Donald Trump’s second flip as President has been outlined by his fixed overreaching.
And we aren’t even a month into his second time period.
Trump and his administration raised some eyebrows once they declared an finish to id months, together with Black Historical past Month. As we all know, February has lengthy been recognized as Black Historical past Month, and each president has signed a proclamation declaring this month as Black Historical past Month since 1976.
Trump did signal the proclamation, however what if he hadn’t?
Black People have at all times celebrated February—the shortest month of the calendar 12 months—as a time to honor our tradition, accomplishments, and desires for the longer term. We don’t want anyone’s permission for that.
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Nevertheless it was sort of Trump and his Secretary of Protection, Pete Hegseth, to present us the okay to have Black Historical past Month. The one factor is that the work of Carter G. Woodson and the accomplishments of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Barack Obama, and numerous others had lengthy given us the everlasting go-ahead.
What’s absurd and hypocritical is the entire anti-DEI and affirmative motion insurance policies this present White Home is pushing however nonetheless has the audacity to say Black Historical past Month.
In our newest episode, the Defender Roundtable panel discusses Black Historical past Month and the way don’t want anybody’s permission to have a good time our heritage and the accomplishments of Black People.
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