Despite Pete Hegseth's memo stating 'Identity Months Dead at DOD,' Black history matters, and it has nothing to do with wokeness or political correctness.
Of all the wars a nation can wage, the most ridiculous is against history. We cannot undo the past. We cannot change it. And we cannot cancel it. We can ignore it. Or deny it. Or refuse to learn from it. But we do so at our own peril. By refusing to acknowledge the mistakes of the past, we risk repeating them in the future. Spanish American philosopher George Santayana was right when he said those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
It belongs to all of us, and we cannot claim to understand our past without examining it. That means the Civil War and the Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights Movement. But it also means Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Bessie Smith, Shirley Chisholm and the Tuskegee Airmen, figures without whom the United States would be less united and less magnificent. We have seen Black history celebrated in this spirit in San Antonio.
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