By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. (Ret)
Trice Edney Wire—Just in these few months that Donald Trump has been called President, I have on so many occasions wondered how he could be so cruel to people who least deserve such cruelty. He says he doesn’t even want to hear about affordability. He says the only problem is that Republicans don’t want to talk about the problems of affordability.
I don’t know if there is a problem with his ears because I talk with a lot of people and listen to a lot of reporters who do their homework, and not a day goes by that I don’t hear about how tough things are—and they sure don’t see it the way Trump does. He seems to care about himself or his family, making more money for themselves. That’s all!
Along with others, I listen to Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who is never afraid to tell us the truth about how bad things are for the average American. She says there’s no time for niceties when people are hungry, can’t pay their mortgages and are wondering where the next meal for their family is coming from. Yet, no matter what judges, labor leaders, ministers, and people who haven’t been paid for nearly two months are saying. Many were already living paycheck to paycheck.
They saw their president flying around the worldmaking sure he was enriching himself and his family, but stayed away from Washington, where he could have alleviated the situation instead of trying to extract money from those of us who are never paid fairly are in our neighborhoods trying to help our neighbors feed their families bydividing the little we have.
We’ve seen so much cruelty out of the mouths of Trump’s chosen ones– whether in the White House speaking for him or top-level staff who act like they don’t even know how much so many people are hurting.
Don’t they see Mothers on the evening news crying out for help while Trump holds million-dollar parties at his Florida mansion? He has the East Wing of the People’s White House with so much history, torn down, because he wants to build a monument to himself, while children starve as their mothers plead for help that is ignored.
I understand a person or two being cruel, but Trump has everyone around him so traumatized with his threats of punishment, so most don’t even try to reason with him. With few exceptions, we have too many useless leaders allowing Trump’s threats to punish them.
So few people are willing to checkmate him. We’re no longer a Democracy. Trump’s chosen friends are Russia’s Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s Kim and Hungary’s Viktor Orban. They feed him advice on how he can be more like them!
We don’t have the right to sit around and complain without doing something to change things. President Barack Obama reminds us that booing won’t solve anything. WE MUST DO SOMETHING: VOTE!
Dr. E. Faye Williams is president of The Dick Gregory Society.
