An example spurned

 I don't know what heavenly mansion Jackie Robinson calls home these days, but I bet he's stomping around it cussing up a storm right now. Or maybe just sighing at the way some things never change.

This after the Department of Defense (Motto: "Keeping History As White As Possible") disappeared Jackie's military service from its website. It did this during its purge of, among others, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo code-talkers, Colin Powell, Pima flag-raiser Ira Hayes and ... oh, heck, just about anyone of darker pigmentation who contributed greatly to our proud military tradition.

Seems this targeted erasing of Certain Kinds Of History was part of our new Regime's war on diversity, equity and inclusion, values which used to represent the best of the American experiment but now are viewed with revulsion by the Regime. That the Regime's sneak attack on Jackie and the others failed miserably -- all the aforementioned groups/individuals have since been restored -- proves that, at least for now, the experiment yet survives.

In other words, all kinds of decent Americans were all kinds of royally pissed, and let the Regime know about it. And as the disappeared hurriedly reappeared (with the dubious explanation that it was all a "mistake"), you could almost see the thought bubble appear above Regime leader Donald Trump's head: "Dammit! We couldn't slip it past 'em!"

But back to Jackie, and also to Major League Baseball.

Which makes a huge deal every spring on April 15, the day in 1947 when Jackie broke the color line and the American Pastime finally became truly American. Every player on every team wears Jackie's No. 42 on that day. His sublime courage and refusal to break in the face of often virulent racism are duly noted. Forced to back down that first season, he never did so again.

This was always part of Robinson's DNA, and, significantly, the military service the Regime tried to erase revealed as much. From Andscape contributor Justin Tinsley: "In 1944, Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to give up his seat and move to the back of an Army bus. He was acquitted and later received an honorable discharge that same year."

So the courage and conviction of 1947 were always there.

Not so much for MLB, unfortunately.

It talks a good game in honoring Jackie every year, but his example seems lost on it otherwise. This week, the news broke that Major League Baseball removed all references to "diversity" from its careers website, an obvious surrender to the Regime's DEI obsession. It then compounded this supreme act of cowardice with an official statement so vacuous it practically echoed.

"Our values on diversity remain unchanged," the statement read, with unintentional hilarity. "We are in the process of evaluating our programs for any modifications to eligibility criteria that are needed to ensure our programs are compliant with federal law as they continue forward."

Imagine Jackie Robinson mouthing such fluff back in 1947. Or on that bus in 1944.

"Boy, you gotta move to the back of the bus."

"Give me a second. First I have to evaluate my actions to ensure they are compliant with federal law as I continue forward."

Jackie Robinson would never have said such a thing. Jackie Robinson would have told the Regime to go to hell.

Something MLB would do well to think about. Especially on April 15, when its words will now ring especially hollow.