Jackie Robinson's Military Service Page Mysteriously Vanishes Then Reappear Amid Pentagon's DEI Purge!

2025-03-20 00:03:09.79

A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military service was restored Wednesday after it was missing earlier in the day. This followed the removal of pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members—the Pentagon attributed this to a mistake—as part of the department’s campaign to eliminate content highlighting the contributions of women and minority groups, which the Trump administration considers "DEI". The page on Robinson, detailing his Army service during World War II, was temporarily inaccessible, with the letters "dei" added to the URL. David Robinson, Jackie Robinson's son, expressed surprise and pride in his father's service. The page reappeared later, with Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot stating that while the department is pleased with the removal of DEI content, mistakes happen and are corrected. Thousands of pages honoring contributions by women and minority groups have been removed as part of this effort. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell defended the practice. A Defense Department webpage honoring Black Medal of Honor recipient Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers was also temporarily removed but restored. Ullyot emphasized that the department salutes all service members for their patriotism, not through the lens of race, ethnicity, or sex, and referred to DEI as "Discriminatory Equity Ideology", a form of "woke cultural Marxism" that allegedly divides the force and interferes with the warfighting mission.