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     With Black health in alarming disparities, Black folks are waiting, and taking their time, and many may decide not to take the vaccine at all. Many people and many Blacks believe this is a personal choice, and no one should be pressured to take the vaccine.

     This insurrection was carried out with military precision. These thugs who descended on the Capital with weapons and zip ties, searched for lawmakers, ransacked, and destroyed their offices, urinated, and defecated the building, fought the police with baseball bats, flagpoles, and fire extinguisher. 

      America, if it had been able to see into the future, countless crimes, such as those committed by Ma Barker, Benedict Arnold, and yes, the infamous Charles Manson, probably could’ve been prevented. Everyone should remember Charles Manson. He’s the guy with a criminal past that wanted to succeed as musician but failed. Regrettable, he succeeded at attracting followers, especially vulnerable young women, who sought someone capable of reflecting their inner self. Manson used this manipulative skill to create the infamous cult called the “Manson Family.”

      The excessively punitive response to country singer Morgan Wallen’s racial slur illustrates how tyrannical history is repeating itself. What exists today is the same oppressive atmosphere that prompted 1946 German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller’s poem titled, First They Came.