‘Ban’ of Black Historical past Month?
Pete Hegseth, head of the Division of Protection, banned the observance of Black Historical past Month (BHM) to indicate his alignment with Trump’s anti-DEI push. Earlier than Hegseth’s transfer, the U.S. Air Pressure banned the educating of the Tuskegee Airmen. After nationwide outrage, the Air Pressure reversed its resolution. However the truth that it was even thought-about white-ing out the Tuskegee Airmen’s contributions to the historical past of this nation speaks volumes. Hegseth’s and the Air Pressure’s actions remind us why Dr. Greg Carr refuses to say Black historical past is American historical past. Why? As a result of American historical past is oppression, racism, and Black erasure. Black Historical past carried out within the U.S. is what we’ve carried out to guard and uplift ourselves. Has it aided the U.S.? Completely. However most of our (history-making) actions have been for self-preservation. Serving within the navy was, on one degree, preventing for the U.S. Nonetheless, it was much more so about preventing for victory towards U.S. racism, redlining, lynching, theft, instructional inequalities, healthcare apartheid police brutality, and so forth.
So, we don’t want different’s permission to have fun BHM, together with shouting out Beyoncé’s Grammy win for Greatest Nation & Western Album.
Say what?
In response to a number of posts on “them innernets,” Black persons are being referred to as out by our Brown brothers and sisters for not instantly coming to their support. Why the call-out? Trump-led ICE raids nationwide are seeing ICE officers bum-rush workplaces, colleges, and folks’s houses to arrest, perp-walk, lock up, after which deport 1000’s. First, the concept Black folks have remained silent whereas this act of white nationalist inhumane cruelty is being perpetrated towards our “hermanos y hermanas” is BS. Simply days in the past, congressmen Sylvester Turner and Al Inexperienced held a “rainbow coalition” of involved Black, Latinx and Asian Houston-area residents joined collectively to combat towards this White Home-led cruelty. Second, if Black folks did determine to sit down this one out, don’t come for us. That “rainbow coalition” of “allies” positive as hell left us hanging once we voted final November to guard us all from the insanity we see taking place now. However, , Blackfolk. We at all times reply once we see folks’s humanity being threatened even when it’s the humanity of those that voted towards defending us and put the ICE raid king again in workplace within the first place.
Silence of the lames
Blackfolk for Trump have been eerily silent amid 47’s first weeks in workplace insanity. And might you blame them? The Trump administration’s degree of anti-Blackness is beautiful even to those that noticed this coming. He tried to chop off already authorized tax {dollars} (our cash) earmarked for numerous applications (SNAP, Head Begin, school scholarships, veterans’ healthcare, and so forth.) to make sure no cash was being spent to additional DEI initiatives (DEI being outlined by him as “something Black”). That funding freeze was solely halted due to a decide’s courtroom order fueled by the panicked screams of white individuals who came upon that DEI touches all people (veterans, seniors, neurodivergent people, the disabled, and largely white ladies). So, googobs of whitefolk who voted for Trump felt the sting of his anti-Black coverage strikes and screamed bloody homicide. However Trump’s jock-ridding knee-grows haven’t uttered a mumbling phrase. Their silence is nearly as lame as their slavish dedication to residing in White-adjacent-ville… a minimum of till one in every of Trump’s billionaire buddy bankers forecloses on them on account of an unlawful subprime mortgage.
