Trump Administration Erases Black History At Arlington National

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It’s one factor to say that variety, fairness, and inclusion initiatives give an unfair benefit to individuals of colour inside organizations; it’s a gross overstep to make use of DEI as an excuse to purge the existence of notable Black, Hispanic, and veteran ladies from Arlington Nationwide Cemetery — which is strictly what the Trump administration has carried out.

In keeping with MSNBC, the ultimate resting place for some 400,000 troopers has scrubbed its web site of the gravesites of notable “outstanding minority veterans, in addition to academic pages on the Civil Conflict, African American historical past and ladies’s historical past.”

They’ve additionally eliminated all language about variety and inclusion and positioned some pertinent details about extraordinary individuals of colour underneath totally different classes that don’t point out race or gender as a result of the Trump administration hates historical past that makes white individuals look dangerous.

Severely, why else would they wish to cease teachings on African American historical past or the Civil Rights Motion, all data that was as soon as on the Arlington cemetery’s internet pages till the Trump administration battle on DEI? There was once a bit on Black battle heroes, and that web page is not there as a result of god forbid some Black baby sees these highly effective pictures and thinks that possibly he might be a pilot or a Marine in the future.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington 1

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The cemetery will not be solely at fault. A spokesperson for the Arlington Nationwide instructed the Washington Put up that they’re simply attempting to stick to Donald Trump’s insurance policies after confirming that the webpages of “Notable Graves” of Black, Hispanic, and feminine veterans have been taken down.

As a result of Donald Trump and his brood of white cis-gendered males hate variety, they hate anybody who doesn’t appear like them, and they’re working diligently to erase years of progress underneath the guise of “Making America Nice Once more,” which is de facto only a synonym for white.

Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth has claimed that he’s eliminating “wokeness” within the navy however showcasing the work of individuals of colour within the Armed Forces isn’t “woke,” except “wokeness” means individuals of colour (I admit that I don’t know what wokeness means now that it’s been bastardized by MAGA).

MSNBC notes that considered one of Donald Trump’s first firings when taking workplace was to do away with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, Air Pressure Gen. C.Q. Brown, a Black man, and probably the most extremely embellished officers and changed him with a white cis-gendered man.

He additionally pushed out “Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the top of the U.S. Navy and the primary lady to guide any department of the armed forces.” Her firing left the armed forces with none 4-star feminine commanders.

Since being confirmed as protection secretary, Hegseth famous that he believes the dumbest phrase within the navy is “Our energy is in our variety.” So clearly he was for a ban on all cultural heritage celebrations, “together with Black Historical past Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Nationwide American Indian Heritage Month, LGBTQ Satisfaction Month, Ladies’s Historical past Month, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day,” MSNBC reviews.

Oh and in case you wished to clear up any doubt, sure, they want to ban trans individuals from serving within the navy.

And get this: After scrubbing the Pentagon of some 26,000 pictures that confirmed veterans of various races and identities, additionally they took down a picture of a World Conflict II B-29 plane that dropped the world’s first and solely atomic bomb on Hiroshima as a result of it was named “Enola Homosexual.”

I hate every little thing.