Mr. Jackie Robinson, number 42, integrated baseball, not because DEI,
but because he was so good that to paraphrase his manager,
I don't care if the guy is yellow or black or if he has stripes like a fucking zebra,
he can make us all rich.
Jackie Robinson steps in against Ford.
Deep in the left center, Irv Norrin races after Robinson's blast.
Jackie really teed off on Ford.
He also served in the military,
during which time he was court-martialed after peacefully refusing to move to the back of an army bus he was acquitted.
The Department of Defense website featured Robinson in a section called Sports Heroes Who Served until March 19th,
when his page disappeared and the URL redirected to one
that had the letters DEI in front of Sports Heroes.
A Pentagon spokesman defended the removal, but about 90 minutes later the page was restored.
That spokesman resigned last week.
Ahead on Today Explained, the Trump administration tries to rewrite history.
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