Jackie Robinson teaches us not to back down to the fanatics

Rachel Robinson, a professor, nurse, activist, and the Bibli wife Tripples Jackie Robinson, are still with us in 102 years. This month, the Ministry of Defense delete Web page separates Jackie Robinson’s military history in World War II and replaced it with a mistake with “Dei” letters in URL. Perhaps the most disturbing part of this is that Rachel Robinson lived to see the name of her late husband was threatened by a new round of white outstanding after 78 years of breaking the color barrier in the main baseball league.

“Dei” has become the term Trump administration completely to clarify anything that enhances the history and experiences of black and brown people. In this context, its use is especially explicit: it is a racist spectrum. The former Fox News host, Beit Higseth, was sending an unambiguous message that Robinson’s achievements are fraudulent and beautified only because of his skin color. Robinson was not the only goal in the Higseth birds of racism. Articles about the famous Speakers symbol NavagoWho were celebrated in books and films, they were removed, as well as the legendary memory Tuskiji pilots. Everything is wiped, with the DEI error page in place.

It is not surprising that the waves of anger followed by media coverage due to this shameless lack of respect aimed at Robinson that cannot be connected. Anger deepens when the Ministry of Defense returns to every reporter from ABC to Progressive It was an identical e -mail that seemed to be cut off from the fascist YouTube texts: HegSeth seems to be aware of it. The statement said that the celebration of the achievements of the colored people (such as Robinson) was an example of something that the army now opposes:Marxism Cultural“

For many, this definitely seemed to be unseen nonsense: the right of the right wing over the Internet. But the phrase is more thorny than that. The “cultural Marxism” has always been a symbol on the far right of Jewish conspiracy, especially in the darkest pillars of the online and on Nazi messages. As a dungeon anti -Semitic, it precedes our world on the Internet, and he is able to return to Germany in the twentieth century when Adolf Hitler emerging condemned the “cultural Bolshevik” of senior German artists. It is an incitement against us Jews, who blaming the US military through a major plan to celebrate Jackie Robinson. (Nobody said that intolerance should have a meaning.) The informal use of this phrase is another example of the fact that this is the management of the fixed hostility and confidence in them “fighting anti -Semitism” is the desire of death.

When the “Cultural Marxism” was presented as the false gangle, Gobbledygook is a thinking to prolong Robinson, even on the main page of ESPN, anger has grown to HegSeth’s DOD rebuke Restoring the Robinson page. He made the bright light on the new policy of Dod Higseth Corrett disabled, and the above -mentioned participation of speakers in the code disappeared and a magician pilot also appeared in a magical way as well.

This may not seem much, especially in the climate Where people disappear For thought crimes against our foreign policy. But I claim to remind a strongly required that even in this repressive climate, we can overcome them. Like Sniveing ​​Frillies, they only offer strength when they think we are weak.

These DOD brands as white superiority are an irreplaceable charge, but one is struggling to find an alternative explanation for the cause of any of this. Robinson, after all, was a republic. When the Republican Party was trying to be less racist as a treatment for the loss of Mitt Romney for the year 2012 (they did not adhere to this strategy for a very long time), they produced materials that highlighted the “famous black Republicans”, and Robinson was in the forefront and the center. RNC definitely captured that it was “Rockefeller Republican”, which, in the case of repulsion, was the 1964 GOP conference that nominated Barry Golduter To the Nazi gatheringBut he was still republican.

What is clear is that Higseth and friends did not only live because of his blackness, but because of what is not separated by his blackness: a life story formed by the reality of Jim Crowe and the American racist chapter. Robinson once said that if he had to choose between the Hall of Bibliology and the full citizenship of his people, he would choose citizenship. Trying this story is not just an attempt to whiten the sins of the past, but also a statement about who gets the “citizen” demand at the present time. Or maybe HegSeth and friends are still upset who won the Second World War.

It should be claimed that DOD should have retracted victory and a reminder of these people. Jonathan Coleman, author of the indispensable book A long way to go: black and white in AmericaHe told me: “In the legal world, when something is said, even if he is governing later unacceptable, the lawyers will insist on” not neglecting a bell. “In the case of Jackie Robinson,” restoration “has been too late.

Robinson once said that when he sees the American flag on a truck, he knows, “This person is not my friend.” Higseth is “that person”. The Minister of Defense and his ilk are the types of individuals who would have left Robinson from the baseball in the main league. They chose aside, not Jackie Robinson. I feel Brashiel Robinson, and I am sure I am not alone. But she faced greater intimidation than this. It must be remembered and know that we can do the same.