Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.

TRUMP PRAISED BY BLACK – The black Democrat Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones thanked President Trump for defending law and order and condemned the “hypocritical” Black Lives Matter movement.

“Most people, including black people, they want law enforcement to be out there enforcing the law.  I think people just want them to be, they want them to be fair,” Jones said at a White House meeting with the president.

Jones probably killed his chances of reelection.

VICTORY GIRLS is a blog written by strong, outspoken conservative women that I frequently read, and often quote.

The headline, “Will Black Americans Ditch the Democrat Party?” over a piece by Jodi Giddings caught my eye because of all the stories about race and the Black Lives Matter movement currently in the news.

“Just months ago,” she writes, “our country enjoyed record low unemployment across the board, and it looked like President Trump was a shoo-in for reelection. Then, BOOM! We’re hit with a double-whammy: the China virus … and the manufactured crisis – America is racist – nonsense and the resurgence of Black Lives Manner.

“Except … our country is not racist.  So, what is all this ‘systemic racism’ all about? Well, obviously: the black vote.”

Giddings recounted an interview with Larry “Kingface” Henry, a community activist who is high on President Trump.

“I mean, he comes from the same surroundings as me,” Henry said of Trump. “I think he’s like the people.  I think he is the people … I think he understands the people.

“He comes from Queens, New York.  He made mistakes, like he’s cheated … you know, he lived a certain lifestyle and he was able to become president.

“I did the same thing.  I’ve cheated. I’ve did things.  I’ve done bad things.  So, when you look a country where everybody wants to politically correct … the fact that he’s going through regular human being situations and able to overcome it and be the president of the United States, I think that’s admirable.”

“Trump has done more for the entire country – including, and especially, our communities of people of color – than just about any president in recent memory, and light years more than Barack Obama, who said all the right things to get himself elected, then promptly ignored where he came from, offering no real inspiration to those that would come after,” wrote Giddings.

“Here’s hoping President Trump receives even more support from our communities of color this fall … the alternative – a puppet president of the radical left (who) will see communities of all stripes quickly decimated, with our communities of color hardest hit,” she concludes.

THOSE TEACHERS’ UNION DEMANDS in Los Angeles shouldn’t surprise those of you who have heard “it’s all about them” not the students.   If you thought their demands dealt exclusively with getting kids and teachers back in school safely, you would be wrong.

Oh sure, they demanded provisions that made masks mandatory, smaller classes, configurations allowing for maximum social distancing, but the 35,000-member union are keeping the students hostage until police are defunded, charter schools are eradicated, and school choice is out of the question.

Among the statements found in the union’s research paper were:

“The Covid-19 pandemic in the United States underscores the deep equity and justice challenges arising from our profoundly racist, intensely unequal society.”

“The rewards of economic recovery accrue largely to white and well-off communities that have largely been shielded from the worst of the pandemic effects.”

“Police violence is a leading cause of death and trauma for Black people, and is a serious public health and moral issue.  We must shift the astronomical amount of money devoted to policing to education and other essential needs such as house and public health.”

Need I remind you of Joe Biden’s full-throated endorsement of teachers’ unions, declaring they would have two friends in the White House, since his wife, Jill, is a union member.

ATTENTION CONGRESS: Don’t even think about extending the unemployment benefits beyond July 31, 2020.  Incentivizing Americans for not returning to work by paying them more than they earn on the job is disgraceful and unpatriotic.

DEMOCRAT REP. JOHN LEWIS has died at the age of 80, after fighting cancer.

Over the next week, the media will recount his years of work on civil rights, with coverage of his participation in Martin Luther King’s Selma march, during which Lewis received a fractured skull in the violence that erupted.                  

On January 15, 2017, I devoted this blog to my “Shame on Rep. John Lewis,” who had announced that he would boycott Donald Trump’s inauguration, stating, “I don’t see the president elect as a legitimate president.”  He also refused to attend the inauguration of George W. Bush, because he didn’t think “Bush is the true president.”

Lewis, and the Congressional Black Caucus, have opposed the GOP at every turn and have given Trump no credit for his list of accomplishments for minorities.

Even after the March 2019 disclosure in the Mueller Report, that President Trump and members of his campaign had been cleared of Russian collusion, Lewis continued to talk of Trump as an illegitimate president. “I said it at the end of the election, and I still believe that today.”  And when asked if he thought Trump should be impeached, Lewis said, “that day will come.”

May God rest his soul.

             And may God continue to bless the United States of America.