March 19, 2025
US military Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers recieved the Medal of Honor in 1970 from President Richard Nixon.
The US Protection Division’s webpage devoted to celebrating the Black Medal of Honor recipient, U.S. Military Main Normal Charles Calvin Rogers, was eliminated for together with DEI descriptions. Though it has since been restored as of March 17, the letters have been eliminated and the Trump administration has doubled down on its determination to clean range, fairness and inclusion from governmental document preserving and entities.
The elimination of Rogers’s web page occurred March 15, based on The Guardian. U.S. Military Main Normal Charles Calvin Rogers’ Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message when searched.
Rogers valiantly earned his designation by serving within the Vietnam Warfare, the place he was wounded three totally different occasions whereas defending a U.S. base. He died in 1990, however President Richard Nixon awarded him the Medal of Honor, which is the nation’s highest army honor. In 1970 Rogers grew to become the highest-ranking African American to obtain the Medal of Honor.
Author Brandon Friedman posted a screenshot of the error message acquired when going to Rogers’ web page and famous that it beforehand said, “As a Black man, [Rogers] labored for gender and race equality whereas within the service.”
By Monday, the positioning was restored. A protection division spokesperson advised The Guardian, “The division has restored the Medal of Honor story about military Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers … The story was eliminated in the course of the auto elimination course of.”
Regardless of claiming that Rogers’s web page was taken down mistakenly, the protection division underneath Trump’s administration doubled down on their marketing campaign to take away all content material that highlights DEI from these informational web sites.
Spokesperson Sean Parnell defended the marketing campaign that has since been eradicating the tales of contributions made by ladies and minority teams.
As beforehand reported, lots of of pages devoted to honoring these contributions have been deleted and brought all the way down to wipe away range, fairness and inclusion from the federal authorities.
“I believe the president and the secretary have been very clear on this – that anyone that claims within the Division of Protection that range is our power is, frankly, incorrect,” Parnell stated.
Co-CEO of the Black Veterans Challenge — Richard Brookshire — rebutted, “The complete-throttled assault on Black management, dismantling of civil rights protections, imposition of unjust anti-DEI laws, and unprecedented historic erasure throughout the Division of Protection is a transparent signal of a brand new Jim Crow being propagated by our commander in chief.”
Over the course of Trump’s presidency starting in January, the republican president has continued to roll again on DEI efforts throughout the federal authorities and companies.
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