In this clip from a recent segment of The Karen Hunter Show, a caller called in to react to President Donald Trump’s plan to remove two Black holidays from the calendar.
During a segment titled “Trump’s Attack on Black America is Deeper Rooted Than You Think,” a caller identified as Yvette said Trump’s decision to eliminate free access to national parks on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day was not about parks or cost savings, but about symbolism. She said the move sent a message to white Americans that Black history and Black lives do not matter.
“What he is doing is signaling to white people the destruction of Black people and how we don’t matter,” Yvette said, adding that the policy emboldens everyday acts of hostility.
Host Hunter and her cohost, Roderick Morrow, questioned why symbolic rollbacks appear to take precedence over substantive issues such as jobs and the economy.
Hunter also invoked the late novelist Toni Morrison, recalling Morrison’s commentary on the violence surrounding school desegregation and the historical normalization of racial cruelty.
“Toni Morrison said she couldn’t find a group of prostitutes, criminals or murderers in the Black community who would overturn a bus of white children and set it on fire. She said that’s where the conversation really should start,” shared Hunter, also noting that Trump’s DEI policies are hurting more white men than the Black community.
Watch the full clip below.
