Colin Powell was one of two Republicans and John McCain that I would have voted for, but as black men, he ran against history, and life was changed forever for black people we-could be President. This is another turning point in history. Black men are in jail at record numbers and Covid that was preventable all we had to do is wear a mask but like smallpox the majority population are kind of immune to Covid 19; they are not dying at the same rates. It’s sad to me the Republicans allowed Trump to Kill over 370,000 Americans because he did not believe in science and when he found out it was killing mostly black and brown people he decided to open the country up. Then George Floyd happened and people went to the streets and the rest is history. Now Colin Powell, a former life long Republican, can no longer go along with the Republicans. It is a sad day in America. American hates black people so much they will give away the freedom of America to keep racism. The other republicans should have impeached him the first time. Now we have to live with how Trump sold out Americans. He is about to be gone and I can not be happier.
Colin Powell, in full Colin Luther Powell, (born April 5, 1937, New York, New York, U.S.), U.S. general and statesman. He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–93) and secretary of state (2001–05), the first African American to hold either position.
The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell grew up in the Harlem and South Bronx sections of New York City and attended the City College of New York (B.S., 1958), serving in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). He entered the army upon graduation, served in Vietnam in 1962–63 and 1968–69, and then studied at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In 1972 he took his first political position, as a White House fellow, and soon became an assistant to Frank Carlucci, then deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He held various posts over the next few years, in the Pentagon and elsewhere, and in 1983 became senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. In 1987 he joined the staff of the National Security Council as deputy to Carlucci, then assistant to the president for national security affairs. Late in 1987 Pres. Ronald Reagan appointed Powell to succeed Carlucci. Early in 1989 Powell took over the Army Forces Command.
In April 1989 Powell became a four-star general, and in August Pres. George Bush nominated him chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As chairman, he played a leading role in planning the invasion of Panama (1989) and the Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations of the Persian Gulf crisis and war (August 1990–March 1991; see Persian Gulf War). He retired from the military in 1993, sparking speculation that he would enter politics. Although he decided not to run for president in 1996, he joined the Republican Party and spoke out on national issues.
In 2001 he was appointed secretary of state by Pres. George W. Bush. Powell unsuccessfully sought broader international support for the Iraq War. His controversial speech before the United Nations (February 2003) was later revealed to be based on faulty intelligence. Considered a political moderate in an administration dominated by hard-liners, Powell saw his influence in the White House wane, and he announced his resignation in 2004, shortly after Bush’s reelection; he was succeeded by Condoleezza Rice in 2005. Powell’s books include the autobiography My American Journey (1995; written with Joseph E. Persico) and It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership (2012; written with Tony Koltz).
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