{"id":13915,"date":"2024-10-17T22:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=13915"},"modified":"2024-10-17T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T23:02:08","slug":"a-letter-to-younger-black-menfrom-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/a-letter-to-younger-black-menfrom-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter To Younger Black Men\u2026From President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lafe Tolliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq<\/strong><\/em>
\nGuest Column<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

ANNN (A<\/u>ll N<\/u>egro N<\/u>ews N<\/u>etwork) \u201cWhen it is news about Negroes, hear it\u00a0first at ANNN!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lafe Tolliver, Reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My fellow Black men in America. I am posting this letter to you since I am<\/p>\n

hearing very disturbing polling news that a not insignificant number of you<\/p>\n

under the age of 50, are considering voting for Donald Trump to return to the<\/p>\n

White House!<\/p>\n

I was in utter disbelief and shock to hear such news and when I sought out the source of this disquieting information, I determined at that time that I owed it<\/p>\n

to Vice President Kamala Harris to assist her in her campaign of making sure Trump never returns as Commander-In-Chief.<\/p>\n

My frustration at hearing such grim poll news only informed me that we, the<\/p>\n

older generation, your forebears, have not done a successful job of transmitting to you the factual record that Trump is antagonistic to your well-<\/p>\n

being and he makes no bones about casting people of color in the most deplorable light.<\/p>\n

Rarely can we point to a time so fraught with political peril and physical danger than that of Donald Trump having the reins of power complete with<\/p>\n

a bevy of sycophantic cult-followers who are lockstep with him in making sure<\/p>\n

that you are hamstrung at every angle in upward mobility or being afforded<\/p>\n

justice and fair play.<\/p>\n

This letter should not be seen as a scare tactic but as a sober warning that Trump has shown and is continuing to show his true racist character when he takes so many opportunities to lambast people of color.<\/p>\n

He has even taken up the cudgel along with JD Vance of advancing the<\/p>\n

outrageous lie that Haitians who are on a temporary protected status in the<\/p>\n

City of Springfield, Ohio are eating cats and dogs!<\/p>\n

Trump would hoodwink you in believing that his slogan of Make America<\/p>\n

Great Again includes you at the table as an equal and valuable member sharing<\/p>\n

in the meal of freedom and economic security.<\/p>\n

Not so, by a long shot. Trump\u2019s first inclination is to depreciate you and<\/p>\n

your family and to assail you for being vermin and sons and daughters of<\/p>\n

Black b*tches!<\/p>\n

He knows nothing of Black history and does not care to learn or understand<\/p>\n

American history and Jim Crow and the slave trade and systemic racism that<\/p>\n

still exist in America.<\/p>\n

Under a second Trump presidency, your plight would remain \u201cyour\u201d plight and to expect Trump to ameliorate it, is fantasy thinking.<\/p>\n

Make America Great Again is a slogan for an orchestrated campaign to nullify your voting rights and to remind you of your place in society; and that being a second-class citizen.<\/p>\n

His vocal disdain for Black women is pernicious, almost palatable regarding<\/p>\n

Kamala Harris and especially so since she verbally \u201cemasculated\u201d him during their only debate.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be conned! Donald Trump is not your buddy! He has contempt for you<\/p>\n

and will say and do those things to make you believe that he is your champion.<\/p>\n

Ask the Central Park Five brothers. They will tell you of Trump\u2019s desire to have them all executed and when the evidence finally exonerated them, Trump offered no apology for his hateful tirade apology, just silence.<\/p>\n

Your fight is not just against Trump because he is only an avatar of the<\/p>\n

base of MAGA voters who has deposited in him their bitterness, grievances<\/p>\n

and feelings of powerlessness that Trump has channeled for them; and for<\/p>\n

which they are so profoundly grateful that they are willing to forego any critical<\/p>\n

examination of his policies or rhetoric just for their joy of \u201csticking it to the<\/p>\n

system.\u201d<\/p>\n

In closing, don\u2019t be duped by a charlatan who has no inner moral compass<\/p>\n

but treats people only as rungs on a ladder by which to achieve his goals, not yours.<\/p>\n

If you have not registered to vote, do so now before it is too late and if you are registered, make sure you know what documents you must have in order<\/p>\n

to vote at your proper voting precinct.<\/p>\n

Make America Great Again refers to a time that your parents and grandparents were of no importance and were expendable when so needed.<\/p>\n

Honor your family tree ancestors and their struggles by voting against a<\/p>\n

child-man who hungers for power only for himself.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Contact Lafe Tolliver at <\/em>tolliver@juno.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Note: the above letter is an imaginary letter from Obama.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column ANNN (All Negro News Network) \u201cWhen it is news about Negroes, hear it\u00a0first at ANNN!\u201d Lafe Tolliver, Reporter.   My fellow Black men in America. I am posting this letter to you since I am hearing very disturbing polling news that a not insignificant number of you under the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[258],"class_list":["post-13915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-opinion","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13916,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13915\/revisions\/13916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13915"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=13915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}