La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for February 24, 2025

Blacks and women had contributed to countless things that made our country better in fact if not for the mind of a black woman named Creola Katherine Johnson we never would have made it to the moon in the first place.

It was her mathematical calculations of orbital mechanics that made it all possible.

In an amazingly fast walkback, as reported by the Air Force Times, Monday, Jan 27, 2025:

The Air Force is reinstating a basic training class Monday [Jan 27] that was suspended last week for revisions, with its materials on World War II-era Black and female pilots intact but diversity, equity and inclusion components removed.

The Air Force originally halted its basic military training [BMT] course on “airmindedness” on [Thurs] Jan. 23, days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping order barring DEI programs from the federal government and military. That class included videos on the Tuskegee Airmen and Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, who were the first Black and female pilots, respectively, to fly for the military.

An internal message leaked online Friday [Jan 24] indicated videos on the Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs were pulled immediately from the class to comply with Trump’s DEI orders. The Air Force clarified Saturday that the videos themselves were not targeted for removal, but that BMT classes including diversity-related materials were temporarily suspended for review. A revised class on “airmindedness” is going into place Monday, Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson, head of Air Education and Training Command, said in a Sunday statement.

“No curriculum or content highlighting the honor and valor of the Tuskegee Airmen or Women Airforce Service Pilots has been removed from basic military training,” Robinson said. “The block in which these lessons were taught included DEI material which was directed to be removed. We believe this adjustment to curriculum to be fully aligned with the direction given in the DEI executive order.”

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, called the removal of the materials “malicious compliance” in a Sunday post on X, formerly Twitter. Hegseth soon responded, “Amen! We’re all over it, Senator. This will not stand.” Hegseth posted about the class again a few hours later, thanking Britt and saying “This has been immediately reversed.”

No No president Dump we can’t be all white again. Never was.

I know a good place the orange baboon can inject bleach in.