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    Republican undecided voters often ponder the stark contrast between VP/Presidential candidate Harris, a figure with a stellar career and clear policy positions, and Trump, a convicted felon who continues to be a leading contender for the Presidency. Despite Harris’s well-established profile, Republican and undecided voters portray her as an unknown commodity. This narrative has exploded throughout the Nation as a blatant Racist’s Dog Whistle (RDW) mantra when compared to Trump’s controversial rhetoric.

      We need plans not concepts, vision instead of venom, hand up instead of hand outs, concern rather than callous disregard While I agree that it’s your thing Make your thing our best effort Frankly Speaking it’s not about Kamala being Black; it’s her being different.

        In recent days, Donald Trump and his Republican running mate, JD Vance, have doubled down on their false and defamatory claims about legally-admitted Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, thus churning up widespread fears, bomb threats, and school evacuations. Claiming that these migrants were destroying the American “way of life,” Trump promised that, if elected, he would order massive deportations. This statement echoed his astonishing promise, made during the 2024 campaign and previously, to seize and deport between 15 and 20 million immigrants.

       Your vice president, Dick Cheney, is among hundreds (by now, thousands?) of prominent Republicans who have publicly denounced Donald Trump as too dangerous a threat to our country to ever again be allowed anywhere near the White House. They all have said they are voting for Democrat Kamala Harris for president. It is time, sir, for you to join them. Let me explain.

     And division has increased exponentially over the last 30 years – along the same timeline as the decimation of US manufacturing. How divided we are as a nation is, perhaps ironically, one of the things Americans agree on most. A new Gallup poll released just this week shows a record-high 80 percent of Americans now say our country is deeply divided on core values.

      These days it seems like there has been a death of expertise. On social media, virtually everyone is claiming to be an expert. Where does that leave our trust in actual solid, provable, documented information?

Former President Donald Trump, known for his sharp tongue, has been quick to throw insults at Vice President Kamala Harris, referring to her as “nasty,” “vicious,” “horrible” and a “monster” in light of her recent presidential endorsement by President Joe Biden. But social media celebrity and best-selling author Pastor Jameliah Gooden has clapped back, explaining that as a Black woman, Harris is none of these things — she’s simply misunderstood.

       While we want to resolve the problem, we throw it to somebody else to do something. I know how Black women used to respond to that.  Lord knows I wish they were here now, but we can read about the courage of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, Chisholm and so many more who handled the “impossible things!” They put their own lives on the line, and as Forever First Lady Michelle Obama said “DO SOMETHING!”