By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column
A national tragedy occurred this past week when a medium sized commercial plane collided with a large Black Hawk helicopter while the plane was approaching landing at the Reagan National Airport outside of the nation’s capital.
All parties involved in the air collision perished. Sixty-seven souls went into
eternity. Naturally, questions abound about how it happened and what was or were the causes of this tragedy.
What is even more tragic and now even appalling is that Donald Trump appears at a press conference and starts to blather, without any facts whatsoever, that the cause of the crash could be related to DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion principles) and, of course, Trump has to throw in for good measure, that both Biden and Obama policies caused this crash.
Think for a moment. There is a national tragedy, and the families of the deceased have not yet been notified of their pending losses and the several investigative teams are barely into the weeds on this case, but we have a
ignoramus of the first-degree assessing blame!
Why? Trump’s first order of any business is to see if he can shift or dump off any blame, remote or otherwise, on any situation that has him involved to someone else, preferably a Democrat and especially if he can cast aspersions on
the laudable concepts of D.E.I.
Get ready. The new whipping boy for anything that goes awry in society will be quickly laid at the feet of D.E.I. and those who support it.
D.E.I. is the new moniker for the slammed words of Affirmative Action. Trump, always playing to the cheap seats, will rant and rave about the dangers of D.E.I.
and if asked to explain its principles, he would just blubber on and remind
everyone about Hunter Biden’s laptop!
Be prepared for anything and everything that goes bonkers in Trump World
that the blame will be quickly assigned to D.E.I.
For Trump and his cult followers, D.E.I. is the new silent codeword for Black people, women, LGBTQ and people of color. When a Trumper says, “D.E.I.” is the culprit, what they are really saying is people other than White males are not mentally up to the task of being in positions of managerial or authoritative power.
For the ill-informed, D.E.I. simply expands the employment pool so that people who are normally excluded from even being considered for job opportunities are given a chance to at least sit at the interviewer’s desk and pitch their case.
D.E.I. does not give non-qualified people any points or extra credit to assume positions for which they do not or cannot meet the job requirements.
Trump’s false and outright lies about D.E.I. are regrettable because such gibberish
goes out into the internet airwaves, Fox News (?) and other outlets that do not hold truth close to their hearts.
The conflict and divisiveness that Trump engenders with his constant slamming of D.E.I. shows a willful ignorance born of his own racist traits of which he is utterly unable to shed.
When pushed to the corner, Trump will concoct tales of he is friendly with people of color, and he is the most racist free President ever!
Just think. Why is it that White people never turn the spotlight of D.E.I. on
their “own”? Simple answer: They are the gold standard for all things right, pure and holy and thus a White person is automatically perceived as being talented and qualified…for anything!
Even the clown car of potential nominees that are going through the congressional hearings show that many, many are woeful inept or not even
remotely qualified to assume such enormous positions of influence and power…but since they are ethnically White, most will pass muster.
MAGA if anything translates into making America white again as to all power and authority being pooled into the hands of White America…Black people need not apply. Trump is in good company with the likes of Theodore Bilbo, Lester
Maddox, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Woodrow Wilson and Bull Connor.
How could Trump even remotely state that through his common sense that
D.E.I. may have been the culprit of the air crash tragedy, while some of the facts are still sitting at the bottom of the murky Potomac River?
It is Trump’s hope that if he can pin the now slandered title of D.E.I. on anything that the Democrats do, he and the GOP can glide by and escape
scrutiny for their bizarre policies as per Project 2025.
In a day in which sanity should rule and reign, the likes of an RFK Jr., Kash
Patel, Hegseth, Gabbard and others would not even be allowed to carry water glasses into the hearing rooms…but Trump wants flunkies around him so that
he can rule the roost in his MAGA cult land.
Until and unless the Democrats come out of their knock down fever along with the few GOP senators who have not drunk the MAGA Kool-Aid, we are in for a few years of rough sledding with a person who wants to tear the house down because of his personal unexorcised demons.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at Tolliver@juno.com