Whitewashing, DEI & CRT
1966
1966-01-01 Jerry Falwell founded the whites-only Lynchburg Christian Academy to circumvent the 1954 ruling to ban segregation. He wrote in his book ‘America Can Be Saved’, “I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them”. In 1977 courts ruled that segregated private religious schools could not qualify as charitable organizations or retain tax exempt status.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/falwell-jerry-1933-2007/
2021 June
2021-06-01 Texas House Bill 3979 restricts race, slavery and current event curriculum in public schools by removing material pertaining to Native American history, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King Jr.
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/id/2339637
https://www.idra.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/What-does-HB-3979-do-IDRA-reference.pdf
2021 July
2021-07-21 Fox News contributor Leo Terrell attacked Critical Race Theory. Trump later appointed him to be Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3857230367939923
2021 September
2021-09-17 During an interview on Jack Murphy Live, JD Vance claimed that COVID masking traumatized children, chastised teachers for teaching about slavery, attacked CRT, claimed “wokeism” assimilation, and praised Curtis Yarvin.
2021 October
2021-10-27 Republicans rallied against teaching Critical Race Theory.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/so-much-buzz-but-what-is-critical-race-theory
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/08/racism-is-the-only-reason-obama-might-lose.html
2024 March
2024-03-01 MAGA reframed the acronym DEI as Didn’t Earn It, implying that people of color and marginalized groups only secure jobs or promotions due to mandates rather than merit.
2024-03-01 The US Department of Education updated their FAFSA form to include more racial subcategories for whites.
2024-03-28 Phil Lyman blamed the Baltimore bridge crash on DEI and targeted Karenthia A. Barber in a repost from the Young Conservatives Federation, “This is what happens when you have Governors who prioritize diversity over the wellbeing and security of citizens”.
https://x.com/phil_lyman/status/1772647920124211378
2024 July
2024-07-19 After the CrowdStrike outage, Elon Musk posted, “Not very “bright” right now, is it?” alongside a reposted Bright Network DEI banner, suggesting the outage was due to DEI. America First Legal filed a civil rights complaint on CrowdStrike for discriminating against white males. Steve Guest posted “Equity is nobody in the world being able to get on an airplane simultaneously. Thanks CrowdStrike”.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1814252636855500948
https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1814282729317421310
2025 January
2025-01-26 The United States Air Force was forced to remove training courses referencing the Tuskegee Airmen or the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WACS) because they are “DEI”.
https://apnews.com/article/air-force-dei-tuskegee-women-wwii-pilots-ecdeac68dc7696535d093c7690ab73bc
2025-01-29 Trump issued Executive Order Ending Racial Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.
2025-01-30 Trump blamed DEI, Biden, disabilities and Pete Buttigieg for the Potomac place crash, and accused the FAA of not properly vetting its employee pool.
2025 February
2025-02-04 In response to the Potomac crash Senator Roger Marshall said, “Well, I think diversity issues did contribute to this accident, and what we know for sure is that under Joe Biden that they lowered the standards for people getting into air traffic control. And with that, the number of near misses increased 70% a year”. The Senator went on to say, “What I think you’re gonna find out is there were a lot of qualified white men that they were not hiring because they were holding spots for DEI hires”.
2025-02-21 Trump fired General Charles Q. Brown from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of the DEI agenda.
2025 March
2025-03-07 The Trump administration purged 26,000 military photos of anything referencing women or minorities including photos of the Enola Gay.
2025-03-27 Trump signed EO Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History which is designed to whitewash and sanitize history.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5345933/smithsonian-executive-order-the-shape-of-power
https://www.cnn.com/politics/trump-smithsonian-art-shape-of-power
2025 April
2025-04-11 The Trump administration demanded that Harvard conduct a federal government-approved audit of its student and faculty to determine “viewpoint diversity”. When Harvard refused, the DEO launched an investigation and accused them of discrimination against white males.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/harvard-university-trump.html
2025 May
2025-05-08 Trump had Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden fired on the 9th of her 10-year term as part of his DEI initiative. Carla Hayden received her termination by email from a low-level employee.
https://capitalbnews.org/carla-hayden-fired-library-of-congress-trump
2025 June
2025-06-01 Pete Hegseth renamed several U.S. Naval Ships that were named after prominent women or civil rights leaders because they did not meet his criteria for a “warrior ethos”
2025-06-10 National parks were instructed to post QR codes so visitors could report exhibits with content about slavery, Native American history, pollution or climate change. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5429773/national-park-service-signs
https://www.npca.org/articles/9287-make-them-hear-you
2025 August
2025-08-19 Trump posted, “Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was”. Then he instructed his attorneys to “go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJSbGOyYlUY
2025 September
2025-09-17 The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove or censor exhibits at Harpers Ferry West Virginia, including the Civil War Museum and John Brown’s Fort (a key site in an 1859 abolitionist raid).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ywN-W-EWHQ
2025 November
2025-11-12 During the 4th Annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit Pete Hegseth criticized DEI initiatives, political correctness, and what he called “climate change worship”.
2025 December
2025-12-03 A Colorado Springs teacher was indefinitely suspended after she disclosed upcoming revisions to limit teaching about anti-slavery activism or contributions of Frederick Douglass.
https://www.fox21news.com/news/d11-fifth-grade-teacher-could-lose-her-job/
2026 January
2026-01-08 The Smithsonian was told to remove the word “unjust” from a display about Japanese internment camps because it made the display look “too partisan”.
A USC PDF https://race.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-Practice-Brief-Final.pdf
2026-01-23 The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove a slavery exhibit from a park in Philadelphia.
2026 February
2026-02-05 The Trump Administration sanitized exhibits at Little Bighorn National Monument. The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council unanimously voted 11-0 against the changes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/northern-cheyenne-push-back-against-175232834.html
2025-02-10 Pete Hegseth changed the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, claiming this time it was after a PFC from WWII and had no Confederate ties.
2026-02-17 A judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate a slavery exhibit at the Presidential House in Philadelphia, citing George Orwell’s 1984, comparing the Trump administration to the book’s totalitarian regime which revised historical records to align with its own narratives.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/16/politics/philadelphia-slavery-exhibits-judge-orders-return-orwell
2026 March
2026-03-20 The Trump administration planned to display a statue of a slave owner for America’s 250th anniversary.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/climate/caesar-rodney-statue-trump.html
https://au.news.yahoo.com/delaware-removed-statue-founder-200-220009228.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyVzi16maCA&list=WL&index=5&t=6s
2026-03-27 Pete Hegseth removed two Black and two female officers from a promotion list, and Chief of Staff Ricky Buria allegedly told Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll not to assign Major General Antoinette R. Gant command of the Military District of Washington because President Trump wouldn’t want to stand next to a Black female officer at events.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5804541-pete-hegseth-pentagon-promotion-list/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-official-told-military-officer-132409515.html
2026 April
2026-04-28 Shortly after Trump and First Lady Melania Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired, the FCC opened an investigation into ABC and Disney for DEI practices.
https://abcnews.com/US/fcc-orders-early-review-abcs-broadcast-licenses/story?id=132466823
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fcc-disney-abc-early-license-renewal-jimmy-kimmel-dei/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fcc-threatens-abcs-licenses-as-trumps-call-for-kimmels-firing
2026 July
2026-07-21 The GOP pressed the Smithsonian history director over what they called “woke ideology” in displays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFLy0qqTnBI&list=WL&index=2
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5902101/smithsonian-house-hearing
https://www.wafb.com/2026/07/21/republicans-cry-woke-smithsonian/