The article discusses President Trump's executive order aimed at removing 'improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology' from the Smithsonian Institution, viewed as a rewriting of race and gender history. Colonel James H. Harvey, a veteran Tuskegee airman, openly criticizes Trump as a racist. It highlights how the U.S. government has suppressed African American history, citing the removal of significant figures like Harriet Tubman. The author reflects on the painful legacy of racism and the resilience of Black Americans in the face of historical oppression.
Those billy clubs striking my body strengthened my mind and convinced me that we could overcome segregation. We did so then, and we can overcome Trump's America today.
Black people in America have often led change in this society because our humanity and our liberties were so long suppressed and denied.
When that Smithsonian news came out, I thought about the killings, rapes, lynchings, breeding, and selling of Black people that was, for several hundred years, so much a part of life in the United States.
I'll tell him to his face. No problem. I'll tell him, you're a racist.
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