They REALLY Don't Like Jackie Robinson -- Digby [View all]

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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.