Critics see Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history

[August West]

Don't try that revisionist crap with me.

So which states are still following Jim Crow laws? Where i live, Blacks don`t have to be off the streets when it gets dark, and the water fountains are no longer labeled White or Colored.

 

[jknowgood]

I am sure they did
But most did not have slavery or officially enforced second class citizenship like we did

It is our history.
It is who we are

Pretending it never happened does not change it

It's who we were. There corrected it for you.

 

[playtime]

It's who we were. There corrected it for you.

it's still who ' we ' are.

i corrected it for you.

 

[rightwinger]

It's who we were. There corrected it for you.

Until Trump

 

[TimFitz]

We have not evolved that much
With the election of Trump twice, we have devolved as a society and are erasing the progress we have made over the last 75 years

That is what the racist white right has wanted since 1954.

 

[playtime]

That is what the racist white right has wanted since 1954.

& donny's leading the way.

 

[rightwinger]

That is what the racist white right has wanted since 1954.

Up until Obama, the racists had been driven into the shadows of our society. They were still there but were afraid to voice their hatred publicly.

With Obama, they made it clear they were still here and with Trump, he made their racism acceptable again

 

[playtime]

Up until Obama, the racists had been driven into the shadows of our society. They were still there but were afraid to voice their hatred publicly.

With Obama, they made it clear they were still here and with Trump, he made their racism acceptable again

yep - started with some nasty memes & the whole born a kenyan ... then donny called the torch bearers fine people...

 

[jknowgood]

it's still who ' we ' are.

i corrected it for you.

I bet you, he doesn't own slaves. That's who we were. The great thing about America is you are free to be who you are. There corrected again.

 

[jknowgood]

Until Trump

Trump works for all Americans, and wants all of us to succeed.

 

[rightwinger]

Trump works for all Americans, and wants all of us to succeed.

 

[TimFitz]

And you are still unable to discuss the issue seriously or honestly.


IN the real world, the 3/5 compromise was the first shot, in the war on slavery.

Actually, it he little to do with slavery itself. It was for how the populations were counted. Which drove the number of seats allocated to each state in the House; and thus their power to influence the Federal government.

Up until Obama, the racists had been driven into the shadows of our society. They were still there but were afraid to voice their hatred publicly.

With Obama, they made it clear they were still here and with Trump, he made their racism acceptable again

it is true that Trumpism arose from white resentment at the fact that a black man sat in the White House. Much less the fact that he was popular and successful.

So Trump anointed himself king of the birthers.

The astroturf Tea Party movement was always about white resentment. Its followers were 95% white and Republican. They mirrored the Limbaugh and Fox audiences.

Trump launched his 2016 campaign with a racist attack. He’s still doing it.

 

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‘Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”

But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined slavery into the U.S. Constitution and declared enslaved persons as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of the Census.

Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders sharply rebuked Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” They argued that his executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution is his administration’s latest move to downplay how race, racism and Black Americans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.

“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed, or that Jim Crow laws and segregation and racial violence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.’

Critics see Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history

Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order targeting the Smithsonian Institution.

apnews.com

It doesn’t seem that way – that’s exactly what Trump is doing: to normalize and sanitize racism in American history, making racism acceptable today.

The critics are wrong

Libs want to divide America and trump doesent

 

[August West]

I bet you, he doesn't own slaves. That's who we were. The great thing about America is you are free to be who you are. There corrected again.

Would you like to wake up tomorrow as a Black man? You people think that after Lee surrendered his white trash army at Appomattox, America became color blind and there weren`t an estimated 6,500 Blacks murdered like Emmitt Till.

 

[August West]

The critics are wrong

Libs want to divide America and trump doesent

Trump wants everyone to join his Klan. No thanks.

 

[jknowgood]

Would you like to wake up tomorrow as a Black man? You people think that after Lee surrendered his white trash army at Appomattox, America became color blind and there weren`t an estimated 6,500 Blacks murdered like Emmitt Till.

I really don't care because I treat everyone the same unless they change my mind.

 

[LeftofLeft]

I am sure they did
But most did not have slavery or officially enforced second class citizenship like we did

It is our history.
It is who we are

Pretending it never happened does not change it

All of the Countries today practicing slavery and / or treating second or multi-level citizenship - these countries are predominantly non-white and non-democratic.

By Comparison, the US had a shorter tenure with slavery and officially enforcing second class laws. US had the moral compass to end both.

It is our History.
It is who we are.

 

[LeftofLeft]

We have not evolved that much
With the election of Trump twice, we have devolved as a society and are erasing the progress we have made over the last 75 years

Is slavery allowed in the US? In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, slavery is permitted.

Call US when Trump brings back Jim Crow laws and try not to conflate eliminating 60 Years of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse with Crow laws.

 

[Lisa558]

The critics are wrong

Libs want to divide America and trump doesent

Dividing America is their tactic. Their goal is its destruction as it is and turning it into a 3rd-world country with uneducated, government-dependent serfs.

 

[Lisa558]

All of the Countries today practicing slavery and / or treating second or multi-level citizenship - these countries are predominantly non-white and non-democratic.

By Comparison, the US had a shorter tenure with slavery and officially enforcing second class laws. US had the moral compass to end both.

It is our History.
It is who we are.

Correction: It is who we WERE.