Washington (AP) – The Trump government will celebrate the Black History Month on Thursday in the White House and at the same time maintain a tradition in which President Donald Trump’s executive ordinance ended the diversity, equity and inclusion programs of the Federal Government, has disturbed his compliance else .
The ceremony takes place when Trump DEI programs referred to as “discrimination” and urged to exterminate the government’s diversity programs, such as the worker and exerted a similar pressure on the private sector in order to be on an exclusive focus to concentrate on merit.
The comprehensive efforts are lined with the federal authorities in the federal authorities and confusion that interpreted the order differently to limit how they can recognize breed in history and culture or report demographic data on breed and gender.
With Trump at the East Room event, black political personalities and activists who were his voice tags will be. According to an official of the White House, the guests include the Republican Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina; Republican MP John James von Michigan; Lawyer of prison reform, Alice Johnson, whom he pardoned in 2020; Alveda King, a niece of the civil rights director Martin Luther King Jr.; And Herschel Walker, the football legend, who is Trump’s election as a US ambassador on the Bahamas.
Other guests will contain numbers of sports and entertainment, including the former ESPN host Sage Steele. Former NFL player Jack Brewer; And rap stars Kodak Black, Lil Boosie and Rod Wave, who, according to the officials, was not entitled to speak publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The event was originally supposed to take place last week, but was postponed due to bad weather.
According to its executive regulation, the Ministry of Defense issued guidelines in which he had declared “identity months for dead” and said that working hours would no longer be used to do monthly cultural months of consciousness such as the month of black history, the month of women’s history and the national To mark employment for disabilities.
This seemed to be struggling with a proclamation of national black history, which was signed by Trump on the same day and watching the “civil servants, educators, librarians and all people in the United States this month with suitable programs, ceremonies and activities. “”
While the White House has published its position, the government’s authorities have, according to the official, at their own discretion whether the black history should continue to be recognized.
On February 1, the first day of black history, transport secretary Sean Duffy announced that his department will “no longer take part in celebrations that are based on unchangeable features or other identity -based observations”. In a diplomatic cable, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that the removal of the DEI policy by the agency would “eliminate our focus for political and cultural purposes that are at home and deeply unpopularly dividing abroad”.
The administration has issued a deadline at schools and universities to eliminate diversity initiatives or to lose the federal money. Large companies have withdrawn the DEI guidelines for hiring, promotion and workplace culture in the past few months, with many potential legal challenges of the administration.
The Black History Month has been recognized by every US President since 1976, including Trump in his first term.
“Black history is American history. And similar to the history of our nation, it is a story of strength, resilience and persistent perseverance, ”said CJ Pearson, a national co-chair of the youth council of the Republican National Committee. Pearson, who is black, was a pronounced defender of Trump against black heads of state, civil rights lawyers and democrats, who were lambars to the president as racist.
“President Trump’s anti-dei policy does not promote racism, but for the dream of the great Martin Luther King, Jr.: A nation in which one is not assessed in the color of your skin, but is not assessed according to the content From her character, ”said Pearson, who will take part in the event of the White House.
Other black Republicans are not so sanguine about the current course of the administration or what they correspond to for the resulting introduction of the GOP with black voters or other color communities.
“Trump can build on the coalition, which he moved in with black and Asians, Hispanics and young people in November,” said Raynard Jackson, a Republican strategist. “But if you leave it the way it is, Trump will destroy the coalition that he got so wonderfully on the table in November.”
For Jackson, the DEI is a fuse for liberal politics, which are “not to recognize” the original intentions of the civil rights laws that are supposed to promote the social and economic progress of the black Americans. When removing and denying the guidelines, Jackson said that the White House was classified as discriminatory by not offering an alternative framework for how disadvantaged communities can further develop.
“How do you have variety without being a commissioned bean cover situation?” Asked Jackson. “You did a masterful job to tell me what you are. I’m waiting to hear what you are for.”
During the 2024 campaign, Trump tried to achieve black voters through personal events in Atlanta, Chicago and New York. His campaign has thrown black celebrities and media personalities to augment his message. Trump’s black conservative allies, including Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.
But Trump also often disparaged black communities in his field and claimed that voters of colors were located against immigrants, of which he said that they took “black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs”.
The efforts to augment the support of the black voters seemed to have some successes. He won a larger proportion of black voters than in 2020, especially in youthful black men, as AP VUTECAST indicates, a nationwide survey of more than 120,000 voters in the 2024 elections.
A total of around 16% of black voters Trump supported Trump in November, while about 8 out of 10 voted for the Democrats Kamala Harris. However, this was an improvement for Trump from 2020 when only 8% of the black voters supported him and about 9 out of 10 for the Democrat Joe Biden.
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