From eradicating the stories of Nawazo “Code Tockers” on the Pentagon website, to demolish the “Black Lives Matter” in Washington, President Donald Trump’s attack on diversity in the United States government is ending decades of racial justice programs.
Fulfilling the promise of a campaign, the Republican billionaire made one of the first acts in the office to abolish the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs of all the federal government, due to which he said “illegal and immoral discrimination.”
The crack on the DEI initiative in the Pentagon has been widespread, from the ban on the recruitment of transgender soldiers – a step by a court this week – to remove the huge trowels of documents and images from its website.
Earlier this month, Civil War historian Kevin M. Levin reported that the Arlington National Ceremony had started wiping its website in the history of Black, Hispanic and Women’s War veterans.
“It is a tragic day when our own army is forced to return to shared the stories of brave men and women who have served the country with respect,” Levin wrote on his option.
“This madness must stop.”
– ‘Vok Cultural Marxism’ –
According to a database received by the Associated Press, the war heroes, military first, and even notable were in the swatt of the references and articles of Americans.
Among over 26,000 items marked for removal, the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in Japan in 1945 was the reference to the American aircraft Enla Gay – obviously because the aircraft name triggered a digital discovery for the word LGBT inclusion.
Other materials removed by the Pentagon consisted of stories on Tuskegi Airmen, the first African American military aviants and baseball legend and veteran Jackie Robinson.
Answering a question on them and other expulsions, the Pentagon said on Wednesday that it saluted individuals, but “refused to see them through the prism of irreversible characteristics.”
Pentagon’s press secretary John Yulot said, “(DEI) is a form of Vok cultural Marxism that divides the force, the unit eradicates harmony and interferes with the main war mission of services.”
He said that in “rare cases” that the material was removed which should not have been, it would be restored – as Robinson and Nawajo were with articles on the “code Tockers” – but stood perfectly completely by the perj.
– ‘Eradicate history’ –
Not everyone has been convinced by the Pentagon’s explanation around the parj.
Descendants of the original Americans, who played an important role for American forces in World War II, said they were surprised to find the brave contribution of their ancestors, effectively removed from public records.
Zoni Gordeman, daughter of military veteran Karl Gordeman, said, “I definitely see it as an attempt to eradicate the history of the people of the color in general.”
Carl Gordeman was one of the young Nawazo “Code Tockers” admitted by the US Navy in 1942 to test the use of his indigenous language, whose complex structure made it an almost impossible-to-revolving code.
Several web pages that details the group’s role, whose contribution was important for the victory of the United States in the Pacific between 1942 and 1945, such as Evo Jima in a fight, recently disappeared from the Pentagon site.
For Gordeman, a historian, action was an insult.
“From the very beginning, we are very invisible in this country, and therefore there is a story that was well known to us as indigenous people, which liked,” he told AFP.
“And then it is like a slap in the face.”
– Chilling Effect –
The US President’s move to abolish the DEI programs has also affected more than only the federal government.
Since he won last year’s election, many major American corporations – including Google, Meta, Amazon and McDonalds – have either scraped completely or have scored their DEI programs dramatically.
According to The New York Times, the number of companies on the S&P500 using the words “diversity, equity and inclusion” in the company’s filing had fallen by about 60 percent of the number of companies.
The American Civil Liberty Union says that Trump’s policies have taken a “jerk and amazement approach, which has long been ahead, bipartished federal policy meant to open the doors that were wrongly closed.”
The US Federal Anti-Declaration Programs were born from the 1960s civil rights struggle, mainly led by black Americans, for equality and justice after hundreds of years of slavery, whose abolition in 1865 applied other institutional forms of racism.
According to official data, today, black American and other minority police continue to face violence, chaos, poverty, homeless and hatred crimes.
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