Interview: "Black Americans Are Not Surprised”:Trump’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history.

"There has been a systemic erasure of Black history [that] is not only intellectually dishonest, but will also cause the U.S. economic & social harm.

“We can’t move forward as a nation collectively … if we don’t understand our collective past".

~Christina Greer

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/trump_immigrants_black_americans

#blm #dei #trump #fascism #uspol #blackhistory .

#DemocracyNow: “#BlackAmericans Are Not Surprised”: #ChristinaGreer on #Trump’s Attacks on #Students, #DEI & #History

Story April 08, 2025

"'There has been a systemic erasure of #BlackHistory.' Professor Christina Greer discusses the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history. The erasure of the history of racism and resistance is not only intellectually dishonest, says Greer, but will also cause the U.S. economic and social harm. 'We can’t move forward as a nation collectively … if we don’t understand our collective past,' she says."

Listen / watch / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/trump_immigrants_black_americans
#BlackLivesMatter #BLM #ViewerSupportedNews #TrumpIsABully #TrumpIsARacist #USPol

Jennifer Rubin: Words & Phrases We Could Do Without: The anti-DEI crusade is about cementing white male dominance

#TheContrarian #CRT #DEI #racism #misogyny
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-could-do-without-ccd

“…the anti-DEI mission has become an explicit attempt to blame or erase non-whites, females, and other disenfranchised groups.”

It’s always someone else’s fault in the Party of Personal Responsiblity.

#democracy #dei #politics #personalresponsibility

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-could-do-without-ccd?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3719374&post_id=160832046&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyODEzMDc3ODgsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE2MDgzMjA0NiwiaWF0IjoxNzQ0MTEyNzY5LCJleHAiOjE3NDY3MDQ3NjksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zNzE5Mzc0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9._Cc1xlrhI840lv3GzinYyDcWJvi9TW9HyBhThYDeYos&r=4nheh8&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

#politics #alt #mayaanelou #resist #dei #resistance #handsoff
Bulwark “In a World of Pete Hegseths, Be a Maya Angelou”
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must never be defeated.”

#Trump admin fires senior Navy female officer at #NATO.

She appeared on a ‘woke’ #dei list.

Seems message is that only white men will be ‘allowed’ in the US commanding officer corps. #pentagon

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-hegseth-trump-dei-chatfield-nato-23df15b59766458d106567ba782d2f15

Anti-DEI assholes directed the removal of #HarrietTubman from a #NationalParkService webpage about the #UndergroundRailroad. After an outcry, the changes were reverted today. Keep making noise, folks.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/park-service-harriet-tubman-underground-railroad

"Vice Adm Shoshana Chatfield has been fired. She was the first woman to lead the US Naval War College in Newport, RI. Her tenure made her a target of conservative advocacy, claiming she was overly concerned with DEI.

Chatfield served as America’s rep to the NATO MIL CMTE, the alliance’s group of top uniformed officials. The body advises NATO’s two most senior military leaders & helps guide LT strategy.

A shameful #firing.

#Misogyny #Fascism #DOD #DEI #USPol https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2025/04/07/top-us-admiral-at-nato-removed-amid-trumps-growing-military-firings/

US admiral at #NATO fired, latest ouster in #Trump #military #purge

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield is one of at least nine senior military leaders — & the 4th woman — removed since Trump’s return to Washington.

#MaleSupremacy #sexism #misogyny #DEI #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/07/shoshana-chatfield-nato-trump-dei/

It’s downright embarrassing that the #LosAngeles Dodgers are at the White House when Jackie Robinson’s entire legacy was just trashed by them as #DEI #news #Politics

2025 March issue of #LLRX https://www.llrx.com 8 new articles, 7 new columns. Topics include: Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities; #Climate and #DEI Deleted From Govt Websites, Federal Workers Fired, Colleges Erase Programs, Law Firms Blackballed, Holocaust Denied; Does the Government Decide What Your Law Firm Will Do?; How to take you cell phone off the grid; 5 #cybersecurity columns; 2 AI in #finance #banking columns; & More!

Trump’s EPA Cuts Are Going to Poison His Own Voters

https://newrepublic.com/article/193631/trump-epa-cuts-lead-pipes-water

“It’s practically inevitable” that people will get sick, a current EPA employee said.

Every school district in Vermont should refuse to do this!

https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/07/vermont-agency-of-education-asks-school-districts-to-certify-compliance-with-trump-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-ban/

Kristin Du Mez, Gene Weingarten, and John Ismay report on the 381 books that Trump-Hegseth have removed from the Naval Academy Library in a purge of books by and focusing on Black authors, women, LGBTQ people, etc.

For those of us looking for good books to read, a valuable list….

#Trump #Hegseth #DEI #racism #misogyny #homophobia #education #libraries

https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/problem-protest-insult-dog

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-whitewash

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/naval-academy-dei-books-removed.html

Friendly reminder: The fifth edition of "DH in Focus" starts today at 5:15 pm at #UniRostock ! Join us for the first lecture of the semester, presented by Deb Verhoeven ( @bestqualitycrab ), as she discusses the current collapse of knowledge institutions and the demise of #dei.

More info and Zoom login details: https://www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/en/forschung/digital-humanities/rosdh/lecture-series/suse-2025/n/where-data-goes-to-dei-edi-die-information-infrastructure-and-the-protracted-collapse-of-institutional-courage-235041/

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”

#DEI #diversity #politics #racism #museum #history https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-04-04/national-endowment-humanities-neh-doge-trump-funding-cuts-museums

Leading #DEI work on campus during a nationwide backlash:
here's our full video conversation with Rich Reddick complete with some of the chat:

https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/leading-dei-work-on-campus-during-a-nationwide-backlash/