Recently, Donald Trump rescheduled a planned rally in Tulsa that was scheduled for Juneteenth. Juneteenth is the day that marks the end of slavery, and while this day is incredibly important every year, there seems to be more talk around this day than usual, in part due to recent events based around racism and police brutality.

Some will say that Trump rescheduling his rally is "respectful."

I beg to differ.

Scheduling a rally for your campaign on the same day we celebrate the end of slavery is anything but respectful, and I expect the president of the United States to know when this day is and respond accordingly.

Holding a rally that won't even follow the CDC's guidance in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is definitely not respectful or upstanding or any other word you can think of.

Now, I get it — the general election is approaching, and when even a conservative pollster has Joe Biden up by 12 points, Trump's campaign has reason to be concerned. They have a reason to want to get out there to try and salvage their campaign. But doing so on the same day we celebrate the fact that slavery finally ended after many, many years of practicing this inhumane act makes Trump and his team seem, well, inhumane.

It also doesn't help that Tulsa, the location of this rally, is where some of the worst white-on-Black violence in American history occurred in 1921.

See, this decision sends a message.

It sends a message that he thinks his campaign is more important than celebrating the day that we began to afford minorities some ounce of equality in America. (Which, before you ask, we're nowhere near done with yet.)

Perhaps the most reprehensible part of this, though, is that Trump probably didn't even have a clue that this was such a major event to Black Americans.

In a report from the Associated Press, Senator James Lankford, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, stated that he doesn't believe Trump or the organizers of this rally understood the importance of Juneteenth as a whole and to this area. Lankford pushed for a rescheduled rally date in light of the significance of this day.

How can we trust a president to improve race relations and equality in America if he doesn't even have the decency to understand, or even wish to educate himself, about days that are important to the Black and brown people who call this country home?

This goes so much deeper than a rally. It shows a lack of understanding and a lack of respect on the president's end. It shows a gross misunderstanding of history and its significance to the people in this country.

Perhaps this is why Black history needs to be taught in schools as a major course, not an elective — so that people like President Trump can gain an understanding as to why holding a rally on Juneteenth is a hard no and a huge slap in the face to Black Americans.

This is why we can't just talk about Black history for a month, throw in some MLK quotes and call it a day.

Black history is a part of our history, and by denying Black history that space in a classroom, we'll continue to breed and cultivate ignorance around days like Juneteenth... and that has to stop.

We can't continue to live a life of ignorance.

We can't continue to live a life of denial.

Our history isn't always comfortable, and even our present isn't always comfortable.

But it's time we stand up.

It's time we let people like Donald Trump know that Juneteenth deserves his respect, and it's time we educate the future generation so that we can get rid of the ignorance and instead, fill it with knowledge, fill it with anti-racist rhetoric and continue to work toward a world where equality exists, where my Black friends don't live in fear and where people like Donald Trump who have vain and self-centered ideas of Black history get educated.

Juneteenth is important, Donald Trump. Your rally, however, quite simply isn't.