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As our national civics lesson continues to unfold on its march toward our 59th Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2021 & 45’s 2nd term, I write today not of his unmasking exercise but of distraction, evolution & Trump’s battle for a return to the Constitution.

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By the President of the Senate.

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As a 3L in the FSU College of Law, I almost single-handedly produced an “African Americans and the Law in Florida” conference.

It was a futile attempt to give our Black Law Students Association a substantive event annually revolving around our chosen profession.

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The following year, our BLSA chapter could not have been less interested in sustaining it and reverted to the same ole, same ole.

Fluff.

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My subsequent failure on the Florida Bar examination is worthy of a novel. Not from a bitch and moan perspective, although incredible institutional mistakes were made that crippled my legal career.