent the press pool into hysterics, and the scant details that were available dominated cable news and social media throughout the morning.
West said ”I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future President if we truly want change.“
Newsweek reported in 2016 it’s true that Trump understands what drives the media and has played off of this to a certain extent. The man talks in sound bites. But it is also true that Trump is an uncharacteristically impulsive and distractable president-elect—and human—who could just as easily be reaping the benefits of the media’s fascination with the ridiculous by happenstance rather than by some carefully orchestrated Machiavellian manipulation strategy.
What if there is a carefully orchestrated Machiavellian manipulation strategy?
The way it would work is the White person pushes an agenda. Then the Black person comes in to sell it to the masses. Then something happens to the White person where they are made an example of and then this sets the stage for the Black group. So that when the Black group messes up and policies have to be made, the powers that be won’t look racist and they get to show the world that see – we try to help B_lack people but look what happens. Or see it happened here for this White group or person. A classic play from the playbook.
For example, the Freedom Convoy. Many of the protesters were White and their funds where held. If they were Black it would have seemed racist or ‘biased’ to stop the funds. To make an example of what’s to come to others, the White people where used. Then ridiculed as an “insult to truth” when Trudeau compared the Convoy to the organization BLM. So that when BLM got found out for their illegal activities and being a shill funded by Oligarchs and covered up by the media, who knows what could happen? This could then give the government access to enhance monitoring or surveilling groups or other measures that could be part of the WEF agenda.
What Can Global Citizens Do?
First, Black Lives Matter, the government, the media, George Soros and all other oligarch corporations who supported the scam, silencing of the truth, propaganda and demonetization of social media accounts owe our community, vloggers, and journalists an apology for using an opportunity of need to exploit a race seeking healing solutions. And an apology is owed to Canadians and the Freedom Convoy by the Trudeau Liberal government.
Next, in order for White lives to really matter over white lies, humanity needs to be open to the real truth about history and current affairs. Moving past white lies which is what is really hurting the White community as well the “B_lack” community.
Both races ignore the facts, evidence or truth on history or current affairs while the media weights in and calls the information controversial, fake news or impose bans.
Both races feel they are being prepped for genocide, replacement and loss of male representation in families and communities through feminism and other social initiatives for anti-racism such as BLM and communist activities.
Both races are experiencing very similar or parallel lives. It almost seems that what happens to the White race, eventually happens to the B_lack race. Like Black once meaning White now meaning Black. See our pledge to end the use of the term “Black” to represent the Melanin Dominant Humans of Negroid origin. Encouraging to #endblackhumour and #stoptheblackattack. Read our open letter here.
To get past these, a real conversation on Black and White is necessary.
It’s gong to take individuals and groups to relearn history. Really wanting to know what’s happening in history and current affairs and why. And how each person can be involved in making a difference. Read our article WE’VE GOT THE GUMPTION TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION – DO YOU?
Even if it’s by the sustainable choices we make in our shopping, our friends, our peers, our habits, our work, our speech, our knowledge, our mind. We can do this!
It takes wanting to be your best true self. And that can’t happen being ignorant, in denial or dissociative to the world around you.
You’ve got to want to wake up everyday to seek truth and knowledge and want to live that truth and knowledge. It’s the milk and honey of existence. The first truth is all lives matter! Don’t rob your soul of its elixir being in temporary ignorant bliss or trauma. What you close your eyes to, can return to haunt you. Avoid it!
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By Kerry Ann Thomas | KAT Brand Solution, Reporter, Researcher
IT’S A CULTURE RESET!
Dr. Leslyn Lewis was a candidate in the 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. She was endorsed by the former opposition leader Stockwell Day who said she’d make the best Conservative leader.
Regrettably, other Conservatives did not feel that way or are not ready for such a change. The party voted for a Justin Trudeau type of leader who is rumored to have been involved with the World Economic Forum, Pierre Poilievre. Endorsed by the former Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, who as it turns out was also involved with the World Economic Forum.
Poilievre, for his campaign platform, declared that no minister associated with WEF will be part of his Cabinet. Does that include other party members, endorsers, policy and other stakeholders?
While Poilievre may seem like he packs a big punch as opposition leader, it’s his cabinet colleague Dr. Leslyn Lewis who really knows how to deliver curve balls and sucker punches.
Lewis recently took to twitter and posted receipts on the federal government’s involvement with the World Economic Forum, making it no longer a conspiracy.
The Reset Community has written various articles on The World Economic Forum. What it represents and Canadian leaders associated with the WEF. In June 2020, The WEF declared globally The Great Reset under Klaus Schwab and King Charles III when he was Prince Charles.
While many Canadians have lost faith in politics, government and leaders or don’t know who to trust, Dr. Leslyn Lewis is a power house that speaks to the hearts of Canadians and does the hard work for Canadians. Bringing answers meant to be swept under the carpet.
See her tweet here:
“As a Canadian, I find what’s going on in my country just insane. The current government prostitutes itself to the WEF. Canada is no democracy anymore. It has become a dystopian dictatorship,” reports Strangegrounds.org.
“The Liberal government has admitted in writing that they have an ongoing $105.3 million contract with the World Economic Forum to introduce digital identities for travel to Canada.” Strangegrounds.org
Lewis demanded the government provide information on how many Canadian travellers “have opted into the program, what data was collected and how much has been spent on the pilot among other things.”
The National Telegraph wrote an article a few months back titled “Leslyn Lewis Plans To Stop Digital ID And WEF Influence In Canada.”
The WEF is in favour of and openly promotes the use of Digital ID, ESG scores, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), among many other policies that centralize power to the federal government.
Dr. Lewis explains the current environment around Digital ID and the WEF stating that:
The fact is, that there is no conspiracy. There is no need for one. The WEF is a collection of politicians and powerful business people who are very open and public about their plans to usher in a Green Industrial Revolution and unite behind their singular views of how societies around the world should operate.
Canada is the first country along with the Netherlands to sign on to the WEF’s pilot project to introduce a Known Traveller Digital Identity (KTDI). Other partners include Air Canada, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport in Montreal, and Toronto’s Pearson Airport.
Dr. Lewis explains:
The idea that world travellers can increase “global” trust as they travel around the world and check in and out of hotels etc. might sound like a good idea, however, building up trust points through your activity is literally a credit score. Folks who wanted to pretend that this is anything other than a social credit system need to bend over backwards to pretend they don’t understand how credit scores work.
Dr. Lewis then goes on to take issue with labeling travelers as “acceptable” or “safe” outside of a legal context and notes that the WEF “has suggested that this could be expanded to include one’s digital currency, banking info, carbon footprint, health records, driver’s license, etc.” which would be a severe infringement on someone’s privacy and freedom of choice.
By Kerry Ann Thomas of KAT Brand Solutions and The Reset Community Researcher Friday, October 7, 2022
IT’S A CULTURE RESET!
Today, the early voting for the municipal election opens. This is an important election as it’s the first election post-pandemic.
Which candidates to choose? Whose platform reflects the concerns, direction and solutions for voters and citizens?
Election day is October 24, 2022 and candidates have many issues to appeal for votes. Some of these issues include policy, housing, crime, mental health, drugs, the pandemic and poverty.
Candidates this election have lots to prove with less than one month to sway and win voters.
Stay connected with us at The Reset Community and The Reset News for information on candidates for the 2022 municipal election with our election series called “The Candidates.”
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