They REALLY Don't Like Jackie Robinson -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/29/they-really-dont-like-jackie-robinson/

The Naval Academy didn’t know they were supposed to follow Trump’s edicts to erase all recognition of people of color or women in Kindergarten to 1th grade, perhaps assuming that students going into the elite officer corps were capable of critical thinking. They have since been schooled by Pete Hegseth:

This week, according to a defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss policy decisions, Mr. Hegseth’s office became aware that the nation’s military service academies did not believe that President Trump’s Jan. 29 executive order to end “radical indoctrination” in kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms applied to them, as they are colleges. The defense secretary’s office informed the Naval Academy that Mr. Hegseth’s intent was for the order to apply to the academies, and that the secretary expected compliance.

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The academy’s library in Annapolis, Md., houses roughly 590,000 print books, 322 databases, and more than 5,000 print journals and magazines, Commander Hawkins said…

Thus far, the review of Nimitz Library’s holdings has identified 900 books that may run afoul of the defense secretary’s verbal order. According to a second defense official, they include “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Einstein on Race and Racism,” and a biography on Jackie Robinson.

They did reinstate Jackie Robinson’s Pentagon web page after a huge outcry but I’m going to guess that the biography might be a bridge too far. After all, Jackie Robinson is someone whose life story is in direct conflict with the MAGA narrative. Deal Leader and his minions have decreed that there has never been a problem with race or sexism in America. They want people to believe that it is and always was an equal playing field. If it happens that straight, white males have run everything from the beginning it’s just because they are so superior. That’s what they call meritocracy.

Jackie Robinson rips that whole thing to shred.

[SheltieLover]

1. Steven Miller's work.

[erronis]

2. His slime is all over most of the EOs.

No wonder his own family hates him.

[SheltieLover]

3. Absolutely, on all counts.

I'd be embarrassed to be related to that pos!

[dchill]

9. That's PRESIDENT Miller to YOU!

[keroro gunsou]

10. i thought his title was

reichsfuehrer..

pardon my spelling, but, my german is abolutely... bad.

[dchill]

11. Works for me.

[SheltieLover]

18. At a time before republican became ahite man's party.

Read this:

https://theconversation.com/jackie-robinson-was-a-republican-until-the-gop-became-the-white-mans-party-181014

[Lulu KC]

22. Thank you!

"By 1968, Robinson was done with the GOP. He refused to support Nixon when he ran for president again in 1968. He also became more active in the civil rights movement and appeared with King on frequent occasions."

That person was very mistaken indeed.

[SheltieLover]

23. Yw!

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[DaBronx]

5. If the biography is removed

I’d like for baseball fans nationwide to rise up and I’m sure Canada will assist on behalf of their Canadian MLB teams.
We need to nip this in the bud.
This is ridiculous.
Jackie Robinson can’t be whitewashed and disappeared. F them.

[ShazzieB]

20. I think my husband might be interested on getting involved with somethong like that.

He is a huge Jackie Robinson fan.

This whole thing is deeply, incredibly, profoundly disturbing. Is Schlump going to try to erase every Afrucan American whoever did something exceptional? Fuck that!!!!!

[Evolve Dammit]

6. These assholes are trying to re-write history. Attacks on POC, immigrants (we're all immigrants), museums, libraries,

universities, law firms, are done to instill fear and roll back civil rights, voting rights and women's rights. It's a rogue mob that will consume us if allowed. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. They brought it all.
Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Ukraine and the rest or Europe: We real Americans are so sorry for this. It's on us. The voters (only half the country BTW).

[erronis]

7. Well said. The attacks will start to include Italian vs Irish vs all of us. Split us apart.

[soldierant]

8. definitely less than half the country.

Much of the country is under 18, not every person 18 or over is eligible to vote, not every eligible person is registered, plus there was a lot of staying hme from this last election, as there was in 2016.

He's lucky if it's a third of the country. Still way too many, of course.

[electric_blue68]

14. Less than half, there was a whole bunch that Didn't vore!

[Dave Bowman]

12. "radical indoctrination"

What a load of bull.

[GusBob]

19. The term is included in the OP you posted

It’s what they are claiming and it’s bullshit

What is your reference to programmers?

And who is “Deal Leader” ?

[electric_blue68]

15. FU, drumphf, Eloon, Miller etc

[chowmama]

16. They don't like him because

He was ten times the human being that they'll ever be.

[peggysue2]

21. Rewriting history is part of the fascist playbook

They need the public to forget who and where we've been in the past: the land of the good, the bad and the ugly. They want only the reflection of the good, the perfect and lily white in their morning mirrors.

The truth be damned!

Destroy history and the future is theirs, a nice, neat hive mind.