Dear editor at the Baltimore AFRO American,
Lesson #11 of 44 for parents and students preparing to register and vote in the 2026 mid-term election. Today’s word is “perpetual.” It means never-ending, continual and infinite.
Our philanthropic billionaire and 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. He was so loved and respected that 92 dignitaries from other countries attended his state funeral. He treated all people as “somebody.” His modus operandi was based on 1 Corinthians 13:13. Trump’s modus operandi is Project 2025.
The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, both under the 36th presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, but Kennedy laid the groundwork. His universal altruism deserved special recognition. His wife, Jacqueline, wanted to replicate the eternal flame spirit at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, similar to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. Thus, she has the perpetual light installed at his gravesite.
The second word today is “antithetical,” meaning the complete opposite–like Trump is to John F. Kennedy. Trump’s “perpetual” plans for me– a Black man– are riding in the back of the bus, last hired and first fired, below minimum wage jobs and assumed guilty before trial.
Homework Assignment: Research the Central Park Five. We must reject all of Trump’s ring-kissing politicians like North Carolina Congressman David Rouzer and Sen. Thom Tillis, and impeach and jail him after the mid-term.