You have to wonder is we are entering a new age of Jim Crow+ with all this anti-DEI stuff. Stop and think for a moment what it really means all this banning of DEI.
DEI = Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
So in other words it means that they will not discriminate! That they will hire the best person for the job! So translated from Trump's Newspeak... Anti-DEI means that they want to discriminate!
By Zoe SottileApril 6, 2025An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.
The National Parks Service webpage for the “Underground Railroad” used to lead with a quote from Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor”, a comparison on the Wayback Machine between the webpage on January 21 and March 19 shows. Both the quote and an image of Tubman have since been removed, along with several references to “enslaved” people and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
The Washington Post first reported on the changes. The webpage now leads with commemorative stamps of various civil rights leaders with text including the phrase “Black/White Cooperation.” Whereas previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad after the Fugitive Slave Act, the article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the “American ideals of liberty and freedom” and do not specifically mention slavery.
Tubman’s removal from the “Underground Railroad” page “is both offensive and absurd,” Fergus Bordewich, a historian and the author of a book about the Underground Railroad, told CNN Sunday. He described the new webpage as “diminished in value by its brevity.”
The Tuskegee Airmen Are Not DEI, As Air Force Reinstates Curriculum On First Black Pilots
CNN
ByDoug Melville,
Jan 27, 2025President Trump’s push to eliminate DEI from federal agencies through executive orders claimed an unlikely casualty: The Tuskegee Airmen.
This weekend, it was revealed that Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the hub of Air Force basic training that sees 35,000 recruits, among other institutions under the United States Air Force—had removed courses that contain video footage and stories of the Tuskegee Airmen, in order to comply with the commander in chief’s directive.The videos are part of the Air Force’s basic training learning materials. One is titled “Breaking Barriers.” I encourage you to watch it, then ask yourself: Is this DEI?
Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge
CBS News
April 5, 2025Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's library this week after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office ordered the school to get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
The Navy late Friday provided the list of 381 books that have been taken out of its library. The move marks another step in the Trump administration's far-reaching effort to purge so-called DEI content from federal agencies, including policies, programs, online and social media postings and curriculum at schools.In addition to Angelou's award-winning tome, the list includes "Memorializing the Holocaust," which deals with Holocaust memorials; "Half American," about African Americans in World War II; "A Respectable Woman," about the public roles of African American women in 19th century New York; and "Pursuing Trayvon Martin," about the 2012 shooting of the Black 17-year-old in Florida that raised questions about racial profiling.
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
Heard on All Things ConsideredMarch 20, 2025After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.
The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies. The memo explains that it is making changes prompted by President Trump's executive order on diversity, equity and inclusion, which repealed an executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 regarding federal contractors and nondiscrimination. The memo also addresses Trump's executive order on gender identity.[...]"It's symbolic, but it's incredibly meaningful in its symbolism," says Melissa Murray, a constitutional law professor at New York University. "These provisions that required federal contractors to adhere to and comply with federal civil rights laws and to maintain integrated rather than segregated workplaces were all part of the federal government's efforts to facilitate the settlement that led to integration in the 1950s and 1960s.
And then let us not forget Musk...
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