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It's Black History Month in America

Make America White Again

By Leah EllaPublished 11 months ago 9 min read
It's Black History Month in America
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

Did he or did he not try to ban all diversity and cultural celebrations that support the majority of Americans today!?! We get the shortest month of the year but also Valentines / Galentines day. His super phony "proclamation" that February is Black History Month isn't news! Maybe it's new for him but it's not new to us cuz, They Not Like Us!!!! Since 1976, every US president has officially designated February as Black History Month. He better learn quick about Juneteenth, cuz the blackest President we ever had (Joe Biden) already made it a national holiday! I fact checked every source so believe me when I say, Black History is American History!!!

I chose the Black Lives Matter photo for this article because 2020 was a huge turning point for the Black Experience in America. Showing up and showing out with pain as the motivator, pride the goal and empowerment the revolution. Here we are five years later dealing with revisionist history. Left up to Trump, 2020 didn't exist and the last four years, "should've never happened." He will keep on saying it with hopes that we all believe it, he is masterfully skilled at the gaslight manipulation.

By The New York Public Library on Unsplash

I know for a fact that in the 1960's I would've been a Black Panther! - "The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality."

In our times, I can't imagine any black people being spared from carrying guns within their right to self-defense. The amount of unarmed black people who have been murdered by cops in their homes, on the streets, I wonder what would change? Are we allowed to protect ourselves or get a fair trial? When's the last time you've seen a black person in the back of a cop car? We don't make it to the car... In what America will that exist? The social justice spirit of 2020 was alive and well, I believe that it is now referred to as "wokeism," by you know who.

How did America respond to Black peoples strength in numbers, with a movement demonstrating true nationalism in 2020? The world responded better to BLM than Americans did, more specifically, white Americans. I find it sad that Trump constantly compares BLM to the insurrectionists (who he pardoned all 1500 of them) who used forced entry and battery in an attempt to carry out his orders and disrupt the Constitutions peaceful transfer of power. They get to be called patriots, yet BLM peaceful protesters are called "the radical left," by the President.

Let's face it, a white cop with his knee on a black man's neck for 8 minutes while he begged him to stop, called for his Mother and said he couldn't breathe was not enough to justify a movement called Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter wanted in although not suffering the same fate... BLM actually started in 2013 with the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his shooter, but it didn't propel to global recognition till 2020. Do you know what the main difference was? The man in office, President Barack Obama, represented Black American History and the future promise of change. "YES WE CAN!" I guess that Trump's resistance in 2020, was just the fuel needed for the flame.

The Obama's Acknowledging Black History

In the picture above - "President Obama and the First Family joined thousands of Americans at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to honor the sacrifice and bravery of the men and women who bled there, on that very pavement exactly 50 years ago. Many of those original "foot soldiers" joined him yesterday, including Congressman John Lewis, who helped to organize the first march over this bridge in 1965. He endured a tragic beating on that "Bloody Sunday," and today he strode arm in arm with the President of the United States." It was a good time to be Black in America. The President of the USA was on our side!

Selma March 50th Anniversary

Black Americans have been fighting to matter by peaceful protests for years, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, 61 years, and here's why that fight will never end- In 2025, the attack and demonization on DEI by the second term President. Anyone in the federal government who worked on DEIA programs, initiatives and or received training (even during his first term) were put on immediate leave. Trumps claim that DEIA is discrimination and illegal is the biggest gaslight! In the Civil Rights era, former President Lyndon B. Johnson's executive order, “forbade federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity." If this was necessary in the 1960's, that can only mean one thing!!! Women and colored people weren't getting the opportunities they earned or deserved! We needed this protection then and we do now. The Biden administration doubled down on that order, did you see all the black women he hired? His VP, a Supreme Court justice, his Press Secretary to name a few.

To further his socio-political agenda, Donald Trump went on TV and blamed Obama and Biden for the tragedies that happened on his watch, as they were happening!!! It was not enough to erase the decades of DEIA protections for underserved Americans, the President continued to blame DEI for natural disasters and helicopter crashes in the days to follow. The argument that diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility is why the California fires couldn't be contained quick enough, despite the hurricane wind factor, or the pilot being a DEIA hire causing the airplane and helicopter to collide, is as dumb as Humpty Dumpty!!! Make America White Again might as well be the slogan for his loyalists, the only people who can get the job done in his eyes. This is not the Apprentice Mr. President! I wonder how he really feels about JD Vance? After basically saying that he doesn't see him being his successor, that's not how VP works... I digress...

"After the murder of George Floyd in 2020 forced a historic reckoning with race in America, businesses doubled down on pledges to make their workforces and their leadership better reflect the communities they serve. Google was among them. It set a 2025 target of increasing the number of historically underrepresented groups in leadership by 30%. Google and the technology industry have long had trouble attracting and retaining women and people of color." Know what that's called? Performative Activism. Something they stood so strongly in favor of just 4 years ago, they are moving in the opposite direction in 2025. Read the article below for more...

"Facebook and Instagram owner Meta last month canceled its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the latest in a series of political maneuvers CEO Mark Zuckerberg made to align his social media company with the Trump administration." Now we know why all the Tech Billionaire buddies were front row at Trump's inauguration. Not to mention he recently settled on a $10 million dollar and a $25 million dollar lawsuit with X and Facebook for censorship. They kicked Trump off their platform for his Covid "misinformation" multiple times, including the lie that the election was stolen. Let's say goodbye to accountability and honesty in 2025 on social media, as fact checking is also over. I guess that Truth Social isn't worth anything? Speaking of the C-word, say goodbye to Dr. Fauci since Trump withdrew all U.S. funding from WHO!!! Meaning that we, the American people, should not expect communication about things that can kill us like infectious diseases!!! With RFK Jr as our new Health secretary, say bye to vaccines too. It's hard to keep up with his Dictatorship-behavior but here we go... Controlling, monopolizing and disseminating information, on his terms to us the American people who he's supposed to be serving sounds like Communist China.

Deporting POC, practically kicking them out of America, while simultaneously wanting to rescue white, South Africans from alleged racism in their country. Reading the article below really blew my mind. We are definitely living in an alternate reality, where the minority of white people who still own the majority of land, feel the need to complain as victims of racism in a country that once had APARTHEID. What did Trump do? Here's what he did, signed an executive order to cut aid and assistance to the Black-led South African government. Trump also announced a plan to offer South Africa's white minority, the Afrikaners, refugee status in the U.S. There we have it, if you were wondering who the acceptable illegal immigrants would be, who are welcomed into America, now you know. Make America White Again!

Now I know what Kamala Harris meant by, "WE'RE NOT GOING BACK!" Not only does Trump want smaller government in preparation for his Authoritarian regime, but America will be quite small if he plans on Making American White Again, since they are in the minority. Maybe he shouldn't ban abortion to all POCs in America, then he'll only have the "superior race" procreating. There are people who feel this way, they're called neo-nazis, like the ones who are happy with Elon's inaugural salute! What are we doing AMERICA!?! History cannot repeat itself, not in 2025!!!

Let's do a quick recap- in Trump's America and by mandate there are only 2 genders, 700 or so books are banned in K-12, "gender ideology" /pronouns are banned, trans women can't play in female sports or serve our country if transgendered, or work for the federal government since it only acknowledges male or female "from conception." Sounds like major discrimination to me! And another gaslight, like trans people poof and disappeared, don't exist anymore because he won't acknowledge them. Non-white, POC, "illegal immigrants" are being rapidly deported out of America starting with sanctuary states, the churches are no longer sanctuaries, schools are not safe from ICE, the shut down of the Department of Education is next... If public schools go back to the states what will that look like? Segregation anyone? I'm not going to touch on the economy in this article or Elon's plan for world domination.

Trump really wants to change the Constitution, I'm convinced of it. Luckily, the few Democrats not traumatized by his first term, are fighting back, suing the administration and Judges are pausing and undoing his executive orders one by one. Banning Birthright Citizenship? Russel Vought and P25 have gotta be behind that one because I doubt that DT actually cares about anyone but himself and Elon's tax cuts.

"In the first four weeks of the new administration, at least 74 lawsuits were filed, and of those, 58 were brought in federal district courts in Washington, Boston, Seattle and suburban Maryland," according to Bloomberg. I have a prediction that with all this gross abuse of power and government overreach, there's going to be a switch again- The Democrats will become the conservatives and the Republicans the liberals by the end of his term, if he makes it past this year without becoming a Dictator like his mentor Putin.

Guess who was responsible for the switch in the 1960's? Black people!!!

"In 1964, Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. In the 1964 election, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater publicly opposed the new law, arguing that it expanded the power of the federal government to a dangerous level. It was this argument that led to a final, decisive switch. Black voters, who had historically been loyal to the Republican Party because of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, had already been switching to the Democratic Party." - The Great Switch (studentsofhistory.com)

For this Black History Month, I pledge to further the goals of the greats who came before me! For every US President starting with Lyndon B Johnson and ending with Joe Biden, who established our Civil Rights and continued to uphold, correct course and push us to even more freedom, I say Thank You and I accept the torch! I have a lot of faith that we will come back stronger as soon as the Trump era is over indefinitely! We better start writing our Project 2028 now because in no time, it will be here!

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Leah Ella

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