Black History Month challenged the ‘Lost Cause’ lie about slavery and discrimination

“Let’s call this what it really is: resegregation … Any official, including the president, who chooses to blame everything from plane crashes to wildfires on non-White, non-male people should be asked whether they believe that desegregation is to blame. Whether they believe resegregation is the answer. We need to bring back the language that describes what is actually happening.”– Karen AttiahRelated Stories Whenever an anti-diversity extremist uses the word “woke” in a disparaging way, we must remember that the extremists themselves define “woke” as “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”Anti-diversity activists don’t want to address systemic injustices that mainly benefit White men. They’d rather distort history to promote a mass delusion that those injustices never existed.That’s why Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who built a national reputation by attacking diversity in the armed forces, has to ban recognition of Black History Month.The racial justice uprising sparked by the murder of George Floyd nearly five years ago instilled a panic in the defenders of racial inequity, who launched a campaign in what they called “critical race theory” and now call “DEI.” At least 870 measures have been introduced at the federal, state,...