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Another Minority Firing - NTSB Vice Chair

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8trGr8t, May 6, 2025.

  1. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    No reason given, one year into a five year term, recently elevated to vice chair by the board. Like so many other firings, minority or female or both. Clear pattern of removing women and minorities from positions of authority.

    Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown out as NTSB vice president | firstcoastnews.com

    Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown was released from his post at the National Transportation Safety Board, a White House spokesperson confirmed to First Coast News Tuesday.

    Brown, who former President Joe Biden appointed in December, was released from his role as vice president of the NTSB on Monday.




    Trump administration abruptly removes vice chair of the NTSB

    Sources said that Brown’s access to NTSB’s offices was blocked Tuesday morning but that he was later escorted into the building. His biography had been removed from the agency’s website Tuesday.

    The decision to remove Brown took some safety experts by surprise.

    “This is the first time in modern history that the White House has removed a board member,” said Jeff Guzzetti, an aviation safety consultant and former Federal Aviation Administration and NTSB investigator.
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    Brown, a Biden appointee and former mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, was just over a year into his five-year term on the board of the independent agency charged with investigating transportation accidents. He was sworn in as a member of the board in March 2024 and was elevated to vice chair in December.
     
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  2. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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  3. Gator515151

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    Stop the racist BS. Blacks & women are not exempt from firing just because of race or gender.
     
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  4. G8trGr8t

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    Now library of congress. Black woman

    Trump firing Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden sparks backlash online
    Nor should they be fired due to race and sex. Disproportionate number of minority leaders are being fired for no reason.
     
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  5. citygator

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    Minorities are unqualified. Drunk, inexperienced white guys are much better at a job. I look forward to the incompetent replacements. Hopefully the new guy will get rid of woke books and the other guy will get rid of woke named streets. Maybe burn all books?
     
  6. slocala

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    Meh, not sure his skin color has anything to do with this. This is running the Project 2025 kill list.

    Maybe Sean Duffy has a buddy from MTV Road Rules.
     
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  7. VAg8r1

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    So you don't think it's unusual that since Trump took office a disproportionate number of minorities and women have been fired from positions in which a new administration normally doesn't replace the persons holding those positions and in which there has been no evidence of either malfeasance or incompetence?
     
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  8. wgbgator

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    You dont have to give the benefit of the doubt to people creating a special refugee program for white South Africans
     
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  9. G8trGr8t

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    joint chief of staff - black - gone

    USCG commander - woman - gone

    many others in key leadership positions

    no justifications for any of them. not normal political appointees
     
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  10. slocala

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    I think it is a waste of time to focus on the race — not winning any hearts and minds of non-MAGA with those arguments. These people can be adjudicated on their sheer incompetence and faux meritocracy principles.
     
  11. G8trGr8t

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  12. ncargat1

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    I am not sure what the point is now? The racists won the election, plain and simple. They were pushed over the top by the moderates, aka, closet racists who will not even admit to themselves that they are bigoted, but are.

    For the next 4 years this will be a pseudo-dictatorship run by WASP-males only.
     
  13. G8trGr8t

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    so copyright office ruled that IP should be protected from AI and Musk and tech bros didn't like it so she had to go

    Trump Fires U.S. Copyright Chief Days After Landmark AI Report

    “Making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries,” the agency wrote.

    Rep. Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, speculated in a statement that “it is surely no coincidence” that Trump fired Perlmutter “less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”