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Today the President Tweeted, "As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?  In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!" Don't get me wrong, he Tweet Stormed many other Tweets over the weekend and today, but this is the one that stood out to me the most.  Why?  Because the President wants to make it clear to the world that he is above the law.  The President wants everyone to know that he feels he has absolute power in his position.  That is not OK.  The President is not Omnipotent or above the law. With the Pardon talks lately it has seemed as though Trump has been sending a message to those who are under investigation to ride it out and he will pardon them.  That is a way of controlling the narrative and stopping those with dirt on you from sharing t...

It's funny.  Racism is that issue we have faced as a nation for as long as we can look back in our history.  Our nation was built on the racism that existed hundreds of years ago.  Look at slavery.  This is something that has stuck with future generations of African Americans who know that in many cases, the only reason their families ended up in this country was because of the slave trade.    Yes, things have become better at times, but at other times Racism simply finds its way to the forefront of the news and media again and again.  Here we are in 2018, and just over the past 2 months we have seen black men getting the police called on them at Starbucks in a situation that likely would not have occurred if those men were white.  We have had a black college student at Yale fall asleep in a common area as another Yale student called the police on her for no good reason at all.  Now, allegedly, that same person...