African Americans, Blacks, And Hands Off Protests
By: Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher
San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper
With the thousands of “Hands Off” demonstrations taking place daily throughout American cities and communities, it is disheartening to hear that a large number of African Americans are either refusing to participate or complaining that they have already done enough with the “Black Lives Matter Movement”. Some are even complaining that Whites were not as supportive as many Blacks are now saying they should have been. This is obscure. If one merely reviews the footage of many of the protests following the death of George Floyd, one will see that in some cases, White participation outnumbered Black. But none of that should be important today. The reality is that we all are and will suffer equally under the Donald Trump dismantling of America. We are all on this Ship called America, and the Ship is under attack and taking on the water of racism and authoritarianism. We can all join in and bail the waters of destruction with our presence, our voices, and our votes, or we can complain as too many are doing while the rest of us seek to save the Ship.
In case you have missed the big picture, here is what the President is doing to this Ship of State called America. He has removed most of the Inspectors General in government agencies under the control of the Executive under Article II of the Constitution; replaced the heads of Homeland Security, the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, Department of Defense; sought to destroy Social Security, the Department of Education, placed an incompetent as Head of the Department of Health & Human Services leading to the growing measles outbreak in seven states and the deaths of children without offering lifesaving vaccines; cut CDC staffing; withdrawn from the World Health Organization; cut provisions of food and medicine to third world people we have helped keep alive; and worst of all, imposed the arrest and deportation of people speaking out against his policies in spite of the First Amendment guarantee under the Constitution of Freedom of Speech.
Dr. King did not allow the existence of racism to stop the Civil Rights movement, and neither can we. Our motto must become: “No permanent friends, no permanent enemies, just permanent interest”. We must band together to remove from office those members of the House and Senate who have forgotten their Oath of Office and replaced it with silent allegiance to Donald Trump while he violates every Constitutional Principal possible during these First One Hundred Days because he knows a reckoning is coming if we keep up the public protest and the filing of lawsuits against every illegal action he and Elon Musk continue to take. If we must institute recalls against members of the House of Representatives and the Senate because we, America, can not wait for the Mid-Term elections, then we should use the power and energy of the Hands Off movement to initiate such action in every district where elected members refuse to carry out their constitutional duties such as taking control of tariffs as required by law; removing Elon Musk and placing the same check on the President’s use and abuse of the Executive Order that Republicans attempted to place on President Obama when they sought to control his ability to carry out the duties of his Office.
Let’s move from singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ to overcoming with our collective actions, in spite of our differences.
