Trump Celebrates Black History By Deleting Its Hardest Chapters

KEY POINTS

•President Trump issued a National Black History Month proclamation on Feb. 3, linking it to the USA's 250th anniversary.
•Federal agencies like the National Park Service removed exhibits on slavery and Native American mistreatment amid anti-DEI policies.
•Community leaders and polls warn that rollbacks of voting rights and racial equity threaten the preservation of civil rights gains.

As America tiptoes into its 250th birthday party, the Trump administration throws a confetti mix of National Black History Month praise and historical amnesia. While President Trump proclaimed on Feb. 3 that Black history 'is an indispensable chapter'—naturally linking it to the big 250th bash—his team simultaneously cut more history than a bargain-bin scissors shop. The National Park Service yanked Philly's George Washington slavery exhibit, Onyx Impact reported 6,700 erased federal datasets on Black struggles, and DEI programs are getting axed like rotten fruit in universities. All this, under a shiny 'restoring neutrality' banner, because nothing screams neutral like kicking out the teaching that made Black history possible. As Marc Morial reminded us, this isn’t a plot twist, it's a sequel of repression from the '60s remastered for 2026. The administration’s version of 'honoring the past' is basically hiding it under the rug and blaming white Americans for wanting the floor swept clean.

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Mockingbird News

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When your administration’s Black History Month mode is ‘remember but delete the inconvenient parts,’ you’ve officially turned history class into a magic show.

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