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Dr. Pauli Murray (Photo: Carolina Digital Library and Archives/ (CC BY-SA 2.0))
If there’s anything more absurd than the Trump administration’s cheerleading for hateful policies on matters of race and gender, it’s the ineptitude behind it.
The people implementing these policies are so mean-spirited and clueless that, as Associated Press reported last week, they’re erasing thousands of images from Defense Department websites that honored heroes who were people of color and LGBTQ+. The purge is so crude and just plain dumb, that it targeted the crewmen of the Enola Gay — the iconic World War II bomber that helped end the war. Apparently, even the name “Gay” is now forbidden.
In another ridiculous move, the National Park Service removed a webpage honoring a human rights leader who grew up in Durham and who was the first Black person to earn a doctorate from Yale Law School — the Rev. Pauli Murray — because, perish the thought, Murray was trans.
The bottom line: It’s hard to know what’s more embarrassing for the nation, the cruel ignorance of the Trump administration’s actions or its pathetic incompetence in carrying them out.
For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.
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By NC NewslineDr. Pauli Murray (Photo: Carolina Digital Library and Archives/ (CC BY-SA 2.0))
If there’s anything more absurd than the Trump administration’s cheerleading for hateful policies on matters of race and gender, it’s the ineptitude behind it.
The people implementing these policies are so mean-spirited and clueless that, as Associated Press reported last week, they’re erasing thousands of images from Defense Department websites that honored heroes who were people of color and LGBTQ+. The purge is so crude and just plain dumb, that it targeted the crewmen of the Enola Gay — the iconic World War II bomber that helped end the war. Apparently, even the name “Gay” is now forbidden.
In another ridiculous move, the National Park Service removed a webpage honoring a human rights leader who grew up in Durham and who was the first Black person to earn a doctorate from Yale Law School — the Rev. Pauli Murray — because, perish the thought, Murray was trans.
The bottom line: It’s hard to know what’s more embarrassing for the nation, the cruel ignorance of the Trump administration’s actions or its pathetic incompetence in carrying them out.
For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.