US slowly normalising erasure of Black history – Mahama

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Ghanaian President John Mahama says the United States is “slowly normalising” the erasure of Black history.

Mahama spoke at an event on slavery reparations at the ​United Nations (UN) on Tuesday in New York. Within hours of taking office, US President Donald Trump ordered the dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices that were responsible for addressing systemic discrimination against minorities.

Weeks later, he announced plans to remove what he described as “corrosive” anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex.

Exhibits at the American Art Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture were among the Smithsonian institutions singled out in Trump’s order for promoting “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive”.

Last August, Trump frowned at what he said was an excessive focus on “how bad slavery was”.

In a January interview with the New York Times, he said civil rights protections hurt white people.

Trump has also previously criticised the Black Lives Matter protests, saying there was “a definite anti-white feeling” in the US, criticising “woke” policies. Thecable