US President Donald Trump addresses the nation on Iran strikes on June 21, 2025. Carlos Barria/AFP via Getty Images
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—A few days ago, we celebrated Juneteenth representing we were out of slavery! I don’t feel much like what Juneteenth declared itself to be with Trump in office. We’re still facing the highest level of racism most of us have ever seen. He is destroying our history—demanding that it not be taught in schools. He’s refusing to acknowledge what DEI is. To a normal person the words Diversity, Equity and Inclusion would be great things, but not to Trump and his minions.
He’s all hyped up to sending the sons and daughters to war–the very people he’s demeaning while denying them equal opportunity to live free in America. He’s eager to send them off to a war from which they likely will not return. He’s making a game of it by telling us he’ll decide in two weeks if he is sending the very young people he is denying opportunities here in America.
He is touting his plan to decide in two weeks. We the American people are kept waiting and wondering while he insults his own Secretary of Intelligence, a White woman, Tulsi Gabbard. In disbelief, I heard him say, “I don’t care what she says!” and what she says is wrong.”
This sounds like even the White women who voted for him have a problem enjoying respect. Poor Christi Noem, another White woman, Secretary of Homeland Security, finds herself in the hospital after seeing some of her staff shockingly manhandle U.S. Senator Alex Padilla who was just doing his job! I doubt that Trump sent Secretary Noem even a “Get Well” card! That shows a lack of respect for White women again when most of them voted for him!
Then there were the “No Kings” protests all over the country, and I’m told the protests were 20 times larger than support by key friends of his. We saw all those vacant seats along the route of his parade—claiming equal honors with our Military for 45 million dollars of taxpayer money.
I haven’t heard military Generals coming to Trump’s defense for this war he seems to be heading toward when nobody has tried to attack America! Why? Do you think he listens to anybody who knows what war is? If I remember what I read, Trump and his family dodged serving in our military!
You’d think he at least heard of Sherman who warned “War is Hell” and “some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!”
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman said “I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.” He too said, “War is hell.”
Many of our people were already living in hell in Trump’s version of America. Before he was elected, we had begun to see a glimmer of what looked like justice. Now, this man has set us back in every imaginable way! Waiting for somebody else to help us is out of the question. We must elect people to stop his madness. We can’t do it with certain Democratic leaders fighting each other and too many are doing just that. Instead, we should be working together and using all of our energy to at least loudly voice our objections to what many Republicans are not doing to save our democracy.
We are out here on our own, except for the people who led and participated in the “No Kings” events while Trump was practicing how to become a real dictator. If he remains the dictator he wants to be, we can forget celebrating Juneteenth again because we’ll be right back in slavery. He’s already trying to cancel Juneteenth!
(Dr. Williams is President of The Dick Gregory Society.)
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