So You Don't Believe Trump is a Racist?

Look at what he does verse what he says...

Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history

AP News

By  BILL BARROW

March 29, 2025

 President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”

But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined slavery into the U.S. Constitution and declared enslaved persons as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of the Census.

Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders sharply rebuked Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” They argued that his executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution is his administration’s latest move to downplay how race, racism and Black Americans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.

Sure does sound good... but just like other want-to-be dictators it is all lies and distortions...

“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed, or that Jim Crow laws and segregation and racial violence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.

Now fast forward to today! PBS News Hour reported that,

Scholar says Trump’s efforts to reframe U.S. history is ‘reminiscent of McCarthyism’

Aug 20, 2025

President Trump described Smithsonian museums as “out of control” for emphasizing, in his view, “how bad slavery was.” It's part of a pattern by Trump in his second term to reframe historical narratives, in particular about racism and discrimination. Amna Nawaz spoke with historian Peniel Joseph for our series, Art in Action, exploring the intersection of art and democracy and our CANVAS coverage.

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Peniel Joseph:

Well, Amna, this is really part of an ongoing narrative war that we have had in American history between those who are supporters of Reconstruction, multiracial democracy, and then redemptionists who are supporters of the racial status quo that existed long in this country, both during slavery and then during the period of Jim Crow after.

So when we think about what the president is saying, what he's saying is that the real unvarnished truth about American history hurts too much for all of us to understand and to know and to learn lessons from those truths. And that diminishes our democracy.

It diminishes American history and it diminishes the postwar American order that has really created the most effective multiracial democracy in American history. And that history is both a tragic history, but it's also a triumphant history.

And as somebody who's been a huge attendee at the Smithsonian since I was a boy, that history is always told in a very balanced way, where we talk about the evolution of American democracy, not just slavery and racial segregation, but also the civil rights movement and the suffrage movement and the women's movement and LGBTQIA, how queer folks transformed this country, the disability rights movement, immigrants.

But when you are a racist, a homophobe, transphobe, and  a misogynist, anything about slavery, trans, gays, and women rights are too much.

But the president has focused on race a lot even on previous attacks on the museum, and he's called them divisive. You have heard this argument before. It feels like we're hearing it more and in more public spaces, where people will argue that, look, only a small percentage of white Americans were enslavers during the period of slavery, that slavery is thousands of years old.

Trump is trying to suppress everything he hates!

Peniel Joseph:

We have. This is reminiscent of the age of McCarthyism, the age of the Cold War years, where speech was suppressed.

Folks who were cultural producers in Hollywood and academics lost their jobs, but average people lost their jobs too for speaking out for social justice. And, certainly, a president should not have the right to do it, because the whole success of the American revolution is that we have no kings. We shouldn't have oligarchs either, even though we do, but we have no kings in the United States of America.

And a president should not be allowed to stifle or suppress voices, whether those voices are on the left or on the right or moderate voices.

Do you remember the Lavender Scare from the 1950s? It was about the Congressional hearing the Sen. McCarthy held about us, the LGBTQ+ community, people were outed and fired.

This is now what is bring taught in schools not!

“Slavery was wrong, but not everything about it was bad. Slaves were fed, had a place to live, and some owners were kind.”

Democracy Now writes...

The White House has called for a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions in order to ensure they align with President Trump’s interpretation of U.S. history. “The idea that the Smithsonian — which was created as an independent entity — should reflect any administration’s vision of history, and not the vision of the historians and the researchers and the other people who devote their lives to studying these things, is more than problematic,” says Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of history at Harvard University, president of the Organization of American Historians and an award-winning author.

The Trump administration and the Department of Education are also currently partnering with PragerU, a controversial conservative media company, to make educational materials. “This is a whitewashing of history under the guise of making white children feel better about themselves,” says Gordon-Reed. PragerU content has already been approved for use in public schools in 10 states across the country.

They are whitewashing history! Anything to do about what it was about to be a slave, our history of the LGBTQ+ rights are being erased!