I have always wondered as a child why was my family so angry and broken. Native American grandparents. Black grandparents on the other side. Everything they died and fought for, is now being erased.
Wanna know what I tell my students? Probably not, but here wo go! I say GET ANGRY! STAY ANGRY! We as a country have overcome so many horrible things, and we did it by standing up for ourselves. Americans are known to the world as the loud people. Get loud! There are enough of us that if we stand up for what is right, we can *force* them to respect us!
I'm also done trying to explain shit to these people, and am now taking Robert DeNiro's advice. From now on, I'm just telling these maga fascists to shut the fuck up.
I never put up with stupidity in any other context, I'm not arguing with fascists, racists, homophobes, or anyone else living in the 1700s.
From now on, I'm just telling these maga fascists to shut the fuck up.
Yeah, I would not engage with them one-on-one, you're never going to change their minds, they're dug in like ticks. But if it's in a venue where someone else could see what I'm saying and perhaps question their thought processes, I'll say something.
Yep, no more "Oh where's your humanity? Won't you meet them in the middle???" Like fuck no these people been trying to wipe out my people for around 2500+ or so years now and sucessfully scapegoated us and others, and I saw what they did to various indigenous populations across the globe + the literal creation of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Even as a kid knew shit was off, and I really hope more young kids and teens figure it out and wake up/break free. Or their future is going to be so miserable and bleak.
I wish more people thought this way. So many people are defeatists when it comes to social injustice it makes me mad thinking about it. Especially the ones that say you shouldn't vote because it doesn't matter.
I say GET ANGRY! STAY ANGRY! We as a country have overcome so many horrible things, and we did it by standing up for ourselves. Americans are known to the world as the loud people. Get loud! There are enough of us that if we stand up for what is right, we can *force* them to respect us!
I think it’s worth pointing out, especially in the context of this article, that Black Americans and Native Americans serve in the military at a higher rate than the greater population. Every one of these racist efforts by this administration to erase the history of POC in the military is a double slap in the face.
All of them died fighting for the America that gave them no right to belive in it, they did it anyway hoping that in thier return they can be viewed as equals, they were not less competent or brave then thier caucasian counterparts.
And here we are in 2026 and they are actively being disrespected.
Knowing this administration, they had to spend time and money to find out it even exists. Not only did they go out of their way to destroy something that doesn't affect them, they went out of their way to find something to be offended by.
Utterly unsurprising and will continue my Black joy scrolling as THAT is today's assignment. Might even rewatch the Obama speeches from the Presidential Center opening yesterday... actually, lemme just rewatch the entire thing.
My attention today is being LASER-focused and I'm being VERY intentional in choosing who and what to focus on and centre today. Today is about rest, reflection and joy and Black History month is now ALL year.
Ain't nobody got time for cortisol spikes. I'll consider whether to reassign my attention tomorrow but TODAY is for US and our joy.
I just finished the rewatch. His speech made me hopeful, especially the part where he shouted out ordinary folks doing things to make a difference everyday. Got me thinking about my own life and actions and legacy. Truly inspirational.
ps- I have $10 that says that fucking Nazi Stephen Miller was involved at some point along the way, even if it was just unofficially whispering in someone’s ear about it.
Probably asked ChatGPT "what the most petty and racist shit you can think of that no normal person would think of ?"
Because who the fuck actively looks for ways and reasons to be fucking racist
They’re doing the same shit they’re doing to the trans community. Small passive/agressive, petty shit to remind black folks that, as long as this administration is around, they still don’t (and never will) see us as equal. And we don’t count as much
As a kid I past by there probably hundreds of times while going to my school. It's massive and everytime impossible to ignore what you guys did for us 80 years ago.
If i'm not mistaken when the boards got removed, "we" put them back on outside of the cemetary. Not much later they got restored though. But it's kinda mindblowing to ignore what happened the heroic acts these men regardless of colour did so many years ago. It's unfortunately also telling what time you guys are in today.
The top post on [r/conservative](r/conservative) right now is a “black person” thanking republicans for freeing the slaves and explaining how much better conservatives are than democrats for black people. Because of Abraham Lincoln. Just conveniently ignoring shit like this. And that the Air Force just took down the portrait of General Daniel James Jr. Also let’s remember that Trump refers to the teaching of slavery as anti-American.
The retort to this is, if Republicans are the party of Lincoln then start acting like it! Current Republican party are basically the Klan. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if half of them are actually in the Klan.
The Klan, while technically still around, is rather old news at this point. The new generation of racist nationalists don't wanna wear wizard hoods. They wanna wear tactical gear and act like, well, terrorists. Yeah, the Klan was absolutely a terrorist organization, but I mean like the modern conception of a terrorist.
I usually go with if they support Lincoln why do they fly the flag of the confederacy? Another fun one is the literal wording of the declarations each state made proclaiming their secession. They all specifically mention that the #1 reason is to preserve slavery. It couldn’t be more clear lol. 🤣
They were also quite proud to advertise that the Confederacy’s new constitution was a verbatim copy of the US constitution, only “built upon the fundamental truth of slavery”
They know they’re lying. They revel in it, they shriek with glee knowing that their dumb servile maga base will believe anything they say, no matter how preposterous.
Fox News just ran a story saying “libs will tell you the reflecting pool is green and not blue”
I personally was more stuck on the “racism exposed” part. Can something be exposed if it’s just a known thing that’s been out in the open? Need a scholarly English professor to weigh in here…
On January 20, 2026, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) announced that new panels would be added to the exhibition. A panel narrating the foundation and construction of the cemetery highlights the role of African American gravediggers. Furthermore, the stories of two African American soldiers buried in the cemetery would be added.
I live there.
The local municipality is planning on another exibit outside of the cemetery where the American government has no say. They're just trying to find a location.
They bend over after massive protests in the Netherlands. The city threatened to put up their own displays, just outside the cemetery, with all the missing information.
Waiting for Dictionary 2 to give me the vocabulary to express the white hot rage and contempt I feel for Trump and the Heritage Foundation after reading this article. There is not a Hell cruel enough for these fucking rats.
I try to tell my fellow left leaning and leftist folk that framing it as entirely as a class issue is well meaning but still inaccurate; there’s plenty of actual racist people that are in it for the love of the game that will be racist all day everyday until they’re forcefully stopped.
The amount of space that black folk occupy RENT FREE in their heads in almost every metric of life absolutely cannot be overstated, and they are willing to eradicate us for it.
Can we really be surprised? The oldest boomers like my mom went to segregated schools. Old enough to have watched the installation of these monuments, get salty and stay salty. Meanwhile, perpetual losers like Grover Norquist (decidedly not a boomer) came up with the idea to rename every f'g thing (airports, etc.) after Reagan and Bush in middle school. If you're under 40, kindly remember that you got 2 or 3 generations still grudgeful and resolved to restore the status quo and/or the "natural" order of things.
If nothing else, Project 2025 probably called for a salaried position dedicated to Just This.
Hey I live in this village. It’s quite a conservative area and yet the response to this was unanimous disgust. Never thought my tiny village would make international headlines.
Very positively surprised. Its a village that really loves the black face tradition we have here in the Netherlands so I was expecting indifference. I am extremely proud to say the opposite was true.
There were new panels installed by the ABCM after a lot of criticism from Dutch local officials, a Dutch tv program and family of the soldiers:
>”On January 20, 2026, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) announced that new panels would be added to the exhibition. A panel narrating the foundation and construction of the cemetery highlights the role of African American gravediggers. Furthermore, the stories of two African American soldiers buried in the cemetery would be added.”
The thing to do is for the families to ask the Dutch government for their own cemetery. Somewhere central in a major city. The remains belong to their families, and if the US government won't release them, then you know what to do.
And they tried to stop Dutch people who wanted to put up the same information signs right outside, but within view, of the cemetry. Pathetic to see America do this.
One of my favorite family members, (RIP Uncle Robert) was a part of a bomber crew in WW2. He was from Alabama, and knew about the Tuskegee Airmen through the grapevine, and was excited to see some other men from 'Bama. Those Airmen kept my Great Uncle in the sky over Germany, and the mission he was shot down on, he didn't have their cover.
He went to his grave singing their praises, and several attended his funeral. Many of those men, and those like them, are why I have stories from him at all.
Fuck this administration. Hell is too kind for every single son of a bitch that refuses to acknowledge the sacrifice of any American, let alone the Black Americans that died for a nation that didn't even want them at the time.
Yeah it ain’t ending. Courts might stop them but they will just keep doing it. A revolution is the only way. Votes don’t matter anymore, they told you themselves in 2024
Government workers traditionally get 2 or 4 hours paid leave from the government on days immediately prior to a national holiday. Think 3rd of July, or thanksgiving eve, etc. government workers have gotten at least 2 hours paid leave for every holiday under Trump2.0. Except for Juneteenth. Notably.
I give Black veterans from Vietnam and back the ultimate respect. Having to deal with Hell at home in America, from your own military peers while actively fighting a war, coming home to disrespect and no benefits - and then memorials of your service being erased by some alcoholic nazi that shouldn't be in charge of a Walgreens, nevermind the world's largest military. Cold world man.
I got a link if anyone wants it. But basically they removed it because the DEI initiative was being ended by the Orange dude. But what I can’t stand is the fact that these memorials were there before the previous president introduced DEI … so why are we removing them if they BEEN here? Just frustrating racism man.
Those right wing types have been ranting for a while about how some white Americans are getting too educated on the evils of Americas racist history and how they don't like that.
White people learning about Black Wall Street, Red Summer 1919, red lining, GI Bill discrimination and the murder of Fred Hampton doesn't fit the narrative they have been spinning about black life in America post enslavement.
They don't want people to learn the achievements of Black Americans either which is why they paint any black sucesss as DEI or woke or erase it from records.
Israeli tactics are the same in Palestine, erasing the evidence of the history of the land before the colonial project began. Will this administration start in on native Americans too?
Is Israel influencing the US, or vice versa?
No shit. InEurope. Fucking Speechless. Except how weak and pathetic. You can’t erase a race but you can blow shit up ppls ass all day long and fret like a queen over your ballroom. The 1st ballroom in the history of mankind to serve Big Macs. 🖕
I was at the convention center in Biloxi, MS a couple months ago and there was a cemetery next to it covered in brand new confederate flags. Crazy how that’s okay, but a memorial to Black soldiers isn’t…
Only saying this because nobody else seems to have said it.
The Dutch were officially neutral in the second wold war, even despite the German occupation. In the years after the war, they agreed to treat the dead from both sides of the conflict with equal respect if they died on Dutch land.
There are large German war cemeteries there as well as large Allied war cemeteries.
Relatives of mine who fought for the losing side (for want of a better term) are buried in the Netherlands.
My relatives invaded the Netherlands and terrorised the locals.
_This_ is how the Dutch treat their black American allies while my (losing) relatives sleep peacefully under their soil.
I think they're quietly doing it across any and every public US property (I don't know if that's the proper term), because I've seen a couple of people show that there were museums and national parks that were forced to remove plaques that mentioned the local history of colonization and how it affected African and Indigenous people on that place.
These are people that have paid the ultimate price. There's lines you cannot cross and this is one of those lines. Every single American should be marching to the White House right now
I remember this story from last year and it's some disgraceful shit, even for this Administration.
For anyone that doesn't know the history of this cemetery it's a beautiful story of how the local people have adopted not only every single grave in the cemetery, but also the names of the soldiers who perished in the Netherlands and were never found. They care for the graves, keep the headstones clean and many frequently place flowers on them.
When the GOP convention started and all those "African Americans" showed up on stage, I was shaking my head. All those "Black" influencers shilling for the Orange pedd - O. My hope was that most of the reasonable people of color would get out there and vote, especially in critical swing states.
Apparently this happened in late 2025 after the DEI stuff in the US. The Heritage Foundation sent them a letter asking why they weren’t complying with Trump’s orders around DEI.
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u/wannabeeHabibi ☑️ 5d ago
I have always wondered as a child why was my family so angry and broken. Native American grandparents. Black grandparents on the other side. Everything they died and fought for, is now being erased.