Now I understand Trump’s DEI strategy. He ordered the government to get rid of all mentions of Black American contributions and achievements so that he could then lie and claim it was actually done by Democrats. He’ll then say, “nobody cared about these great Americans until I came along and honored them as they should be honored.
You think I’m kidding?
The National Garden of American Heroes, which Trump originally announced during his first term, will include multiple Black heroes, he announced in a proclamation on Tuesday.
- The park will “honor our greatest Americans, including black icons like Booker T. Washington, Jackie Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King, Muhammad Ali, and many others,” the action reads.
- Trump praised abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens, poet Phillis Wheatley, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and economist Thomas Sowell.
The president also recognized Prince Estabrook, who served in the Revolutionary War while enslaved, and Lemuel Haynes, who is widely recognized as the first Black man in America to be ordained by a Protestant church.
- Trump called them “black patriots” and said “as President, I am fighting to restore the Nation that these titans helped build.”
What?
Trump also used the occasion to slam “the progressive movement and far-left politicians,” as has become a tradition in his White House commemorations.
- They “needlessly divide our citizens on the basis of race, painting a toxic and distorted and disfigured vision of our history, heritage, and heroes,” he said.
See? It’s the left that’s made everything worse for Black America. Trump is their greatest champion.
I assume most people won’t believe this crap but you never know. A reminder:
Trump’s Black History Month announcement comes amid his administration’s broader suppression of Black history and culture across the U.S. as well as diversity and inclusion efforts in corporations, hospitals, federal government agencies and beyond.
In contrast to Trump’s Black History Month gesture, his administration has eroded bedrock civil rights measures and dealt unprecedented blows to institutions for their efforts to represent and include Black people, as well as other marginalized groups.[…]
Trump expressed support in his proclamation for Black History Month celebrations, which his administration has targeted in the past year. In response to his executive order last year banning DEI initiatives, the Pentagon’s intelligence agency paused special event programs and related events, including ones for Black History Month.
I’m sure they’ll just pretend that never happened even though they blackmailed countless institutions into abandoning their efforts to recruit qualified Black people, proclaiming such measures to be discrimination against white people. The assault on DEI has been comprehensive throughout the government and more broadly throughout society. Trump proclaiming himself a hero for restoring their place in history is enough to give you a blinding headache.