Depictions of "'white culture'" at the African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), the report continues, represent "'harmful and oppressive'" exhibits. We are saying and writing one narrative and here's an another but only one will be tolerate! Note who has power! Who controls! Who has the money!
Anything to do with black Americans, specifically those brought over the Atlantic as human cargo, is being removed because everyone is complying! With fascists! White supremacists!
Analysts talk about the removal of D.E.I. as a way to attack immigrants today. In my experience, it's easier for white Americans to talk about black Latino/as. Slaveholders in the US couldn't exist in two places at once. I'm sure they would have wanted to have a plantation there and one here, in the US.
But it was in the South where the majority of plantations and their owners maintained Africans, generation after generation, to labor for free on plantations, and cater to the whims of gentlemen and ladies.
If we remember Toni Morrison's insightful observation about American history, white immigrants from Europe came to this country and quickly learned to identified as "white," and most important, recognize the black American as the "n_____."
And here's my point: do the Applesauce and the Wolffs of the media and academic world recognize that without an understanding of black history, they miss recognizing America? Do any of the white analyst or political commentators or academics really know their history? Knowing black history is the only way to begin to confront the issues of racism, fascism, white supremacy in the US.
But black lives don't matter, do they? It's another form of erasure when black lives and the black experience in the US is covered over at "desks" in the center of home libraries or at "podiums" where white Americans speak of "others." Indigenous, Latino/a, and blacks. Others.
When D.E.I. is being criminalized, so are black Americans. The main target for the criminalization of D.E.I. is to disappear a criminal race of people because the black presence in America reminds white America of that great sin, that great violence, that great demand to have hands in the cotton fields to build the economy of the US.
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