I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
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Unless the order specifically states “do not celebrate Frederick Douglass,” they would not be violating a stupid-but-lawful order.
If every single one of them DROPPED DEAD TOMORROW, I would fucking REJOICE.
And I mean the ones who VOTED for them, too.
I said what I fucking said.
Fuck Nazis. Fuck Elon Musk, Fuck Donald Trump, and Fuck every architect of Project 2025.
And what’s wrong with that anyway?
https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/News-Features/Article/695299/new-york-national-guards-fighting-69th-leads-worlds-largest-st-patricks-day-par/
That will be their undoing
The racism and it's logics are horrifying.
Bigotry is so clumsy ... The nasty morons using "immutable characteristics" to justify racism are in a tough spot. No fed. participation in holidays that celebrate a person, including Jesus and Columbus.
If you get tossed out, wear it like a f’in badge of honor for god’s sake.
F--k these people!🤬
Sorry for the language. But, Damn!
MLK Sr./Jr., Douglass, X, Obama, Tubman, Marshall, Mandella, Washington, Jemison, Hughes, Parks, Angelou, Ali, Johnson, Du Bois, Baldwin, Augusta, Taylor, Rustin, Jordan, Coleman, Chastain, Davis Jr., Lewis, Owens, Banneker & Johnson.
The 29th would be a wild card hero...
Wear it like a badge of honor. Share it.
We are the minority of our demographic but we aren’t impossibly small in numbers. We are the minority of white guys who didn’t vote for fascists. We can make a difference.
There were lovely celebrations there for his 200th birthday and a Frederick Douglass week every July.
ignore said stupid order from the alcoholic in the pentagon.
Democrats need to grow a spine
Capitulating isn’t going well