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Trump changes name of Black History Month!!!!

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.... and decides to call it African-American History Month. He's such a racist bastard.
 
American said:
.... and decides to call it African-American History Month. He's such a racist bastard.
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All he did was call it something else.... like other presidents have done.

Did President Trump Rename 'Black History Month' to 'African-American History Month'?

Although it’s true that President Trump used the term “African-American History Month” in his proclamation, it’s disingenuous to say that he “renamed” the observance or to suggest that he was the first president to apply that terminology. In fact, the terms “Black History Month” and “African-American History Month” have been nearly interchangeable since President Gerald Ford issued the first proclamation concerning the observance.

President Ford used the term “Black History Month” in 1976, but Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush all used the term “National African American History” month in at least one of their yearly proclamations. Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, used a combination of the two terms and honored “National Afro-American (Black) History Month.”

Legislation concerning the month-long observance has also gone back and forth between the two descriptors. In 1996, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution commemorating “Black History Month and contributions of African-American United States Senators,” but when Congress passed a similar measure in 1986 designating February as a national month of observance, they employed the term “Black (Afro-American) History Month.”

TMZ edited their article to state that “Donald Trump, turns out, did not officially change Black History Month to National African American History Month … it’s been that way for decades.”
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But don't worry, he's still a racist bastard. ;)
 
He should have ended it.
 
I'll still call it Black History Month. Or as many of us prefer to pronounce it.....February.

I think using the term "African-American" is silly. No one goes around calling me European American, even though my grandparents' parents were German. I'm just American. And I'm white.

Also, never been a fan of "Black History Month". It's actually a pretty terrible idea, no matter how you slice it.
 
Mac77 said:
Sez the lib as she whistles past the grave yard

Trump is reaching out to black voters and that is a dagger at the heart of the democrat party
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How exactly is saying "African American History Month" instead of "Black History Month" reaching out to black voters?
 
Spartacus FPV said:
Agreed!

"You're going to relegate my history to a month? What do we do with yours? Which month is white history?" - Morgan Freeman

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This question from that video is stupid, imho:

"How are we going to stop racism"

How in the hell does a freaking month that no one pays attention to fight racism anyway? No really, it's mentioned in school a few times when kids are growing up and do any of them pay a bit of mind to it? Nope. After that, how often does it come up in persons life? Ever? No? Yeah, exactly. It never comes up. It's that thing that exists that we are all supposed to care about, but no one does.

It's kind of racist, it's pointless, and it's frankly just dumb. Like Freeman said, Black history is American history. People need to stop acting like it is separate from everything else. We are did this **** together, didn't we? Blacks couldn't have gotten their rights in the 60's without whites, right? Yeah, so what the ****, why the separation? Bring it together!
 
With respect to the color spectrum, Blacks are not black. And whites are not white. That said, I would rather be called "White" than "honky" (whatever that term was supposed to mean).
At the end of the day, the terminology (as long as it isn't offensive) isn't a big deal. The sentiment behind it is what matters.
 
It's the shortest month! #raycess
 
His antisemitism's been noticed too...

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Mac77 said:
Sez the lib as she whistles past the grave yard

Trump is reaching out to black voters and that is a dagger at the heart of the democrat party
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Hopefully he comes up with a more useful message than the unbelievably insulting GOP theme, aimed blindly by the GOP at black people: that the availability of safety net benefits from Democrats' programs is so enticing that black people cannot resist the lure, choose not to work, become "enslaved" by those programs, and then only vote for the Democratic Party to protect those benefits.

If I was a black person and I heard the GOP's message that I'm enslaved by safety net programs, it would take one hell of a great GOP candidate for me to vote in their favor; in fact, I could probably only consider voting for a GOP candidate who had the basic humany decency to think about what that message actually communicates and come up with a different one.





Small wonder they overwhelmingly vote Democrat when Republicans are telling them that they're so lazy they choose not to work because safety net benefits.
 
American said:
.... and decides to call it African-American History Month. He's such a racist bastard.
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I hate that term. I know two African-Americans (5 if you count a good friends 3 adopted children), both are naturalized American citizens and both are blue-eyed white people (I can't speak to the color of their hair, since both are bald as an egg). It's sad that we can't past the fact that blacks are American, just as whites are American. Putting people into little subsets that are really inaccurate is bad for our society. Now don't get me wrong, I have no issue with people being proud of their heritage, but at some point, we need to stop lumping people into nice convenient categories that are all too often wrong or horribly out-dated. I'm a 4th generation Norwegian and I'm probably closer to my "Viking" roots than most black people in America are to their "Hutu" roots. Yet I don't go around calling myself a Norse-American and no calls me a Norse-American. So when do we stop verbally segregating people???
 
Mr Person said:
Hopefully he comes up with a more useful message than the unbelievably insulting GOP theme, aimed blindly by the GOP at black people: that the availability of safety net benefits from Democrats' programs are so enticing that black people cannot resist the lure and become "enslaved" by those programs, and being slaved in turn to the Democratic Party.

If I was a black person and I heard the message that I'm enslaved by safety net programs, it would take one hell of a great GOP candidate for me to vote in their favor; in fact, I could probably only consider voting for a GOP candidate who had the basic humany decency to think about what that message actually communicates and come up with a different one.
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I hate run on sentences because they run on and on and on and they are hard to follow the meaning of the sentence when everything that is said in on sentence should have been put in a whole freaking paragraph but no, they just put everything on one sentence so that it is hard to figure out and follow the thought process of the whole paragraph crammed into one sentence. The Democrats don't want the Republicans to be successful in helping out the African American community as the African American community might realize how the Democrat party has baffled them with bull**** for the past 20 or so years but hasn't done anything to actually help them, like with unemployment where they are worse off since Obama was elected than they were before and the racial divide that has increased since Obama became president where he also just played lip service to the blacks and never did a damn thing for them like a normal Democrat as reflected in Clinton's loss of support from the black community where they didn't show up to vote in a non vote of non confidence and the panic of her campaign to try to blow more bull**** up the ass of the black community by promising even more crap that they weren't going to deliver because they just might be stupid enough to buy it yet again, which a lot of them weren't as they are disappointed by being abandoned by the party that keeps promising same said aforementioned ****.

The writing in your post atrocious.
 
americanwoman said:
How exactly is saying "African American History Month" instead of "Black History Month" reaching out to black voters?
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It's not

Those are separate events
 
Mr Person said:
Hopefully he comes up with a more useful message than the unbelievably insulting GOP theme, aimed blindly by the GOP at black people: that the availability of safety net benefits from Democrats' programs is so enticing that black people cannot resist the lure, choose not to work, become "enslaved" by those programs, and then only vote for the Democratic Party to protect those benefits.

If I was a black person and I heard the GOP's message that I'm enslaved by safety net programs, it would take one hell of a great GOP candidate for me to vote in their favor; in fact, I could probably only consider voting for a GOP candidate who had the basic humany decency to think about what that message actually communicates and come up with a different one.

Small wonder they overwhelmingly vote Democrat when Republicans are telling them that they're so lazy they choose not to work because safety net benefits.
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Do you consider welfare a "black" program?

Neither do I

Yet why republicans talk about reducing welfare or ending it entirely they are called racists who just hate black people
 
I would rather see a thread about changing Presidents Day to April 1 in honor of "The Donald". He is far too superior to use the same day that the other presidents did.
 
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