This was a very momentous week in Washington DC.
First, as if their History weren’t rich enough, Black people in the United States became even more enriched when President Trump took a field trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
He was accompanied by Ben Carson, but was somewhat disappointed that Frederick Douglass had not been able to be with him. It was thought that perhaps Mr. Douglass’s schedule of doing those things he is finally getting recognition for doing kept him otherwise occupied.
He had time to mention some great African-Americans who made up that history before he reminded all those present that
“Senator Tim Scott for joining us today. Friend of mine — a great, great senator from South Carolina. I like the state of South Carolina. I like all those states where I won by double, double, double digits. You know, those states.”
Most people in attendance do know those states as they were the slave holding ones who then became the Jim Crow ones.
He was glad that Martin Luther King Jr. was included in the museum,
“I also want to profoundly thank Alveda King for being here, and as we saw her uncle’s wonderful exhibit, and he certainly deserves that.”
He then praised Alveda King because he watches her all the time, “and she is a tremendous fighter for justice”.
And he illustrated her tremendous fight for justice by offering only one example, when he continued,
“I have been watching you for so long, and you are so incredible. And I wanted to thank you for all the nice things you say about me”.
But besides finding ways to praise himself and be his center of attention, he turned to Ben Carson pointing out that,
“We’re going to do great things in our African American communities together. Ben is going to work with me very, very closely. And HUD has a meaning far beyond housing. If properly done, it’s a meaning that’s as big as anything there is, and Ben will be able to find that true meaning and the true meaning of HUD as its Secretary. So I just look forward to that. I look forward to watching that. He’ll do things that nobody ever thought of”.
I truly hope he finds the true meaning of HUD, and I am extremely curious to see those things he does that no one ever thought of. I just hope they are related to Housing, especially the fair and nondiscriminatory kind.