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Relief, optimism, foreboding: Black Americans feel mixed emotions on Inauguration Day Sydney Trent From the moment in June 2015 when Donald Trump glided down a golden escalator in Trump Tower to announce his presidential candidacy, James Hudson saw what was coming. That’s because as an older African American, he’d been there before. Hudson, 81, had grown up in segregated Tallahassee. He knew the racism of the burning cross and the racism of Obama birtherism, and he said he knew a racist when he saw one. So while early on much of White America and the media were in denial that a brash and shallow reality TV star could ever become president, Hudson and older generations of Black people saw Trump clearly as the threat he was. The next four years were as horrifying as they were wholly predictable; the stakes in the election in November felt nauseatingly high.
witness describe photos found in one of the suspect s cell phones taken while the youngest daughter and her mother were sexually assaulted. word tonight from virginia, theresa lewis has been executed. she died by lethal injection. the 41-year-old grandmother was convicted of plotting the 2002 killings of her husband and stepson. asked if she had any last words, lewis said, quote, i just want kathy to know i love her and i m sorry, referring to kathy cliffton, the daughter of one victim, and the sister of another. her lawyers argue that lewis borderline i.q. allowed her to be manipulated by her co-defendant. today at the u.n., president obama told the general assembly now is the time for israelis and palestinians to work toward a future that includes a palestinian homeland and a secure israel. the president also says the door remains open for talks with iran. however, iranian president
taxes are going to be places a lot of pressure on people in small businesses and that s one of the things that john boehner was talking about yesterday. we believe part of the uncertainty causing employers to refrain from reinvesting in their businesses, no one knows what the tax rates are going to be tomorrow. that s exactly right. what do you think? do you think it is great politics to go ahead and punt the ball? or are you, perhaps, in the middle class, be affected by this. are you a little upset at the democrats who have promised this all along and now they re not going to be able to deliver on it before you go to the election place. e-mail us right now, friends at foxnews.com. some headlines for your friday now. breaking news overnight from virginia. a woman executed in the state for the first time in nearly a century. theresa lewis was convicted in 2003 of plotting the murder of her husband and stepson for insurance money. she died by lethal injection.