(credit: wikipedia)   William Cohen, former Secretary of Defense of the United States of America and former U.S. Senator and Representative

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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen weighed in on the recent unprecedented domestic terror attack on the nation’s Capital by supporters of President Trump. The mostly white mob stormed the sacred U.S. Capital building leaving behind an unimaginable wave of terror and deadly violence.  The ex- Defense Secretary joined journalist Andrea Mitchell to discuss the Capitol Hill riots on MSNBC.  He puts the rage from the crowds in the context of the history of racism in the America, saying:

“Now we’re seeing the white backlash or ‘whitelash’ as it’s called…What is the basis of all of the rage? It’s because white people have come to the conclusion that the playing field that has been so uneven in the past is now being leveled.”

-Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen  MSNBC Jan. 11, 2021

Fmr. Defense Secy. Cohen: Capitol Hill Riots Part Of Whitelash In America | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC

“President Trump has been telling  the big lie that all men and women in this country are created equally. That’s not true. We have been told equal justice under the law. That’s not true.  There has never been equal justice under law in our country.”

-Fmr. Defense Secy.  William Cohen

(credit: wikipedia)    Former Defense Secretary William Cohen and his wife, author Janet Langhart, at Border’s Bookstore off Wall Street in New York City 2006.  Mrs.  Langhart   is an African-American television journalist and anchor, and author. 

On 5 December 1996 President Clinton announced his selection of William S. Cohen as secretary of defense. Cohen, a Republican about to retire from the United States Senate, was the “right person,” Clinton said, to build on Secretary Perry’s achievements, “to secure the bipartisan support America’s armed forces must have and clearly deserve.” In responding to his nomination, Cohen said that during his congressional career he had supported a nonpartisan national security policy and commended the president for appointing a Republican to his cabinet.  Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine, on 28 August 1940. He received a B.A. in Latin from Bowdoin College (1962) and a law degree from Boston University Law School (1965).  Elected to Congress in 1972, he served three terms in the House of Representatives and won election to the Senate in 1978, and reelection in 1984 and 1990. A moderate Republican, he served on both the Senate Armed Services and Governmental Affairs Committees from 1979 to 1997 and was a member of the Senate Committee on Intelligence, 1983-91 and 1995-97.