Despite an official of the Department of Defense, who tells Outkick that the cleaning of a feature of Jackie Robinson’s military service was accidentally performed, Stephen A. Smith doesn’t think “It was an honest mistake at all.”
While the story had been removed was the new URL that had also included The letters “DEI” In it, readers were instructed to a 404 page – the story and its original link restored Wednesday afternoon.
Smith went to ESPN’s “First Take”, in which he called Trump administration to “not be honest about” a few things “, adding there has been” a unified effort “to” scrub history. “
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Stephen A. Smith speaks in 2021. (IMagn)
“It’s not so much that you want to eradicate DEI programs … How dare you try to ignore the cause of its existence in the first place? Like civil rights legislation in 1964, similar to things like affirmative actions, similar to things like Rooney rule in the National Football League, etc., how dare you try to get away with highlighting why it Said Smith. “It was because of the failure of people in the United States of America – primarily the white power structure that exists. It is a fact. It is known throughout history that it is a fact. They will shine over and erase the need for the things that need to take place to begin with.”
Sen Major League Baseball Icon Jackie Robinson. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Smith said “Nobody calls” Trump, but “I will.” He did this by offering to discuss him, Vice President JD Vance and defense secretary Pete Hegeth.
“President Trump, I’m glad to put you down with you to have that conversation, Sir. I would love that you are trying to defend it. Vice President Vance, you too. Pete Hegeth, you too. Stephen A. Smith calls you out on national TV. I would love that you have to sit down with the cameras rolling and trying to defend this.”
The story entitled “Sports Heroes, who served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson was a wwii soldier,” was launched on February 9, 2021, written by David Vergun. Other features on “Sports Hero who earned” Include Bob Feller, Hoyt Wilhelm, Bob Uecker and many others.
Last month, Pentagon called for a “digital content update” that would “remove and archive DOD news articles, photos and videos that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).”
Jackie Robinson, in military uniform, became the first African American to sign with a white professional baseball team. He signed a contract with the Minor League Club in Montreal, a courtyard for Brooklyn Dodgers. (Getty Images)
Robinson was drafted in the military five years before breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 and was honestly discharged in 1944 after serving as a second lieutenant under 2 World War II. His number 42 was retired throughout the baseball in 1997.
