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I’m Thomas Mills for PoliticsNC. Today is Thursday, March 20, 2025 and the Republic is still standing, but it appears to be run by a bunch of racist assholes.
The Trump administration repealed Lyndon Johnson’s executive order that banned contractors from having segregated facilities. They claimed the order is part of DEI. It’s really just poking African Americans in the eye, showing them what he can do.
And it gets worse.
Over at the Department of Defense, Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a DEI purge. He’s removing the names and images of African Americans and other minorities from Department of Defense websites. They’ve removed the name of Colin Powell from a list of notables buried at Arlington National Cemetery. They scrubbed the Tuskegee Airmen from the site. And they took down most of the women mentioned.
They even removed Jackie Robinson, the hall of fame baseball player who broke the color barrier. And the list goes on. They removed Medgar Evers, the Civil Rights leader who was gunned down by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1963. They took down Ira Hayes, the Pima Indian who was one of the soldiers who raised the flag on Iwo Jima and who was immortalized in a Johnny Cash song.
They removed a tribute to an all-Japanese American unit who signed up to fight despite many being held in internment camps when they volunteered.
Administration officials admit that they have made mistakes because of the algorithm that identifies DEI and promise to restore them. But all of the mistakes concern African Americans or other minorities. In other words, the algorithm is racist. If it weren’t, some of the mistakes would include White heroes, right? But they aren’t.
Trump and company are doing all they can to whitewash American history. They are obscuring the history of people who overcame discrimination and injustice in pursuit of the American dream. They are erasing the stories of people who believed in this hope of this country enough to fight for it, even though they were considered second class citizens.
People like Pete Hegseth are showing us who they are. They believe that America is a white country for white people. They believe that minorities have gotten unfair advantages that diminish their accomplishments. They want to go back to a world where white leaders dominate and Black people know their place.
They are, in a word, racists.
I’m Thomas Mills, signing off for PoliticsNC.