{"id":7132,"date":"2025-06-01T00:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T00:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:56:34","slug":"those-first-100-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7132","title":{"rendered":"Those First 100 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

by E. Faye Williams<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Those first 100 days for the orange man do not look good. Of course, he\u2019s got his underlings out trying to clean things up \u2014 talking about what\u2019s going to happen, rather than explaining what\u2019s actually happening now. They prefer to keep the American people and the world hanging on with promises of a better day, but the reality isn\u2019t promising.<\/p>\n

I have a feeling that over the next 100 days, we\u2019ll hear the same old story about what he\u2019s going to do, while his dictatorship keeps rolling along. Meanwhile, the American people gain nothing. He\u2019s no longer offering ideas for solving problems \u2014 just decisions that negatively impact lives, without presenting solutions.<\/p>\n

A full 59% of people say the economy has worsened under him \u2014 meaning countless lives have been destabilized. Polls show people are afraid, and rightfully so. Thousands have lost their jobs suddenly \u2014 many for the first time. Their retirement savings have plummeted. Every trip to the grocery store feels like a financial strain. Like many, I\u2019ve stopped buying certain items. What happens to those who have to keep buying essentials that now exceed their means?<\/p>\n

His party claims to hold the banner on family values, yet this immigration crackdown is shattering families. People are being grabbed off the streets or dragged from their homes without warning. Even children born here \u2014 American citizens \u2014 are being forced to leave when their parents are deported without due process. That\u2019s not a value; it\u2019s cruelty.<\/p>\n

Where did all these unqualified, uncaring people come from \u2014 those he\u2019s appointed to crucial positions? Most have little to no experience and are just doing whatever he tells them. Some may be decent people deep down, and I hope they are, because that would mean there\u2019s still a line they wouldn\u2019t cross.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Republicans see how harmful his policies have been to regular Americans? Don\u2019t they care? Didn\u2019t they read Project 2025 before voting? They were warned. Now they\u2019re watching him dismantle everything in real time. He\u2019s already damaged our economy and alienated allies worldwide.<\/p>\n

Now, he wants more women to have babies \u2014 presumably white women and a few others \u2014 but Black women? We didn\u2019t vote for him, and we knew better. We believed him when he showed us who he really is. Meanwhile, a highly competent woman ran against him, yet our rights \u2014 civil and human \u2014 have never been on his agenda unless it was to attack them.<\/p>\n

We are witnessing the unimaginable: confrontations with courts, judges being arrested, laws changing unilaterally. And in the midst of it, we have someone in the White House who acts like he\u2019s King of the United States. He uses vulgar language when speaking of foreign leaders and claims they\u2019re coming to America to kiss a certain part of his body. He no longer talks like a president, but like a man who believes he rules the world.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s punishing institutions that won\u2019t end DEI \u2014 even targeting Harvard. He\u2019s asked the Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship. He\u2019s expanded executive powers far beyond what we\u2019ve seen. Because he doesn\u2019t suffer from the pain his decisions cause, we\u2019re just supposed to accept it. It doesn\u2019t matter to him that 41% of the people are afraid of what lies ahead.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s deporting students who\u2019ve studied here for years and want to contribute \u2014 people who love American values. Yet he pardoned more than 1,000 rioters who attacked our Capitol, injured officers, disrupted Congress and cost taxpayers millions. He slashed the federal workforce, cut off access to college and seized control of the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n

Poor Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana \u2014 no relation to the presidential family \u2014 tries to explain every move, but even he sounds lost. All I can say is: These have been the most chaotic, damaging 100 days in our history.<\/p>\n

Williams is president of The Dick Gregory Society (www.thedickgregorysociety.org).<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Published without changes from Washington Informer Newspaper<\/p>\n

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