Obeying Trump order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen

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38. The erasure of history is as serious as all the rest, believe me, & is key to oppression

Here is something I never knew, growing up: during WWII women flew military planes across the US, after Rosie the Riveter was done building them. Women flew those planes to US military bases, then the men took them to war.

I didn’t know this until a close friend of my mother’s died well into my own adulthood, and her daughter brought out the scrapbook. I never knew Eileen did that. She was an underpaid secretary with a wacky sense of humor the whole time I knew her.

But see, when women pilots in the 1960s wanted to break into the elite male club of the major airlines the narrative was this: the men had gotten their training and skills in the military during WWII and after. And women had not — so women did not have the number of hours on their records that men had.

Women’s history used to be erased all the time — and now it will again.