Gritsngravy
Superstar
I really hope black folks stocking up on books and teaching the kids what it really is
Breaking: Obeying Trump order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen +BLK history month canceled
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JamesJabdi
Superstar
Fukk the military and Trump....all black brehs needs to walk out on that military colonialist bullshyt....still not giving black servicemen their due but they want to give the confederates their props....sick country
OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
I want to say yes but people do compartmentalize hard. They'll run with one issue and ignore the rest. This last election was a perfect example.
O.T.I.S.
Veteran
By the way this forum and social media looks
And this is what I mean by no foresight. Like NOW you notice that it’s going to get bad for everyone?
Elim Garak
Veteran
Oh no doubt, it won't be realized by all of them.
Are you walking out of America?
JamesJabdi
Superstar
Are you walking out of America?
Are you a military breh?
Can’t do shyt but laugh at this point.
The US is showing its true face. If the majority of people didn’t want this, they would be stopping it.
The US is showing its true face. If the majority of people didn’t want this, they would be stopping it.
Sauce Mane
Superstar
Shout out to Snoop, Nelly and Soulja boi though
that check must have been worth it
that check must have been worth it
Scustin Bieburr
Baby baybee baybee UUUGH
This is a 20th century tactic. It won't work in the 21st century. The train has already left the station.
People can learn history through the internet. Too many people already know about the airmen. There are movies about them, documentaries, books, and thousands of video essays and blog posts. They cannot suppress this information when the sheer volume of it exists digitally and physically.
It's not like in the 20th century where you burn books and tell the news broadcasters what to say. If people want to know something, they'll be able to access that information. If a teacher says "and if you're curious about the contributions of others, talk to me after class" all they need to do is tell their students to look up certain words and they'll fall into the rabbit hole of information.
This is the kind of action I expect out of someone who doesn't understand the fact that information is now more easily accessible than it's ever been and there is always a hidden alternative. The way that tyranny fell in the past involved people creating shadow networks of power and exchange.
People can learn history through the internet. Too many people already know about the airmen. There are movies about them, documentaries, books, and thousands of video essays and blog posts. They cannot suppress this information when the sheer volume of it exists digitally and physically.
It's not like in the 20th century where you burn books and tell the news broadcasters what to say. If people want to know something, they'll be able to access that information. If a teacher says "and if you're curious about the contributions of others, talk to me after class" all they need to do is tell their students to look up certain words and they'll fall into the rabbit hole of information.
This is the kind of action I expect out of someone who doesn't understand the fact that information is now more easily accessible than it's ever been and there is always a hidden alternative. The way that tyranny fell in the past involved people creating shadow networks of power and exchange.
I hope you weren't one of these dudes on here saying folks were fearmongering or lying when people said this was the way things were goingI'm not going to lie. I didn't see the curveball with this DEI initiative.I don't agree but understand the notion of not placing emphasis on race, sex, etc. However, cases like the Tuskegee Airman is American History, not DEI. Just like the lipstick line Target dropped that was black owned. They could have kept the product on the shelves and removed the black owned signs. Trump and his conservative machine pulled a pretty slick chess move.
Elim Garak
Veteran
He definitely doesn't. He had to get his A.I. Czar to explain that executive order the other day.
If something can be easily put in place by a President's executive orders, it can be easily removed by another one's. That is why if we want things to stick, we should be pushing them to be laws, not depend on the mercy of one President's proclimation to the next.
If people do their jobs, he will have 4 years to cause havoc as the President. While that is happing, the Democrats need to be campaigning on issues the people need solutions to and working to put more of themselves in the House and Senate, preparing for the next Presidential election. Grooming up candidates that will have a good chance of defeating the Republican canidate. If they can get the numbers in both the House and Senate, they can then craft into Laws old executive orders they want to protect.
The above would require them to also cease the focus on having wedge issues, but instead focus more on creating and enacting solutions. They do that, then they may just be able to draw more people back into the fold and off the couches next Presidential election.
If people do their jobs, he will have 4 years to cause havoc as the President. While that is happing, the Democrats need to be campaigning on issues the people need solutions to and working to put more of themselves in the House and Senate, preparing for the next Presidential election. Grooming up candidates that will have a good chance of defeating the Republican canidate. If they can get the numbers in both the House and Senate, they can then craft into Laws old executive orders they want to protect.
The above would require them to also cease the focus on having wedge issues, but instead focus more on creating and enacting solutions. They do that, then they may just be able to draw more people back into the fold and off the couches next Presidential election.
