2 weeks Ago
A recent letter to the editor was right: The new horo-scope column in this paper dispenses advice with sometimes creepy specificity. For instance, my horoscope for Thursday ominously warned those of us who were born under the sign of Taurus: "Steer clear of political and religious discussions today, because they could be nasty. Likewise, discussions with parents, bosses and the police could turn angry quickly.
" Unfortunately, given the job I hold, "political and religious discussions" are inevitable and unavoidable. Especially after a historic election. As for the police, well, I followed the speed limit, used my turn signal and avoided committing any major crimes.
There have been no tickets or arrests. So far. Anyway, that was Thursday and this is Sunday.
Maybe I'm out of the woods. So, here are some thoughts on what happened on Election Day: People are also reading..
. With bitter certainty, Donald Trump railed about voter fraud in Pennsylvania. At 4:30 p.
m. on Election Day, Trump grumbled on his social media site, Truth Social, that there was "a lot of talk about massive cheating" in Pennsylvania. After his resounding win there, not a peep.
Trump is many things: tenacious, inventive, undeterred, fl amboyant. Honorable is not one of them. As a Black man, I don't get growing support of my demographic for Trump.
I can't get past: ■ His embrace of Confederate fetishism. ■ His record of housing discrimination in New York. ■ His tacit endorsements of police brutality.
■ His call for the now-exonerated Central Park Five to be executed (for which he has never apologized). ■ His bogus allegations that Barack Obama wasn't born in America. ■ His criticism of NFL players for taking a knee in protest and his vilification of the San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick for inspiring that movement.
(I'm still waiting for Trump and company to tell the 49ers' Nick Bosa to shut up and sack quarterbacks after Bosa crashed a live TV interview wearing a MAGA hat.) ■ His antipathy toward police reform. ■ His tasteless questioning of Kamala Harris' race.
■ The Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs nonsense. ■ And so on. I understand that no group is a monolith.
I also understand that Black, Latino and Muslim voters are often taken for granted by Democrats and have to be more transactional with their voting. But does that mean buying what Trump is selling? No way, no how, says this brother. As Trump has dramatically proven, it is possible to rise from the dead politically.
I don't see that happening for Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.
Robinson didn't rule out a comeback in election night remarks after his failed bid for governor. Good luck with that. Many white voters abandoned him; most Black voters never warmed to his angry brand of self-hate.
Robinson was the first Black lieutenant governor in North Carolina and that's all he'll be. One of the winners in the Nov. 5 election was not on the ballot.
High Point University's founding law school dean, Mark Martin, can breathe easier. Now that Trump has won the White House again, most of the president-elect's legal problems will evaporate, most notably the Jan. 6 case.
That means nagging questions about Martin's possible role as an adviser in Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election will likely fade with time and he will wriggle away from ever truly having to address what he did and didn't tell Trump. If ever there was a case study in clueless voting, it's the outcome of the race for soil and water conservation district supervisor in Forsyth County, in which Edward Jones beat Lei Zhang with 64% of the vote. Jones, a self-described former rapper, tallied nearly 93,000 votes.
And Zhang, a professor at Winston-Salem State University with actual credentials in science and conservation, got only 52,000. In an interview with the Journal, Zhang he cited his "computer and project management skills" and "experience in advocacy for environmental issues." Yes, you may say, but Jones has life experience, telling the Journal he was shot 37 times and was in a coma for eight years.
A UNCG student labeled some water fountains on campus as "Coloreds Only" or "Whites Only" and then stirred fear and anger by posting photos of them on X in advance of the election. The student was trying to motivate others to vote, we're told. Good cause.
Horrible tactic. Who needs to make bad things up when we've got real life? Get local news delivered to your inbox!.
