“Presidents who sow democracy and peace are candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. Sowers of racism are worthy of America’s Grand wizard title.” John Johnson II 02/11/26
By John Johnson II
To metaphorically describe a president as “America’s Grand Wizard” is to deliver one of the most damning civic judgments imaginable. It means leadership has crossed the line from private bias into the active use of public power to legitimize, broadcast, and entrench racial hierarchy. This President is fully aware of the power of his words. Notably, Jan. 6, 2021, is the date of infamy.
The analogy recalls the historic ambitions of the Ku Klux Klan, yet modern dominance does not require torches or costumes. It advances through cameras, executive orders, law, and the relentless discipline of repeating lies.
Regrettably, people hear entire populations described as thugs, criminals, infestations, or animals. When people become less valuable, it quickly becomes simpler to justify treating them more severely. Then they are told that systemic racism is fiction while inequality expands in real time. Despite this contradiction, people begin to distrust their own eyes, memories, and experiences.
When a direction towards racism becomes undeniable, democracy turns toward its citizens with a demand that they would rather escape. Who is fearless enough to rightfully bestow this abominable title or to say, “Stop, you’ve gone too far?” Democracy without defender joins the list of abused victims.
Silence can shift from caution to complicity and avoidance hardens into endorsement. Racism dissolves integrity, hatred fuels vengeance, greed nurtures criminality, and narcissism shields ignorance. Yet strategic ignorance is equally as dangerous because it frightens those from criticizing a President’s immoral behavior or advising him not to usurp the U.S. Constitution. Shamefully, they prefer comfort and behaving as “mice,” rather than as men and women of integrity!
Is America better than this? Or is it only as good as its people? Can America shed the shackles of systemic racism, divisiveness, and discrimination? None of these human abominations can survive without a President and followers who subscribe to the dreaded “White Supremacy Ideology.”
Must the nation once again wait for innocence to accomplish what Cabinet Members refuse to attempt? Or will it take the voice of a young child, as in the fairy tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” to force the people to see instead of merely looking and to listen rather than just hearing? History is unsparing toward people who recognized racism and authoritarianism yet chose comfort over courage.
Given that this President is the most powerful man on the planet, he could close the nation’s divide, lower racial tensions, and advance his immigration policy with less cruelty and vengeance. But will he summon the prudence, humanity, and moral convictions to MAGA and inclusive for all Americans?
If a president refuses to offer an apology for racist rhetoric, a racist agenda, and does not work towards closing our divided Nation, he deserves the title “America’s Grand Wizard.” Without hesitation, the media, and the people of, for, and by this government shall bestow this title.
The insult of a title is not the ultimate danger. The greater peril is a public that sees the racist evidence accumulate and still refuses to name what it means.
YOU BE THE JUDGE!
