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Nicely, it occurred, y’all. After his anti-diversity warpath precipitated uncertainty amongst a number of federal businesses as as to whether Black Historical past Month ought to even be acknowledged, President Donald Trump hosted a reception in honor of the Black historical past Republicans are decided to whitewash on the White Home on Thursday. The Washington Publish described attendees on the occasion contained in the East Room as “predominantly Black and overwhelmingly male,” which probably means Trump’s folks scoured the Sunken Place delivering “Black jobs” to all of the MAGA-fied Black pals who most likely don’t know any Black girls prepared to be their plus one.
In keeping with the Publish, Trump entered the room alongside legendary golfer Tiger Woods. (You simply know he needed to ask like 9 folks, “He’s positively black, proper?” earlier than reserving Tiger.) Trump additionally introduced in conservative broadcasters like Sage Steele — whose title he couldn’t bear in mind when she hosted a marketing campaign occasion for him final yr — and Herschel Walker, one of many solely unqualified Black folks white conservatives ever fought to offer a job often held by white males when he didn’t seize a seat to characterize Georgia within the U.S. Senate in 2022. (To be honest, he was up towards one other Black man, so the MAGAts have been most likely considering, “What’s a little bit DEI hire-on-DEI rent crime?”)
Exterior of Trump’s Black conservative roundup, the White Home invited Boosie Badazz, Kodak Black and an assortment of different rappers whose music Republicans traditionally tried to criminalize earlier than they found they really wanted Black folks to considerably like them.
Predictably, Trump did his song-and-dance political posturing in regards to the significance of celebrating Black “legends” and the way America, beneath his thumb, might be an America the place all races thrive — however he was cautious to not utter a single phrase about his anti-DEI insurance policies, which might have contradicted his complete performative shtick.
From the Publish:
“At the moment we pay tribute to the generations of Black legends, champions, warriors and patriots who helped drive our nation ahead to greatness. And you actually are nice, nice folks,” Trump mentioned on the occasion. “We’re going to sit up for honoring the contributions of numerous Black People who fought to win and defend and increase American freedom from the very, very starting.”
Like many conservatives, Trump has lengthy argued that DEI packages, which have been created to encourage extra various workplaces and cut back discrimination, are themselves discriminatory. That is still the White Home’s place: Lower than two hours earlier than the celebration within the East Room, White Home deputy chief of workers Stephen Miller celebrated Trump’s anti-DEI strikes in a information convention, claiming that the packages had “crippled” the USA. With out offering proof, he mentioned that DEI initiatives had “strangled our economic system” and “undermined public security.”
Ah, sure. Let’s have a good time these “Black legends, champions, warriors and patriots who” risked their lives to make sure Black folks had the best to vote simply so, generations later, Trump may completely goal voting districts with massive Black and Latino populations along with his 2020 election fraud lie, which led to Republican legislators using the momentum to justify vote suppression legal guidelines and the redistricting of their states’ congressional maps with the expressed objective of decreasing Black voting energy.
Let’s have a good time these heroes who “fought to win” the civil rights protections that Trump’s anti-DEI govt orders eroded.
Let’s maintain straight faces as Black historical past is acknowledged by the commander-in-chief who declared he has “performed extra for the Black Neighborhood than any President since Abraham Lincoln,” and in contrast himself to Nelson Mandela a number of instances earlier than signing govt orders on behalf of white beneficiaries of South African apartheid.
Let’s all come collectively and fake it’s completely acceptable that the president who spearheaded the white-and-eternally-fragile propaganda assault on essential race principle is identical president to face behind a podium and declare he’s trying ahead “to honoring the contributions of numerous Black People” whose tales he doesn’t need to be taught in faculties except they’ve been edited to assuage delicate Caucasian sensibilities by morphing a narrative about American white supremacy to 1 about American the Aristocracy.
The orangey-white man who led the racist birther assault on America’s first Black president — that’s who we should always take heed to about “honoring the contributions of numerous Black People.”
(I’m actually unsure if I’m laying the sarcasm on thick sufficient right here.)
Trump internet hosting a BHM celebration after making allegedly underqualified Black individuals who take jobs from certified white males the face of his anti-DEI propaganda marketing campaign is simply the tip of the white supremacist iceberg that’s Trump’s hypocrisy. It will have been higher if the White Home really did decline to acknowledge BHM in any respect.
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