“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black,
examines the issues and what’s at stake for Black America
Donald Trump hosting a Black History Month celebration at the White House, packed with shallow symbolism over substance?
I expect nothing less from Trump — but the reaction from the mostly Black audience in the East Room of the White House? That was embarrassingly disconnected from recent history.
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Trump walked on stage with legendary Black golfer Tiger Woods, who once told Oprah Winfrey he described himself as “Cablinasian,” and he spent a good deal of his time on stage shouting out the Black Republicans in the audience.
But those East Room Black People were either in deep denial or deep REM sleep in recent months.
No one in the audience questioned why Trump’s Secretary of Defense canceled Black History Month events at the Pentagon or removed a Tuskegee Airmen video from Air Force training.
No one complained about Trump revoking the 1965 executive order that banned racial discrimination in government employment and by government contractors.
As long as they got to smile in front of the white man in the White House, the East Room Black People were all good.
No one objected to Trump’s recent attempt to blame a tragic airplane crash on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or his administration’s ban on DEI throughout the federal government.
And no one mentioned Trump’s ongoing effort to repeal the 14th Amendment, which gave Black people birthright citizenship in 1868.
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