By Emil Guillermo

Are we creeping toward normalizing the new President 47?

Snoop Dog and Nelly performed at the Inaugural to majority White crowds. Gov. Gavin Newsom let the flags at half-staff for the late Jimmy Carter, go to full staff for Donald Trump’s inaugural. Tech billionaires were there on bended knee.

Too Many people seem to be accommodating No. 47.

Is it time to give the felon-in chief a shot like Dave Chappelle seemed to do recently.

The comedian, who likes to be a truth-teller took the high road last weekend on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”

Chappelle talked about the time President Carter met with Palestinians with “little or no security.”

“It brought tears to my eyes,” said Chappelle to applause. “I said, ‘I don’t know if that’s a good president, but that right there, I am sure is a great man.’ It made me feel very proud.”

“The presidency is no place for petty people,” Chappelle continued. Then the comedian challenged the president-elect.

“Remember, whether people voted for you or not, they’re all counting on you. The whole world is counting on you, whether they like you or not,” Chappelle said.

Then, the comedian made a direct appeal. “Good luck. Please do better next time, do not forget your humanity and please have empathy for displaced people, whether they’re in the Palisades or Palestine.”

However, I’m more like Keith Boykin on CNN.

“(Trump) dishonors the Black community,” said the former Clinton aide, who then launched into Trump’s offenses against Black people. They include refusing to rent to Black people in the 1970s; leading a lynch mob against five Black and Brown kids in the Central Park 5 case in the 1980s; limiting the rise of Black casino workers  in his casinos in Atlantic City in the 1990s;  lying about Barack Obama’s birth certificate in the 2000s; and then during his presidency, attacking Black activist Colin Kaepernick, and election workers  Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss.

“Trump isn’t someone Blacks should be associated with” Boykin said. “We should be challenging him. It dishonors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”

The inauguration was on the same day as MLK Day. And it is noteworthy that Michelle Obama did not attend.

But Trump showed why he’s no better now than the first term. He’s worse, because he knows which levers to pull.

Of the executive orders he signed on day one, the most contentious was the unconditional pardons for nearly all the 1600 insurrectionists convicted. Fourteen of them will have their sentences commuted. It includes leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who are serving hard time for violent crimes involving the injury and death of police officers.

And Trump set them all free?

Senator Thom Tillis (R.-SC) said it now “raises legitimate safety questions on Capitol Hill.”

How about all of America?

Whether you voted for him or not, I can’t imagine anyone pleased with Trump’s J6 mass pardons.

Unless you’ve been indicted, too.

Then, anything is possible in the new Trump America. With a little luck, you too can survive and become POTUS someday.

About the Author

Emil Guillermo is an award-winning journalist, commentator, and storyteller. Watch his mini-talk show “Emil Amok’s Takeout” on www.YouTube.com/emilamok1

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