Cher gave us the Beat Goes On and with Trump it's the madness goes on ..
WASHINGTON — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press.
Included is this photo
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If they really do carry out such a plan, would that not be erasing parts of your country's history?
Their real intent is to erase all historical references to Black people in America. Therefore, they will throw in a few other things to hide their true agenda. They hate the idea of Blacks getting social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid which is why those programs are under attack. They don't care about the millions of Whites who will suffer when those programs are eliminated.
@Diotrephes So the DoD's decision is just cheap, official smokescreening?
Convivial does not mention the Afro-Americans, but even with your explanation I cannot see any point in censoring the country's military history.
Becuase these examples are about individual people, excising references to a medal of honour, or to the first woman infantry soldier, would be mere pettyness, even cowardice, by the unknown officials.
The bomber, though, represents an episode the whole world should always remember, learn from and never repeat.
Where will it end? Even before this, last year we heard of some US school libraries being closed entirely for holding books not to the taste of obscure external committees. Now the DoD seems trying to censor the USA's military history. To whose benefit?
Not only, what is it telling Americans. What is it telling the rest of the world?
Now the DoD seems trying to censor the USA's military history. To whose benefit?
Not only, what is it telling Americans. What is it telling the rest of the world?
Do you know how many Black Marine fighter pilots there were in 2023? 5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/16/marines-black-fighter-pilots/
There are 60 Black fighter pilots in the Air Force and 15 Black fighter pilots in the Navy.
That racism goes back to WWII. Like George Wallace said = "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."
That is why they went nuts over Affirmative Action and are killing the DEI program in all segments of American society. And, it is why the social benefit programs are under attack. Their intent is to restore Jim Crow and eventually reinstitute chattle slavery.
@Diotrephes What a tragic state of affairs. When will such prejudice end?
Racism and related attitudes are by no means just American; and by no means just between white and black.
Other countries have brought in laws that broadly ban discrimination, rather than trying to enforce what is rather absurdly called "positive discrimination".
On the whole these seems to work fairly well, but it is extremely difficult to educate people out of deeply-entrenched social attitudes originating generations ago - in WW2 as you say, but well before that.
Ironically it might be easier where the original prejudice was openly hostile, than where it was a sort of patronising that was held to be for "their" benefit, at the time.
