I feel like adding a new tag: adolescent spite. An eighth grader picking on the class nerd to get in good with the bullies. How else to interpret the cleansing of the Arlington National Cemetery's website of the “histories highlighting Black, Hispanic and women veterans.” This includes ghosting Gen. Colin Powell, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and dozens of Medal of Honor recipients. They're just gone. Some are still available at a walled-off section of the website not available from the site itself.
The educational services cleansing include “web pages focusing on African American history, Women’s history, Reconstruction, and the Civil War have been removed from the educational page of Arlington’s website. “ This includes lesson plans and other materials designed to help teachers teach about the cemetery itself, its history and wider topics in American military and cultural history.
The Administration explains that it is part of the attempt to dismantle DEI, and calls it a “digital content refresh.” The former reveals staggering ignorance; the latter should remind you of Orwell's “1984.”
So the story of Charles Calvin Rogers, who won the Medal of Honor for his leadership in defending a forward fire support base in Vietnam, during which he was seriously wounded, and who later rose to the rank of brigadier general, is gone. The New Jim Crow segregates him to the colored section, separate but unequal.
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