BREAKING: Donald Trump Refusing Promotion For Black Female Officers Because "He does not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events."
The systematic erasure of Black military sacrifice in Trump’s America — and the fascist playbook behind it.
March 27, 2026
There’s a sentence buried in a bombshell New York Times report that should stop every person who loves this country cold.
Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Ricky Buria, reportedly told Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll that Donald Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.
Really, really.
Not: she lacks qualifications. Not: she’s a security risk. Not: she failed a fitness test.
The President of the United States allegedly didn’t want to be photographed next to her because of the colour of her skin.
That is not a personnel decision. That is not “restoring meritocracy.” That is racism with a security clearance and a $900 billion defence budget.
And here’s what makes it exponentially worse: it didn’t happen in a vacuum. That disgusting moment was the logical endpoint of a systematic, coordinated, government-funded campaign to erase Black military sacrifice from American history, culture, institutions — and now its future.
Let’s go through it. All of it.
THEY CAME FOR THE DEAD FIRST
Before they blocked living officers from promotions, they went after the ones already buried.
Medgar Evers — a World War II combat veteran who later became a civil rights leader and was assassinated in his own driveway — was scrubbed from the Arlington National Cemetery website. The education section. The civil rights walking tour. Gone.
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The Tuskegee Airmen — the legendary Black fighter pilots who proved to a segregated America that Black men could fly, fight, and win — had their history yanked from Air Force Basic Military Training. Their training modules: deleted. For days, new recruits were being trained without ever knowing those men existed.
Jackie Robinson’s military service — the man who was court-martialed in 1944 for refusing to go to the back of an Army bus, acquitted, and honourably discharged — was scrubbed from 14 of 18 government websites. The URL for one of the pages was literally tagged “DEI.”
A Medal of Honour profile of Army Major General Charles C. Rogers — the highest-ranking Black servicemember to ever receive that honour, earned in Vietnam — was deleted. The URL was temporarily changed to include the word “deimedal.” They tagged a Medal of Honour. A Medal of Honour.
The 442nd Infantry Regiment — Japanese American soldiers who fought in a segregated unit and became one of the most decorated in U.S. Army history — had their Pentagon page removed. Ira Hayes — the Indigenous Pima soldier who helped raise the American flag at Iwo Jima — was deleted from the Defence Department website.
In total, the Pentagon flagged 26,000 images for deletion. War heroes. Combat veterans. Firsts. And when they got caught? They blamed the algorithm. The AI did it.
This is the regime’s move: burn the archive, then act confused about the smoke.
THEY BURNED THE BOOKS
The U.S. Naval Academy — one of America’s most storied military institutions — stripped 381 titles from its Nimitz Library, including works exploring race, gender, and national identity. Among them: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Also on the list: books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and works on the Ku Klux Klan. Rendered “not immediately available” — which is the regime’s cowardly way of saying banned — from the shelves of the institution training the next generation of Navy officers.
The Army and Air Force were then ordered to conduct their own library purges.
Read that one more time: in 2025, the United States military is banning books about the Holocaust and the civil rights movement from its academies.
THEY RESTORED THE CONFEDERATE NAMES
Trump announced he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases — Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Pickett, and Fort Robert E. Lee.
These names were originally assigned during Jim Crow — as deliberate acts of racial intimidation, as a message to Black Americans: we still run this.
Trump said he was “superstitious” about the old names. That’s his explanation. Superstition. For honouring traitors who killed American soldiers to preserve slavery.
The base renaming process had cost nearly $40 million and was mandated by Congress. Trump’s reversal rendered every dollar of it wasted. But the message to his base was worth more than $40 million. The message was: the Confederates are back, and so are we.
THEY BLOCKED THE LIVING FROM THE FUTURE
And now this.
According to the New York Times, Hegseth unilaterally struck four officers from the Army’s one-star promotion list — two Black officers and two women — out of roughly three dozen, most of whom are white men. Army Secretary Driscoll — a Trump appointee — refused for months to remove them, citing their decades of exemplary service. He had to be steamrolled by Hegseth acting alone, in a move senior military officials say may be illegal under military law.
One of the Black officers targeted had, fifteen years ago, written an academic paper analyzing why Black officers historically gravitated toward support roles over combat positions. He wrote a paper. A scholarly, analytical examination of an institutional pattern. For that, he was blacklisted.
One of the female officers served with distinction during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal — the chaotic, bloody, catastrophic end of America’s longest war. She did her job under impossible conditions. For that, she was punished.
“We’re talking about banning the history of people like Jackie Robinson and the Tuskegee Airmen, people who were fighting for a country because they loved their country in many ways more than their country loved them back,” said Maryland Governor and veteran Wes Moore. He said he worries the erasure of those figures could deter an entire generation from seeing the military as a place for them.
He’s right. And that might be exactly the point.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE
I need you to understand something, and I need you to hold it steady even when people tell you you’re being dramatic.
What is happening right now has a name. It has a history. And that history does not end well.
When Nazi Germany began its consolidation of power, one of the first systematic projects was the rewriting of who was considered a legitimate German — who had sacrificed, who had built, who had belonged to the nation. Jewish veterans of World War I — men who had bled for Germany — were stripped of their honours, removed from monuments, erased from official memory. The regime needed a mythology of pure national identity, and that mythology required the disappearance of those who complicated it.
This is not hyperbole. This is the documented pattern of fascist consolidation: you don’t seize a country with tanks first. You seize it with the archive.
You rewrite who the heroes are. You burn the books that complicate the story. You rename the institutions. You remove the photographs. You block the living from advancement. And eventually, the people you’ve been erasing start to believe they never really belonged here at all.
As historian Heather Cox Richardson put it, the erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history.
That is the project. That is what “DEI is dead” means when it’s paired with Confederate base names and purged Medal of Honour pages and a defence secretary who allegedly tells his Army Secretary that the President doesn’t want to be seen next to a Black woman.
This isn’t about meritocracy. Meritocracy doesn’t delete war heroes. Meritocracy doesn’t ban books about the Holocaust. Meritocracy doesn’t put Confederate generals back on the gates of military installations.
This is White Christian Nationalism using the machinery of the American government to rewrite who America belongs to. It is racism. It is fascism. And anyone still looking for a politer word for it is part of the problem.
Black soldiers bled for this country when this country told them they were less than human. They flew missions from segregated bases. They stormed beaches knowing they’d come home to Jim Crow. They earned every medal, every promotion, every page in every history book.
And this regime is coming for all of it.
A man who needs to erase another man’s sacrifice to feel like his own counts — never really believed in what he was fighting for in the first place.
These people don’t believe in America. They believe in a version of America that only ever existed in their mythology — one where the victories were all white, the sacrifices were all white, and the future will be too.
We cannot let them have it.
I sincerely hope that every black American will see this post coming from Trump's administration. Basically what this is saying to all African Americans is that Trump and the Republican Party don't value you as a human being.
Pete has limited military background. He was a former TV newscaster. That's it! but because he has sold his soul to the Devil, he feels that he must refuse to stand next to a military person that is black and a woman. What a disgrace he is.
He is truly a piece of shit. Even shit is better than him!