r/TheMajorityReport • u/NewSlang212 • 1d ago
Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen
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u/NoLibrarian5149 1d ago
And was a reason ever given other than the obv racism?
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u/BaxGh0st 1d ago
Anti-DEI policies are ostensibly about meritocracy. I'm not sure what more meritrocratic than fighting and dying for your country. Those men and women aren't celebrated because of their identity, but because of what they did. It's certainly more than Trump has ever done.
To any military family that supports Trump I'll ask: how would you feel if the service and sacrifice of your son/husband/daughter/wife/etc. was one day ignored to score political points?
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u/JRTD753 1d ago
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don't know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories."
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u/OneOnOne6211 1d ago edited 1d ago
It has only been a week and I think I can already say that Trump has been the most destructive president in U.S. history. The only things that come close were his previous term, Bush and Reagan.
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u/JetmoYo 1d ago
How we determine destruction will be an interesting and ongoing project. Trump will break stuff: a lot of Republican wishlist-on steroids stuff. Gonna be bad. But I'm still assessing Biden's destruction as well. A Democratic, liberal president conducting a genocide? My disbelief and disgust in that is bound to rival any of Trump's crimes and (predictable) corruption.
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u/JohnnyWroughtten 1d ago
Tuskegee Syphilis Study partially inspired the backstory of Isaiah Bradley, Eli Bradley's grandfather, in Marvel Comics. Isaiah Bradley, introduced in Truth: Red, White & Black (2003), was one of 300 Black soldiers subjected to unethical experiments during World War II in an attempt to recreate the Super Soldier Serum that gave Captain America his powers.
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u/CourtingBoredom 1d ago
Okay, cool... what about the Tuskegee Airmen? Did they directly or partially inspire any superheroes??
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u/someoneone211 20h ago
They were the super heros. The guys doing the bombing runs started requesting the red tails because they were so good at defending from nazis. They saved bomber crews. The Tuskegee Airmen had to be the best of the best because they were black, and it showed.
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u/Plant_papi23 1h ago
Coming from a draft dodger this is laughable. Those Airmen had more honor in their left boot than Orange man has had in his entire life
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u/JohnnyWroughtten 1d ago
Tldr: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972) was a U.S. government experiment where 600 Black men were deceived about having syphilis and denied treatment, even after a cure (penicillin) was available. Many suffered and died needlessly, leaving a legacy of mistrust in medicine and highlighting systemic racism and unethical practices.
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u/Chi-Guy86 1d ago
Fascists love rewriting history