White Lilac

White Lilac

[Photo By: KPA]

Lake Shore Forest

Lake Shore Forest

[Photo By: KPA]

Fireworks!

Fireworks probably from Port Credit, on Lake Huron, as viewed from my window.

Victoria Day.

Spring Bloom

 

Spring Bloom [Photo By: KPA]

Food for Thought

Here, on a discussion on wheat, wheat exports, American (and Canadian) farms and farmers, Tapper asks this question (posted on May 15, 12:35 am):

Is The West still the West? If traditional liberal Western values are replaced by wokeness, if truth, beauty, and goodness are replaced by diversity, equity, and inclusion, are we still The West? Or has this brain parasite only infected our non-Christian, self-declared elite and the half-wits who trail behind them licking up the crumbs they drop?

POV, PBS, BPM and Beshir

I sent a similar email (to the one I sent to POV on PBS) to Black Public Media, which is a co-presenter of Jessica Beshir's Faya Dayi on PBS.

Here is the email:

To: Carol Bash, Diane Carr-Joseph, Leslie Fields-Cruz, Denise Greene, Eboni Johnson, DeLynda Lindsey, Alisa Norris, Lisa Osborne, Kat Walsh, Qiona Woffard, Cheryl D. Fields, Deniese Davis, Valerie Williams-Sanchez, Antoinia Carew-Watts, Eva-Marie Malone, Samantha Abrams, Guy-Max Delphin, Darryl Ford Williams, Steve Hissam:

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Dear Black Public Media:

I would like to bring to your attention a "documentary" that POV is airing in August, 2022, of which your organization is a "co-presenter."

Faya Dayi, the "documentary" film by Jessica Beshir, has a backstory that neither she nor other "main stream" media and news outlets will present.

Faya Dayi is a contentious film presenting the ideology and POV of insurgent anti-Ethiopia Oromos, including Jessica Beshir.

Please find here my published article on Faya Dayi, and my views and commentary on Beshir, her background, and her intent, at my website: Art and Commentary by Kidist Paulos Asrat. And here, my assessment of Beshir's links to American Blacks, with whom I believe she doesn't truly belong.

This will give you the backstory which Beshir and her propagandists will never provide

Sincerely,

Kidist Paulos Asrat

Artist, Writer, Cultural Commentator

POV, PBS, Beshir - At least they're reading my email

POV <feedback@pov.org>

To: cameralucidas@yahoo.com 

Thank you for contacting POV. 

This message is confirmation that we have received your email. 

We greatly appreciate you taking the time to give your feedback. Every message is reviewed by our staff. Due to the volume of messages that are received, we are not always able to respond to each message individually. 

This email came soon after I sent out this one, where I alert the POV-PBS crowd that: Faya Dayi is a contentious film presenting the ideology and POV of insurgent anti-Ethiopia Oromos, including Jessica Beshir.

I didn't mention this in my posting, but the POV's Faya Dayi screening is "a co-presentation with Black Public Media.

Who are these people?

The tell us:

For more than four decades, BPM has addressed the needs of unserved and underserved audiences. BPM continues to address historical, contemporary, and systemic challenges that traditionally impedes the development and distributions of Black stories.

As I wrote in my published article on Faya Dayi, and Beshir's ideological and political stand, Beshir has teamed up with the Black Lives Matters crowd, and it is no surprise that she is picked up by the BPM organization.

I wrote  my article on Beshir's insistence on "oppression" of these Oromo peoples of southern Ethiopia:

At a time of unprecedented reconciliation, when the Prime Minister of Ethiopia is a half-Oromo with a Muslim father, and who was re-elected through a nation-wide, transparent, world-viewed campaign, Jessica Beshir remains bitter and vindictive.

And I write continue:

Beshir represents non-Western individuals living in the West, who manipulate cultural and financial organizations through "racist" fear-mongering, to make their anti-America/Anti-Canada work, and who intimidate  white and other Western civilization's allies, politicians, artists, etc., into acquiescence

Her message is: American is bad/Canadian is bad. Racism is their ultimate crime. They should pay for it.

This, in turn, is her exact position on the civilization builders of Ethiopia, the Amhara, and their "crimes" of "oppression" and "ethnic discrimination."

A Compliment

Here is a photo of a "viewer" of my Ontario Views exhibit at the Mississauga Central Library (links here and here).

I asked the woman if I could take a photo of her as she was working/reading in the space provided under this exhibit. 

"What do you think of the paintings?"

"They remind of the lake and bay region where we used to go" she replied. She especially liked this one.

Bay with Lake

That was a great compliment. I had got it right!

Letter to POV at PBS on Beshir

To: Justin Nagan, Chris White, Nikki F. Heyman, Nicole Tsien, Sophie Harari, Nicky Cook, Theresa Navarro, Alun Lee, Lana C. Marilyn, Alexa Bowers, Matisse Bustos-Hawkes, Michelle Rivera-Gravange, Asadullah MUhammad, Courtney Cook, Aqiyla Thomas, Rachel Friedland, Chris Plant, Michael Isip, John Bredar, Juanita Anderson, Zain Habboo, Jane Hirt, Maori Holmes, Anjali Kumar, Danielle Lee, Kellie Castruita Specter, Joi Thomas, Beth Viner, Ann Tenenbaum, Kristal Choi, Erika Dilday, Asadulllah Muhammad, Theresa Navarro, Chris White, Magboob Alam, Opal H. Bennett, Alexa Bowers, Jessica Brown, Matisse Bustos, Robert Y. Chang, Courtney B. Cook, Nicky Cook, Betty Cordero, Rachel Friedland, Anna Graizbord, Livia Huang, Anthony Yooshin Kim, Annick Laurent, Kerry LeVielle, David Nanasai, Emily Rogers, Robert Saiyer, Carmen L. Vincencio:

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Dear POV:

I would like to bring to your attention a "documentary" that POV is airing in August, 2022.

Faya Dayi, the "documentary" film by Jessica Beshir, has a backstory that neither she nor other "main stream" media and news outlets will present.

Faya Dayi is a contentious film presenting the ideology and POV of insurgent anti-Ethiopia Oromos, including Jessica Beshir.

Please find here my published article on Faya Dayi, and my views and commentary on Beshir, her background, and her intent, at my website: Art and Commentary by Kidist Paulos Asrat. This will give you the backstory which Beshir and her propagandists will never provide.

Sincerely,

Kidist Paulos Asrat

Artist, Writer, Cultural Commentator

Point of View on PBS: Beshir's Failed Attempt into Mainstream TV

I promised I would update my web with Jessica Beshir's exclusive, limited film Faya Dayi, which got recognition in obscure film festivals and screenings and which the the majority of the world doesn't know about.

Well, Beshir is bragging about her film coming on PBS's POV.

Now, do YOU watch POV, on PBS? 

Isn't there a myriad of other locations on television channels which could program this "documentary" to reach the billions that watch TV? Why not somewhere on ABC (or is it NBC) which airs 60 Minutes. And even CBC would get a larger crowd. But PBS?!

I do once in a while remember that POV ("Point of View") is part of PBS, and often, after skimming through the credits and descriptions of these videos, I rarely watch them. So, imagine, if I, a student of film, can't even be bothered with their often (always) biased films usually demeaning and downgrading American society and culture, let alone watch a film that is crafted to demean and downgrade another society, the Christian Amhara of Ethiopia and by anti-Ethiopia Oromo secessionist Beshir. l discuss all this in my published article as well as others I've posted on this site. You can find them through my "search" box using a combination of "Faya Dayi" and "Beshir."

Beshir is too clever for words, and she is preparing her loyal, ignorant, audience for future projects. I already predicted this. She needs money, and her various 5-digit $ prize money for Faya Dayi will barely cover her accumulated expenses, including keeping up her smart Brooklyn apartment.

 Via The Thinking Housewife:

In the Womb 

BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS here on the symbiotic relationship between fetus and mother:

When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called ‘fetal-maternal microchimerism.’⁠

For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades.

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It doesn't require scientific investigation to know this. Mom's children are "my babies" throughout her life. 

"The System is Not going to impose and enforce Christian ethics for Christian reasons"

Via Bruce Charleton's Notions 

Friday, 6 May 2022 

 

The System is Not  going to impose and enforce Christian ethics for Christian reasons

 

If we understand the demonically-led nature of the global totalitarian System; we will not fall into delusions about specific policies that seem to favour Christian moral principles - and we will recognize them as the traps they certainly are.  

In the first place, there is a profound asymmetry about Good versus evil policies: it is much more difficult to accomplish Good policies. This because Good is attempting to build in harmony with divine creation; while evil is against divine creation, and any form of subversion, damage or inversion of creation counts as evil. 

It is hard to build and maintain any functional entity - but trivially easy to destroy functionality; very difficult to be an engineer, very easy to throw sand into functional machinery. 

Evil policies can therefore be of many, many kinds. They are almost-never upfront evil; almost always the evil is disguised but overwhelmingly dominant. 

Evil policy can have surfaces or mixtures of upfront 'good intentions' masking underlying covert evil; can be short-termist Good locally - but evil over times and more widely; and evil policies may be Good--tending in some material sense, but actually being-done for evil motivations (and encouraging evil motivations) such that evil is what will eventuate. 

This is why it is so difficult actually to do good through politics - because the System is so thoroughly corrupted. 

For instance; in 2016 the English people made some attempt to do Good by voting overwhelmingly for Brexit; but the political process was utterly negated and dissipated by the hostile System; so that after years of fudge and under-the-table wrecking, the result was 'Brexit in name only' with near-zero perceptible change and absolutely zero detectable benefit.  

When it comes to Christian morality, it is simple foolishness to suppose that The System will reintroduce Christian values, and will enforce them. The System is anti-Christian root and branch; and White Christians are the only wholly reviled scapegoat social grouping. 

When any superficially pro-Christian policy appears to emanate from The Establishment; we should be confident that it is In Fact intended to harm Christians; and that the System itself will ensure that this is what happens. 

Since this is a negative goal, there are innumerable ways in which The System can attain its destructive objectives - far too many ways to be detected and defeated by excluded and disempowered Christians. 

Therefore, if Christians want to do Good, it must originate and be done outside The System, and Not reliant upon the support and cooperation of The System. 

Anything that comes From the System will be hostile by intent, and in its implementation.

The evil of The System absolutely needs to be recognized by Christians; or else we will stupidly continue to collude in our own destruction - as has been happening for decades and continues to accelerate. 

[KPA: Comments follow article]

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Swan Lake

Two Swans

[Photo By: KPA]

Two beautiful white birds were floating around the shoreline at Lake Ontario a couple of days ago.

I missed these majestic birds, who've had poems and ballet created in their name, and even a star constellation.

Multiculturalism and Trauma (Take Two)

I think I just arrived at an insight (although I am sure others have talked about this in various forms, as so have I).

Multiculturalism runs on trauma!

What else are all these people supposed to experience, after removing themselves from their familiar, AND comfortable places (even if they were poor and destitute, at least they had a place where they COULD BE poor and destitute - whereas here they are just some burden to society).

So, imagine all these hundreds of thousands of traumatized people. How do they live an function in a society, a Canadian society?

One of their (perhaps the only, and a powerful one, a defensive strategy), is to BLAME THE PLACE! To blame Canada! Canada becomes this racist, anti-human place, into which they could not "integrate," nor could their Canada-born children.

Canada has done nothing to immigrants (from non-Western countries). It has given them a plethora of assistance, from money, to special recognition, to elite status.

Yet, still, they hold a deep-seated grudge. They couldn't rise to to occasion. So, they cry Wolf! Racists!

More on this later...

Traumas and Multiculturalism

I wrote about Mississauga artist Asma Arshad Mahmood here (Asma Arshad Mahmood Art Gallery of Mississauga Curator Contender), where I discuss Mahmood's guest curatorial exhibition Lotus of Thanks, dedicated to the "frontline workers" of the COVID "pandemic":

Mahmood's four-part exhibition which she titled "...till all are healed," is  on now at the AGM, and works in the series Flowing River, Lotus of Thanks are by local artists whom she asked to paint thanking frontline workers. These works were up for auction to raise money for the pandemic's frontline workers: "to both say a broader thanks and provide income for local artists."

Part of my discussion was on Mahmood's cultural bias where:

The majority of the entries, 20 of the 27 (74%), of the works exhibited were by South Asians, with two white women who have South Asian last names - and are South Asian by extension.

"Lotus of Thanks" is an odd choice for a title. But while Mahmood is Muslim, she interacts with the Indian subcontinent's general culture, where the lotus flower is important (here is a photo of her and her husband after the Hindu festival Holi). 

I got an email alert for updates on painting sales for this auction. 

There is only ONE sale, with only one bid, at a generous $1,000 (the starting auction price was $100). And this by a non-Mississauga, non-"South Asian," resident - Madeleine Lunney. As far as I can find out about Ms. Lunney, she is (a White Woman Savior?)...

Working to create a more just and inclusive world free of poverty and violence. I want to continue to work with people I admire on projects that make a real impact. I am passionate about getting more people excited about what the community/non-profit sector is doing and why it matters.

Lunney runs a consultation firm to "help Canadian and international non-profit organizations."

And here it is, the $1,000, the only, bid, and bought: Birds of Hope by Thaniyat Siddiqui.

 

 

Mahmood's "Lotus of Thanks" auction tanks.

Mahmood runs through the Mississauga landscape with a frenzy of activities, imprinting her Muslim/Indian/Pakistani culture, as though she is entitled to the place, however effusive she may appear at times.

There is a telling interview of her on a documentary films her brother, Arshad Khan's confessional. I found Abu completely by chance on the documentary channel. I recognized the name Arshad, and watched the whole program.

Arshad Khan is a Montreal-based "South Asian" homosexual. Somewhere near the middle, Arshad talks about his family, and in particular one who "immigrated" to Canada, bringing with her a stream of relatives, including him.

This is none other than Asma Arshad Mahmood. 

Khan talks about being molested by male family members while he was a young boy (a toddler), which set off years of molestation. His tragic story finally culminates with him seeking solace in "consented" male molestation - as a homosexual.

Mahmood appears in the video, where she shockingly reveals how she herself was molested, by unidentified male family member, when she was also a very young girl.

This molestation was known by the family at large, including Abu's wife, but was kept hidden, and quiet, to prevent public humiliations of these seemingly upstanding members of the Pakistani community.

I wrote of Mahomod's strange paintings, with unidentifiable figures, their faces muted and "hidden."

Surely, this is a reaction to her trauma.

And I wonder in what other ways this trauma manifests itself, besides her frenzied activities to bring "art" to Mississauga: the art and culture she left behind in the country that betrayed her.

This multi-culti depository that Canada has become brings us such people as Mahmood, whose inner turmoils we can only begin to fathom as they are (may be) revealed in discreet confessionals meant for minuscule audiences. I happened to be on of the tiny percentage who caught her words.

I was not wrong about my assessment of her paintings:

Mahmood's paintings are ephemeral sketches of barely-there people.

Above is Mahmood's untitled painting: a dark image suggesting night, where a male figure lies next to and holds (with giant fingers) an unidentifiable, obscured (blacked out) object, which he is also looking at.