Winfield Madison II insulted everyone.

He drank whiskey and smoked cigarettes. He used profanity in mixed company and cursed children. Although all who knew him disapproved of his tactics, the educator affectionately often known as “Poncho” spent thirty years as a teacher at Arrington Middle School in Birmingham, Alabama, and earned quite a few titles as head coach of the varsity’s football, basketball and girls softball teams .

Everyone loved Poncho.

Perhaps his most lovable feature was the compendium of quotes, aphorisms, and words of wisdom he bestowed upon his students and athletes. His impeccable memory allowed him to cite every maxim word for word. However, while sharing words of wisdom, he invariably attributed his motivational speeches to a random Bible verse. Everyone who played for Poncho heard him attribute this Teddy Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” speech. to certainly one of Jesus’ apostles. Of all of the unbiblical proverbs Poncho shared, one stands out probably the most.

In 2014, after I was almost arrested for protesting the death of Eric Garner, Poncho showed up on my doorstep. He didn’t say he was there to comfort me or show solidarity – he just got here. I used to be concerned that my decision to dam traffic on the busiest shopping day of the vacation season might need negative consequences. Perhaps I must have talked to local activists or community leaders before taking matters into my very own hands. Taking a puff of certainly one of his signature Salem 3000s, Poncho just smiled through the cloud of menthol smoke.

“Fuck them,” said local activist and community leader Winfield Madison II. “As it is written in the Bible, ‘It is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.’” I’m still in search of the verse where the Apostles cursed Pontius Pilate, Poncho preached a rule that has been in force since 1 BC (before the Caucasians).

Forgiveness is for white people.

Is it Confederate insurgents, Caucasian election deniers Or sons smoking crackAND 2021 study of 287 presidential clemency cases found that “there is no doubt that white non-Hispanic petitioners as a group were more likely to receive clemency than black petitioners.” But for some reason, thieves who have been pardoned from paying reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and 130 years of racially motivated educational defrauding are suddenly indignant for which President Joe Biden exercised his presidential pardon power protect my son from whims vindictive, vengeful incoming MAGA administration. Meanwhile, that is wonderful, honest Christians prefer it Suggested by Jim Clyburn, DS.C for Biden to point out Trump the facility of grace by forgiving the president-elect of his legal sins. As we read within the Gospel of Jesus Christ in line with Poncho:

– No babe. — Poncho 3:16

Here are seven people who deserve a pardon more than Trump.

Marcus Garvey

Convicted of: Being a black man with an excessive amount of power.

Martin Luther King Jr. described Marcus Garvey as ” the primary person of color in U.S. history to steer and advance a mass movement” The FBI called him an “undesirable alien.” However, lawyers consider it “victim of a secret political conspiracy” We now know that Garvey’s 1923 mail fraud conviction was a trial FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s counterintelligence program geared toward black liberation movements.

According to Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center“the totality of the circumstances strongly suggests that Garvey was wrongly convicted.”

Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne

Convicted of: killing a policeman.

In 2001, a jury of their peers found Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne not guilty of murdering a police officer in Waverly, Virginia. Fearing a lenient sentence, federal prosecutors charged and convicted the boys of a further charge of selling crack cocaine. During the sentencing phase, Judge Robert E. Payne used a legal maneuver called “He acquitted the sentence for his conduct”, which essentially allowed him to convict the boys as murderers regardless that they were acquitted of the charge.

After receiving life sentences, Richardson and Claiborne discovered that police had hidden exculpatory evidence, including a deathbed description of the killers and one other eyewitness. Neither description matches Claiborne or Richardson.

And since these are technically murders, Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne each served 23 years in prison for a nonviolent drug crime.

John “Grand Master Jay” Johnson

Convicted of: I do not give a fuck.

No, seriously.

John Fitzgerald Johnson is the leader of the Don’t Fuck You Coalition – an armed group of the Black Militia. Federal agents claimed they were blinded by a flashlight attached to Johnson’s rifle during protests over the 2020 death of Breonna Taylor and accused him of pointing the gun at them. In 2022, a federal judge sentenced Johnson to seven years in prison after a jury found the 59-year-old Ohio man guilty of “assaulting, resisting or obstructing” and “brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.” A court in Kentucky sentenced him to accomplish that one 12 months in prison for a similar crime.

Johnson also suffers from “rapidly deteriorating heart condition”

Marilyn Mosby

Convicted of: He steals his own money.

Former Baltimore City Attorney Marilyn Mosby is serving 12 months of house arrest and three years of federal probation for defrauding former Baltimore City Attorney Marilyn Mosby of cash that legally belonged to former Baltimore City Attorney Marilyn Mosby.

A federal jury convicted Mosby in May of two perjury counts charges after she said she was having difficulty withdrawing money from her retirement account to buy a retirement home. The prosecutor’s office also brought one charge against her mortgage fraudalleging that Mosby falsely claimed that her husband gave her $5,000 for a home loan when in actual fact the cash belonged to her. Fortunately, Mosby’s plan to borrow money from the bank and pay it back with interest was thwarted when prosecutors discovered that she was using money she actually earned. And she would get away with it too…

If it weren’t for that meddling Department of Justice.

Abraham Jenkins

Convicted of: Using a fire extinguisher during a fire.

Either federal prosecutors don’t understand how fire works, or Abraham Jenkins is the worst arsonist in history.

In 2021, a judge sentenced Jenkins to 18 months in prison and three years probation after 25-year-old youth employee pleaded guilty to arson and inciting a riot during a protest in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2020. “Evidence presented in court showed that Jenkins stood on the roof of a Town of Mount Pleasant police vehicle, damaging it; twice sprayed police officers patrolling Charleston with a fire extinguisher; and threw a water bottle at a patrolling officer.” – noted the indictment. “Jenkins also took a burning T-shirt and threw it through the broken rear window of a Charleston police cruiser, causing damage to the cruiser.”

Tia Deyon Pugh

Convicted of: Helping people.

When the police used the so-called “boiling” technique. and pepper-sprayed protesters who tried to depart a demonstration in Mobile, Alabama, Tia Pugh she took matters into her own hands.

Pugh allegedly disabled the police vehicle by which protesters were trapped, allowing people to depart. But because that they had to reroute traffic on the interstate, prosecutors used an arcane law to charge Pugh with a federal crime. She was sentenced to prison but stays a convicted felon.

America

Convicted of: Being a racist country.

“America lies.” — Poncho

Michael Harriot is a author, cultural critic and master level Spades player. His book, “Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America,” is offered in bookstores all over the place