DEI Run Amok

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WTF?

Highest-Ranking Black Medal of Honor Recipient Erased in Pentagon DEI Purge

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Yeah, they've been pouring through the archives.....the photos and mentions of the Enola Gay bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima had been erased. Because of the word "Gay" which was the name of the pilot's wife or mother (I forget which) and a bunch of other stuff like things about the TUskeegee Airmen has also gone away. It's like Fox News just took over the defense department. Oh, wait.

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WTF is wrong with these people?

These are Americans and American heroes.

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That fits, though.

Civil Rights Icon Whom Trump Called A 'Hero' Erased From Arlington Cemetery Website
Medgar Evers, a World War II veteran who fought segregation in Mississippi, is among service members whose histories have been scrubbed from the site.

... The website’s changes were first reported by Civil War historian Kevin M. Levin, as well as Task & Purpose.

Trump, in remarks at the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in 2017, praised Evers as a “great American hero,” Mississippi Today’s Jerry Mitchell reported Monday.

“In Arlington, he lies beside men and women of all races, backgrounds, and walks of life who have served and sacrificed for our country,” Trump said of Evers, whose story is covered by the museum, at the time.

“Their headstones do not mark the color of their skin, but immortalize the courage of their deeds.”

Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Reuben Anderson, who showed the president around the museum during his visit, told Mississippi Today that the removal has “got to be a mistake.”

“That involves a great American who served in the military and was one of the most courageous Americans of all time,” said Anderson of Evers, who fought in Normandy and later challenged the segregation of the University of Mississippi.

Evers, who also championed voting rights for Black Americans and fought to end segregation in public facilities, was assassinated by a Ku Klux Klan member in 1963.

Evers was posthumously awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year....

Levin, who brings teachers to visit Evers’ grave at Arlington each summer, told the newspaper that it’s “impossible” to discuss the civil rights icon’s accomplishments without bringing up his military service.

“There’s a straight line from his service to trying to expand voting rights and desegregate the University of Mississippi law school,” he said.

“Any attempt to minimize this history is being incredibly dishonest.”

How many Whites have been scrubbed from the Arlington National Cemetery’s website? How many other Blacks, Hispanics and women have been erased?

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WTF?

Trump administration reportedly moves to ban Jackie Robinson biography from Naval Academy library




The Robinson biography is reportedly one of 900 books identified as conflicting with the order, with other examples including “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.” and “Einstein on Race and Racism.”

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Trump administration reportedly moves to ban Jackie Robinson biography from Naval Academy library


The Robinson biography is reportedly one of 900 books identified as conflicting with the order, with other examples including “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.” and “Einstein on Race and Racism.”

White supremacy Run Amok

US orders French companies to comply with Trump's diversity ban

The Trump administration has ordered some French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with his executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programmes, highlighting the extraterritorial reach of U.S. policies and their potential impact on European corporate practices.

... There was no indication that the companies receiving the letter were selected based on their presence in the U.S. A source close to the matter confirmed that France's state-controlled telecoms group Orange, which has no U.S. presence, received the letter.

Meanwhile, defence electronics firm Thales and oil major TotalEnergies, both with operations in the U.S., did not receive it, according to spokespeople for the companies. Orange declined to comment.

Idiots.

"American interference in the inclusion policies of French companies, along with threats of unjustified tariffs, is unacceptable," France's Ministry of Foreign Trade said in a statement sent to Reuters.

"France and Europe will defend their businesses, their consumers, and also their values," the ministry, which is under the authority of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, added....

VivaFrance and EuropeViva!

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George Washington is next.

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George Washington is next.

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What is the NPS doing? WaPo has a paywall.

Never mind, CNN covers it:

National Park Services removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage


A portrait of Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

The National Parks Service webpage for the “Underground Railroad” used to lead with a quote from Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor”, a comparison on the Wayback Machine between the webpage on January 21, 2025 and March 19, 2025 shows. Both the quote and an image of Tubman have since been removed, along with several references to “enslaved” people and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

The Washington Post first reported on the changes. The webpage now leads with commemorative stamps of various civil rights leaders with text including the phrase “Black/White Cooperation.” Whereas previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad after the Fugitive Slave Act, the article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the “American ideals of liberty and freedom” and do not specifically mention slavery....

Articles about topics seemingly unrelated to DEI – including the Holocaust, cancer awareness, and sexual assault – have also been removed from Pentagon webpages. Pentagon officials were instructed to search for keywords like “racism,” “ethnicity,” “LGBTQ,” “history” and “first” when identifying articles and photos to remove, multiple defense officials previously told CNN.

In his second term, President Donald Trump has taken multiple steps to take control of American cultural and historical institutions, gutting the board of trustees at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and targeting the Smithsonian Institution in an executive order in late March.

In his order, Trump specifically identified the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum as carrying exhibits and promoting language he deemed inappropriate.

The success of the Nazis depended on the complicity of millions of Germans who were just following orders and "doing their jobs".

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I was reading a story this morning on yahoo news talking about how trump's schoolyard bully act toward Canada has united Canadians like nothing else. Part of the story says that TV commentators in Canada refer to 'DEI' as "Don, Eric, and Ivanka."

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WTF?

Trump administration reportedly moves to ban Jackie Robinson biography from Naval Academy library

The Robinson biography is reportedly one of 900 books identified as conflicting with the order, with other examples including “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.” and “Einstein on Race and Racism.”

Just planning to mention the censorship earns more censorship:

Author says Naval Academy canceled his lecture over removed book reference

The Naval Academy canceled a speech by author and podcaster Ryan Holiday after he declined a request not to reference 381 books and literary works removed from its library as part of a review of diversity, equity and inclusion materials, according to an opinion piece he authored for The New York Times.

Holiday, who has hosted a series of lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen for the past four years, was scheduled to speak to the sophomore class on the theme of wisdom on April 14.

"wisdom". Irony.

About an hour before his scheduled talk, Holiday received a phone call, he recounted in the Times Opinion piece titled “The Naval Academy Canceled My Lecture on Wisdom.” According to Holiday, Navy officials told Holiday they were worried about “reprisals” related to a portion of his speech that referenced the 381 books recently removed. They asked him to omit that topic from his remarks, he wrote.

"reprisals" from who?

“When I declined, my lecture — as well as a planned speech before the Navy football team, with whom my books on Stoicism are popular — was canceled,” Holiday wrote.

Hero.

... Some titles removed from the Navy’s Nimitz Library include “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi, “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America” by Anthea Butler, “Writing/teaching: Essays Toward a Rhetoric of Pedagogy” by Paul Kameen, and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Literarian Award recipient Maya Angelou.

Other titles included themes of feminism, civil rights and racism, along with books surrounding Jewish history, including “Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory” by Janet Jacobs.

... “As an author, I believe deeply in the power of books,” Holiday wrote in The Times. “As a bookstore owner in Texas, I have spoken up about book banning many times already. More important was the topic of my address: the virtue of wisdom.

“As I explained repeatedly to my hosts, I had no interest in embarrassing anyone or discussing politics directly. I understand the immense pressures they are under, especially the military employees, and I did not want to cause them trouble. I did, however, feel it was essential to make the point that the pursuit of wisdom is impossible without engaging with (and challenging) uncomfortable ideas.”

Cancel Culture at its worst.

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More White supremacy in action:

Smithsonian begins removing exhibits, artifacts from African American History Museum

... It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums....

1984

Civil rights activist and San Francisco Pastor Rev. Dr. Amos Brown received an email this month stating that his artifacts were being returned....

Since 2016, the museum has had Brown’s bible from when he went to demonstrations with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson.

They also had his copy of “History of the Negro Race, 1618-1880.” It was the first comprehensive history of African Americans from slavery through Reconstruction.

“It is an assault on Black folks’ humanity, their ethnic and cultural identity, and is downright inhumane,” Brown said.

“It’s erasing or trying to hide past, a Black history. And I think it shouldn’t be hidden or erased. I think it needs to be highlighted,” Williams said....

Yup. If not museums, where are the repositories of history?

Trump orders ‘ideology’ removed from Smithsonian. What about NC sit-ins exhibit?

President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month putting Vice President JD Vance and an attorney in charge of finding and “removing improper ideology” from monuments, museums and the National Zoo overseen by the Department of Interior.

Great, a Just Deranged chief.

On Thursday, the news outlet BlackPressUSA published a report that an exhibit from a historic moment in the Civil Rights Movement, Greensboro’s F.W. Woolworth Company lunch counter, fell victim to Trump’s order.

BlackPressUSA stated that “Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them — starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”

... Linda St. Thomas, chief spokeswoman for the Smithsonian Institution, told McClatchy in an email Friday that the lunch counter is not at risk.

“The Greensboro, NC, lunch counter is not leaving the Smithsonian,” St. Thomas wrote. “It is on display at the National Museum of American History where it has been for many years.”

Deceptive deflection:

The BlackPressUSA article specifically mentioned that the exhibit was leaving the National Museum of African American History and Culture....

Late Friday, the news outlet updated its website and social media to say that the Smithsonian says the lunch counter exhibit will now remain at the museum.

Cockroaches hide in the light of day.

Jeffries wants Justice Roberts to reject Trump's executive order targeting Smithsonian

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wants Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to reject an executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks an end to the "influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology" at the Smithsonian.

Roberts sits on the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents and serves as chancellor of the Smithsonian. The next board meeting of the Smithsonian, which includes Vice President JD Vance, is scheduled for June 9....

"I write to express my strong opposition to President Trump's Proclamation issued on March 27, which preposterously purports to restore 'truth and sanity to American history' by censoring 'improper ideology' at the Smithsonian Institution," Jeffries, of California, wrote.

"It is imperative that you, along with your fellow Regents, continue the storied legacy of the Smithsonian that tells the American story honestly and completely. President Trump's proclamation, which seeks to whitewash our history, is cowardly and unpatriotic. It must fail."

"whitewash"

"The Smithsonian attracts tens of millions of visitors a year and works with the finest subject matter experts in virtually every field," Jeffries wrote. "The fact that the Proclamation prominently singles out the National Museum of African American History and Culture speaks volumes about Donald Trump's actual motivation. To be clear: Black history is American history. It cannot and will not be erased."

Is the Smithsonian also removing Greek, Roman, medieval and other White "ideology" history?

Trump also mentioned the forthcoming American Women's History Museum in his executive order as "celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women's sports."

Creepy gender obsession, as usual.

... "History is replete with dangerous efforts to manipulate cultural and historical narratives in order to consolidate power, including during twentieth-century regimes like those in the Soviet Union and 1930s Germany," the top Democrat in the House wrote....

Hero.