The hashtag #RestInPeace was trending on Monday afternoon on Twitter after it was announced that Gen. Colin Powell, former secretary of state, died at 84 years of age from Covid-19 related complications
"After a distinguished career of service, General Powell's final legacy was to put country over party at a time when it was difficult to do so. May he rest in peace," wrote Rhode Island's Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse .
"He brought people together, in part because he went to the people and heard what they had to say and then went to the other side and listened to what they had to say," explained Dr. Robert A. Sanders, retired U.S. navy Judge Advocate General's Corps , and chair of the national security department at the University of New Haven.
@All_Things_HND, an unverified social media account calling for true democracy in Central America, retweeted an old post that linked Gen. Powell to El Salvador's former President José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes and the Salvadoran military's death squads. Such responses were not a surprise to Dr. Sanders, who told this reporter,"It is par for the course when a great man like Gen. Powell passes, but it is also par for the course when a great black man passes – there are those who look to assassinate his legacy. It is unfortunate; it is past unfortunate, it is sad."
"Yes, Colin Powell was vaccinated. But he also had blood cancer, which devastates the immune system. What his tragic death illustrates isn't the futility of vaccines but the importance of everyone else getting vaccinated to protect society's most vulnerable," wrote Slate contributing writer Tim Requarth .
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