By Rosetta Miller Perry Donald Trump’s time as President should end immediately, not on January 20. His rhetoric and role during the disgraceful and treasonous insurrection that occurred January 6 in Washington D,.C. was the most recent and obvious indication he has no respect for the office of the Presidency, the rule of law, or the will of the people. He has repeatedly insisted since losing the election to Joe Biden by seven million votes that he was wrongly cheated of a landslide victory. Despite multiple attempts in courts that have been dismissed and no tangible evidence to support his…
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By Rosetta Miller Perry It seems that Tennessee Republicans delight in constantly showing the rest of the nation how backward they can be in public policy issues. Both senators who are anti-African Americans to their core sided with other white Republicans in demonstrating their allegiance to the cult of Donald Trump, endorsing his absurd and possibly treasonous efforts to overturn a fair election and retain power. Lee, the governor (a Trump clone) is squarely in Trump’s back pocket, more interested in devising laws to punish people for exercising their constitutional rights to protest than in doing anything to help move this backward state forward. So given that…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry Information has surfaced that Nashville bomber Anthony Quinn Warner’s girl friend tried to warn police in 2019 that he was making bombs. A police report has surfaced that the police went to Warner’s home once, but he either wasn’t there or didn’t answer the door. The police didn’t press the search. The reasons for that according to Chief John Drake were they had no probable cause to search, and he had no criminal record. I give due respect to the Chief John Drake but once again, that explanation strains credibility. If Warner had been Black and resided in my neighborhood, Haynes Manor,…
By Rosetta Miller Perry NASHVILLE, TN — The numbers don’t lie. Black, Brown and poor communities are suffering disproportionately— economically and physically —from the COVID-19 pandemic, the deadliest to hit the nation in a little over a century. That’s true locally and across the nation. But those communities don’t appear to be a concern in Tennessee, as the state’s distribution list for the first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine failed to include Meharry Medical College, which serves a large portion of Nashville’s minority and low-income communities. Dr. James Hildreth, the college’s President and a member of the COVID-19 task force,…
By Rosetta Miller Perry Black legislators are asking the same question the Tribune raised earlier: how did Meharry, a medical school very much involved in the fight against COVID-19 and providing frontline workers to battle it, somehow get overlooked by state health officials when it came time to distribute the vaccine to fight the disease? It’s even more galling because Meharry has been a partner with the city in administrating COVID-19 testing at various local sites, and has been nationally recognized as one of the nation’s HBCUs most involved in COVID-19 research and testing from the earliest days of the…
By Rosetta Miller Perry Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Black legislators are asking the same question the Tribune raised earlier: how did Meharry, a medical school very much involved in the fight against COVID-19 and providing frontline workers to battle it, somehow get overlooked by state health officials when it came time to distribute the vaccine to fight the disease? It’s even more galling because Meharry has been a partner with the city in administrating COVID-19 testing at various local sites, and has been nationally recognized as one of the nation’s HBCUs most involved in COVID-19 research and testing from the earliest…
By Rosetta Miller Perry One doesn’t have to be a billionaire or a stock market wizard to recognize strange fiscal policies and decisions, and Nashville’s city government continues to do things that are at best questionable, and at worse ill-advised. The latest was the announcement Thursday by Mayor John Cooper that the Metro finance office and his office would be filing Metro Council resolutions to authorize the refinancing of $629 million in general obligation bonds. The plan was approved by the state’s comptroller earlier in the week. These were both officially set to be filed last Friday. The Mayor maintains…
By Rosetta Miller Perry Bigots of all kinds for decades have long used buzzwords and code phrases to sanitize and justify their language and actions. Richard Nixon talked about “law & order” (as has Donald Trump) to excuse police misconduct and brutality, and make it seem as though public safety was incumbent on how much police could physically punish even demonstrators who weren’t violating any laws. Ronald Reagan talked about “welfare queens” in an attempt to make his harsh rhetoric against the poor seem as though he was merely speaking up for working people. Last week it was Utah Republican…
By Rosetta Miller Perry President-elect Joe Biden’s first wave of candidates for Cabinet and Cabinet-level positions are generally getting raves from the mainstream press for diversity and inclusion. Sunday night he announced the appointment of an all-women Communications staff. But so far there’s been a disturbing absence of Black male candidates for top-level, highly visible, powerful positions. A prime example of the Biden campaign recognizing the importance of having a Latino male presence was the selection of Alejandro Mayorkas to head the Department of Homeland Security. He’d be the first Latino in that position, and his appointment is being hailed…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry President-elect Joe Biden hasn’t yet taken office nor named any potential Cabinet appointees, but already the same Republican senators backing the ridiculous attempts of Donald Trump to remain President despite losing the election by millions of votes are once again showing their total lack of integrity and willingness to do anything except act like cult members. This week the worthless bunch warned Biden he would spark “a fight” if he chooses to nominate to his cabinet either Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders or former national security adviser Susan Rice. This is the same crew who blocked…