Posted on 01/27/2025 9:30:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Trump has banned DEI from the federal government, but the left isn’t going to let it go. The San Antonio Express-News reported the latest race-based hoax, which is the claim that President Trump’s order banning DEI means that the Tuskegee Airmen have been erased from Air Force history as taught to new recruits.
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of blacks, ranging from pilots to cooks and nurses, who formed the Army Air Corps’ 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group. They had an excellent combat record, and their abilities went a long way to breaking the color barrier in the federal government, including the military, that Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, had instituted.
We remember the Tuskegee Airman today as an important part of American history. They also drive home the point that people’s skin color is the least important thing about them when considering their abilities. They are Exhibit A for why we need to remove all racial obsessions from the U.S. Military, an organization that must function on merit if it is to function at all.
It was with that laudable, pro-American, and practical goal that Donald Trump signed an executive order ending all “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs in the federal government, including in the military. Pete Hegseth, the new Defense Secretary, is all in on this goal:
The President’s guidance (lawful orders) is clear: No more DEI at @DeptofDefense.
The Pentagon will comply, immediately.
No exceptions, name-changes, or delays.
pic.twitter.com/KwRtxYRIbG — Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) January 26, 2025
The military as a whole immediately hastened to comply, leading to several dead web pages that were dedicated to the military’s DEI programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
President Donald Trump’s assault on federal diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives has claimed a new victim — the Tuskegee Airmen.
The story instantly got picked up by other media outlets at home and abroad (e.g., CBS News, USA Today, The Guardian, and BBC).
Every headline accused Donald Trump of forcing the military to erase the Tuskegee Airman. Except, of course, Trump didn’t order anything of the sort.
I’ve been following this controversy at the Express News.
This latest article admits that in fact Trump did NOT cancel the Tuskegee Airman videos.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/tuskegee-airmen-video-air-force-changes-course-20057246.php
My guess is that DIE Air Force officials took it upon themselves to create this controversy to retaliate against Trump.
For almost the first 50 years after WWII Americans were all taught that the Tuskegee Airmen were perfect and never lost a single plane they were protecting, during the 1990s that absurd version started collapsing, perhaps because of the internet.
The reason that these specific videos were withdrawn was because they weren’t taught as part of a general orientation about the Air Force’s storied history and the many people of all races and both sexes who served honorably in the Air Force. Instead, as AP accurately reports, the materials were part of a specific DEI curriculum—and the curriculum is paused.
This matters because Trump’s executive order makes it clear that, while he is throwing out DEI, he has no intention of tossing valuable babies out with that racist bathwater.
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of blacks, ranging from pilots to cooks and nurses, who formed the Army Air Corps’ 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group. They had an excellent combat record, and their abilities went a long way to breaking the color bar in the south.
Both groups served in Italy during WWII.,
the best was the Women's (Women's Army Air Corp) in Italy group that handled the mail to and from the the USA and the front line soldiers...
They cleared several warehouses full of mail ...was a priority from top brass in military as morale was declining
Key was the hand written unit insignias on the mail...enabled identification of soldier and location in the field.
Mail got delivered
It’s called: Malicious compliance.
Don’t like speed limits: Drive 15mph below the speed limit to block traffic.
It’s taking an order to it’s logical extreme.
Yeah, I got an email from my congresswoman - Terri Sewell. Outraged and ranting that DJT had ordered that the Tuskegee Airman story not be taught. Ridiculous.
Erasing history only comes to their rotted little minds because it is the first thing that they would want to do (and have been doing).
In President Trump’s state of the union address in Feb.4.2020,, President Trump recognized Charles McGee , a Tuskegee airman with his grandson,, If i remember right, some democrats did not stand and show respect for this patriot.
If this did or does happen it's probably some butt hurt leftist officer doing it on purpose to try and make Trump look bad.
They were a good unit, especially considering the bullshit they had to put up with from openly racist idiots. My physics teacher was one of them. A man of impeccable quality in every way.
Of course they were good but not the way they were taught for decades.
When you have a vast racial group to select a tiny handful from they will be exceptional, it is totally different from modern affirmative action, or even from choosing from a vast group for a vast organization.
Well by all means, step up and try to tear them down anyway you can. Feel better?
I haven’t said anything tearing them down I agreed with their high quality, you need to reexamine your racist sensitivities.
The Tuskegee Airmen had to be made because Woodrow Willson, a rabid Southern Democrat and a racist of the first stripe embedded Jim Crow laws into the Federal workforce.
If you are to examine history, all sort of things will surprise you.
Sig Christensen is an excellent and well-respected military reporter. I think the truth is in this:
“A retired Air Force general, speaking on condition he not be named, said he suspected lower-level officers overreacted to the DEI directive and went farther than the Trump administration intended in pulling the videos about the Tuskegee Airmen and WASP.”
As the former SJA for all the reconstituted Red Tail squadrons, I can testify that we were proud and honored to be able to carry on their legacy. I don’t know anybody in the Air Force who believes that a pinnacle part of our history should be erased.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
Trump and the rest of the republicans need to start telling the press that it was a progressive democrat President Woodrow Wilson that reinstated segregation of the Armed Forces.
Surely the National Archives has a copy of Wilson’s directive, and this should be printed out and given to the press at every news conference.
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