By Dr. E. Faye Williams
Trice-Edney–A Quinnipiac University Poll just told us 2/3 of Americans look back and say they weren’t taught enough about the struggles and triumphs of Black Americans in school. Along came Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump came along and declared as long as they’re in charge, they aren’t going to learn about those struggles and triumphs.
DeSantis has defied Florida’s teachers 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, DC to see if they can find anything not pleasing to him!
Pete Hegseth’s Dept. of War took down Jackie Robinson’s picture, and he saw that it’s not just Black people who consider Jackie an American hero, but so do a lot of others. They put it back in place. To show how far Trump has sunken, he decided to remove President Barack Obama’s handsome photograph from the White House and placed his own photo there!
Trump is urging AG Pam Bondi to prosecute his political opponents. Why he felt the need to say that at the memorial service for the late Charlie Kirk after Erika Kirk delivered a heart-warming 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 hardcore Progressives Trump hates so much, applauded her—but not the so-called leader of the free world, Trump, who went on to show her he didn’t agree with her by saying he hates his opponents and delivered 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 untrue offensive stuff about others. He uses vulgarity frequently all day when young children are still awake.
After all the hate-filled rhetoric from Trump about Jimmy Kimmel (who was invited back to his show because Trump’s crown didn’t fit that case). It doesn’t fit New York’s AG Letitia James, California’s Senator Adam Schiff, Jim Comey or his daughter, and others Trump calls enemies.
Why this venom at a memorial service? Trump’s crown didn’t fit on Kimmel or the others, and the backlash has been furious!
Now we need all these good people who fought for free speech, to stand up for mail-in voters’ rights, innocent immigrant 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 the Supreme Court Justices (Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown Jackson) will be able to convince the balance 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, DC to take over our city. Many are embarrassed when we explain the statistics of some of their areas as having greater crime than DC.
They ask us to call their Senators to let them know. The men and women I’ve met are friendly and preferring to be in their own states working to make improvements. 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!
Dr. E. Faye Williams, President of The Dick Gregory Society.
