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Jackie Robinson was much more than a civil rights icon and baseball legend; he was an American citizen who believed in making sacrifices to struggle enemies each domestically and overseas. It’s effectively documented that Robinson was the primary African-American to face at house plate for an at-bat in a Main League Baseball skilled baseball sport. What’s talked about much less is Robinson’s army profession the place he skilled as an officer, was assigned to a tank regiment, and rose to earn the rank of Second Lieutenant. Even whereas in service to a rustic that might somewhat see him hanging from a tree than to thank him for his service, Robinson nonetheless stood ten toes down for Black civil rights (he was as soon as beneath courtroom martial for refusing to take a seat behind a bus at Fort Hood in Texas.)
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In accordance with NBC Information, that legacy was erased from the Division of Protection web site in accordance with Donald Trump’s racist and pointless anti-DEI campaign. The Pentagon web site and all related social media pages had been scrubbed of all mentions of variety, fairness, and inclusion, whether or not they be images, movies, or information articles.
Says Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot:
“Discriminatory Fairness Ideology is a type of Woke cultural Marxism that has no place in our army. It Divides the power, Erodes unit cohesion and Interferes with the providers’ core warfighting mission. We’re happy by the fast compliance throughout the Division with the directive eradicating DEI content material from all platforms.
Conservative clowns utilizing the phrase “woke” won’t ever not be cringe to the purpose of doubtless breaking tooth.
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David Robinson, Jackie’s son, launched an announcement expressing his shock that the DoD would disrespect his father on this approach.
“We take nice delight in Jackie Robinson’s service to our nation as a soldier and a sports activities hero, an icon whose braveness, expertise, energy of character and dedication contributed enormously to leveling the enjoying subject not solely in skilled sports activities however all through society,” mentioned Robinson, who’s a Jackie Robinson Basis board member. “He labored tirelessly on behalf of equal alternatives, in schooling, enterprise, civic engagement, and throughout the justice system. A recipient of each the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, he in fact is an American hero.”
The Pentagon doubled again in its try to scrub up its spill on aisle 6, as famous by an ESPN article that states press secretary Ullyot’s “up to date” assertion at 2:46 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.
“Within the uncommon instances that content material is eliminated—both intentionally or by mistake—that’s out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the parts they usually appropriate the content material so it acknowledges our heroes for his or her devoted service alongside their fellow Individuals, interval.”
By 3:09pm, the Jackie Robinson data was restored of their unique codecs. “Mistake,” huh? Positive, Jan.
