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DONALD TRUMP: I'VE 86'D BLACK HISTORY MONTH It's Now African American History Month
tmz ^ | 2/2/17 | tmz

Posted on 02/02/2017 9:59:07 AM PST by RummyChick

Donald Trump has changed Black History Month to National African American History month, and we know why. A senior administration official tells TMZ, after meeting with African American leaders, he believed the consensus was that the term "black" is outdated, and the more appropriate way to refer to the community is "African American." The official added, Trump was mindful of the new addition to the Smithsonian ... the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Every U.S. president since 1976 had designated February as Black History Month ... same sentiment, different name.

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To: RummyChick

Great. Ask any black who is the leader of Africa??

Name the African nations??

Explain the African style of Government??


61 posted on 02/02/2017 11:00:24 AM PST by TheNext (REPEAL requires simple 50% Majority, not 60%)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Why did the word “Negro” go away.

It didn't. Blac...er...I mean, African Americans use it all the time. More as a form of emphasis over their usual favorite standby,  n!§§€r.

62 posted on 02/02/2017 11:05:09 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave. - - Ronaldus Magnus Reagan)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Most black people I know refer to themselves as “Black”. They’re not African.

Right. This was an unnecessary move by Trump that doesn't fix anything.

63 posted on 02/02/2017 11:05:36 AM PST by plain talk
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To: MayflowerMadam

Trump is playing a game with them. If that’s what they want and it costs nothing, give it to them.

I wish blacks would spend as much energy and time cleaning up their problems. What they call themselves is the least of their problems.

I personally don’t care what they want to be called. When they have a white history month or a white congressional caucus - I might begin to care.


64 posted on 02/02/2017 11:08:49 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: RummyChick

Regardless what our President or anyone else wants to call it, it’s still pandering and it’s still February.


65 posted on 02/02/2017 11:10:40 AM PST by tomkat
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To: RummyChick

What about Caribbean Americans? Now they don’t have a month to celebrate.


66 posted on 02/02/2017 11:11:23 AM PST by Squeako (You can lead a progressive to water, but can you make him drown?)
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To: RummyChick

A List of Commemorative Months & Days
January:
Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday (Third Monday of January)
Robert E. Lee Day (January 19)
Confederate Heroes Day (January 19)

February:
President’s Day
African American History Month
African American Coaches Day (Feb 7)
Man Day (Feb 12)
NAACP Day (Feb 12)
Frederick Douglass Day (Feb 14)

March:
Women’s History Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
Greek-American Heritage Month
St. Urho’s Day (Finnish-American) (Mar 16)
St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)
Greek Independence Day (March 25)
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic (March 25)

April:
Arab-American Heritage Month
Tartan (Scottish-American) Heritage Month
Confederate History Month
Tartan Day (April 6)
Confederate Memorial Day (Varies depending on the state, usually on April 26 or June 3)

May:
South Asian Heritage Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Latino Books Month

June:
Flag Day
Caribbean American Heritage Month
International Men’s Month
Gay/Lesbian Pride Month
Black Music Month
Juneteenth (Emancipation Proclamation Day)
Kamehameha Day (June 11)
Honor America Days (June 14-July 4)
Midsummer Day (Swedish Holiday celebrated in various places in America)

July:
Independence Day
French-American Heritage Month
Bastille Day (July 14)

August:
Lughnasa (Irish Pagan Holiday) (August 1)
International Lefthander’s Day (Aug 13) (Because we lefty’s need our own damn day)
National Navajo Code Talkers Day (Aug 14)

September
Constitution Day
Bourbon Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
German-American Heritage Month
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week
Mayflower Day (September 16)
Trail of Tears Commemoration Day (September 16)
Ancestor Appreciation Day (September 27)

October:
Filipino American History Month
Polish-American Heritage Month
LGBT History Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
German-American Day (October 6)
International African Diaspora Day (October 7)
Columbus Day (October 8)
Native American Day (October 8)
Leif Erikson Day (October 9)
General Pulaski Memorial Day (October 11)

November:
Veterans’ Day
American Indian Heritage Month
Alaska Native Heritage Month
Dutch American Heritage Day (November 16) (Unofficial)


67 posted on 02/02/2017 11:11:58 AM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: Cobra64

I don’t see a hyphen.


68 posted on 02/02/2017 11:12:34 AM PST by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: Nero Germanicus

Many of these days/months need to be reviewed and perhaps deep-sixed in the spirit of unity. Singling out special groups to be celebrated is un-American.


69 posted on 02/02/2017 11:16:28 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: tomkat

Good post, tomkat. Ditto!

~R


70 posted on 02/02/2017 11:18:09 AM PST by ResisTyr (esistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: chris37

I agree. He wants them to know that he cares about their communities and this is one small way to do it. It’s perhaps a beginning to bring the community to understanding that they have been the victims of the democratic policies for a long time.


71 posted on 02/02/2017 11:18:47 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: RummyChick

And what will it be changed to in 20 years time? Pathetic.


72 posted on 02/02/2017 11:22:02 AM PST by ResisTyr (esistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kickass Conservative

My mom was part scotch part soda


73 posted on 02/02/2017 11:36:34 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: JayElBee

I always check Native American and they look at me and say How?

I call them racist dirt bags don’t talk to me like that again


74 posted on 02/02/2017 11:38:49 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: RummyChick

They’re still gonna complain about being short-changed because February only has 28 days.


75 posted on 02/02/2017 11:40:15 AM PST by rllngrk33 (Things have been getting better since January 20, 2017.)
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To: RummyChick

Bad move by Trump. Singling out any race or class of people for ANYTHING in America is divisive & wrong, PERIOD!


76 posted on 02/02/2017 11:40:45 AM PST by ResisTyr (esistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: RummyChick

Should have been changed to : Americans of African Descent Month.

Nothing should go before Americans as it only further divides us.


77 posted on 02/02/2017 11:46:51 AM PST by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: RummyChick

A change to Black American would have been good. It would make the proper distinction as to who is being referenced. Not all blacks are Americans, obviously, and not all black Americans are of African origin directly.

African American is an absurd term that would only realistically apply to naturalized Americans from Africa who could potentially be of any race on the planet. Even their offspring would be natural born Americans and therefore not African-anything.

It is still imprecise as Africa is not a nation. Properly, a naturalized American from the African continent would be a Kenyan-American, Sudanese-American, Egyptian-American, South African-American and so on. Those would be correct, but unnecessary, epithets for them.


78 posted on 02/02/2017 11:48:15 AM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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To: winner3000

Who gives a crap! This is so minor as to be at the minutia level.


79 posted on 02/02/2017 11:49:08 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: RummyChick

What are we going to do with "Tuvaluan Americans"?

How about "Turkmen Americans"?   (That "Turkmen" adjective applies to people from Turkmenistan, even their women.)

80 posted on 02/02/2017 12:01:47 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin)
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