’60 Minutes’ Profiles Collateral Damage Of Trump’s War On DEI: Students Of Color Who Were Denied Chance To Play With U.S. Marine Band
deadline.com60 Minutes took aim President Trump’s war on diversity, equity and inclusion Sunday by focusing on the collateral damage of his controversial executive order — a group of young Black, Hispanic, Indian and Asian musicians who were denied the chance to play with the U.S.
Marine Band this year. Last year, the band — founded in 1798 and nicknamed the “President’s Own” by Thomas Jefferson — collaborated with a Chicago-based nonprofit that supports student musicians of color by giving them a chance to audition for the orchestra.
The plan was for this select group of youths to perform with their adult counterparts at a concert in May, according to the report by Scott Pelley.
But Trump’s executive order against diversity programs forced them to scuttle the performance — depriving the youths of the unique opportunity to play with the Marines. “If we’re a society that’s suppressing art, we’re a society that is afraid of what it might reveal about itself.
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