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   “I don’t care how many times they threaten me.  I will gladly leave this place knowing I did God’s Work,” says Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

      In a wideranging interview with a Time Magazine reporter this past April, Donald Trump said he expected victory in the coming presidential election, but he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of political violence if victory didn’t materialize. As he explained, “I don’t think we’re going to have that [political violence]. I think we’re going to win. And if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of the election.”

BLACK FOLK CANNOT IGNORE THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA

      In 2016, Donald Trump ran as an outsider, as someone who was able to criticize the political record of his primary opponents (although he primarily used insults and lies rather than real policy analysis). He of course attacked Hillary Clinton in the general election.

     America, America! We’re not exactly a democracy. We don’t vote for what we “believe in,” certainly not if we’re, uh, liberals or, good God, progressives. Our duty as citizens is to vote for the lesser evil. It’s kind of been that way my whole life, but more intensely so now than it has ever been – as the military budget keeps expanding, as racism regroups and becomes nationalism, as corporate power and military-industrialism morph into “just the way things are.” 

     There are currently three third party candidates for president: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein and Cornell West. All three candidates claim they are running to give voters a choice and a chance to voice their views. All three insist they are not “spoilers.” Let’s examine this.

     Nothing will convince Black Americans that we must go out and vote in the General Elections than to visit the National Park System and see things they can’t believe exist on Earth, much less in their own country. I know this from experience because since I first saw the national parks in 1995, few Americans have been more dedicated than me to ringing the bell. When I saw what had been hidden from me, I felt so overwhelmed and so indignant that I resolved I would not stop until EVERYBODY knew.

   However, I believe civilians on both sides of the conflict have suffered enough, cried enough, and died enough!

   It’s beyond comprehension that former president Trump, indicted on felony charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results, is receiving treatment as though he’s entitled to presidential white privileges. One could easily conclude that this current felony charge is more egregious than had he faced charges of first-degree murder or as an accomplice to Jeffery Epstein. Despite displaying narcissism and exploiting unconstitutional white privileges, he’s spreading filthy lies as contemptible as filthy flies.

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