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The Real Steal: Trumpty Dumpty
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T rumpty Dumpty sat on the White
House wall Trumpty Dumpty had a
great fall
The Republican Senate and right-hand men Couldn’t put Trumpty Dumpty in the White House again
There is no doubt that had you and I done some of the things, former presi- dent, Donald Trump, Attor- ney Eastman, several Republican senators and representatives, Republi- can Committee leaders, and 5 former state and federal office holders did, we would have been in jail months ago.
th Listening to the January 6 Committee testimony last week should have opened closed ears and blind eyes to just how close we came to having former President Trump, his staff members, sitting Congress members, and previous
elected state and federal of- ficials steal the 2020 elec- tion. That was the REAL STEAL and TREASON.
Indeed, Trump was doing (stealing) exactly what he was accusing the Democrats of doing. Testi- mony given showed many laws were broken in at- tempts to unlawfully steal the election from the De- mocrats.
So far, the following are among potential charges (federal and state, that could be filed against Trump and his co-conspira- tors based upon more than 1,000 interviews and volu- minous pages of docu- ments: Criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States (already defined by a fed- eral judge); Spreading false and fraudulent information to the American public; Corruptly planning to re- place the Acting Attorney General with Jeffrey Clark to use the Department of Justice to verify Trump’s
false election claims; and Pressuring Vice President Pence to refuse the count or to delay the counting of cer- tified electoral votes.
Other potential charges include: Pressuring state legislators and other state officials to change election results; Instructing Repub- licans in at least 5 states to create and transmit false electoral slates to Congress; Inciting and assembling a violent mob to attack the U. S. Capitol; Failing to re- spond to pleas for assis- tance to protect the Capitol; and obstruction of Congress by interfering with Con- gress’s certification of the electoral votes for Joe Biden.
As you can see, numer- ous criminal acts took place that could have resulted in a real steal of the 2020 elec- tion. Congress needs to enact policies and proce- dures that can keep this from happening in the fu- ture.
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Harvard Reveals Ties To Slavery
cal/trade school training, 1,666 4-year college degree tuitions, or 1,000 full college degree tuitions for Black students to attend Har- vard as a form of reparations/compensations.
Among the findings of the study, research revealed that 70 slaves lived and worked on the campus for four of its presidents, many professors, school leaders, and the students between 1636 and 1783 when the Massachu- setts Supreme Court found slav- ery to be unlawful. “Harvard faculty members played a role in disseminating bogus theories of racial differences that were used to justify racial segregation and to underpin Nazi Germany’s ex- termination of “undesirable pop- ulations.”
Sadly, another faculty mem- ber collected human bodies in- cluding those of enslaved people to promote so-called race science at Harvard and other American institutions.
One of the faculty members, Louis Agassiz, commissioned portraits of enslaved people in an attempt to prove their inferi- ority. A lawsuit was filed by one of the descendants of a Black man’s portrait known as “Renty” to challenge Harvard University’s ownership of Reny’s likeness.
Wealthy plantation owners were linked to the school as donors and officers, five of whom the report says con- tributed 1⁄3 of the school’s funds. Both Harvard and its donors “benefited from extensive finan- cial ties to slavery through own-
ership of sugar and cotton plan- tations in the Caribbean and the South, through banking and in- vestment companies, through rum distilleries, plantation sup- pliers, and the textile manufac- turing industry.
The countries of Antigua and Barbados sued Harvard for repa- rations for the slave labor used by one of Harvard’s donors, (An- tiguan Isaac Royall, Jr.), who owned sugar plantations and funded Harvard’s law school.
A memorial to commemo- rate the enslaved people whose labor funded the law school was established. The school adopted the Royall family crest as its emblem, which was removed in 2016.
However, Harvard was also linked to the abolitionist move- ment, fighting for the freedom of slaves.
In 1850, three Black men were admitted to Harvard’s medical school, but were soon expelled because of complaints by students and alumni. Be- tween 1890 and 1940, 160 Blacks attended Harvard with the Black population continuing to grow ever so slowly to 11-18% today.
While its relationship with Black students is described as “complicated “by one source, Harvard is trying to make amends for its past. Other schools and the more than 20 in- surance, investment, banking, railroad, textile, and sugar man- ufacturing companies should step up and redress their ties to slavery as well.
Lawsuitwasfiled
because Harvard profited from using photos of slaves.
While at least 127 state legislatures have passed or proposed bills that
censor discussions of race, slav- ery and gender in public schools
and universities, the quest to re- deem or compensate for ties to the legacy of slavery continues among private schools and uni- versities. Recently, Harvard Uni- versity issued a 134-page report on an investigation that began in 2019.
The study and report were overseen by a committee of fac- ulty members appointed by the school’s president, and is enti- tled, “Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery.”
Harvard joins a list of at least 13 other private colleges and uni- versities that have admitted their ties to slavery.
Taking its admission and findings of ties to slavery to a new level, Harvard dedicated $200 million to redress past wrongs.
The funds will be used for scholarships to students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), to fund exchanges between Harvard professors and teachers from HBCUs, and other partnership activities with HBCU’s.
In general, the $200 million fund could provide more than 13,330 to 40,000 people techni-
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