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Trump has resurrected Columbus, not from the dead but from historical disgrace. And his White House statue honors more than a discredited explorer. It’s a monument to the comforting fiction that conquest was discovery, dispossession was progress, and White men alone made history. After all, iPINIONS contends, why bother rewriting history when you can carve… Read more.
Trump stripped Juneteenth and MLK Day from the national parks’ free-admission calendar while making his birthday a free-admission day. iPINIONS notes that’s not an administrative tweak. That’s a confession. Meanwhile, Obama opened a monument to Black achievement as Trump wages war on Black history. Read the full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-is-making-juneteenth-more-cause Read more.
On MLK Day, Donald Trump isn’t honoring MLK’s legacy; he’s dismantling it. From scrubbing MLK Day and Juneteenth from the National Park Service calendar, to whitewashing American history under an Orwellian “sanity” order, to weaponizing DEI bans as grievance-driven affirmative action for Whites, Project 2025 amounts to a full-scale rollback of civil rights. iPINIONS damns… Read more.
Pantone brands white as calm and renewal for 2026. But in a political climate shaped by DEI rollbacks and mass deportations of Black and Brown people, white makes right, and means right. iPINIONS argues that Pantone’s choice of “Cloud Dancer” reads less like serenity than submission — a corporate whitewashing dressed up as neutrality. Read… Read more.
The US military: from desegregation to whitewashing The Pentagon’s so-called DEI purge isn’t just an attack on diversity. Above all, it’s a historic rollback of racial progress in an institution that once led the desegregation of America. Recall that the Pentagon integrated the military pursuant to an executive order President Truman signed on July 26,… Read more.
Aides reportedly blocked Trump’s unethical and illegal orders in his first term. According to The New York Times, this frustrated him so much that he exclaimed, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” That’s because he wanted a top aide who would bend or break laws to enforce his venal, vindictive, racist agenda. Now he has Emil Bove… Read more.
Corporations have lost their soul In corporate America, virtue signaling has morphed into a cult-like ritual. But in their zeal to prove loyalty, corporations now take more pride in hiring far-right MAGA celebrities than they ever did in hiring minorities under DEI policies. Only that explains Andreessen Horowitz hiring Daniel Penny. It is one of… Read more.
DEI, the new CRT Not long ago, Whites scurried across the country like Chicken Littles. They warned that Critical Race Theory (CRT) was a greater anathema to high-school education than slavery to democratic values.” iPINIONS duly decried their racist hypocrisy in commentaries like “Maddening Critical Race Theory Turning Suburban Moms into Jan 6-Style Insurrectionists” on February 12,… Read more.
Florida superintendents have been advised by the state to drop their Advanced Placement Psychology classes unless they exclude any topics related to gender or sexuality, according to The College Board, which oversees the AP program. (USA Today, August 3, 2023) I reiterate my clarion call for all major colleges outside Florida to declare that they will not… Read more.
A protest against government removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville on Saturday turned violent. The white supremacist protesters clashed with counterprotesters, leading the governor to declare a state of emergency before the rally even started. A woman died and multiple were injured after a car plowed into counterprotesters. (The Hill, August 13, 2017) Frankly, reaction… Read more.
