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Considering the history of the United States then and now, the 1619 Project is just as important. The unflattering picture of how Africans were sold into slavery for the pleasure of white European Property owners in the New World NEEDS to be taught. Since the first arrivals of Africans to the British colony of Jamestown in Virginia in 1619, it snowballed into what Slavery would become, the systematic racism that followed, leading up to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts being signed into Law in the mid 1960's.
Source:Huff Post
The president has launched yet another attack against education intended to address racism in America.
On Sunday morning, Trump tweeted that the Department of Education was investigating whether California public schools had implemented the New York Times 1619 Project into their curriculum. The Pulitzer Prize-winning initiative aims to reframe American history around the year slaves landed on its shores and by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded! Trump wrote, sharing a Sept. 1 tweet from an unverified account stating that California schools were using the curriculum.
It follows a White House memo released on Friday and obtained by the Washington Post that ordered federal agencies to discontinue racial sensitivity training. The Trump administration claimed the training sessions were divisive, anti-American propaganda and that trainings that mention white privilege or suggest that racism is part of the nations foundation undercut the governments core values.
All agencies were directed to cancel any training related to white privilege or critical race theory, a school of thought which views race as a social construct that is used by white people to perpetuate institutional racism at the expense of people of color.
Its unclear how much of this training was conducted at federal agencies. The memo was issued days after a guest on Fox News Tucker Carlson Tonight bashed critical race theory and called for its removal from federal government institutions.
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CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Well, segregationists had their own little race based theories which I guess are now just fine and dandy to the likes of Tucker Carlson and the rest of his trashy white people.
Go to hell, Tucker...
still_one
(92,190 posts)onecaliberal
(32,854 posts)gulliver
(13,180 posts)Next he'll be saying he's having Barr investigate blue state funding of Antifa training camps. It's an easy game for him to play since he's willing to lie and his stooges are willing to play along to make it look real.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)And how many times has he actually followed through?
He's threatened to cut off Federal funds for "lawless" cities, sanctuary cities, schools that don't reopen, California firefighters, universities that ban extreme right-wing speakers, and states that make it easier to vote by mail. He's also threatened numerous times to revoke the licenses of TV networks for reporting news he doesn't like.
He uses threats like this because that's all he knows how to do. And he thinks it makes him look "tough" and "strong" to his base.