Orange Mound America’s First Black Community is Black History’s Paradigm of President’s Trump’s Erasure of DEI

MEMPHIS, TN, February 01, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ –February 2025 is Black History Month in America. February 2025 in Memphis, Tennessee has more in common with President Donald J .Trump than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in Memphis in April 4, 1968. Memphis has more policies, practices, protocols, provisions that are more in line with M.A.G.A. than the philosophy and dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While President Trump issued executed orders to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion such policies were initiated in Memphis decades ago.

Orange Mound a Black Community in Memphis could run in contention of being the most M.A.G.A. idea of a Black Community than any community in America. At the time of this posting we celebrate “Black History Month 2025” property declines in Orange Mound are 31.9 % lower than the average homeowner rate in Memphis.

The African/American community of Orange Mound is the “whipping boy of Memphis.” A “whipping boy” was a boy who was educated alongside a young prince or nobleman in medieval Europe. He was punished whenever the young prince misbehaved or failed in his studies. The idea was that a prince was too important to be disciplined physically, so the whipping boy would take the punishment instead, hoping that the prince would feel remorse and improve his behavior as a result.

Anthony “Amp” Elmoree a Memphis born 5 time World Kickboxing champion, a content creator, community activist and Memphis 1st 35mm Independent Theatrical Filmmaker released a song for Black History month. Click here to see and hear the video titled: “Black Man Refuse to be A Slave from Orange Mound Video.” The song challenges Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism and Memphis “Orange Mound’s Whipping Boy Syndrome.” President Donald Trump boasts getting rid of Woke crap or Black History.

President Trump would be proud of Memphis Black leaders in that Memphis is the most populated City of Blacks in America wherein Memphis not only does not have a “Black Memphis History Museum” Memphis also does not have a “Written Chronical Documented Black Memphis History” wherein on the other hand Memphis has a Cotton Museum that was started in 2006 under the administration of Memphis First elected Black Mayor Dr. W.W. Herenton. The Cotton museum accentuates and maintain the traditions, culture of White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism in America. Anthony “Amp” Elmore who is fighting Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism explains that there is no City in America that has a greater history of White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism than the city of Memphis. The reason that the world does not know about the horrific Black Memphis History because this history is obscured in White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism whereas it to the advantage of many Black Memphis leaders to remain silent regarding the horrific “Black Memphis History.”

Anthony “Amp” Elmore is the first and only person to document chronological Black Memphis history whereas in 2019 via Memphis 200th Bicentennial Celebration Elmore wrote, produced, directed narrated via cinema the film “200 Years of Black Memphis History,” Not only was Elmore’s film not allowed by Black Memphis leaders to be a part of the Memphis 2019 Bicentennial Celebration, Elmore rented the Memphis Malco Movie theatre and posted the film on You Tube. Elmore’s documentary of Black Memphis History is purposefully unacknowledged in Memphis. Click here to see this 2019 Film via You tube.

Click here to see the video titled Cinematic Black Memphis History by Anthony “Amp” Elmore Sr. Elmore launched the first website regarding “Black Memphis History.” The website is called blackmemphishisory.com. This story notes Black History Month in America whereas we share Black Memphis History proves why Memphis holds the crown of the most heinous, brutal, cruel, and vicious racism than any city in America.

Memphis was founded in 1819 by the “Indian Killer American President Andrew Jackson who is also known as “The Father of Ethnic Cleansing.” What is not told about America’s 7th President Andrew Jackson was that most of Indians he killed were Black Native Americans. Andrew Jackson founded Memphis on Cotton and Free Black Slave Labor.

Unknown and not talked about by Black Memphis leaders was the fact that Memphis was “The Slave Capital of the World” whereas Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest who slaughtered more Blacks during the Civil war became a folk Hero whereas Forrest was honored with a statue in Memphis that was just removed in 2017.

After the Civil war the story goes untold in Memphis about the Memphis Massacre of 1866 where White mobs went on a 3 day Black Killing spree of robbing, rapping, Killing and burning down Black Churches, and Schools an act that was so horrific that Congress passed the 14th amendment. Robert R. Church America’s 1st black Millionaire who recovered would get shot in the head and left for dead.

In 1892, racial tensions in Memphis led to the tragic lynching of three African American men—Thomas Moss, Will Stewart, and Calvin McDowell—who were associated with the People’s Grocery. Following a dispute between black and white youths, heightened by economic competition and racial animosity, a white mob removed the men from custody and lynched them. This event highlighted the violent racism African Americans faced and served as a stark example of racial injustice in Memphis.

Following the People’s Grocery lynching in 1892, journalist Ida B. Wells wrote about the tragedy, prompting white mobs to destroy her printing press and threaten her with death if she returned to Memphis. She would later be the most noted Black Woman in America.

This violence and threats led to the exodus of 8,000 African Americans from Memphis to Oklahoma, where they sought a safer life. However, 29 years later, many faced further devastation during the Tulsa Massacre of 1921.

In 1910, E.H. Crump was elected Mayor of Memphis and vowed to take the city to the “Days of Glory.” Crump, a strict segregationist, ran Memphis with an iron fist, keeping African Americans in their place. The police department was 70% KKK, and the “Crump rule” dictated that Black individuals who earned money could not use their wealth to empower other Blacks. They were not allowed to compete with white businesses but had to stay in their lane and never support Black empowerment. This rule remains in effect in Memphis today, with Black elected officials not teaching Black power, Black history, or Black unity. Crump’s policies created a system in Memphis akin to South African apartheid.

Crump ruled Memphis from 1910 until his death in Memphis in 1954. It took another 10 years for a Black to be elected to a Government position in Tennessee whereas Attorney A.W. Willis was the 1st since reconstruction to be elected to the Tennessee General Assembly. Blacks were not elected to the Memphis City Council until 1968 the year Dr. King was killed in Memphis.

Whereas while Memphis does not have a “Black Memphis History Museum” Memphis provides M.A.G.A. with its greatest gift; “The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” whereas in the eyes of M.A.G.A. the killing of Dr. King “Makes America Great Again.”

The culture of Memphis Black on Black racism started with Memphis 1st Black Elected Mayor Dr. W.W. Herenton. Click here to see a video titled: Memphis Mayor W W Herenton practiced Black on Black Racism. The video notes the 2010 Griffin Strong Disparity Study whereas out of 2,800 businesses registered to do business with the City of Memphis only 6 were Black and they Caterers. A Billion dollars’ worth of investment happened in downtown Memphis and Black in Memphis did not get 1/10th of 1% of work in downtown Memphis. Anyone is invited to do an online research of the “Griffin Strong Disparity Studies” and you will see 1st hand the disparities in Memphis.

The Griffin & Strong Disparity Study has highlighted significant disparities in spending within Memphis. With President Trump’s recent dismantling of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives, many cities, including Memphis, may follow suit, potentially exacerbating existing inequalities. Memphis elected officials appear to align with President Trump’s stance, further jeopardizing the practice of DEI in areas like Orange Mound.

Black Tennessee State Representative G.A. Hardaway who Represents Orange Mound and Tennessee State Senator Raumesh Akbari are on record in 2019 of advocating that the State of Tennessee provide 18 million dollars to fund the failed NBC Television Pilot “Bluff City Law” that provided not only no benefit to the Memphis African/American Community the series was an erasure of Black Memphis History whereas the show promoted White Supremacy in that the show was about liberal White Memphis civil Rights attorneys whereas Memphis actually had Black Civil Rights attorneys whereas A.W. Willis the first Black elected to the Tennessee General Assembly was a historic Civil Rights attorney.

Click here to the see the video titled: Orange Mound The Birthplace of African Cultural Diplomacy. The video note how Elmore is fighting DEI erasures like those of President Trump and African/American leaders whereas Elmore is picking up the Gauntlet of Dr. King and discarding the dismantling of DEI in Orange Mound. Elmore explains while mound inundated with the Whipping boy Syndrome of negative stories Elmore ask the reader to click here to visit the website orangemounnewsnetwork.com. The network provides positive alternative news and Black Memphis History and Culture.

In the past it was Whites in Memphis who discriminated and brutalized Blacks in Memphis. Today it is Black on Black racism whereas Blacks discriminate against Blacks in Memphis. It was February 1, 2023 when Vice President Kamala Harris and Civil Rights advocate Rev. Al Sharpton came to Memphis whereas 5 Black Memphis police officers brutally beat 29 year old Memphis Black man Tyree Nichols to death. Click here to learn more.

Clearly the Black Community of Orange Mound is the Paradigm of President Trump’s erasure of DEI whereas Memphis Black Elected Officials practices and polices that erase or not support the teaching of “Black Memphis History” whereas the Trump administration will no longer support Black History Month, Memphis 1st Independent 35mm Theatrical Filmmaker Anthony “Amp” Elmore single handily challenged not only President Trump’s erasure of DEI Elmore challenges Memphis White Supremacy, Racism and Black on Black Racism via making Orange Mound America’s 1st Black Community to become the 1st Community in America to counter President Trump erasure of DEI via posting A Black Memphis History Video. Click here to see the video titled: From Orange Mound to the World A DEI Celebration.

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