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On 3/22/2025 9:24 PM, John B. wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:26:32 -0400, zen cycle
> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/21/2025 6:56 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 3/21/2025 5:46 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>> On 3/21/2025 5:58 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 3/21/2025 4:54 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 5:04 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:41:36 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 2:44 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:32:02 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 12:28 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 6:06 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:04:16 -0400, zen cycle
>>>>>>>>>>>>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 3/21/2025 12:23 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey, let's have none of that DEI stuff here. You're
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> supposed to pretend
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> black people never existed. Like Jackie Robinson, for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> example.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey, they aren't pretending he never existed, they're
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pretending he
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wasn't black.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/defense- department-
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> jackie-robinson-military-history-article-was- mistakenly-
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> removed/ar-AA1BfyKN
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The ethnic cleansing lead to other "mistakes".
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Besides the Robinson information, the official said
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> other content will
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be republished, including the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gay, the Navajo
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Code Talkers, history-making female fighter pilots and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Marines at
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Iwo Jima. Enola Gay was the name of a B-29 Superfortress
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bomber."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure, let's pretend institutionalized rascism never existed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It has probably has always existed and probably always
>>>>>>>>>>>>> will -"Them
>>>>>>>>>>>>> guys over there, they ain't no good!"
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> But what we're seeing now is official actions to wipe out
>>>>>>>>>>>> public access to information containing some "trigger words"
>>>>>>>>>>>> using crude algorithms generated by glorified hackers
>>>>>>>>>>>> working for an unelected billionaire. Seriously, we
>>>>>>>>>>>> shouldn't read about the "Enola Gay" bomber? Changing URLs
>>>>>>>>>>>> by automatically prefixing them with "dei" if the subjects
>>>>>>>>>>>> of the web pages are black?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> That's ignorant bullshit.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I had to go research that, but having done so I agree with
>>>>>>>>>>> you.   Ill considered over reaction, and it ought to be
>>>>>>>>>>> reworked.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In the same way that killing white SA farmers because they
>>>>>>>>>>> are white is not a good resolution to the prior racism.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "I had to go research that, but having done so I agree with
>>>>>>>>>> you."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I did research too, and all I see is people claiming that it's
>>>>>>>>>> being
>>>>>>>>>> done.   Much like people making claims about Trumps visit to
>>>>>>>>>> Russia.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/defense-department-
>>>>>>>> jackie-robinson-military-history-article-was-mistakenly-
>>>>>>>> removed/ar-AA1BfyKN
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I can't imagine what it's like to wander though life so willfully
>>>>>>>> ignorant.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "mistakenly"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's like "Judge, I shot him by mistake! He moved his head in
>>>>>> front of my handgun just as I pulled the trigger. And I had his
>>>>>> wallet so I could  give it to his widow."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pentagon-restores- some-
>>>>>> webpages-honoring-minority-service-members-but- defends- dei-purge
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us- politics/
>>>>>> military-trump-dei-code-talkers-b2716915.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/dei-web-pages- cms- nih-go-
>>>>>> dark-00200123
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I understand your ignorance. You can't open your eyes while your
>>>>>> head is buried in the sand.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Which confirms that the action was hasty and not well thought
>>>>> through, as we discussed.
>>>>>
>>>>> It also shows me they are correcting, which is right.
>>>>
>>>> They are correcting only as a response to widespread outrage from both
>>>> sides of the political spectrum. I think they were surprised that even
>>>> Republicans revered military and others who were not lily white.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ohferchrissake.
>>> They erred. And they are rectifying the errors.
>>
>> Sez you, and to what effect? "white" washing institutional racism
>> endemic in the history of the US? Yeah, real helpful...
> 
> I read the other day that Fort Bragg had it's name changed as it was
> named for a confederate general  and then changed back.
> 
> 


At Gen Sherman's funeral, CSA Gen Johnston stood in a 
freezing rain as the cortege slowly passed, holding his hat 
over his heart with his remaining arm.  When encouraged to 
step inside he replied, "He would do the same for me."*

I have no particular feelings about Gen Bragg one way or the 
other but a case could be made and not frivolously.


*Chilled and exhausted at his age, he died shortly thereafter.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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