10/15/2020

DJT,

            What say thou? It is the Quaker way of requesting the truth. How about telling the truth about your taxes & your friendship with VVP & where you got your business loans from? I’m afraid that you seem to have mastered the art of duplicity – telling the government that you are broke so you don’t have to pay taxes & telling the banks that you are rich so they’ll lend you more $$. Today’s NYT has a troubling article about that kind of duplicity regarding the stories that you told wealthy donors about the pending pandemic & the stories you told the public. It seems that you provided “elite traders” with info that “helped them gain financial advantage during a chaotic three days when global markets were teetering” while you told the rest of us that everything would be fine.

            I am thinking about your relationship with the truth this AM because Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart wrote in today’s Miami Herald about your valiant fight against corruption in Cuba, Venezuela & Nicaragua. He worries that the leaders of these countries suppress dissent. He also decries their human-rights abuses. Most of all he criticizes their corruption. I found it ironic that he didn’t acknowledge that many of your critics accuse you of these very same things.

            Some of the Cuban-Americans in Miami are among those critics, including Jorge Perez. You know, you’ll be in the art museum that bears his name, tonight. I hope you’ll take a minute to go & see Faith Ringgold’s painting, “Big Black” while you’re there. She intentionally excluded white paint in depicting a Black face in all of its symmetric beauty. After you view it, you can give her a call & congratulate for her for an amazing career of creating vibrant images that uplift as they critique. That’s what we should both aspire to, uplift while we critique. Use our creative genius to maintain joy as we fight for a better world. That’s my aspiration for the day.

            What say thou?