No question that it’s wrong, just as wrong as your side removing statues all around the country. History is history so all need to leave it alone and learn from it.From the Tuskegee Airmen to Jackie Robinson to the Black Museum to now Harriet Tubman. Flavor Aiders explain to me, why mess with Harriet Tubman and other black figures in history? Why is it important for y'all to remove black history.
National Park Service restores Harriet Tubman feature on webpage after criticism over removal
Tubman’s photo and quote have been added back to the page after two months.abcnews.go.com
There is a difference between honoring historical figures and learning about historical figures. There is a place in the history books and museums for people like Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinson and the jacked up traitorous racists like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. However, the line is drawn when it’s comes to honoring historical figures with statues, monuments, and naming military bases. Again, and we can even put obvious racism of these statues aside for now. Why would a country like the US allow and honor with statues men like Lee and Jackson, who were traitors, that killed or led men in battle to kill US soldiers? That alone is troublesome. But yet we have true heroes in America like Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Navajo Code Talkers, Tuskegee Airmen to name a few that a presidential administration would attempt to erase their history. Then to top all of this this same administration would rename a US military base back to the original name of Fort Bragg, the racist confederate.
DEI is fundamentally racist, so this admin is the most anti-racist since Grant.
That is absolutely true.
Black history is American history. So acknowledging the accomplishments of black historical figures like Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinson, who before baseball was a member of the WW2 black tank battalion called “The Black Panthers” in the Battle of the Bulge among others is racist? How is that racist? Give me a break. Who’s crying victim now? So, you have absolutely no interest in learning more about Harriet Tubman? Did did a lot more than free slaves. She became a spy for the Union Army. That’s not important in American history?
You don't understand the historical perspective of naming military bases after Confederates. It wasn't about racism. Circa WWI the US needed a lot of troops from the South yet there was still a great deal of bitterness among Southerners about the Civil War and the “Union Army.” To recruit troops in the area, the Army allowed the local communities to name the bases. This ploy was successful and many sons of the Confederacy joined the US Army.
I said DEI is fundamentally racist, not honoring black heroes or any other color of heroes.
That's part of why I said about the statues put aside racism for now and let me ask you. Do you actually agree that statues and military bases should be honored by erecting or named after traitorous soldiers that killed or led men in battle to kill US soldiers? Now putting racism back in this. Confederate statutes, military bases, bridges, flags etc. are very offensive to blacks. Any attempt to keep these in place is considered racist and upholding white supremacy. Plus most of these statues were erected during the height of Jim Crow.
Why do they want to erase the accomplishments of black historical figures as part this anti-DEI bs?
Trump doesn't want to. The mistakes sound like the routine bureaucratic incompetence that afflicts all levels of government.
As I said before, the naming of military bases and statues/bridges are not one in the same. Allowing those bases to be named by Southern locals was the brainstorm of the federal government. There was a lot of bitterness in the South that had nothing to do with slavery or racism. What Sherman did to Atlanta was nothing but flat-out cruelty. At the time that it was done, allowing Southern locals to name bases was extending an olive branch.
This is more than bureaucratic incompetence. This was done on purpose.
No offense, but I think there are a lot of black people that you don't speak for.
I don’t speak for anyone. However, as far as this forum I try to give a black perspective of the topics we talk about. I’ve been black all my life. I know my folks and their views of many topics from every day life interacting with family and friends to listening to black talk radio. For example, you kinda brought up Justice Thomas and Sowell due to the WH document that you posted. I can say most blacks do not have any high regard for Justice Clarence Thomas. Most blacks do not know who Thomas Sowell is. Most of the ones that do know Sowell do not put him in high regard either.
You have a black liberal democrat perspective. Where do we go for the black conservative Republican perspective?
Yep, that’s because most blacks are progressive. I rather use progressive rather than liberal as y’all made liberal a bad name.
Sure you can say it, like you say all kinds of dubious things, but can you back it up with any polling?
Nope. I was finished with Justice Thomas after one of his first decisions when he ruled against affirmative action way before I started listening to talk radio. Then there was other decisions that was against the way blacks wanted the supreme court to decide on.
If DJT is so out of touch with blacks, how is it that more blacks voted for him than any other Republican this time? Most blacks are intelligent enough to understand what President Donald Trump means to their future. Haters and rabble rousers in the black community will still want to be enslaved by the Democrat party and cry "wolf" until their voices are gone.
Affirmative action and gutting the 1964 Voting Rights Act to name a few.
You are correct about one thing. Most blacks are intelligent enough to understand what Chump means to their future. These same black folks know, without any threat of contradiction, that Chump is a racist and white supremacist. And the current state of the republican party is not far behind. The democrats seemingly putting their eggs in one basket with the gay and transgender crap has been the so called equalizer in recent election cycles. The gay and transgender crap is one of the main contributors to why Harris lost. This led to a lower voter turn out this time, which favors republicans in most elections, as folks were turned off not voting to Harris. Then could not bring themselves to vote for a jacked person like Chump. Lower black turn out this election followed this trend.
Harris lost because she's not very bright. Blacks, whites, Latino's, and Asians all knew that and didn't support her. And before you say anything, this old white guy would have gladly voted for Condi Rice.
I get it. You are only bright if you are conservative.
Obama. He's very smart but in the wrong party.
"Bright Democrat" is an oxymoron.
Although she isn't afraid of "no" president, someone should show her how to turn the Mic on
Good golly...I sure hope these Dems keep on promoting that kind of rhetoric. Trump might get four terms.
Have to admit, that was some outstanding ghetto screeching.
what compels a person to vote for her and what does her legal issues have to do with "Come on ladies., it is up to us. We've saved this democracy before...it's up to us"
Agree...Wonder what democracy she thinks they 'saved' before?
How did you like her screeching? Authentic?
To say that it’s ghetto screeching is quite a stretch. Quite racist actually. Yelling yes. Ghetto no. Y’all are a piece of work.
