{"id":91861,"date":"2025-01-28T20:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/trump-directs-state-department-to-ignore-black-history-month\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T20:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:02:42","slug":"trump-directs-state-department-to-ignore-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/trump-directs-state-department-to-ignore-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump directs State Department to ignore Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2769745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Justin Sullivan \/ Getty<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s presidency is barely a week old, and the foolishness, f***ery, and foul play are in full effect. BOSSIP has previously reported on Trump\u2019s Justice Department freezing all civil rights litigation, his decision to end <a href=\"https:\/\/newsone.com\/5510318\/dei-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs<\/a>, and his reckless release of January 6 convicts from prison. This man and his band of bootlicking bandits are working at warp speed to ruin the lives of millions of Americans because, as writer Adam Serwer so poignantly posited, the cruelty is the point.<\/p>\n<p>In his latest effort to denigrate, desecrate, and divide, Trump sent a directive to the State Department that they should observe and respect \u201cthe spirit\u201d of his anti-DEI initiative by disavowing all knowledge of the upcoming Black History Month (BHM). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/state-department-urged-to-observe-spirit-of-trumps-anti-dei-order-during-black-history-month-12b36a09?siteid=yhoof2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> obtained this memo and says that it is likely to prohibit the department from publishing any public messaging honoring the embarrassingly short period of time that America actually recognizes what Black people have historically done for this country. The order was so jarring that the department wrote the Trump administration to ask permission\u00a0to speak about BHM.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what they got back:<\/p>\n<p>The answer arrived in an email: Public diplomacy staff should highlight the \u201cvaluable contribution of individual Americans throughout U.S. history, while ensuring our public communications maintain the spirit of the directive eliminating DEAI programs,\u201d referring to diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>It was noted that \u201cno restrictions\u201d would be placed on messaging related to people with disabilities. Whatever that\u2019s about. WSJ spoke to officials at the state department who are taking their new directive seriously stating that no public messages or events will be put on in February.<\/p>\n<p>Not that you can take anything Trump says with sincerity or genuineness WSJ noted that in 2020, Trump issued the following proclamation about BHM:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[America should] celebrate the cultural heritage, diverse contributions, and unbreakable spirit of African Americans\u201d that February. Weeks later, he hosted a reception at the White House to honor Black leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn every generation, African Americans have enriched our culture, deepened our faith, strengthened our community, sustained our values, raised up our conscience, and called our nation to greatness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many are concerned that these steps are the beginning of Trump officially \u201ccanceling\u201d Black History Month. Can\u2019t blame them for feeling that way. Trump is not to be trusted in any way, shape, or form and will flip-flop worse than a dollar store sandal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The swastika-in-chief must have had a change of heart\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bossip.com\/2769743\/donald-trump-directs-state-department-to-ignore-black-history-month\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Justin Sullivan \/ Getty \u00a0 Donald Trump\u2019s presidency is barely a week old, and the foolishness, f***ery, and foul play are in full effect. BOSSIP has previously reported on Trump\u2019s Justice Department freezing all civil rights litigation, his decision to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, and his reckless release of January 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-and-culture"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91863,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91861\/revisions\/91863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}