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Final month, throughout the White Home’s Black Historical past Month occasion that federal officers weren’t positive hadn’t been outlawed by the commander-in-legalizing-white-nationlism, President Donald Trump declared it was the day “we pay tribute to the generations of Black legends, champions, warriors and patriots who helped drive our nation ahead to greatness.”
“We’re going to look ahead to honoring the contributions of numerous Black People who fought to win and shield and increase American freedom from the very, very starting,” Trump stated.
Now, all of us knew Trump was simply offloading his newest batch of political posturing, faux racial solidarity and insidious orangey-white nationalist nonsense disguised as racial unity. In any case, one must be a idiot to imagine the president who popularized anti-critical race concept propaganda has any curiosity in celebrating Black historical past — a historical past that’s unimaginable to show in full with out calling America the white supremacist nation it has all the time been.
Anyway, simply weeks after Trump’s Anti-Black Hypocrisy Month celebration on the White Home, the histories of Black veterans are being scrubbed from federal authorities web sites, together with that of Main Baseball League legend and integrator Jackie Robinson.
As of Tuesday night, a narrative detailing Robinson’s service within the U.S. Military has disappeared from the Division of Protection’s web site, and it has reportedly been changed by the three letters white conservatives have propagandized to the purpose they’ve been made synonymous with the Satan himself within the MAGA thoughts:
You guessed it — DEI.
From Yahoo Sports activities:
As KSBW and ESPN’s Jeff Passan famous, the webpage has been scrubbed, and the URL now options “dei” earlier than the story’s headline, indicating it was doubtlessly taken down as a part of President Donald Trump’s administration’s efforts to take away range, fairness and inclusion packages from all the pieces with ties to the federal authorities.
Robinson isn’t alone in having a webpage taken down from the Pentagon’s web site. The Trump Administration drew outrage earlier Tuesday when it gave the Navajo Code Talkers the same therapy, in addition to a Black recipient of the Medal of Honor and Japanese American veterans. In every case, the Trump administration stated the elimination was a mistake on the a part of an automatic course of and the content material could be restored.