How Black Americans Thrived Without Government Assistance: A Legacy of Resilience.

How Black Americans Thrived Without Government Assistance: A Legacy of Resilience.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The 47^th President has attacked our government like a bull in a China closet.  He is doing his best to upend precedent and policy, as he promised that he would.

He has issued hundreds of executive orders, pardoned convicted criminals (like himself), manipulated the truth through websites, abolished DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion measures), putting hundreds on administrative leave, and caused more damage in just a few days than most do in a lifetime.  Additionally, wholesale deportations of undocumented people have shattered families, disrupted communities, and upended some international relationships.

Wow!  The folks who chose to stay home during this election are regretting it.  There were those who said that he wouldn’t be “so bad”, but he has been worse than we could ever have imagined.  But it is what most voters, that is those who were not suppressed out, chose.

The Department of Defense, zealous acolytes genuflecting at the President’s anti-DEI stance, decided to scrub references to the Tuskegee Airmen in their Air Force training videos.  Within days, his morally compromised choice and marginally selected Secretary of Defense reversed that decision.  The Tuskegee Airmen videos are back in.  This is not cause for celebration.  The fact that the anti-DEI forces that now reign could attempt to erase history, and they will continue to attempt to rewrite reality.  Erasing the Tuskegee Airmen is at the tip of the iceberg.

These people are so creative that they can turn a violent insurrection into a benign Capitol tour, although who comes to a Capitol tour with weapons and bear spray?  The violent, rabid, insurrection crowd has been described by the current President as “peaceful” “hostages”, even as many have been convicted of assault against law enforcement officers.  If they can erase the unlawful actions of January 6, they can attempt to erase the massive contributions of African American people to this country.  We will not be erased.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, founder of Negro History Week, now African American History Month, established our historical presence because of our nation’s tendency to forget injustice.  Many, like Presidential sidekick Elon Musk, who has encouraged Germans to move “past guilt” of the Holocaust, indeed exhorting them not to “lose” their culture “in some sort of multiculturalism”.  He is the Trump whisperer, and it is likely that he and 47 are having similar conversations about the role that multiculturalism has in contemporary society.  They don’t want to go back and embrace our flawed past. Instead, they’d prefer to swallow our difference with a since of misplaced pride in our past.  Make America Great Again?  Really, when was it ever great for the exploited.

The unsuccessful attempt to erase Tuskegee from Air Force training tapes is not the worst thing this administration has done.  Abruptly halting federal grand programs, including food assistance, impact millions and is an unnecessary flexing of power muscles.  Peremptorily and illegally firing inspectors general in several government departments is a bullying tactic.  Somebody does not want inspectors general because they do not want illegal actions to be inspected.  With skillful manipulation of the facts, there are those who can characterize them as justified, no illegal and non-Constitutional acts.  We are in an era in which truth doesn’t matter.

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