District Attorney Fani T. Willis did the job Fulton County voters elected her to do: Enforce Georgia law.
And Fani and her team of attorneys set the nation on fire by bringing charges against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Trevian Kutti, Harrison Floyd, and other losers who thought they could subvert the will of Georgia voters — especially but not exclusively Black voters — and switch eleven-thousand votes from democrats to republican.
The charges include violation of Georgia Rico (racketeering), Solicitation of oath by public office, False statements, Forgery, Conspiracy, and a what’s what of felony crimes to the extent that Fani Willis kept the judge and courts open past midnight so she could deliver the devastating must-see news.
Most of the nation agrees with efforts to investigate and when warranted charge Donald Trump and all his lackeys, henchmen/women, and co-conspirators.
But surprising to no one, republicans and their media mouthpieces are losing their minds over the charges from Georgia. Just like they lost their minds over the charges from New York, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
It is odd that the party of “Law and Order” is so against enforcing the law that they and their voters voted for and profess to love.
It is odd that republican voters who always vote for “Tough on crime” district attorneys are suddenly against what they have long stood for and lectured Black and brown voters about with condescending regularity.
And it is very odd that the national media are already asking if D.A. Fani Willis is being and unfair to Trump, as the Washington Post published?
Imagine that.
There has long been two systems of justice in America. One for white people and one for Black people. The prison industrial system is a moneymaking enterprise for wealthy companies and individuals who profit off mass incarceration which is disproportionally Black, brown, and poor.
Prisons are built in heavy republican areas which gives those areas more federal tax dollars, more jobs, and more population to count in the census which in turn grants them more representatives and thus more federal dollars in a never-ending cycle of political unfairness.
We’ve watched the Civil Rights movement and all the other movements that republicans absolutely hated — Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, union organizing, women’s march, covid vaccinations and shutdowns, abortion protests, Obamacare, Hillary Clinton candidacy, and protesting by kneeling for the national anthem — turn into calls for arrests, jailing, beatings, deportation, and even loss of voting rights for everyone involved.
Republicans first reflex to anyone exercising their constitutional rights is to demand that person or organization be arrested and charged to the fullest extent of the law.
Copaganda is so powerful that most podcasts are crime related, and the most popular genre of television shows are about crime, police, and other law enforcement agencies like the FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security.
Copaganda is so ingrained in this nation that they started an entire counter narrative to Black Lives Matter specific to police with “blue lives matter.”
They love law enforcement so much that more than 90% of district attorneys are white, most attorneys general are white, most judges are white, most lawyers are white, and most police are white. And of course almost everyone who has anything to do with the death penalty is white — except for those put to death.
Republicans love law, order, prison, harsh sentencing, life in prison, and writing laws that make it virtually impossible to be exonerated even when one is incorrectly convicted. And don’t even think about re-earning your right to vote if ever convicted of a felony because they will change laws to stop you from even trying.
But now we know that republican allegience to law and order is a sham. It has always been a lie and a con. They’ve used law and order as a cudgel against Black folk to feed their need for superiority.
They literally and figuratively beat us with the law to prove they are more advanced, more civilized, more cultured, and more capable of maintaining better homes, neighborhoods, schools, and family life.
We know none of that is true and there are nuances to life but they’ve convinced themselves none of it matters… until life touches them.
And we are seeing their disproportionate reaction to Fani Willis’ indictment against Trump and the rest. They are angry and lashing out at law enforcement, the district attorney, Black voters, the department of justice, and of course President Biden and Vice President Harris and the democratic party.
Even though they witnessed the January 6th insurrection just like the rest of us, they’ve swirled down Donald Trump’s drain and now are floating in his sewer of lies, threats, deflections, and stunningly frequent proclamations of his hatred for America.
Black folk in every generation have been told “If you don’t like this country go back to Africa.” Just like Latino and Hispanic folk have been told to “If you don’t like it here, go back to your country” whenever any of us speak out about injustice, particularly as a response law enforcement injustices.
So it is particularly galling seeing republicans now go after D.A. Fani Willis, Department of Justice AG Merrick Garland, Special Counsel Jack Smith, and Attorney General Leticia James for doing the jobs republicans have long claimed to honor and respect.
It must be mentioned that both Fani Willis and Leticia James are Black women. We know Trump hates Black women but it is also a fact that the two demographics that are the most opposite politically, Black women and white men, have a long intertwined history in this country that is the root of racism even more so than white men vs. Black men.
Republicans have been exposed more than ever for being cons and fakes who only support rule of law when it benefits them, and only when it is used to attack and subjugate the rest of us.
Donald Trump not only destroyed the republican party and their voters, he forever destroyed the myth of who really honors and respects the rule of law.
Trump is now under indictment in in multiple states and there could be more indictments forthcoming from Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
But no matter how many indictments, no matter how many charges and co-conspirators, and no matter how many laws he has or will break, a significant portion of the white population will continue to excuse his unlawful actions because to them the worst outcome for white Americans is for their chosen leader to be held accountable to the same laws they insist Black and brown folk are held accountable to.
And that type of race-blind equality and equal justice under the law is an America the republican party and their voters never want to see happen.
Dear Dean 