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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho is Byron Donalds--another Colin Powell or even worse?
https://www.newsamericasnow.com/black-news-does-byron-donalds-have-caribbean-roots/His office did not respond to a News Americas inquiry on the issue and who in his family has roots in the region. Little is known on the heritage of his mother, except that she was a single mother of three, who sent the little Byron to private school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
At the time, she worked as a coordinator of trauma service at the local hospital in New York and sent the 7-year-old Byron to schools like Brooklyn Friends School, an independent Quaker school, and Nazareth Regional High School, a Catholic school.
Brown, according to her Facebook profile, studied Labor Laws at Cornell University; graduatedFordham Universityand Long Island University and is a CUNY professor.
In 1997, Donalds was arrested for marijuana distribution; the charges were dropped as part of a pre-trial diversion program. In 2000, he pleaded guilty to a felony bribery charge as part of a scheme to defraud a bank.
Donaldsattended Florida A&M University from 1996-1999 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and marketing from Florida State University in 2002.
snowybirdie
(5,300 posts)also was a founder of Moms for Liberty who started the whole book banning movement. She's trying to get charter schools started in SW Floridz.
MOMFUDSKI
(6,283 posts)He helped lie us into a terrible war.
UTUSN
(71,050 posts)starting with My Lai cover up, on up from there.
On second thought, enabling the overthrow of democracy now ranks at the top.
malaise
(270,677 posts)And the other May surpass him
Deuxcents
(16,822 posts)No one has ever answered his office phone and Ive called quite a few times so I always leave a message. My last call was about his shameful appearance at TSFs trial in NYC. Rumor has it hes being groomed to be our next governor in 2026. 😠
malaise
(270,677 posts)Both he and Smelvis are Florida residents
FloridaBlues
(4,049 posts)MagickMuffin
(16,099 posts)Im beginning to believe that the NRA has scouts that pursue gun shows looking for hot women and black men to recruit for Congress. They dont have to know anything just vote how they are told.
And keep humping those weapons of mass destruction!
malaise
(270,677 posts)oasis
(49,978 posts)does nothing but.
malaise
(270,677 posts)oasis
(49,978 posts)although he probably didn't know the ultimate consequence of his presentation to the U.N.(yellow cake in vial, "sketches" of aluminum tubes.)
He certainly was no Trump ass kisser.