USA Today Uses Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts to Lie About DEI
Recently, USA Today just had to lie about DEI in an embarrassingly bad editorial entitled: “These are Anti-Black times. Mahomes and Hurts are living counters.” Mike Freeman, a Race and Inequality Editor for the leftist news outlet, must have transported himself to a bygone era. The America he was describing is not one that exists in 2025. He wrote with all the alarmism he could summon from the depths of the Democratic Party’s playbook of victimhood: “We are in the midst of one of the most vicious anti-Black eras in decades. This might be the most anti-Black this country has been in decades.”
When I think of vicious, call me crazy, but I think of people of my complexion being hanged, simply for being Black. I think of American apartheid that cordoned off restaurants, movie theaters, water fountains, schools, and countless opportunities. I think of fire hoses being turned on peaceful protesters and dogs attacking activists and ripping at their flesh. Basically, I think of an America that was made possible through the anti-Black Democratic Party that went to war to protect slavery. Then along came the Democratic Jim Crow to divide a nation transitioning from shackles to segregation. I think of the violence codified at the state level that demeaned and dehumanized Black Americans and their White allies who stood in solidarity for justice.
What does Freeman consider so “vicious”? What present-day heinous action against Black people in America caused him to lash out with such fear and anger? He blamed President Trump’s Executive Orders that dismantle the failed DEI regime of the previous Biden administration (here and here): “One of the most blatant anti-Black moves during this anti-DEI rush was the removal of training courses that included videos of the Tuskegee Airman.” Hold the fire hoses! A handful of videos were removed. Can you imagine anything more vicious? All sarcasm aside, these first Black American military airman were absolute heroes. They deserve to be celebrated, but not exploited by a woke news editor who seems to only see life through the broken lens of race. Freeman claimed that Trump’s “move caused outrage” (true, it did among the Left) and the “order was reversed” (not true).
The order itself was never reversed. The Air Force’s temporary decision to delay the training was corrected by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, because it didn’t comply with Trump’s order. Trump’s EO simply required a review of all materials and training programs in the armed forces to make sure they weren’t polluted with DEI ideology. Tuskegee Airmen – courageous men who were considered to be the “cream of the crop” – are not woke propaganda. Three days before Freeman’s disinformation opinion piece was published, the Tuskegee training videos were back in use by the Air Force.
But that didn’t stop Freeman from coloring the narrative. “The core of what Trump is doing is portraying Black Americans as incompetent and incapable,” he falsely accused a President endorsed by many famous Black politicians, athletes, intellectuals and entertainers. Perhaps that’s why so-called “anti-Black” Trump celebrated one of the last surviving Tuskegee airmen, Col. Charles McGee, during his 2020 State of the Union address. In a moving tribute that cheered on McGee’s great grandson, who wanted to be part of the Space Force, Trump promoted McGee to brigadeer general to thunderous applause in the congressional chamber.
The leftist legacy media is obsessed with demonizing Trump and branding Republicans as anti-Black. It’s a lie, of course, but one they need to keep telling as their once monopolistic influence continues to wane. President George W. Bush, by the way, was the President who awarded the way overdue Congressional Gold Medal to Tuskegee Airmen back in 2007. What a racist!
“The notion that people who take advantage of DEI are unqualified has always been a lie,” Freeman protested. Well, that is a lie. Interestingly enough, so-called “diversity officers” are some of the most unqualified people on the planet. I’m just saying. Take, for instance, the $300k per year Los Angeles Fire Department DEI Deputy Chief, Kristine Larson, an obese Black lesbian. She said, in refusing to answer whether a female firefighter could carry a man out of a fire: “He got himself in the wrong place.” Or, how about the DEI that allowed less-than-stellar male athletes pretend they’re females and invade women’s sports? Even the far-left United Nations admitted in a 2024 reportthat females lost more than 890 medals to unfair competition from males.
DEI is dying. And I’m happy for it. Freeman invoking Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes (who is mixed Black/White) and Philadelphia Jalen Hurts as “Black excellence” and “living counters” to some mythical “wave of anti-Blackness” is just bizarre. How did these two amazing quarterbacks get to where they are in the NFL? Quotas? Color-based qualifications? Equalized outcomes? Of course not. They worked for it. That’s the beauty of professional sports.
And what constitutes this nebulous anti-Blackness? Not voting for Kamala Harris? (There are a few slobbery articles from Freeman about Kamala Harris, here, here, and here.) Guess Mahomes’ mom is anti-Black. She endorsed and voted for Trump. Guess his wife is anti-Black. She sort of endorsed Trump. Is Mahomes anti-Black because his mom and wife are both White?
Then, there’s this moment in the sloppy op-ed where Freeman so severely contradicts himself that it makes his writing seem more like a satirical piece. He claims that the people who benefit most from DEI programs are…White women! So, then dismantling DEI programs isn’t anti-Black at all. It would be anti-White. Right?
The irony is that the USA Today editor’s last name is Freeman, yet he’s a slave to a derangement syndrome that prevents him from freely seeing the obvious. He, like so many others who embrace a color-first worldview, are in bondage to a never-ending victimhood.
This weekend, the Super Bowl will bring together nearly 125 million people from around the world, united by love of sport (and great commercials), not by color.
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