By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 25, 2026 Former Jefferson County, Alabama Circuit Court Judge Jack D. Carl. On June 19, 1986, a company named Link Carnival, Inc., filed a complaint for declaratory relief, temporary restraining order, and injunctive relief against the City of Birmingham and Southern Expositions, Inc., the entity selected by the City on June 17, 1986, to operate the Fall 1986 Alabama State Fair and carnival concession. Link Carnival claimed the City had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in authorizing Mayor Richard Arrington, Jr., to execute a contract with Southern Expositions. Link Carnival suggested that Arrington was a crook who had been bribed by Gerald Murphy, owner of a 65% interest in Southern Expositions, to win the contract to operate the Fall 1986 Alabama State Fair and carnival concession. Jefferson County, Alabama Circuit Court Judge Jack Carl was the trial judge in the case. Attorney W. Eugene Rutledge, a racist Birmingham lawyer who had to be physically restrained by a police officer from fighting me during a pre-hearing deposition in the case, represented Link Carnival. I represented the City of Birmingham, along with Assistant City Attorney Samuel Fisher. Judge Carl issued a temporary restraining order in the case on June 19th, without any notice to the City or an opportunity to be heard. Carl also set a hearing date for the preliminary injunction, which he eventually granted on August 12, 1986. During the hotly contested preliminary injunction hearing, I subjected the main witness for Link Carnival to an intense cross-examination and broke him on the witness stand. During my questioning of this witness, Judge Carl passed a note to his law clerk who read it, smirked, balled it up, and threw it in the trash can. During the lunch break, I retrieved Judge Carl’s note from the trash can. The note said, “I can’t stand this arrogant nigger,” referring to me. Before the hearing resumed after the lunch break, I asked for permission to put something on the record. Without waiting for a response, I read Judge Carl’s note into the record and described how he passed it to his law clerk and the clerk's reaction. Carl turned red in the face and neck and started banging his gavel. He said I was out of order. Based on the racist language in his note, I asked Judge Carl to recuse himself, right then and there. He promptly adjourned the hearing. The City filed a mandamus requiring Judge Carl to recuse himself from the case, as well as a "protective" notice of appeal from the August 12th preliminary injunction that Carl rendered without further evidence in the case. On September 4, 1987, a unanimous Alabama Supreme Court ruled in the City’s favor in City of Birmingham v. Link Carnival, Inc., 514 So.2d 792 (Ala. 1987). The Court vacated the preliminary injunction and required Judge Carl to dismiss the Link Carnival complaint, with prejudice. The Court said there was no need to address the recusal issue that was based upon Judge Carl’s note calling me an “arrogant nigger” because the Link Carnival case had been dismissed. Judge Jack Carl retired from the bench in 2002 after serving 21 years and 3 months on the state court bench. I never tried another case in his courtroom.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 25, 2026  Prince Andrew hugs Epstein child sex trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre in the presence of Epstein co-conspirator and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre was one of 1,000+ children who were repeatedly raped and abused by the elite men who participated in Epstein's sex trafficking ring. AN EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATIVE REPORT --- The FBI does not publish a profile of child sex offenders (i.e., child molesters, child rapists, child pornographers, child torturers, purveyors of incest, and child murderers who produce snuff films for sexual enjoyment). While perpetrators come from all walks of life, all socioeconomic backgrounds, many occupations, all races, and a wide age-range, enough law enforcement data now exists to profile these offenders.   The child sex offender is often someone the victims knows. Approximately 34% of the time, the abuser is a family member; 59% of the time, the abuser is an acquaintance; and 7% of the time, the abuser is a stranger. The child sex offender is rarely an illegal immigrant or a transgender person, as 93% of the perpetrators are homegrown in the USA and most of the offenders in the 7% "stranger" category are non-transgender White men. Offenders often fall into two broad behavioral categories: Situational offenders: Abuse opportunistically (e.g., due to stress, access, immaturity, or antisocial traits). They may not have a primary sexual preference for children but exploit situations (including incest or regressed behavior). Preferential offenders: Have a long-term, primary sexual preference for children (often aligning with pedophilia). They actively seek access to children through grooming, seduction, positions of trust, or collecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). These offenders are often serial, manipulative, and skilled at rationalizing their behavior. Common behavioral traits. Grooming/seduction is frequent: Building trust, giving gifts, isolating the child, desensitizing them to sexual contact. Many are "nice-guy" offenders: Appear caring, child-focused, and trustworthy -- making detection harder. High rates of crossover: Possession of CSAM often correlates with contact offenses (or vice versa). Many lack extensive prior criminal records (especially preferential types), though some have patterns of nuisance behaviors or prior unreported abuse.   Child sex offenders are overwhelmingly White males, but female offenders also exist (often in co-offending or specific contexts). The age, socioeconomic status, and occupation of the abusers vary widely -- from young adults to elderly, across professions, and including those with no prior arrests.   Large-Scale Child Sexual Trafficking Rings (based on victim numbers, convictions, rescues, or notoriety): Jeffrey Epstein Network (1990s–2010s) : Epstein, with Ghislaine Maxwell (convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years), ran an international sex trafficking operation recruiting and abusing 1,000+ girls and young women (some as young as 14), often luring them with promises of modeling or educational opportunities before exploiting them sexually and sometimes "lending" them to associates. Victims spanned multiple states (e.g., Florida, New York) and internationally. Epstein died in custody in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges. This case stands out for its high-profile connections, scale, and long-term impact. President Donald Trump is named repeatedly in the Epstein files as one of the abusers. The perpetrators in the case were overwhelmingly White. Operation Cross Country/Innocence Lost Initiative (ongoing since 2003, annual sweeps) : FBI-led nationwide operations targeting child sex trafficking. Individual iterations have rescued hundreds of minors (e.g., 105 children rescued and 150+ arrests in a 2013 sweep across 76 cities; over 100 minors in later years). Cumulatively, the initiative has recovered over 6,600 child victims and led to thousands of arrests/convictions since 2003. The perpetrators in the case were overwhelmingly White. North Fox Island Child Exploitation Ring (1970s, Michigan) : A historical child pornography and abuse network operating under the front "Brother Paul's Children's Mission" on a private island in Lake Michigan. Involved wealthy perpetrators (e.g., Francis Shelden) recruiting boys for sexual abuse, filming, and distribution to clients nationwide. Linked in investigations to broader pedophile networks (e.g., possible ties to other unsolved cases). Victim numbers are in the dozens to hundreds over years, though less documented than modern cases. It predates modern trafficking laws but mirrors elements of organized child exploitation. The perpetrators in the case were all White. Other Large-scale child sexual abuse cases involving thousands of abusers and victims over decades of abuse are: (a) The Catholic Church Clergy Abuse cases in America, (b) the Boy Scouts of America, Inc., and (c) Christian-run schools in the federal Indian boarding school system (1819 to 1969). The perpetrators in these cases were overwhelmingly White. Daily Kos Data on Sexual Predators : The Daily Kos has identified over 4,000 Republican sexual predators, enablers, and abusers since 2018 and summarized their individual sexual abuse cases. The perpetrators in these cases were all White. The data has been independently verified as accurate. No comparable sexual abuse data has been published on Democrats by any media organization, although a handful of individual cases have made the news from time to time. The MAGA Political Movement : For reasons that require further study, the political MAGA Political Movement has become infested with child sex offenders. This is particularly true within MAGA "Christian" churches and political groups. Within the past two years, there have been hundreds of documented child sex cases and convictions in this category. Please use this profile and behavIoral information to protect your child. Do not automatically entrust the safety and welfare of your child to any individual who fits this child sex offender profile without subjecting him/her to heightened scrutiny.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 19, 2025 Attorney J. Mason Davis. An Editorial Opinion   With the passage of time, many historians have a tendency to reimage the role of key participants in the fight to end Jim Crow in Old Confederate states. Those who aided and abetted the state's official agenda to subject its Black citizens to hardcore “cradle to the grave” racial discrimination are sometimes recast in a favorable light, while those who fought to end this discrimination are often ignored.   The mistreatment of Blacks in southern states is well-documented in thousands of recorded federal court cases. Court orders in these cases are often the most reliable version of this recorded history. They always tell us who was on the right side of history in each case, and when.   Earlier this month, I witnessesed an effort by local Birmingham, Alabama news media, public officials, and others to reimagine a chapter in the city's civil rights history. They created a “legendary Alabama civil rights activist” out of thin air. His name was J. Mason Davis, Jr., a longtime Black attorney in Birmingham who died on April 4, 2026, at age 90. The world knows Birmingham as the site of the 16 th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four little Black girls who were attending Sunday School in 1963. Birmingham is also known for City Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor and his use of firehoses and police dogs against school children and others who peacefully marched in protest for civil rights in the early 1960s. Birmingham, Alabama firefighters hosing civil rights demonstrators in 1963. In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in the city. In 1960, local barber James Armstrong filed a lawsuit that eventually degregated Birmingham's city schools. In 1956, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth formed the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights to fight racial discrimination on every front in the city. Shuttleworth's local church was bombed in retribution for his civil rights activism. Local judges, government officials, and news reporters were major participants in the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO program that targeted, harassed, and persecuted thousands of local Black civil rights activists, including Rev. Shuttlesworth, Mr. Armstrong, Dr. King, Mayor Richard Arrington, Jr. (from 1972 to 1988), and U.S. District Court Judge U.W. Clemon in 1996.   J. Mason Davis, Jr., was a nice, classy, and affable man who enjoyed a long and successful career representing businesses in antitrust, securities, and product liability litigation, as well as life, health, and surety company defense. I highly respected his legal work in these specialty areas. However, Davis was NOT a "legendary" civil rights lawyer or "activist." He was NEVER on the front lines representing Rev. Shuttlesworth, Mr. Armstrong, Dr. King, Mayor Arrington, Judge Clemon, or the thousands of other Birmingham freedom fighters who were targeted, harassed, and persecuted by government agents during the long, vicious, and dangerous fight to break the back of Jim Crow in Alabama, from 1963 to to the present. In fact, Davis defended the racial status quo in Alabama at crucial times during this period.   The Shuford Case   In 1975, I won a federal court consent decree against the Alabama State Board of Education that specifically required the establishment of "uniform non-discriminatory written standards and procedures for evaluating applicants for faculty and staff positions at all state junior colleges and technical schools" in the state.  Lee v. Macon County Bd. of Educ.,  C.A. No. 604-E (M.D. Ala. Aug. 4, 1975, at p. 4).   This decree built upon the progress Black plaintiffs made in prior federal court orders that were litigated and won by legendary civil rights attorneys Solomon S. Seay, Jr., and Fred D. Gray in 1967 and 1970. Those orders were intended to remedy "segregation" in the 33 junior, technical, and community colleges that comprised Alabama’s postsecondary system. By 1975, the court recognized that the hiring and promotion of faculty and staff on a non-discriminatory basis was a necessary ingredient in disestablishing racially identifiable schools.    Despite the hiring and promotion mandates in the 1975 consent decree, the state of Alabama never adopted uniform employment standards in the postsecondary system and little progress was made toward faculty and staff desegregation. In 1989, a new class of Black plaintiffs called the “Shuford Plaintiffs” challenged the system’s continued use of racially discriminatory hiring and promotional practices, in violation of the 1967, 1970, and 1975 court orders. Veteran civil rights attorneys Terry G. Davis, Mark Englehart, Anita L. Kelly, and Kenneth L. Thomas represented the Shuford Plaintiffs. Veteran civil rights attorneys James U. Blacksher, John C. Falkenberry, Leslie Proll, Rebecca H. Hunt, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Thomas T Gallion, III, Beverly Ann Poole Baker, and Richard H. Walston represented a class and sub-class of female Plaintiff-Intervenors who challenged gender discrimination in the system's hiring and promotional practices. The State Board of Education waged a fierce battle against the Shuford Plaintiffs and female Plaintiff-Intervenors. The Board brought in a new champion to lead the fight against the Shuford Plaintiffs and the Plaintiff-Intervenors -- Attorney J. Mason Davis, Jr. This polished defender of the status quo represented the State Board of Education, its board members, and three predominantly White community and technical colleges.   From 1989 to 1994, Davis led the state's massive resistance to non-discriminatory hiring and promotional practices within the postsecondary system of junior, technical, and community colleges.   On March 15, 1994, U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson in Montgomery issued a landmark order that highlighted the lack of compliance with the court’s prior 1967, 1970, and 1975 orders. Thompson awarded the Shuford Plaintiffs and female Plaintiff-Intervenors sweeping injunctive relief, monetary awards, and other class-based relief. [Click here to read the Order in its entirety] .     Thompson’s March 15 th order ended the prolong suffering of thousands of deserving Black and female applicants for employment and promotional opportunities within the postsecondary system. The Shuford Plaintiffs and female Plaintiff-Intervenors finally broke the back of Jim Crow in this educational system. On my digital media platforms, I always strive to feature and honor the true civil rights heroes who opened the doors of equal opportunity for historical victims of “cradle to the grave” racial, gender, age, and religious-based discrimination, and not those who put new locks on these doors. Furthermore, I will never participate in any effort to reimage Alabama's drum major role in perpetuating ongoing "cradle to the grave" racial discrimination against its Black citizens.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and published on April 9, 2026 Israeli soldiers detain a 10-year-old Palestinian boy named Ismail en-Nicce in Hebron, West Bank on September 23, 2021. ( Anadolu Agency ) An Editorial Opinion   The Trump-Iran War has made two things crystal clear to Americans. First, Israel is the world’s pariah in 2026.  Second, everybody hates Israel.   Israel was created by the United Nations on May 14,1948 within the state of Palestine for Jewish Holocaust survivors. It has emerged in recent years as the most notorious practitioner of genocide and infanticide against Muslim states in the Middle East. Its top leaders are designated war criminals with outstanding arrest warrants on them.   Israel is a welfare state that sucks billions of aid dollars out of the U.S. Treasury each year. Its American-based political action committee – AIPAC – owns all but 10 members of Congress. AIPAC has also manipulated every U.S. President since 1948.    Israel welcomes fugitive American pedophiles of Israeli descent with open arms. It also persecutes Israelis who are Christians.   Israeli soldiers treat Palestinian children as legitimate targets of war. As such, they arrest and/or kill them indiscriminately. After October 7, 2023, Israeli forces butchered and maimed 64,000 innocent Palestinian babies, infants, and children in Gaza.   Israel also sponsored Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long “honey trap” operation in New York, Florida, and the Virgin Islands. This clandestine operation afforded elite pedophiles the opportunity to molest, rape, torture, kill, and video over 1,000 innocent children in various acts of sexual abuse. Israel used its considerable political power in Washington to make sure that no Democrat or Republican administration would ever prosecute an elite Epstein pedophile/party pal.   Orthodox Jewish priests in the U.S. are legally allowed to suck the penises of male babies. They claim this act is a religious practice. Any non-Jewish priest who sucked a baby's penis would be charged with child sexual abuse.   Crime scene evidence establishes that Israeli Mossad agents assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last September. Israel used its Epstein-related clout in Washington to block the U.S. National Security Agency’s counterterrorism unit from investigating its involvement in this assassination plot.   In 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty and killed 37 crew members on board. Another 171 crew members were wounded. Israel paid no judicial or political price for this deadly attack.   Israel is always dragging America into armed conflicts in the Middle East. All of them have been costly to U.S. taxpayers and none has been won. The World's Jewish Population is Tiny, But Its Control of U.S. Foreign Policy is Massive.   The world’s Jewish population is an estimated 16 million people. About 7.2 million of them live in the U.S. and another 6.3 million are living in Israel. The rest of them are disbursed around the world. They run the world's banking and multimedia empires.   Presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter have explicitly warned us about Israel’s ruthlessness, lawlessness, and insatiable greed.   With Iran’s recent victory in the Trump-Iran war, world leaders now see Israel as a perpetual menace to world peace. Israel has no friends in the league of nations. Ordinary Americans are sick and tired of Israel and its steady stream of diplomatic headaches.   Israel’s dirty tricks and corrupt ways have eroded the fiber of American politics, decency, and life. America gets nothing out of its toxic relationship with Israel other than endless headaches, grief, grifting, and international problems.   American politicians in Washington who are incapable of cutting off U.S. aid dollars to Israel need to be ousted as members of Congress, regardless of party affiliation. Those who continue to vote in favor of funding Israel and its mischief in the Middle East are corrupt and compromised.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on April 1, 2026 U.S. Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth in a drunken stupor. An Editorial Opinion My favorite book is The Art of War by the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (5th century B.C.). I used the strategies and tactics taught in The Art of War throughout my legal career. The Art of War is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to a different set of skills or art related to warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1,500 years, this book was the lead text in an anthology that was formalized as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080. The Art of War remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare and has influenced both East Asian and Western military theory and thinking and has found a variety of applications in a myriad of competitive non-military endeavors across the modern world including espionage, culture, politics, business, and sports. The book contains a detailed explanation and analysis of the 5th-century B.C. Chinese military, from weapons, environmental conditions, and strategy to rank and discipline. Sun also stressed the importance of intelligence operatives and espionage to the war effort. Considered one of history's finest military tacticians and analysts, his teachings and strategies formed the basis of advanced military training for millennia to come.   The Iranians are Masters of Warfare   America has lost the US-Iran War. Since the war began on February 28, 2026, President Donald Trump's Department of War has been clueless on how to fight Iran in an effective manner. Its chief strategy has been bombing Iranian targets from the air.   Iran, on the other hand, has mastered the art of war against America. They employed a host of winning war strategies that sapped the strength out of Trump, who looks tired, dejected, uninterested, and defeated.   Iran’s military leadership is highly skilled in the art of war. America’s Pentagon brass is highly skilled in the art of pleasing Trump and his erratic impulses as a third-generation military draft-dodger.   In war, the most committed adversary always wins. By definition, a "draft-dodger" like Trump can never be the “most committed adversary.” That’s an oxymoron.   Iran’s civilian and military leaders are prepared to die for their country. Trump is not prepared to die for anybody or anything. In Iran, Donald Trump has finally met his match in the art of war. Like the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, America no longer has the appetite or will to fight long wars on the other side of the world. Furthermore, there can be no victory in Iran without deploying American troops on the ground and engaging in years of fierce fighting. Today, more than 70% of Americans oppose sending U.S. troops to the Middle East to fight Iran for the benefit of Israel.   Likewise, an incompetent Secretary of War, particularly one who is a commode-hugging drunkard like Pete Hegseth, cannot command victorious military campaigns on any battlefield. Nobody respects this drunkard.   Iran won this war because it fought smarter.  They knew how to outlast the Americans. They killed Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu early in the war . AI videos and a body double are used in Israel for Netanyahu today. Every calculation, every deployment, every doctrine initiated by the Iranians was built not to strike quickly, but to survive relentlessly. To outlast. To wait for the arrogance of others to do their work for them.   Iran was not a predictable opponent. Its power was decentralized. Its strategy was invisible to those accustomed to measuring strength by firepower, alone.   The Iranians had war plans for decades of fighting. Trump naively believed he could bomb Iran into surrendering within 2-3 days. Those who imagined a swift victory, via a heavy bombing campaign and intimidation, were sadly mistaken, totally unprepared, and stupid beyond belief.   Today, Iran is the proven superpower in the Middle East. In the final analysis, Donald Trump’s ignorance about the art of war and Pete Hegseth’s alcoholism were Iran’s best weapons.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on October 25, 2025 Charlie Kirk, moments before his September 10, 2025, assassination. An Editorial Opinion   Since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s on September 10, 2025, dozens on online sleuths have attempted to solve his murder. Podcaster Candace Owens appears to have done more work in this regard than any other amateur homicide investigator.   From a distance, it looked like Owens was making substantial progress in her investigation. Upon a closer inspection, she has not.  Owens, a high school graduate, has no formal training in homicide investigations.  She has no law enforcement experience whatsoever.   She is not a college or law school graduate.  She is not a paralegal or an attorney.  Owens has never solved a murder case, nor broken open a law enforcement coverup. In recent days, Candace Owens seems to be emotionally overwhelmed and exhausted by the weight of Kirk's murder case and the complexity of the ongoing law enforcement coverup in the case.   Experience Matters in Busting Open Law Enforcement Coverups   My experience in investigating police-related shootings, murders and/or law enforcement coverups spans five decades.  During this period, I have investigated and busted open seven massive law enforcement coverups and scores of simple ones.  Some of these cases were high-profile ones at the time, but most of them were not.   My experience with high-profile murders and massive police coverups began with what the Washington Post called “ Alabama’s Watergate. ” Bernard Whitehurst was an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by Montgomery, Alabama police officer Donnie Foster in December 1975. The police department initially claimed that Whitehurst was a fleeing felon who shot at Foster while on the run.  My investigation, which included exhuming Whitehurst’s body, revealed that Whitehurst was shot in the back and that the gun found beside his body was “planted” by police after his death.  The Whitehurst case evolved into a nationally recognized scandal that resulted in the resignations of Montgomery’s mayor and police commissioner, the indictment of three police officers, and the firing or resignation of eight others.     Then there was the high-profile police coverup in the Todd Road incident .   In 1983, out-of-state black family members were mourning the death of their mother at her home in Montgomery when two white plain clothes police officers mistook the Michigan and Ohio mourners’ license plates as a gathering of out-of-state drug dealers.  Unbelievably, these officers raided the funeral gathering on a "no-knock" basis and violence erupted in and around the home.  The officers, who were believed to be home invaders, were shot during the ensuing melee.  The mourners were subsequently arrested, beaten, and tortured while in police custody. My investigation into the Todd Road incident as a Montgomery city councilman resulted in felony criminal charges against eleven of the mourners being reduced to misdemeanors in four cases and dropped altogether in eight others.   Next, was my experience in solving the high-profile murder of Army Private LaVena Johnson by her TRADOC commander – a four-star general -- on a U.S. military base in Balad, Iraq on July 19, 2005.  The Pentagon claimed Private Johnson committed suicide.  The undisputed forensic and physical evidence established that she was murdered.   After the Secretary of Defense and CENTCOM general for Iraqi Operations subsequently gave President George W. Bush a classified briefing about Private Johnson’s murder, the Pentagon promptly fired the general and covered up Private Johnson’s murder by classifying her death as a matter of “national security.” To this day, the Pentagon’s classified investigative files in Private Johnson’s murder case remain sealed -- 20 years after her death.   Lesser-known police shootings, murders, and law enforcement coverups that I busted open include: (a) the November 14, 1979, police shooting and coverup involving an unarmed Love Mae Lawson by Montgomery police officer Frank Mitchell, (b) the June 12, 1982 fatal police murder and coverup in the case of Frank Pinkston, an unarmed burglary suspect, by mulitple Montgomery police officers, and (c) the April 9, 1983 police shooting of an unarmed Bobby Joe Sales by Montgomery officer Ralph A. Connor. There are scores of other police-related murder cases where the law enforcement coverups were fairly simple.   The Full Truth in Charlie Kirk’s Murder Case Lies in Classified National Security Agency Files   Based upon my experience in solving police-related shooting and in busting open law enforcement coverups in these cases, it is obvious to me that there is a massive and ongoing federal and state law enforcement coverup in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Like the Pentagon coverup in Private LaVena Johnson’s case, the full truth in Kirk’s case lies in the files that have been classified by U.S. national security agencies as “Top Secret” for coverup purposes only.    President Trump knows these files exist in Kirk's case. Yet, he has not declassified them.  Presidential-level coverups always protect important countries and/or people. In Kirk's case, the protected parties are the nation of Israel and the Mossad national security agents who killed Charlie Kirk. To further facilitate the coverup of Kirk's assassination by Mossad agents, the Trump administration has reduced Kirk's death to a simple state law murder case involving a purported "lone wolf" assassin. Tyler Robinson, the “patsy” suspect in Kirk’s murder case, has a court-appointed defense team representing him in the case. Based upon the court filings in the case to date, Robinson's defense team has not sought access to any U.S. intelligence agency files relating to Kirk's assasination. They likely do not know such files exist. Because no federal charges have been brought against Robinson, his defense team would have a very difficult time trying to access these classified national intelligence agency files. Furthermore, a review of the defense team's professional experience reveals that this team has zero experience in busting open massive coverups by law enforcement and national security agencies. Epilogue   Since his murder, Charlie Kirk’s widow and family members have been given condolences, a presidentially attended memorial service, a presidential order directing that American flags on government property be flown at half mast, a presidential medal of freedom, and plenty of well-wishes.  All of these are wonderful symbolic gestures.    What the Kirk family has not been given by any federal or state official is the full truth about who killed Charlie Kirk, and why.   Donald Trump is a mastermind at suppressing the truth whenever it furthers his personal, business, and/or political interests. The  Jeffrey Epstein  sex trafficking case, with 1,000+ acknowledged victims, is a classic example of Trump's suppression of the truth. Trump, who partied with Epstein and his underaged girls for years, called the Epstein case a "hoax" and directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to close the case. Bondi dutifully complied with Trump's directive. The acts of suppressing the truth and obstructing justice are as natural to Donald Trump as breathing.  As such, accessing the documents necessary to establish the full truth about Charlie Kirk’s assassination will not be possible until Trump leaves office. Hopefully, the next president will have the courage and desire to declassify the sealed files relating to Kirk's assassination and give his family the truth they deserve about what happened to Charlie Kirk, and why.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on August 3, 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her parents. An Editorial Opinion Since the 1600s, the rule of law in America regarding mixed race people is simple -- any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") is considered "Black" (“Negro” or “Colored” in historical terms).  This legal principle is called the " One Drop Rule ."  As discussed below, by law, one drop of Black blood makes an American a Black, Negro, or Colored citizen. The American legal system recognizes and protects " Aryan racial purity " to this day. Ancestry Determines Racial Classifications in America.   Kamala Harris' father, Donald J. Harris, is a Jamaican American of African descent.  (Note: Jamaica has White, Black, and other races of citizens). Kamala Harris' mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, is an American of Indian descent.   In United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind , 261 U.S. 204 (1923), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans of Indian descent like former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley (who claims to be “White” on her voter registration application) and Kamala Harris’ mother (who is listed as "White" on Harris' birth certificate) are “ Colored .”  This case has never been overruled. Before she changed her name and tried to pass for " White ," Nikki Haley’s real name was Nimarata Nikki Randhawa . Kamala Harris has never changed her birth name or tried to pass for "White." Harris' 1964 California-issued birth certificate does not assign a racial classification to her. Contrary to the applicable legal mandate in the Bhagat Singh Thind case, the birth certificate listed Harris' mother as " Caucasian ." As a matter of law, however, her mother was "Colored." Kamala Harris' California birth certificate. In Loving v. Virginia , 388 U.S. 1 (1967), the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the use of the One Drop Rule to prevent interracial marriages by overturning the Virginia Racial Integrity Act.  The Rule has been allowed to continue for racial classification purposes.   The One Drop Rule is Alive and Well Today   In 1986 , the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the One Drop Rule to stand by refusing to hear a case against Louisiana’s "racial" classification criteria, as applied to Susie Guillory Phipps in Doe v. Department of Health and Human Resources , 479 U.S. 1002 (1986)   In 1977, Susie Guillory Phipps, who was then forty-three years old, found herself in need of her birth certificate to process a passport application.  Believing all her life that she was White, Mrs. Phipps was stunned when a clerk at the New Orleans Division of Vital Records showed her that she was designated as "Colored."   As Mrs. Phipps told reporters, " It shocked me.  I was sick for three days ."  The only person apparently aware of Mrs. Phipps' racial designation on her birth certificate was the mid-wife who wrote it down. " I was brought up white, I married white twice ."   Mrs. Phipps' racial classification was assigned under an old Louisiana state law which allowed anyone with "any traceable amount" of black ancestry to be legally defined as "Black."  According to the state's genealogical investigation, Mrs. Phipps’ great-great-great-great grandmother was a Black slave named Margarita.  Given this information, the state stood by the designation of "Colored" on Mrs. Phipps' birth certificate.   Ms. Phipps sued the state of Louisiana to change her racial designation from "Colored" to "White."  She lost.  In 1986, the Louisiana Supreme Court denied her appeal.  Later that same year, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case and thus left standing the lower court's decision declaring Mrs. Phipps to be a Black person.   Epilogue   In America, a person’s race impacts everything.  It is deeply rooted in law.  Slavery era racial classifications are still protected in modern-day laws. The One Drop Rule is a never-ending, present-day vestige of slavery. Blacks have known about the One Drop Rule since we arrived in America as "chattel property" in the hellholes of slave ships in 1619. Whites are oblivious to the Rule unless they become entangled in the Susie Guillory Phipps-type situation.   Kamala Harris has far more than one drop of Black blood.  Her father is a Jamaican American of African descent.  Legally, Kamala Harris is Black.  End of story.   With this lesson in history and law, the public debate should now shift to which presidential nominee is most committed to ending the dominance of race in American law, politics, and life.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 24, 2026  Robert Archer Martin, Montgomery, Alabama. On March 27, 2026, I published an article title, “ Robert Archer Martin: One of the Great Ones .”  I called him Bob Martin.  He was one of the greatest men in Alabama history.   While I enjoyed telling Bob’s story last year, I intentionally left out one very important chapter in his life. It had been an unspoken secret between us until now.   Bob Martin Believed in a Level Judicial Playing Field   Bob Martin headed Alabama’s Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) for 25 years. He worked under Chief Justices Howell Heflin, C.C. “Bo” Torbert, Sonny Hornsby, and Perry Hooper, Sr.   I met Bob in the early 1980s. We hit it off right away. Over the years, Bob and I spent a lot of time together. We became very close friends.   Bob was more of a listener than a talker. When he spoke, his words had meaning. What is more, Bob's word was his bond, which is a rare commodity in today's superficial world.   After we because super close, I let my guard down and began to reminisce with Bob about my painful experiences in Alabama's racist judicial system during the 1970s. I told him how some of the White state court judges openly referred to me in court proceedings as the “Nigger lawyer from Montgomery." To them, that was my name. I explained how other racist judges called me no name at all. They would look away from me and simply bark out commands that I assumed were directed at me. I also told Bob how a few of these judges could not contain their utter disdain for me and my clients and were abusive to us in other ways. For example, some of them would throw court documents on the floor for me to pick up rather than hand them to me in my hand. Others canceled scheduled hearings on the spot after I had driven for 2-4 hours to show up in court on time. A couple of them banned Black supporters from sitting on the main floor of the courtroom during my trials, thereby restricting them to the limited seating in the balcony section of the courtroom. The list of insults and mistreatment is long and ugly.   Bob could see that I was very emotional when recounting these experiences. Sometimes, I cried because I had repressed those memories for years in order to stay strong, keep fighting for equal justice, and hold my head high in the courtroom. Bob did not say much. He studied my body language as I recounted my experiences with hardcore judicial racism. He listened to me intently. Bob stared at me with his piercing eyes. When I finished describing these unpleasant encounters, Bob would calmly and casually ask me for the names and court locations of these judges. I provided this information to him.   Bob didn’t express any opinions or particular thoughts on the subject beyond stating that his goal was to make things better for all citizens inside the Alabama judicial system. He firmly believed that every Alabamian deserved a fair shake in the state's court system.   Bob was a Problem-Solver   Over the course of time, Bob would update me on the status of certain state court judges who had left the bench. At first, I did not pay much attention to these updates.   After Jimmy Evans became Alabama Attorney General (1991-1995), I learned from Evans that Bob Martin had found a discrete, quiet, and effective way to purge each one of the racist judges I had identified (who was still on the judicial bench) from the Alabama judicial system. Bob and I never spoke about the purge, but I could tell from our conversations and Bob's body language that he took extreme pride at how the court system had vastly improved under his 25-year tenure at AOC.   In his own way, Bob Martin secretly leveled the playing field for thousands of Black litigants and their lawyers in courtrooms across the state. In the process, Bob liberated me from the demons that dwelled within my spirit as a result of the unspeakable acts of degradation and disparate treatment I experienced from a cadre of hardcore racist judges in the 1970s.   This was the last secret of Robert Archer Martin, who died on September 15, 2020. Bob's family deserves to know how great a man he really was. Never has one man done so much to impact the lives of so many Alabamians in such a profound and positive way.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 11, 2026  Dr. Norman William Walton, Jr., and his beautiful wife, Jimmie Pearl Walton. AMERICAN HISTORY --- After my father left the presidency at Owen Junior College in Memphis, Tennessee, the Watkins family returned to Montgomery, Alabama in 1959. There, my dad became Business Manager at Alabama State University and then its President. We had lived in Montgomery once before.   This time, we lived in the last house on Faculty Circle near Union Street until dad became president in 1962. Then, we moved into the President's Residence.   A block from Faculty Circle -- on Deer Street -- lived the Walton family: Dr. Norman William Walton, Jr., Mrs. Jimmie Pearl Thomas Walton, Norman “Nicky” Walton, III, Edward “Chico” Walton, Wanda Walton, and Renee Walton.   The Waltons came to Montgomery in 1950 when Dr. Walton got a job at ASU. They became outstanding community service leaders and staunch supporters of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his Montgomery civil rights movement.   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with Dr. Norman William Walton, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama. In fact, the Walton family was widely recognized as one of the pillars of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where Dr. King pastored. Everybody respected the Waltons.   The Waltons Promoted Educational Excellence at Home and at Work   Dr. Norman Walton, Jr., graduated from Tennessee State University with B.S. and M.Ed degrees. In 1970, he earned a Ph.D in African American Studies from Carnegy Melon University. Dr. Walton was chair of the History and Social Sciences Department at ASU until his retirement. He was also the men's swim team coach. In 1976. Dr. Walton was inducted into the SWAC Hall of Fame as a swim coach. The Norman Walton Aquatic Center on ASU’s campus is named in his honor. Dr. Walton died on April 28, 2005.   Mrs. Walton graduated from Tennessee State with a B.S degree. She also earned a Master’s degree in education from ASU. Mrs. Walton taught in the public schools in Montgomery and was one of the first Black teachers assigned to integrate the faculty at Danelley Elementary School in the city. She was also my mother’s best friend until the end. Mrs. Walton, who was affectionately known throughout Montgomery as the “queen of nice,” died on April 22, 2020. Family Life   The Walton couple met at Tennessee State University and married shortly after graduating from college. They had four exceptionally gifted children, all of whom are depicted with their mom in the photo below. The Walton Family, Montgomery, Alabama, 2009. The Walton children grew into very successful adults. They are:     Nicky Walton, who graduated from Alabama State College Laboratory High School.  Nicky received his undergraduate and medical school degrees from Howard University. He became a world-class, board certified dermatologist with offices in Montgomery and Birmingham. Nicky was the Watkins family's dermatologist until he retired. He was also the very first financial contributor to my 1979 Montgomery city council campaign. Chico Walton, who graduated from Lab High and Howard.  Chico earned his from PH.D. in chemistry from the University of Maryland. Chico taught chemistry at the U.S. Naval Academy and California Polytechnic State University. Wanda Walton Jackson, who graduated from Lab High and Howard with a degree in chemistry. She is a Phi Beta Kappa who acquired 14 patents from working at Johnson & Johnson and other companies. Renee Walton, who graduated from Lanier High School and the University of Alabama with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Johns Hopkins University with a master's degree in electrical engineering, and the University of Tennesseee with a MBA degree. Renee worked at and retired from the Boeing Company. The Walton and Watkins children grew up together, went to school together, played together, went to church together, attended vacation Bible school together, and did everything else together until we left Montgomery for college.  My brother, Levi Watkins, Jr., and Nicky Walton were high school classmates, co-valedictorians, and best friends for life. Chico was a year older than me, but we were best friends, as well. James Watkins and Wanda and Renee Walton tagged along with us as younger siblings. A Lifetime of Mutual Respect and Admiration   The Walton and Watkins families have been extremely close throughout the years. We have respected each other, admired each other, supported each other, inspired each other, and protected each other for over seven decades.  The Walton family is iconic in America history. Their parents were world-class human beings and dedicated freedom fighters. Their brilliance was unquestioned. Their children became some of America’s best intellectual capital. The Watkins family is extremely proud to have known and been loved by the Walton family. Nobody and nothing ever came between us.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 17, 2026 Attorney Daniel Joseph Thompson, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia Daniel Joseph Thompson, Jr., (1948–2025) was a prominent Atlanta-based attorney with a career spanning over 50 years. Dan specialized in corporate law, communications, and litigation. He passed away on June 6, 2025, at the age of 77.    Dan and I were the only two Blacks who passed the Alabama Bar exams in September 1973. We passed the exams on our first attempt.   Dan was born on April 6, 1948, in Tuskegee, Alabama. He attended Brown University, where he graduated  cum laude  with a Bachelor of Arts in 1970. Dan earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard University Law School in 1973.    During the summers of 1971 and 1972, Dan and I interned together at the law offices of Gray, Seay, and Langford. Dan worked in the firms Tuskegee office, while I worked in the Montgomery office.   Dan was licensed to practice in multiple jurisdictions, including Alabama (1973), Georgia (1975), and the U.S. Supreme Court (1979). His primary areas of practice included:  Communications and Regulatory Law: He was well-known for his expertise in this field. Corporate Law: He served as a retired corporate attorney and formerly held the roles of Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary for the BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Group in Atlanta. Employment and Civil Rights: He practiced in employment discrimination law and civil rights litigation. Intellectual Property: His practice also covered copyright and trademark law.    Dan was often the first Black to serve in senior management executive roles for BellSouth.  He was no “Uncle Tom.” Dan empowered others.   Throughout my legal career, Dan was a constant source of wisdom, strength, and support for me and my family.   The video of Dan's funeral is presented here:   Dan and I always set high professional goals for ourselves and we pursued them without hesitation or reservation. I feel his presence in everything I do on the international business scene.   I miss my friend, colleague, comrade in the civil rights movement, and staunch supporter! I will march into battle without him.

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 8, 2026 An Editorial Opinion The crowds are gone now, Jesse. The “important people” have returned to whatever they are doing in life. It’s just us now.    Even though we had many conversations on the battlefield of civil rights in America, I never got a chance to properly thank you for everything you have done for African Americans, women, Whites of interracial goodwill, and me.   We first met at Southern Illinois University a couple of days after Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968. During the early morning hours of April 5th, someone spray-painted this racial insult on the main entrance to the Student Center Building: “ The Only Good Nigger is a Dead Nigger .” You came to SIU to calm us down and kept us from tearing up the place. You taught us how to channel our anger and rage into positive action. Thank you!   You kept things going after Martin was killed. No one wanted to catch the next bullet, but you were fully prepared to do whatever was necessary to bring Martin’s dream to life.   You founded Operation Push in 1971 to focus on economic empowerment in urban communities across America. This program produced dramatic results for many decades.  No public figure or national leader since you has empowered our communities on this scale and in such impactful ways. Thank you!   In 1984, you founded the National Rainbow Coalition to promote economic empowerment, corporate accountability, and community reinvestment within corporate America. Under the Coalition's umbrella, you created the Wall Street Project, which dramatically increased access to capital for Black and women entrepreneurs. It also created business alliances and major vendor opportunities with Wall Street giants for thousands of capable and qualified Black-owned and women-owned companies. Thank you!   On a personal level, you made it possible for Nathan A. Chapman and me to take four companies public on the NASDAQ.  You also opened the door for me to co-found Alamerica Bank in 2000, which was ranked No. 4 in the nation for its asset group and return on assets .  You believed in us, when most Blacks in America thought it was impossible for African Americans to achieve this level of business success in the financial services industry. Thank you!   Furthermore, you are the only public figure or national leader who opened up the nation's financial markets to thousands of Black-owned and women-owned businesses, while asking nothing in return for yourself. Thank you!   When you ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, you shattered the negative view held by millions of Black Americans who believed we were not good enough to run for and win the American presidency. Blacks gained much-needed self-esteem in the political arena because you had the courage to run for president and subject yourself to the harshest public scrutiny imaginable. You made 6 million voters in 1988 believe we were "somebody." Thank you! Looking back on it today, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden were direct beneficiaries of your "blood, sweat, and tears" in the national political arena.   When no one else in the country could do it, you went and brought home Americans who languished as hostages and prisoners in Syria (1983), Cuba (1984), Iraq (1990), and Serbia (1999). Thank you!   As I look out on the political landscape today, I do not see anyone who is capable of providing your caliber of exceptional national leadership. Every one of the so-called "big names" on the national political stage is owned or controlled by AIPAC or some other special interest group. I appreciate the fact that no special interest group ever owned or controlled you. Likewise, no one ever made you disassociate yourself from a valued member of the communities you served. Thank you!   Rejoice in Heaven, Jesse!  I will keep fighting on the battlefields of civil rights, economic empowerment, political empowerment, and social justice until it is my time to join you. We still have a lot of fighting to do. Thank you for everything! I will see you on the other side of midnight!

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 4, 2026 Mr. Ramus Rhodes, 1973 I have told the incredible and inspirational story of Mr. Ramus Rhodes on many occasions. He was the longtime janitor at the University of Alabama School of Law. The measure of a man is not found in his job title or socio-economic status in life. It is gauged by what he stands for and who he stands with. I have met presidents of nations and dignitaries all over the world. I have visited people from the White House to the poor house. Nobody has ever stood taller than Mr. Ramus Rhodes. He was the definition of “greatness” and the epitome of “class and character.” Mr. Rhodes molded me into a prolific and effective litigator. His friendship, mentorship, and counseling in law school gave me the trial skills I needed to amass a 217-8 win-loss record in courtroom battles during my 46-year litigation career. Before graduating from law school in 1973, I asked Law School Dean Thomas Christopher to hang a portrait of Mr. Rhodes among the portraits of the professors that lined the walls of Farrah Hall. I explained to Dean Christopher the brilliance of Mr. Rhodes and his significance to the Black law students at Farrah Hall. Christopher, who was a courageous and fair-minded man, agreed to do so. The portrait hung alongside the law school’s faculty members. This made Mr. Rhodes and me extremely proud. Before I left Farrah Hall after graduation in May 1973, I went and stood in front of Mr. Rhodes' portrait. I saluted my mentor and bade him farewell. Upon My Return, The Portrait was Missing About 30 years later, I visited the law school, which was now housed in its current building on campus, to lecture a class on international business and to speak to a group of Black law students. Before I started my class, I walked the halls on the first floor with Dean Kenneth Randall looking for Mr. Rhodes’ portrait among the portraits of the professors that lined the walls. It was nowhere to be found. I told Dean Randall about Mr. Rhodes and asked him what happened to his portrait. He told me there was a portrait of a Black man hanging downstairs in the students’ “break room." We dashed downstairs and there it was – Mr. Rhodes’ faded portrait. It was hanging between two vending machines. I was devastated. Once again, Mr. Rhodes had been reduced in stature and dishonored. Somebody apparently thought the man in the portrait was a janitor and his portrait belonged between two vending machines. I teared up as a whole range of emotions ran through me. As I looked around and saw the multitude of the Black students busying themselves with their studies, I could tell that none of them had a clue about the man in the portrait or any knowledge of his greatness. Mr. Rhodes’ story had been lost with the passage of time. His greatness had slipped away in the shadows of time passed. Epilogue Thanks to the power of my digital media platforms, I have been able to revive the story of Mr. Ramus Rhodes and restore his legendary impact on the first Black law students at the University of Alabama. Over the course of 70 years, Mr. Rhodes' media profile has evolved from the “quietly dignified colored janitor” described in a 1956 Anniston Star article to the “giant among men” I described in several published articles, countless speeches, and media interviews. In Charles Shield’s 2007 book titled, “Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee," Mr. Rhodes was described as the “official mascot” of the law school who played “popular tunes on an organ” as he was “surrounded by four law school cheerleaders throwing candy to the crowd” in the homecoming parade during football season. In 2024, an Alabama Law Review article by Paul M. Pruitt, Jr. (at page 634) finally and officially recognized the vital role Mr. Rhodes played for the first group of Black students who desegregated the law school. Mr. Rhodes is one of my personal heroes. When I look at his face, I am staring directly at God's greatness in a human being.