No surprise.
Trump thinks Blacks should be chained to boats or picking cotton.
Or cleaning bathrooms.
Just like 1915.
Fuck him.
#blackmastodon #MLKday
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/19/donald-trump-doesnt-acknowledge-martin-luther-king-jr-day/88252240007/
@IveyJanette favoriting this because I agree with you, not because I like it!
@akamran Sad but true.
I'm 64. I'm old enough to have lived through segregation in Los Angeles.
Including Black and Latina women like my mom and aunt being restricted to jobs as maids,and secretarial jobs being the highest level they could aspire to.
And being banned from shopping at stores and eating in restaurants because we were the wrong color.
Trump wants to return to that.
Right now.
@IveyJanette Circa 1982 I worked in a restaurant near the Burbank Studios. The owner, a decent guy, described being told by Burbank city officials circa 1960 that they'd shut the place down if he admitted Black patrons.
@BruceMirken No surprise. Burbank was a sundown town well into the 1980's.
My mom and aunt cleaned houses in Hollywood,Beverly Hills and West LA. Places that were sundown towns.
They weren't allowed to cash their paychecks at local banks or shop at stores on Wilshire or in downtown LA.
They had to cash their check at the liquor store and shop at stores on Central Ave or on what was then Brooklyn Ave in Boyle Heights near their house.
@IveyJanette Trump hates Dr. King and his legacy for the obvious reason (straight-up racial hatred), but also because he *knows* that a man like himself can never, ever be so widely admired, only reviled, which he's unfortunately very willing to settle for.
@liquor_american Oh and today the rant about attacking Greenland because he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize was his way of stealing the spotlight from MLK and Black Americans.
I won't be surprised if we have to go back to unofficially celebrating MLK on January 15th,when Trump orders the holiday removed and HIS birthday replacing it. I'm old enough to remember getting suspended from school every year for staying home on January 15th.
