Breaking: Obeying Trump order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen +BLK history month canceled

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I'm not going to lie. I didn't see the curveball with this DEI initiative. :manny: 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.
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If something can be easily put in place by a President's executive orders, it can be easily removed by another ones. 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 and working to put more of themselves in the House and Senate, preparing for the next Presidential election. Grooming up a 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 the may just be able to draw more people back into the fold and off the coaches next Presidential election.

This is why I said the Dems may come back stronger after this loss. We may see them come back stronger than ever.

Sometimes things got to get worse before they get better
 

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I'm not going to lie. I didn't see the curveball with this DEI initiative. :manny: 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.
DEI was simply an anti-black term for them. No matter how much they wanted to talk about having things based on meritocracy or including other "minorities" in this, it was always used as a codeword for them to minimize black achievement.
 

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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.
Idk man people are still pretty stupid
 

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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.
I disagree, Gen-Z doesn't know basic recent history lol. They don't give a damn about history at that age.
 

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I wonder if they’ll show us a modicum of mercy if we just go ahead and put the chains on and start heading the plantations voluntarily…

At this point.....these bothsider c00ns will do that.....

They want that 13th amendment overturned.

They also want all Black History to be erased and people forgetting how the Tuskegee Airmen literally saved America from a Nazi takeover and have everyone in the Western Hemisphere speaking German.
 

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I'm not going to lie. I didn't see the curveball with this DEI initiative. :manny: 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.
It wasn’t slick tho.


It was a super loud dog whistle for racist MAGA extremists, and other racial groups who thought he would be attacking everyone but THEM (i.e. Indian Americans being shocked that whites are mad at them for “taking all the good jobs”, Latinos being shocked that ICE is removing people, etc).

Black folks shouldn’t have been surprised by this at all. His fukking supporters are all racist lmao
 

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Shout out to Snoop, Nelly and Soulja boi though

that check must have been worth it
They should never be able to live this down..

And it is most likely going to get worse. Racists are testing the waters to see what they can get away with without major effort.

But again.. small minds be focusing on small shyt so they will get away with this and do it again elsewhere at a bigger scale

People have ZERO foresight… but hindsight is 20/20
 
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