Aggressive tweets, a rally on Juneteenth and other ways Trump further alienated Black voters during a crucial month.
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"It was Jared Kushner who had talked the president into hiring Brad Parscale to run a campaign that was now, just months before the election, in freefall. Parscale recommended holding the Tulsa rally on June 19. No one on Parscale’s team flagged that day. When staffers inside the Republican National Committee heard about the plans, they immediately pushed back. “Don’t do this,” Ronna McDaniel, the RNC chairwoman, told Parscale. “The media is not going to give us the benefit of the doubt, especially now.” “It will be Friday,” Trump said. “Friday night. Next week.” Juneteenth.
The backlash shocked Trump. He started quizzing everyone around him. “Do you know what [Juneteenth] is?” Trump would ask. He was surprised to find out that his administration had put out statements in each of his first three years in office commemorating Juneteenth. “Oh really?” he said.
“We put out a statement? The Trump White House put out a statement?” Each statement, put out in his name, included a description of the holiday. But such details were irrelevant to him. Instead, he insisted, “I did something good.” “I made Juneteenth very famous,” he said."
Trump is right....if it wasn't for him; nobody would even know what Juneteenth is (aside from darkies and 8 or 9 Jews).....Yea, he had no idea that people in his staff knew about it enough to issue "Happy Juneteenth" proclamations on his behalf, the fact is -- nobody who mattered knew what Juneteenth was....so thanks to Trump and how much of a disaster that Tulsa rally was last year -- now everyone knows about Juneteenth.
American schools don't teach about the horrors done against black people here. Too much of the country wants patriotic propaganda spewed at their kids, like the Chinese and Soviets.
So what happens in Black History Month?
Business as usual with a few lessons about Martin Luther King. If it were more than that, you'd be losing your mind about it.
So they dont mention downtrodden blacks in Black History Month?
What policies or system made them "downtrodden" for such a long period of time??
Were these policies systemic and widespread??
Did this has some long-lasting effect??
And how did a system like that operate for so long and supposedly went away so quickly...what happened??
I was being sarcastic. They havent been downtrodden since the 60s and everyone was downtrodden before then.
Explain how everyone was downtrodden before then?
When was this time in American history when "everyone was down trodden"??
Was there a systemic policy of dehumanizing and oppressing white folks for being white that carried on for 300 plus years?
Can you tell me about these "white code" policies that criminalized white people??
I'll wait
Yes, there are pecking orders in every society.
My grandparents grew up in abject poverty in post war Europe.
My parents were discriminated against and were white. They were not allowed to vote. Suffered job discrimination. Were homeless with 7 kids and had to live in emergency housing provided by the Church.
As a teen I was stabbed for my identity, and once had a rifle muzzle placed in my mouth by security forces. Again, because of my identity.