Mike Pence celebrates Black History Month, which we set aside to honor President Abraham Lincoln.

[Miles Archer]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[LisaM]

1. Aarrgh.

Make. It. Stop.

[Solly Mack]

2. Damn

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

3. This strikes me as rather churlish on Olbermann's part . . .

. . . insofar as February 1 is "National Freedom Day," the observance of which dates back to 1948 and which does commemorate, as Pence notes, Lincoln's signing of the resolution that led to the 13th Amendment.

Coming on this heels of the White House's abominable "Holocaust Denial lite" proclamation a few days ago, I can see where Pence's tweet could be taken the wrong way. But insofar as Pence did start off saying "As #BlackHistoryMonth begins . . .," I don't see where his noting the specifics associated with February 1 - the first day of the month - should be given the construction that Olbermann gives it.

There have been, and no doubt will be, plenty of things to get outraged about with this administration, without people going off chasing phantom injuries and slights.

My two cents, anyhow.

[Miles Archer]

6. Respectfully disagree...

...if Pence's tweet started off with National Freedom Day, then OK...pop the corks for Honest Abe.

But it didn't. It was a tweet about Black History Month.

So if KO was being churlish, then I guess I am equally churlish.

It was a shout-out to Black History Month which did not mention African Americans. That's what I saw, that's what I posted.

National Freedom Day was tagged at the end of the post. It wasn't his "opening statement."

[NYC Liberal]

4. Start the countdown until someone in the Trump maladministration says or mentions

one of the following:

1. White people and indentured servitude.
2. Africans Americans aren't the only people who have been enslaved; slavery has existed all over the world.

[pat_k]

5. Go Keith!

[Cha]

7. They're trying to divide us.. at their own fucking peril