The U.S. Air Force has removed a video about the Tuskegee Airmen from its basic training curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. This action follows President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the federal government. The video, which highlighted the contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen, is not about DEI, but rather a video of brave men who served America but happened to be Black men.
As a graduate of Tuskegee University and someone who toured the Tuskegee Museum many times, seeing how these men were cut-off to die because some felt their brains were not developed enough to fight along with them, this action is not honourable. Yes, nobody used DEI to give Tuskegee Airmen any rights. Rather, these men were asked to fight separately from the “main” force.
But magically, those Black men went into battles, fought, and won and kept winning. At Tuskegee’s Chappie James center, a mock military aircraft is kept reminding every visitor to Tuskegee of the bravery of these men. James, a graduate of the university, instructed his brethren pilots during World War II and later became the first 4 star African American general in the US military.
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There was nothing in them that was about DEI; it was rather a documentation of value, honour and uncommon valour at war. From Franklin Road to Old West Montgomery Rd, every visitor to Tuskegee will know that those men remain like deities because what they accomplished is regarded as one of the greatest feats in the modern history of wars. Deleting that before future warriors does not seem balanced.
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Hope this is not as stated: “The U.S. Air Force has removed a video about the Tuskegee Airmen from its basic training curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. This action follows President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the federal government.”
Good people, I posit that any video on the contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen, should not be classified as a DEI thing, but rather a video of brave men who served America but just happened to be Black men.
I attended Tuskegee University, and there is a museum on campus which the United States also recognized as a historic site, and those recognitions were not done because they got any help as Black warriors. Rather, that they were segregated at war, but they fought gallantly and accomplished feats.
The Chappie James’ center with the military aircraft at the center of the campus reminds everyone how he instructed and commanded his brethren when his fellow countrymen felt they were created so inferior to fight alongside them. From Franklin Road to Old West Montgomery Rd, every visitor to Tuskegee will know that those men remain like deities because what they accomplished is regarded as one of the greatest feats in the modern history of wars. Deleting that before future warriors does not seem balanced. But hey…it could be an exaggeration of the media!
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