A Quinnipiac Poll told us two-thirds of Americans look back and say they weren’t taught enough about the struggles and triumphs of Black Americans in school. Along came Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, who declared that as long as they’re in charge, students aren’t going to learn about those struggles and triumphs.
DeSantis has defied Florida’s teachers’ efforts to bring Black History books to school and removed them from the libraries! Trump piggybacked on what he did. He’s decided to shut down anything that includes Black facts and is now threatening to send someone rifling through the African American Museum in Washington, D.C., to see if they can find anything not pleasing to him.
Trump is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political opponents. Why did he feel the need to say that at the memorial service for the late Charlie Kirk after Erika Kirk delivered a heartwarming message about her spouse? She referred to the man who murdered her husband and said she forgave him because the answer “is not hate.” “The answer is love,” she said.
Even we hard-core progressives Trump hates so much applauded her — but not the so-called leader of the free world, Trump, who went on to show Erika he didn’t agree with her by saying he hates his opponents and delivering a hate-filled political speech. He said, “I can’t stand my opponents. I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them.”
Trump claims to support free speech, but one must assume he means he supports it for himself because he says a lot of vulgar, untrue and offensive stuff about others. He uses vulgarity frequently all day when young children are still awake.
Now we need all these good people who fought for free speech to stand up for mail-in voters’ rights, innocent immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, Palestinian rights and reparations for Black people whose ancestors were enslaved.
MAGA people need to apologize to universities whose funds were cut, to South Koreans for sending workers back home, to women for taking away our rights in health care, for disrespecting so many brilliant Black women, and the list goes on and on.
It is my prayer that soon the brilliant trio of Supreme Court justices — Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson — will be able to convince the rest of the Supreme Court that our Constitution does not call for kings to govern America, and Trump should not be treated as one.
I speak often with these young National Guard members Trump sent to Washington, D.C., to take over our city. Many are embarrassed when we explain the statistics showing some of their areas have greater crime than D.C.
They ask us to call their senators to let them know. The men and women I’ve met are friendly and would prefer to be in their own states working to make improvements there.
As the mayor of Memphis said, if the federal government sent his city funds to make improvements, they could do it themselves. Trump prefers spending more tax dollars sending people away from their states to others to satisfy his ego.
E. Faye Williams is president of The Dick Gregory Society.
That who they wanted in DC. Now they’re unsatisfied with him. The drama isn’t over yet there’s more things to come. The next three-year will tell everyone the truth about him.