Jackie Robinson article on MLB legend's Army history removed from Department of Defense website

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: Yahoo News

Before Tuesday, there was a story dedicated to the Army history of Jackie Robinson, who defiantly opposed racism in the military before breaking baseball's color barrier, on the website of the Department of Defense.

As of Tuesday evening, it was no longer there.

As KSBW and ESPN's Jeff Passan noted, the webpage has been scrubbed and the URL now features "dei" before the story's headline, indicating it was potentially taken down as part of President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to remove diversity, equity and inclusion programs from everything with ties to the federal government.

Robinson isn't alone in having a webpage taken down from the Pentagon's website. The Trump Administration drew outrage earlier Tuesday when it gave the Navajo Code Talkers a similar treatment, as well as a Black recipient of the Medal of Honor and Japanese American veterans. In each case, the Trump administration said their removal was a mistake on the part of an automated process and the content would be restored.

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In each case, the Trump administration said their removal was a mistake on the part of an automated process and the content would be restored.

Everything not white, straight, male, or Christian is DEI.

[Canada Kid]

1. Department of RACIST MORONS!

This deliberate and malicious removal of names of people of color from the archives of military websites is outright disgusting and degrading to the entire population of the country. How dare you desecrate the honor bestowed on thousands of folks who fought and died for the freedom and rights of the people of the US, the very rights that allow pure scum like Trump and his assholes to run rampant over the constitution and the laws of the land. The department of defense does not belong to Trump, or Musk, or any other lowlife who thinks he is above everyone around him. Somebody somewhere has to stand up and take a stand against this crap. So far, nobody has. WHERE IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY? The silence is deafening!

[3825-87867]

2. People need to understand Tramp's not just anti DEI...

he's pure KKK. Prove me wrong!

[Botany]

5. DEI just means don't be an asshole. The world is filled with people who don't look like you, believe what

you do, who speaks different languages then what you do, and have sex differently than how
you do. Get over it.

Btw Musk’s AI programs to search out DEI problems look to have been written by Nazis such
as Eichmann, America’s racists who put together the “Jim Crow Laws” and Afrikaans from
South Africa who enforced Apartheid.

So far the DoD and Hog’s Breath anti DEI programs has gone after senior black and women in
the Military, the Tuskegee Airman, Jackie Robinson, the Navajo Code Talkers, and the B-29 that
dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima because it was named “Gay.”

[NotHardly]

11. Hog's Breath...LOL.. genius use of his name

[Botany]

13. Add that name along with Krasnov and J.D. Guy-Liner as terms to use and pass them along via social media.

Ridicule is one of our weapons.

[boonecreek]

3. What's next?

Trump demanding baseball bring back the color line?

[twodogsbarking]

4. 42. The only one.

[Attilatheblond]

6. Time for everyone to re-read Fahrenheit 451

And start memorizing important history before Elon 2025 and his vandals erase what is most important

[IronLionZion]

7. From the "you can't erase history" folks

This is what happens when people learn their history from statues instead of reading materials, schools, museums, etc.

[efhmc]

8. My take is that the more these things are deleted and denied, the more people want to

read them and because of the internet they can. Curiosity is a strong motivator.

[twodogsbarking]

9. Randy Johnson delivers a fast ball to his head and the feathers fly.

Y'all know who.
https://www.google.com/search?q=randy+johnson+bird&oq=randy+johnson+bird&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTY2NzhqMGoxNagCCLACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ca4a9f4d,vid:Ih_ovjbwQGk,st:0

[SpankMe]

10. Full erasure of marginalized communities.

This is nothing other than white supremacy in action. I wonder if all this stuff being erased is being preserved somewhere so it can be restored if non-assholes ever get back in office.

[republianmushroom]

12. Shame Shame Shame

Republican attempted whitewashing.

And trump continues to lie a lot.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Looks like it's been restored

Jackie Robinson article on MLB legend's Army history restored to Department of Defense website after removal

The Department of Defense has restored a story dedicated to the Army history of Jackie Robinson, who defiantly opposed racism in the military before breaking baseball's color barrier, on its website. The story, published in 2021, was unexpectedly removed from the department's website Tuesday night, but returned on Wednesday.

As KSBW and ESPN's Jeff Passan noted, the webpage had been scrubbed on Tuesday, with "dei" added to the URL before the story's headline. The use of that term indicated that it was taken down as part of President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to remove diversity, equity and inclusion programs from everything with ties to the federal government.

The return of the story came soon after a series of statements from Department of Defense press secretary John Ullyot were shared with ESPN. In the first statement, Ullyot denounced DEI and praised the Department for its "rapid compliance" with the Trump administration's policy.

Minutes later, an amended statement sent to ESPN took a different tone, with Ullyot acknowledging Robinson's military service. Both statements said that content removed in error would be corrected, but did not clarify whether the page was deliberately taken down.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/jackie-robinson-article-on-mlb-legends-army-history-restored-to-department-of-defense-website-after-removal-044150279.html