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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found this page in like 5 seconds:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2490361/sports-heroes-who-served-baseball-great-jackie-robinson-was-wwii-soldier/

Military website.  About Jackie Robinson.  And his military service.[/quote]

The news article to which the OP links notes that the page was reinstated this afternoon. [/quote]

So then it hasn't been wiped, has it?  [/quote]

Nope.  Nor has any information about the Tuskegee Soldiers or the Enola Gay.  They were taken out by mistake initially and then replaced.  But sure, let's all "vomit" just to show our outrage.   :roll: [/quote]

There are many examples of images of POC being removed from government spaces. This is literally what you wanted. [/quote]

No, there are not.  And if they were mistakenly removed, they have been reinstated.  But please do keep up the hysteria and hyperbole.[/quote]

Yeah, this DOGE and anti-DEI stuff is leading to a lot of digging holes and filling them back up again, kinda wasteful, don't you think?

The reasons WHY it's important to keep the DEI aspects of this in view--rather than phony "color blindness" for example:
1. In years past, their accomplishments were achieved IN SPITE OF legalized segregation, oppression, and/or barriers based on gender and sexual orientation. There was a higher cost for them to do what they did. 
2. Because, during those years and continuing past the removal of legalized barriers (although not systemic ones) those who were recognized at the time of their service were fewer in number than their white male counterparts, someone wanting to see those models of service are forced to dig much more to find them. It is only BECAUSE of people working to unearth the hidden stories of achievement (not just in the military, but in all walks of life) in more recent decades that we have a chance to know about them, because mainstream history was more interested in, say, Lee's moral conflicts over the Union and the pain of his decisions than in the stories of women and minorities who helped win the war. 
3. In essence, the objective here is to bury things we [u]as a country[/u] have learned about in the last 6+ decades (even though some communities knew it all along). 
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This is the kind of lecture voters like!  Go Dems![/quote]

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