Who could have imagined hundreds of our top military personnel being ordered to the United States to hear Donald Trump (a multi-time draft dodger) and Pete Hegseth rap about their personal grievances? They spoke about how they’re working toward putting even more people who proudly serve in the military in jeopardy because of their weight, personal grooming, and policies denying women and gay people the right to serve in combat—except Trump and his sons, who served nowhere.
It seems the Secretary of War and the President think their kind are the only ones truly capable of serving. They’ve decided that cities they don’t like—meaning those with large Black populations, Democrats, and progressives—can expect to be turned into military training grounds. It looks like they’ve already started doing that. Look at Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, and others threatened.
One assumes they’ll use the same tactics as those employed outside the country on what they call the “real enemy.” Those leading our nation now are embarrassing, and all of us should apologize to friends in other nations. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to work or travel abroad and meet people, I know you hang your head in shame as you listen to the absolutely horrible nonsense our high-ranking officials had to endure while sitting in that disgusting meeting, in which Hegseth and Trump performed at an enormous cost to taxpayers.
The real tragedy is that their performance has leaders in other nations laughing at what happened. We’re not perfect here in this nation and have never lived up to its promise for people of color—especially African Americans—as well as Hispanics, Native Americans, and now immigrants.
Trump’s family came here as immigrants. He’s married at least two women from other nations, all of whom were given every benefit offered to Americans who came here from somewhere else. Those of us who were born here work hard every day to perfect our union but have never fully enjoyed its benefits. Yet, we persist in hope and work to build this nation into what it professes to be.
While we obey the Constitution, we’re not benefiting from doing so, while Trump and his crowd ignore the rules and still prosper. Trump and his friends continue to discriminate against us and try to erase our history. They’re trying to keep others in the dark about all we have contributed to the prosperity of this nation while they continue to drain our coffers with foolishness, fire hard-working people, and deny the evil they protect, such as what Trump’s buddy, Jeffrey Epstein, did to ruin the lives of so many young white women.
I am a peace activist and appreciate the loyalty of the protectors of this nation. I don’t like them being summoned to sit stone-faced and listen to the disrespect they faced in that meeting. Along with the generals and admirals, we were subjected to complaints about women being unworthy of combat roles, about men (meaning Black men) who, for medical reasons, can’t be clean-shaven, and about claims that women and minorities are incapable of rising to the top without “special treatment.”
That meeting was evidence of disrespect toward those men and women, implying they don’t know how to do their jobs without the garbage spewed by a draft dodger and a man who didn’t know how to control his drinking and other bad behavior. Now they’re ordering highly experienced men and women who’ve learned from training and experience to do the real work of keeping America safe.
Trump says we’re under an “invasion from within” as citizens peacefully protest the wrongdoing of our so-called leaders; therefore, he has to send men who slam others roughly to the ground, take frightened children from parents, and more.
We can’t be too afraid to speak out!
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E. Faye Williams, Esq. is a civil and human rights activist, attorney, entrepreneur, former president and CEO of the National Congress of Black Women, and founder/president of the Dick Gregory Society. She is also host of WPFW-FM’s “Wake Up and Stay Woke!”
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