The violent insurrection, the attacks on police officers, the targeting of Black election workers, and the attempts to throw out hundreds of thousands of Black votes in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Milwaukee were all a part of a coordinated campaign to protect the interests of white America in our two-tiered system of justice…

Sadly, Trump’s pardons are not an isolated event in American history. By pardoning these thugs and labeling them “hostages,” he continues a long and tragic tradition of sweeping the interests of Black people under the rug to protect a misplaced sense of white victimhood.