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official tells TMZ, after meeting with African American leaders, he believed the consensus was that the term "black" is outdated, and the more appropriate way to refer to the community is "African American."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.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
I guess I should refer to myself as Italian/Polish American. When is this BS going to stop?
It means everyone will have to adopt Trump’s name for it - which happens to correspond more closely with the current generally accepted PC term - or stay with the old term and sound racist.
Trump positioning himself as the more “progressive” - and if you don’t follow suit guess what you’re a “racist.”
Well done.
Trump has responded to the TMZ story...or rather..someone has filled TMZ in on the reality
PRESIDENT TRUMP
ALL MODERN PRESIDENTS DECLARED ‘NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH’
http://www.tmz.com/2017/02/02/black-african-american-history-month-donald-trump-presidents/
mmm....How about “Colorful Black African Negro American History Month” so we cover all bases?
They were created by presidential proclamations, they can be eliminated in the same way, but good luck getting any president to do that.
What President Trump just renamed African American History Month was created as Negro History Week in 1926. It became Black History Month by the action of President Gerald Ford in 1976.
Any group can apply for a presidential proclamation if enough people sign petitions.
An even better example, I wasn’t sure if LL had become a US citizen.
Presidential Proclamation: National African American History Month, 2013
By The President of The United States of America
A Proclamation
In America, we share a dream that lies at the heart of our founding: that no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter how modest your beginnings or the circumstances of your birth, you can make it if you try. Yet, for many and for much of our Nation’s history, that dream has gone unfulfilled. For African Americans, it was a dream denied until 150 years ago, when a great emancipator called for the end of slavery. It was a dream deferred less than 50 years ago, when a preacher spoke of justice and brotherhood from Lincoln’s memorial. This dream of equality and fairness has never come easily — but it has always been sustained by the belief that in America, change is possible.
Today, because of that hope, coupled with the hard and painstaking labor of Americans sung and unsung, we live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach for people of every color and creed. National African American History Month is a time to tell those stories of freedom won and honor the individuals who wrote them. We look back to the men and women who helped raise the pillars of democracy, even when the halls they built were not theirs to occupy. We trace generations of African Americans, free and slave, who risked everything to realize their God-given rights. We listen to the echoes of speeches and struggle that made our Nation stronger, and we hear again the thousands who sat in, stood up, and called out for equal treatment under the law. And we see yesterday’s visionaries in tomorrow’s leaders, reminding us that while we have yet to reach the mountaintop, we cannot stop climbing.
Today, Dr. King, President Lincoln, and other shapers of our American story proudly watch over our National Mall. But as we memorialize their extraordinary acts in statues and stone, let us not lose sight of the enduring truth that they were citizens first. They spoke and marched and toiled and bled shoulder-to-shoulder with ordinary people who burned with the same hope for a brighter day. That legacy is shared; that spirit is American. And just as it guided us forward 150 years ago and 50 years ago, it guides us forward today. So let us honor those who came before by striving toward their example, and let us follow in their footsteps toward the better future that is ours to claim.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2013 as National African American History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/31/presidential-proclamation-national-african-american-history-month-2013
Or "darkee" history month. It changes depending on the decade, and it is so dumb. My adult daughter got testy with me because I was telling my granddaughter some history about whites traveling the world in centuries past. Daughter chided me to not call them whites in front of her daughter, but to refer to them as Europeans. She doesn't want her hearing "white" or "black", comparing it to being swear words. WTF? Young people are too PC and it's silly and dumb.
Now you're getting it! :)
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