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Mother’s Day: The Case For Marriage

Mother’s Day: The Case For Marriage

By N Oji Mzilikazi

Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 09 May 2, 2013

Alluyh hear dis thing, one foot Vizina pick up a ring

Mama dat is ting, one foot Vizina now get a ring

From de day she married, Vizzie get left-handed

Anything dat she had to do is

Is de ring on she finger she showing you

An if yuh hear she

I am Mrs. Joseph, I’m eh one foot Vizzie again

Call me Mistress Joseph, yuh have to put handle to meh name

Now ah have a legal husband, I’m a highfaluting ooman

Allyuh look at me, Vizzie,

Today ah reach in society.

“One Foot Visina” by Mighty Duke

Trinidad & Tobago 1969 Calypso Monarch song

Quebec is believed to have the largest concentration of unmarried couples in the world. This past January, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that unmarried couples in Quebec have no right to alimony/spousal support upon their separation — no matter how many years they’ve lived together…

 

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

 

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April Fools, Dunce

April Fools, Dunce

By N Oji Mzilikazi

Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 08 April 18, 2013

Centuries of Roman Catholic Church domination and absolutism left such indelible footprints on every aspect of Western civilisation, they’re oft invisible, an unconscious influence, but inescapable.

Civilization years were numbered from the birth of Jesus. Thus B.C. (Before Christ) covers the period before Jesus birth, and A.D. (Anno Domino) which has become obsolete, the years after. 2013 thus speaks to the number of years since Jesus’ birth…

 

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Reading Police, Police Unions The Riot Act Part 2

Reading Police, Police Unions The Riot Act Part 2

Coddled for too long

By N Oji Mzilikazi

Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 07 April 4, 2013

For all the complaints from chiefs of police, police unions, and police services across Canada about the weakness in our justice system, its lack of meaningful consequences, demands for minimum and stiffer sentences, and tougher parole eligibility policies, you’ll never hear them bytch about the sadism and backwardness of their officers, the pervasive culture of racism and bias that permeate their ranks, and the culture of impunity they enjoy…

 

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Reading Police, Police Unions The Riot Act

Reading Police, Police Unions The Riot Act

Coddled for too long

By N Oji Mzilikazi

Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 06 March 21, 2013

When I saw Yves Francoeur, head of the Montreal Police Brotherhood on television last week calling for the firing of city manager Guy Hébert, over a report that Hébert tried to get Montreal Police Chief Marc Parent fired, and for independence between police work and politics, I had to laugh – at the irony, his brazenness, the duplicity, the underlying politics, the idiocy.

And had flashbacks to Yves Prud’homme, a former head of the Montreal police brotherhood, who called for the removal of Police Chief Alain Saint-Germain. Also Mike McCormack, president of the Toronto Police Association (union), who called for the resignation of Sid Ryan, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour…

 

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St. Malachy Prophecy: Is The Next Pope the Last?

St. Malachy Prophecy: Is The Next Pope the Last?

By N Oji Mzilikazi

Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 05 March 7, 2013

“For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.”

Matthew 24:5, Mark 13:6

The surprised resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the first papal resignation in 600 years, has Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church in closed session to elect a new pope.

While 12th-century Irish saint, St. Malachy didn’t see that coming, he is reputed to have prophesied that the next pope would be the last – the end of the world would follow. The Church would suffer persecution, Rome would be destroyed, then the Last Judgment, Rapture, and eternal life with Jesus in the Hereafter.

It is worth noting that right-wing Christian Churches, Christian fundamentalists, and Christian Zionists believe that Jewish Islamic conflict is the prophetic scriptural concordat to usher in the apocalyptic Armageddon – the end of the world. So they send millions of dollars annually to fund Israeli settlements, and are vociferous in agitation for America and the “Coalition of the willing” to bomb Iran.

For all the morality and goodness God-beliefs and scriptures engender, the Roman Catholic Church was built on numerous scriptural and doctrinal lies, distortion…

 

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Parole Denied

Parole Denied

By N Oji Mzilikazi

Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 04 February 21, 2013

 

…Before you go around with, cohabitate or marry, try to gage the true personality, the mentality of your love interest. Study them. Check out both their personal history and that of their family. Don’t be confused by social standing, pedigree, bankbook balance, or them being handsome or beautiful. Parole denied is simply not a good place to be.