5 Things I Won’t Do in Trump’s America
(Art by Daniel Hagerman) It happened. We have to recognize that Donald Trump has been installed as President of the United States of America by the Electoral College. We have to recognize this. But we don’t have to accept it. Or be silent about it. I’m sure many of us appreciate the fact that the U.S. has had peaceful transitions of power between presidential elections with no military coups or mass upheaval. But the peace of these transitions is a “negative peace,” as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say. That is, it is a time without unpredictable physical violence, but also without justice. It’s not peace and morality, it’s merely law and order. To quote Dr. King exactly: I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace …