Less than 24 hours before the rescue mission had concluded and while bodies were still being dragged from the icy waters of the Potomac, President Donald Trump decided to handicap the reasons for the tragic midair collision that occurred on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, between an American Airlines Flight 5342 and U. S. Army Sikorsky UH—60 Black Hawk helicopter. President expert, who during the early stages of COVID announced that the virus would go away in a few weeks like the flu, and later, when COVID became a global pandemic, suggested injecting disinfectant as a cure, now announced in a very elaborate soliloquy that DEI was the cause of the air collision.
During his lengthy and imbecilic diatribe, he repeatedly mentioned that individuals working in the air traffic control profession needed to be highly intelligent and highly qualified, all buzz words that the most virulent racists use when trying to suggest that non-whites, females and especially African Americans are intellectually incapable of handling such tasks. But what were the facts that Mr. Trump left out of his lengthy impromptu presser.
For one, during the tragic air collision the position of Director of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), the person with chief oversight of all airline and aviation matters in the United States, was vacant during the night of the collision. How do we know this? When the newly sworn in Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy was asked at the press conference discussing the crash, who the FAA Director was, did not respond and walked away from the podium. Why did Sean Duffy have such a reaction and why did Donald Trump fail to mention this fact during his idiotic diatribe about DEI as the reason for the fatal accident.
Let me first suggest that whenever a white male with no morals or integrity does something wrong, he will often try to deflect the spotlight from himself and find some scapegoat. And in America the most convenient scapegoat has been the African American community. This scapegoating began almost immediately during Americas inception.
There were many attempts to justify the enslavement of African people by creating the narrative that Blacks were responsible for their own enslavement due to their own inabilities, deficits and deficiencies. It was further insinuated that Europeans did Africans a favor when they enslaved them and brought them to the “New World” and/or colonized them thereby “civilizing” them. One example of this twisted, vacuous reasoning, can be found in the fictional mental illness called “drapetomania” created by a quack physician named Samuel Cartwright. Placing his name and the word physician in the same sentence is itself a crime. However, according to the good doctor, Black slaves suffered from this phantom mental disorder, which he created, that caused them to constantly attempt to escape from the plantations where they lived. According to him any Black person that desired freedom and liberation from the oppressive, inhumane bondage of chattel slavery by running away, was driven by “drapetomania,” not the normal human desire for freedom. Therefore, slavery and the Fugitive Slave Laws that made it a crime for Blacks to escape from their plantations was justified because the slave’s deranged mental illness and his/her inability to accept that their slave condition was the cause of the problem.
The entire false socio-theological-academic-scientific framework created by the pseudo-intelligentsia of Europe removed the blame for the system of chattel slavery from White America and placed it upon Africans based on the false premise of Black socio-psycho-intellectual inferiority. This understanding served as the justification for the enslavement and colonialization of all peoples of color that were invaded and conquered by the European explorers as well as the 3/5th’s clause in the U.S. Constitution. It also laid the foundation for the precept of inferiority, that determined African Americans were not quite human in the eyes of the Constitution and their legal status. According to legal scholar, Leon Higginbotham, in his classic book Shades of Freedom he says, “when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery…it did not eliminate the precept of inferiority. Even much later, when the law abolished state-enforced racial segregation, it still did not eliminate the precept.” So Chattel Slavery and the enslavement of African people was not because of the racism, greed and exploitation of White Europeans but instead because of the inferiority of Blacks. And that same rationale continues to obtain as an excuse for white supremacy and the philosophy of Manifest Destiny, which says the white race was ordained by God to rule and dominate all other non-white races and nations of people.
I could spend the entire Blog recounting incident after incident where this has been done in American history to various non-white communities, and more specifically to African Americans, but time and space will not allow.
Instead, I will share the reason for this present attack. It is clear that Donald Trump knows the promises he made while campaigning for the presidency will never be delivered. He will not end the war between Russia and the Ukraine. He will not bring down inflation. He will not be able to legally remove all of the Federal employees that he claimed he would. And he will not be able to tackle the immigration problem that he promised he would eliminate. He didn’t do it during his first term in office. In his first term, he promised to build a wall that Mexico would pay for and never built it, nor did Mexico pay for what was built. So, then what does this mean? It means that Trump will have to find a scapegoat to divert America’s attention for his lies, inept failures and broken campaign promises for the next four years. And the scapegoat he will use will be Black Americans.
He already began his campaign against Black America before he was elected by attacking DEI, CRT, and Black History being taught in public schools. He constantly repeats anti—WOKE rhetoric and tropes and constantly demeans DEI. During his first term he attacked and dismantled the federal diversity training programs that were designed to address decades of racial, gender, and various other historic forms of discrimination that minority communities faced in the workplace. And mind you, these were “training” programs. And now in his new term of office he will use every opportunity to push his anti—Black anti—woke, Anti—DEI agenda in the minds of Americans whenever he has the opportunity; even when it is wildly irrelevant, outlandish, ill—conceived and out of place, with no reasonable or logical connection to the incident that has occurred such as the air collision on January 29.
Several fact checking organizations have already found that 78% of Air Traffic Controllers are male and 71% are white, so, what does DEI have to do with this air collision? What is Trump talking about and what is he hiding by bringing it up? I’m glad you asked.
Here is what he is hiding. Shortly after Trump took office, he fired the heads of the TSA, the Coast Guard and forced the entire Aviation Security Committee, to step down. These are all groups and personnel that would be vital to the airways and seas during a tragedy such as the one experienced on January 29. But they were no longer on the job and had not been replaced by President Trump when this tragic accident happened. But it gets worse. On the day of his inauguration, Mike Whitaker, Director of the FAA, left his position and when the air accident occurred no one was directing the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration).
So, the question is, when Trump was going on about DEI and claiming DEI had something to do with the tragic events on January 29, why did he never mentioned any of these important facts. Well, there is a reason he omitted this information.
On January 17, 2025, SpaceX, the Starship Rocket company owned by his billionaire buddy, Elon Musk had a failed rocket launch. Shortly after takeoff the rocket exploded in midair spewing debris across the Caribbean. According to reports, Musk was excited by the crash and described it as entertaining. But it was not as entertaining to the citizens of Turks and Caicos that took cover as flying debris from the rocket explosion came raining down to the ground near them. Nor was it entertaining to the FAA that had to scramble to divert dozens of commercial airlines, including JetBlue, American, Delta, Spirit and FedEx Cargo Jets. Commercial planes as far away as Qantas, South Africa and Australia were disrupted over the Indian Ocean due to the SpaceX rocket mishap. It happened the Thursday, January 17th, just before President Trump’s inauguration. The day after the SpaceX crash, Friday, January 18, the FAA grounded SpaceX’s starship program ordering them to determine the cause of the rocket’s malfunction before continuing rocket launches.
But this grounding by the FAA was not appreciated by Elon Musk the CEO of SpaceX who called for the FAA director’s removal. And three days later, on President Trump’s inauguration Mike Whitaker, FAA Director was gone. But this was not the first run-in that Musk had with the FAA and Mike Whitaker. In the fall of 2024, the FAA fined SpaceX $633,000.00 for safety violations during two previous Florida launches of its space crafts for ignoring safety rules and other requirements. When this happened, Musk went to his social media platform, publicly posted Mike Whitaker’s picture on X and called for his dismissal. Shortly after that Musk joined the Trump campaign and contributed a quarter of a billion dollars to the Donald Trump re-election effort. And after Trump’s election in November Musk was appointed as the director of the newly created office called “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency), a department whose sole purpose is to remove from government all restrictive elements that stand in the way regulations, safety procedures and accountability. And while making the government more efficient, it will also ensure that government regulations will not make corporations more efficient, less profitable and require them to spend more money on people than on products.
Having read everything mentioned above, does it seem strange to you that President Trump never mentioned any of these factors as contributing causes to the air collision on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Is it strange that during his DEI denouncements, Trump never mentioned dismissing the directors of the TSA, the Coast Guard and the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee days before the collision and not replacing them. Is it an odd omission that President Trump never mentioned that his billionaire buddy and newly appointed DOGE director, Elon Musk wanted the FAA Director Mike Whitaker removed, because the FAA was a thorn in his side and on the day of his inauguration, though he was appointed in 2023 to serve a five year term, he resigned. And while he was droning on and on about the qualifications that air traffic controllers need to do the job, he never mentioned failing to fill the vacant FAA Director’s position that his billionaire buddy wanted removed.
So, what did DEI have to do with his inept, lackadaisical, shoddy performance as president that left important positions in the federal government directly related to aviation and air safety vacant, though he knew he intended to clean the federal government house long before he was elected. It is clear, according to the facts, that the only person unqualified and incapable of doing the job that he was hired to do was Donald John Trump.
The only gross disability that has been revealed in this instance is a moral one. For the Bible says in 1 Timothy 6:9—10 NLT 9—But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. 10—For the love of money is the root of allkinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
It is evident to me that Donald Trump is debased, self-centered and driven by his obsessive love of money, as is Elon Musk and every other person that surrounds the President and refuses to correct him in his incessant attack of all people that are unlike him. But what we cannot escape is America’s long history of using African Americans as the object of its public ridicule and blame. It seems especially true when someone wants to deflect a tragedy away from their own ineptitude and failure by casting the blame on someone or something else. In this instance, it is becoming clear that most of the Executive Orders that Trump prematurely signed were ill—timed, ill—conceived, ignorant and/or lacking any sense of understanding of how government or institutions and organization’s function.
The reality is, If Black, Brown, Non—Whites, Immigrants and women suddenly disappeared, America would grind to a screeching halt. If the removal of DEI was truly implemented the federal government would close. The healthcare system would be crippled, and patients would die; nursing homes would become mortuaries, the food service industries would become garbage dumps as its food supplies would rot. Factories where canned and frozen goods are sealed, packaged and shipped would become ghost towns. The death and stench would become unbearable in the streets of America and If you thought COVID was a tragedy, the Night of the Living Dead would no longer be a Cable show but Reality TV.
I want to end this blog with three challenging cautions for our beloved President and those that support him. He said during his inaugural address that he believed God spared his life to lead the country. If he believes that is true, then the counsel of the Bible should be something that guides him and should arrest his conscience. He has no obligation to listen to me or anyone else, but he should listen to the word of God. For the Bible is clear that there are consequences when a person ignores correction, attacks the innocent and the weak, and when someone that has been treated well by others and repays that goodness with evil, that evil will always follow them and those whom they love. God always makes restitution and balances the scales of justice in His time.
So, I will conclude with three texts from the wiseman. Since he led a nation, his counsel should be more relevant to the president than anyone else.
Proverbs 15 10 NLT——Whoever abandons the right path will be severely disciplined; whoever hates correction will die.
Proverbs 14:21 NLT——It is a sin to belittle one’s neighbor; blessed are those who help the poor.
Proverbs 17:13 NLT——If you repay good with evil, evil will never leave your house.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
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