They will forbid their people from voting for anyone that is not Musa. The subjects will take the news to their four wives. Their wives will tell their neighbours. The neighbours will tell their children, and the children will write ‘Sai Musa’ on every wall they see on every street.

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I look to the diaspora for black America’s future rather than finding redemption in the United States.

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"Needless to say, the president appears to be sitting on appeal on the decisions of the courts in violation of the basic principle that no one should be a judge in his own case"