{"id":31095,"date":"2025-06-08T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/from-celebrating-juneteenth-to-the-erasure-of-black-history-charles-m-blow-on-america-today\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:36:24","slug":"from-celebrating-juneteenth-to-the-erasure-of-black-history-charles-m-blow-on-america-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/from-celebrating-juneteenth-to-the-erasure-of-black-history-charles-m-blow-on-america-today\/","title":{"rendered":"From celebrating Juneteenth to the erasure of Black history: Charles M. Blow on America today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>The political analyst and former New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow shares his thoughts about our nation&#8217;s newest federal holiday, Juneteenth:<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Last month I visited Emancipation Park in Houston, a park established in 1872 by the formerly enslaved as a space to celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 that the news of emancipation was proclaimed in Galveston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon Manning, the board chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/epconservancy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">park&#8217;s conservancy<\/a>, told me that his corporate sponsors had grown skittish about supporting Juneteenth-related activities and anything with words like &#8220;culture,&#8221; &#8220;heritage&#8221; or &#8220;Black History&#8221; \u2013 words nearly impossible to omit in this park.<\/p>\n<p>This, for Manning, is a bit of a whiplash.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, in the wake of the massive protests following the killing of George Floyd, and in a Senate riven by partisanship, the bill to make Juneteenth a national holiday passed unanimously.<\/p>\n<p>A year before that, in the closing months of his reelection bid, Donald Trump himself had proposed making it a national holiday in his so-called Platinum Plan for Black America. In fact, in 2019, Trump&#8217;s statement commemorating Juneteenth ended by saying that on Juneteenth, &#8220;&#8230; we pay tribute to the indomitable spirit of African Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the mood of the country has shifted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pluralism and racial justice have been demoted in the zeitgeist, as Trump has returned to office on a mission to purge the government, and much of society, of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>This has spurred an erasure of Black history and Black symbols in some quarters, a phenomenon that I call &#8220;The Great Blackout&#8221; \u2013 from an executive order <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-smithsonian-executive-order-improper-ideology\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">condemning the direction of the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a><\/span>, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2025\/04\/06\/national-park-service-underground-railroad-history-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Park Service removing<\/a> &#8211; but <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/harriet-tubman-underground-railroad-maryland\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">being forced to restore<\/a><\/span> &#8211; Harriet Tubman&#8217;s image and quote to a page about the Underground Railroad. <\/p>\n<p>There are, unfortunately, countless examples. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/08\/1b34baa1-1636-47c2-a549-af5d141346b4\/thumbnail\/620x349\/3c611a808bf7fed1508534169b5357c7\/black-lives-matter-washington-dc-getty-2204587867.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6#\" alt=\"Black Lives Matter Plaza Mural Removal Begins In Washington, D.C. \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/08\/1b34baa1-1636-47c2-a549-af5d141346b4\/thumbnail\/620x349\/3c611a808bf7fed1508534169b5357c7\/black-lives-matter-washington-dc-getty-2204587867.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/08\/1b34baa1-1636-47c2-a549-af5d141346b4\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/5f6416a13344f563d1b7735b54c7a359\/black-lives-matter-washington-dc-getty-2204587867.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Crews in Washington, D.C., use concrete saws, jackhammers and excavators to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza street mural, created   two blocks north of the White House as a symbol during the 2020 protests against the murder of George Floyd, March 11, 2025. The Trump administration and Congress threatened to withhold millions of dollars in federal funding unless the District of Columbia destroyed the mural and renamed the street &#8220;Liberty Plaza.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That chill is having a dampening effect on the upcoming observation of Juneteenth, far beyond Emancipation Park, as multiple cities have cancelled Juneteenth celebrations altogether.<\/p>\n<p>In this sad new reality, America&#8217;s youngest national holiday is now caught in the crossfire of America&#8217;s raging culture wars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Robbyn McFadden. 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