More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
Source: AP
Updated 6:15 PM EST, January 25, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training. In a statement, the Air Force confirmed the courses with those videos had been removed and said it “will fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency and in alignment with national security objectives.”
The problem may not be with the historical videos themselves, but that they were used in Air Force basic military training DEI coursework. However, the lack of clearer guidance has sent the Air Force and other agencies scrambling to take the broadest approach to what content is removed to make sure they are in compliance.
The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation’s first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII unit and their all-Black 332nd Fighter Group had one of the lowest loss records of all the bomber escorts in the war.
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Anyone who continues to insist that this election was about "economics" and some idiotic belief there was a "lack of messaging" by Democrats, and try to excuse the REAL issue - "race, gender, orientation, religion (or lack thereof) " - then there's that bridge that I can sell you.
This is all a backlash from the 2008 election of Barack Obama and the reason why Biden has been pummeled into a pulp was because as Obama's VP selection, he became the BOOST that made it "acceptable" to vote for Obama... and then he came back around and selected Kamala Harris as his VP, another white supremacist "undesirable", and that, plus her running for the top of the ticket, along with the elevation of so many marginalized groups to positions of power and recognition, was the last straw. I.e., there is a historical name that they assign people like Biden - "n***er lover" - and he sadly paid a price.
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