9,679,764 SARS-COV-2 cases worldwide with a total of 491,095 deaths. The USA has 2,444,488 cases with 124,897 deaths. Alabama tops the scales at 33,717 cases. Baldwin County seems suspiciously COVID-19 free-ish. The White House CoronaVirus Taskforce had a press conference today for the first time in months in response to the resurgence of new cases around the Country (Florida and Texas in particular). Fairhope City Hall closed yesterday when it was discovered a staff member who attended the City Council Meeting this week was positive for COVID-19 and potentially infected others. Responsibility, Fairhope and other municipalities in the area have canceled 4th of July fireworks. The SEC and NCAA demand the State of Mississippi remove the confederate battle flag from being displayed as a portion of their state flag; Capt. Raines, as a native, weighs in. We watch Matthew McConaughey have an uncomfortable conversion that launches us into such a nebulous argument that it led to the discussion of not releasing this video, but in the end it is an honest disagreement based on race, history, bias of positions, and perception. According to cited sources 1,000 people are killed at the hands of law enforcement each year when being taken into custody. Of these 25 % are black (African American) when this demographic only represents 13% of the population. But take into consideration that his demographic also commits 50% of all violent crime….we disagree, enough said (See Time Magazine, John McWorter assoc prof of English at Columbia University). We watch a police video from Dallas, Texas of Tony Timpa’s death (a mental patient who called the police for help). No malice on the part of law enforcement here, just a complete lack of training in this area of interaction. And then we go back to Ferguson, Missouri related to the death of Michael Brown and hear from Officer Darren Wilson, the only person left alive to tell the tale. In the meantime, monuments and statues are going on the bonfire. Teddy Roosevelt is too controversial for New Your City and protesters were “shooed away” after trying to topple Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. Columbus is in the cross-hairs, even though one of the most famous black (African American) intellectuals in the world, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, believes that the discovery of the new world and the reunification of the “People of the America’s” with the rest of the world was “the most important thing to happen to our species in recorded history”. And we give you a little backstory on how Andrew Jackson’s treaty of Ft. Jackson with the Creek “Redsticks”, after the Fort Mims massacre (1813 Baldwin County, Alabama), ceded lands to the Whitesticks (allies of the US) which is the site of the Poarch Creek Indians (PCI) Gaming’s Wind Creek Casino. During the Pensacola Campaign, General Jackson and Mrs. Rachel Jackson stayed at Montpelier for three months, the plantation home of James Manual Earle in North Baldwin County. He also gave his famous speech rallying his troops from “Jackson Oak” at the now abandoned settlement of Blakely, Baldwin County, Alabama which is a National Historic Site.
