Affectionately known as The General by a few. A carrier of God's Word. I thrive in places where order is appreciated & followed. I speak The Color Purple!
This has been one of the most difficult days of my adult life. Here is my official public statement on the murder-suicide committed by my friend, legal colleague, and Divine-9 Member former VA Lt. Gov @LGJustinFairfax I am turning off comments because some of you cannot be civil, decent and respectful at this devastating moment. I spoke to Justin last two days ago, Tuesday via text. He was not in a good place. I never saw this coming. I tried with others to encourage him. We failed.
I am heartsick. May God bless the Fairfax children. They must be our first and only priority. Cc: @LVBurke
He fought for his country. His own country took his eyes.
On February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard Jr. stepped off a military bus for the last time. After three years in the Pacific unloading ships under fire and earning medals for bravery, he was finally coming home to South Carolina, America 🇺🇸—home to his wife and the freedom he had risked everything to protect.
But in the Jim Crow South, a Black man in uniform was seen as a threat.
On a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, he asked the driver if he could use the restroom. Minutes later, the driver called the police, accusing him of "talking back."
Two white officers dragged him into the night. No questions. No justice. Just violence.
Their nightsticks came down again and again, crushing bone, splitting skin, and destroying vision.
"Let me see," Isaac begged. The officer’s response was a baton straight into Isaac’s eyes.
The man who survived war never saw light again.
The next morning, he woke up in a jail cell—blind, bloodied, and alone—still in the uniform that should have honored him.
The officer stood trial, and an all-white jury freed him in less than 30 minutes. No apology. No accountability. No justice.
But America was watching. Newspapers picked up his story. Orson Welles broadcast it to the nation. The NAACP demanded action.
When President Harry Truman heard what had been done to a Black soldier still wearing his medals, he promised, "This must never happen again."
That promise broke down racial barriers in the U.S. Army and sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement. It was born from Isaac Woodard’s stolen eyes.
He lived the rest of his life in darkness but lit a fire this nation could never put out.
Black veterans didn’t just fight overseas. They fought again the moment they came home.
Sergeant Isaac Woodard Jr., a soldier, a hero, a sacrifice that America must never forget.
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
@MelanatedTalk I love this!!!! What a beautiful family, story and gift. And as a Daddy's girl whose father departed this life in 2004, the little girl in me is overjoyed seeing this father being loved on while there's time.
And as a former GM employee, wooohooo, let's gooooo GM!
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