Trump wants Black soldiers out of US military.

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The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid President Donald Trump's purge of diversity initiatives in the military.

Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a long-standing public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an annual conference that draws students, academics and professionals in science, technology, engineering and math, also known as STEM.

The event, which takes place in Baltimore, has historically been a key venue for the Pentagon to recruit talent, including awarding Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarships and pitching military service to rising engineers. Past BEYA events have included the Army chief of staff and the defense secretary.

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"This is one of the most talent-dense events we do," one Army recruiter told Military.com on the condition that their name not be used. "Our footprint there has always been significant. We need the talent."

The services cited concerns that participation in the predominantly Black event could run afoul of Trump's orders and the Pentagon's intensifying push to erase diversity efforts in the military, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Jan. 31 ordered that Black History Month, Women's History Month and others were officially "dead" and that the military would no longer mark them.

"In compliance with Department of Defense and Headquarters Department of the Army guidance, U.S. Army Recruiting Command will not participate in the upcoming BEYA event," Madison Bonzo, a service spokesperson, said in a statement to Military.com. "Service members and civilians are permitted to attend this event in an unofficial/personal capacity if they choose to do so."

Officials for BEYA did not return a request for comment.

The Navy, Air Force and Space Force are also pulling out of the event and forbidding officials from attending in an official capacity or in uniform. It was unclear Monday whether the Marines were still participating.

Additional recruiting events tied to specific racial or gender groups are also likely to be scrapped, two defense officials told Military.com. That includes other conferences and career fairs with thousands of participants.

The decision to abandon the Black engineering event marks a significant shift in military recruiting strategy -- and sparked calls of discrimination.

"It's f---ing racist," one active-duty Army general told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "For the Army now, it's 'Blacks need not apply' and it breaks my heart."

While the services are pulling out of BEYA, a well-established pipeline for high-caliber STEM talent, they remain engaged with other events. Last week, the same Army recruiting unit that would have attended BEYA instead participated in a National Rifle Association-sponsored event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white gathering that recruiters acknowledge is less likely to yield high-quality applicants.

The BEYA conference has long been intertwined with the Pentagon and the defense industry amid an ongoing competition with Silicon Valley for top-shelf talent as military jobs become increasingly technical. It regularly features panels with senior military leaders and hosts various recruiting initiatives. Top sponsors include Lockheed Martin and Google.

"The U.S. military is one of the largest STEM employers in the nation, yet its critical role in driving technological innovation often goes overlooked and misunderstood by the civilian sector," a note on BEYA's website says. "BEYA works to bridge this gap by highlighting the vast STEM opportunities available within the armed forces and showcasing military leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics."

Beyond being a recruiting event, the services also had a significant relationship with BEYA that included its own awards ceremonies. In 2023, Gen. Randy George, the top officer in the Army, awarded now-retired Maj. Gen. Robert Edmonson II the Stars and Stripes General Officer of the Year Award, a prestigious accolade for achievements in national security.

"It's our mission to keep the United States safe from a range of 21st-century threats," former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a keynote address at the BEYA ceremony in 2023. "We're determined to continue innovating to make America more secure; that means drawing on the strengths of all people."

Army officials interviewed by Military.com, which included five recruiters, saw the move as a significant and problematic escalation in the Pentagon's rejection of diversity initiatives, which have been widely interpreted as programs that recognize women and troops with minority backgrounds, as well as gay and lesbian troops. Trump has initiated a separate effort to eliminate transgender troops from the ranks.

Hegseth, who was confirmed last month, has made rooting out diversity his top priority at the Pentagon, with the services scrambling to scrub programs, policies and even words from documents and websites. Trump, Hegseth and supporters claim that so-called "diversity, equity and inclusion," or DEI, programs have made the military weak.

[Nefertiti]

Let's see if he fires General Charles Brown and other Biden crew. Mark Milley was already stripped of security clearance and Secret Service detail withdrawn.

[Kadudu]

By the time Trump is finished his term, African-Americans will not know what happened to them. They will learn to love Joe Biden.

[RV Pundit]

Kneegrows made huge mistake. So did Latinos. Its back WASP. Elon musk is parading white babies and encouraging white folks to have kids.

[RV Heavy Hitter!]

Kneegrows made huge mistake. So did Latinos. Its back WASP. Elon musk is parading white babies and encouraging white folks to have kids.

Too late for that. Because of their past racist policy of the one-drop rule, white people cannot produce more children than black people. A Black person can produce black babies with all races. White people can't. White+Black=Black. Research show that biracial kids under the custody of White families are classified as white, but when they grow, they notice right away that America sees them as black! There are hidden biracial kids in America, roughly almost 50 million so far!

[RV Heavy Hitter!]

By the time Trump is finished his term, African-Americans will not know what happened to them. They will learn to love Joe Biden.

I doubt, African Americans are the most resilient people on the globe. America, with 200 years of brutality, could not exterminate them. Native Americans were 50-60 million in the 1400-1500 century, but in 2025 they are about 2-3.3 million.  African Americans were 8-10 million in 1800-1900; now they are 50 million+. People of African descent were supposed to be exterminated in America through all kinds of ways, but later in books like Willie Lynch, white supremacists concluded that African people cannot be erased! Do you know during 8 years of Obama, over 1 million whites committed suicide? A small change, and it almost killed them.

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It will be a very good kick for post Obama poetry nonsense nyeuthi mobilizing and organizing.