Historical figures cut from military websites while others are restored following ‘DEI’ ban

NBC News quotes Henry-Louis Taylor Jr. in an article about the contributions of military personnel from marginalized backgrounds being scrubbed from the Pentagon website. Taylor said this “reflects a broader effort to erase Black history and return to a time when U.S. history was a fantasy centered on white glory. If Trump’s goal had been a colorblind portrayal of military history, he could have simply omitted racial identifiers.” He said it seems the objective has been to prioritize the history of white participation and heroism. “This erasure is not just an attack on Black and other people of color — it’s an attack on truth itself, turning history as a social science into history as a fairy tale.”