Also over at our sis: As February starts and the light to Black History Month is cut on, #BlackTwitter wasn’t too pleased with Donald Trump’s right hand man Mike Pence handing over a kinda “whitesplained” rendition of what “Black History month meant to him: by putting the spotlight on ‘Abraham Lincoln for freeing slaves’ –as if slavery was the only association to Black history over other forms of black greatness’ contributions and connections to this country. Innocently, ignorantly or intentionally, this faux pas only proved that when it comes to actual ‘Black History,” Pence is as green as grass and white as his hair.
Fresh off the heels of Trump’s omission of mentioning [the victims of The Holocaust]: “Jews,” in his Holocaust Day remembrance speech, here we are a week later (via tweet), the vice president’s tweet was nothing less than virtuous and [a] vice in deed. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps in all his whiteness, lack of knowledge, care, concern and limited understanding of Black greatness and contributions to this country he may have meant well, but this certainly proves it don’t get no whiter than this:
As #BlackHistoryMonth begins, we remember when Pres. Lincoln submitted the 13th Amendment, ending slavery, to the states #NationalFreedomDay
— Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) February 2, 2017
Of all people, it took a white woman [ironically named] Carrie “Coon” to send him a friendly reminder:
Remember, black people were actually human beings before they were emancipated.
— Carrie Coon (@carriecoon) February 2, 2017
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