The Alternate Reality of Trump’s Black History Month Celebration

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues and what’s at stake for Black America Donald Trump hosting a Black History Month celebration at the White House, packed with shallow symbolism over substance?  I expect nothing less from Trump — but the reaction from the mostly Black audience in the East Room of the White House? That was embarrassingly disconnected from recent history.  RELATED: The Plot to Assassinate Black America Trump walked on stage with legendary Black golfer Tiger Woods, who once told Oprah Winfrey he described himself as “Cablinasian,” and he spent a good deal of his time on stage shouting out the Black Republicans in the audience.  But those East Room Black People were either in deep denial or deep REM sleep in recent months. No one in the audience questioned why Trump’s Secretary of Defense canceled Black History Month events at the Pentagon or removed a Tuskegee Airmen video from Air Force training.  No one complained about Trump revoking the 1965 executive order that banned racial discrimination in government employment and by government contractors. As long as they got to smile in front of the white man in the...