General McNeill: The American hero Trump prefers you know nothing about
Published 9:39 p.m. Thursday
I’m going to do something right now that your president, and his MAGA Republicans in your state legislature, would prefer I didn’t.
In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if, after reading this piece, some MAGA Republican in the NC House or Senate, quickly proposed another crazy anti-DEI law like Senate Bill 227, based on Trump’s executive order of January 29, 2025 “to protect American students…,” specifically banning this commentary, charging that it promotes “divisive concepts” that might cause “an individual” (read white person) to “…feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress” because it does not tout, as Trump insists, America’s “unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness.”
Well until that stupid measure is written and passed, or one of Trump’s MAGA legal turkeys actually says something to my face (seeking to trounce my First Amendment Rs, which better NOT happen), here’s goes nothing.
A great man of American history, not just African-American history, but AMERICAN history, left us last week.
U.S. Air Force Reserve Major General (ret.), Wilmington, N.C. native and member of the historic “Greensboro Four ” (or in many circles, "the A&T Four") Joseph Alfred McNeil Sr., passed away Sept. 4th at age 83. The NY Times reports he died in a hospice in Port Jefferson, NY on Long Island, and had been in failing health in recent m
