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malaise

(270,677 posts)
Fri May 24, 2024, 08:05 PM May 24

Who 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.


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Who is Byron Donalds--another Colin Powell or even worse? (Original Post) malaise May 24 OP
Donalds wife snowybirdie May 24 #1
Powell wins this one. MOMFUDSKI May 24 #2
This one is just a run o'tha mill Deplorable, Colon did *major* bad errands UTUSN May 24 #3
One was evil,scum malaise May 24 #4
Byron Donalds is my Rep and he never answers the phone.. Deuxcents May 24 #5
Hi sure won't be VP malaise May 24 #8
He has stars in his eyes for being Gov of Florida in few years. Here we thought desantis was bad! FloridaBlues May 24 #6
NRA hand picked congress member MagickMuffin May 24 #7
Scumbags all malaise May 24 #9
Colin did not shuffle. The other oasis May 24 #10
True but he sure was responsible for a lot of deaths malaise May 24 #11
I'm not giving Powell a pass oasis May 24 #12

snowybirdie

(5,300 posts)
1. Donalds wife
Fri May 24, 2024, 08:15 PM
May 24

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.

UTUSN

(71,050 posts)
3. This one is just a run o'tha mill Deplorable, Colon did *major* bad errands
Fri May 24, 2024, 08:28 PM
May 24

starting with My Lai cover up, on up from there.

On second thought, enabling the overthrow of democracy now ranks at the top.










Deuxcents

(16,822 posts)
5. Byron Donalds is my Rep and he never answers the phone..
Fri May 24, 2024, 08:55 PM
May 24

No one has ever answered his office phone and I’ve called quite a few times so I always leave a message. My last call was about his shameful appearance at TSF’s trial in NYC. Rumor has it he’s being groomed to be our next governor in 2026. 😠

MagickMuffin

(16,099 posts)
7. NRA hand picked congress member
Fri May 24, 2024, 09:09 PM
May 24





I’m beginning to believe that the NRA has scouts that pursue gun shows looking for “hot” women and black men to recruit for Congress. They don’t have to know anything just vote how they are told.

And keep humping those weapons of mass destruction!




oasis

(49,978 posts)
12. I'm not giving Powell a pass
Fri May 24, 2024, 09:52 PM
May 24

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.

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