DeVos Slammed For Calling Black Colleges 'Pioneers' Of School Choice

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published FEBRUARY 28, 2017, 10:03 AM EDT


Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Monday night released a statement suggesting that historically black colleges were the product of a "school choice" movement, prompting swift backlash on Twitter and from Democratic lawmakers.

"They started from the fact that there were too many students in America who did not have equal access to education," DeVos said in a statement. "They saw that the system wasn’t working, that there was an absence of opportunity, so they took it upon themselves to provide the solution."

"HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice," she added. "They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality. Their success has shown that more options help students flourish."

DeVos' statement painting African Americans' efforts to create higher education options for themselves in a segregated society as a "choice" earned her criticism from Democratic members of Congress and others:

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[gopiscrap]

1. What a clueless ignorant fucking piece of shit

[Freethinker65]

15. +1000. She believes what she is saying because that is how she was educated....

And that is the same education she wants for our nation's children

[Lotusflower70]

2. She obviously needs

And is going to get an education on so many things. She is absolutely ridiculous and out of touch.

[yallerdawg]

3. We must remember:

Or is it more likely she is just an idiot?

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Revisionist Historian Betsy DeVos

throttles up the Way Back Machine to apply hair sprayed mind to the 1800s

Sniff harder, Frederick Douglass is trying to contact you!

[snort]

22. The hell with plastic

I'm buying stock in brylcreem.

[Hekate]

5. It's the last day of Black History Month. Let 'er have it, people...

She deserves every single bit of mockery and opprobrium coming her way.

[DURHAM D]

6. AMEN !

[Hortensis]

11. She actually issued this as an OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

Unbelievably clueless. My guess is her small, rigid mind hasn't developed any new insights in 40 years.

[turbinetree]

7. Hey Devos since you have no fucking clue about "public education" and the color of human beings and

skin. Lets expand the topic and see if this rings any bells in your head. I don't think so, but let's try


Have you done any research on this issue and "education"

Here let me give you a clue as to what "Christians" have done to another culture of human being. And please tell us how many times were they invited to the table?

http://www.4aihf.org/id40.html

[n2doc]

8. ...

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Options can also mean lack of discipline, standards, reality

and very dumb whiny students retreating to their inner selves
instead of recognizing the world for what it is.

No I'm not a fan of home schooling, or charter schools. I'm a fan of
socializing, growth with peers, intellectual challenges. For all, not just
for those with ingenuity to work the charter school system, or who
make the loudest noise or align themselves with the loudest pulpit.

[longship]

12. Promote drinking fountain choice! Only available in the Jim Crow South!

(obviously)

[lunasun]

9. F her

[packman]

13. And those American Indians loved the reservations

where they got free food and didn't have to roam around the countryside with their families and got educated at the white-man's schools.

What a space cadet this shithead is.

[mwooldri]

14. HBCUs were built because of NO OTHER CHOICE.

The other colleges and universities wouldn't let in the scholars and students who happened to be non-Caucasian.

Someone get a clue stick and thrash that Betsy person with it. Maybe she'd see some sense. But then I doubt it. (Violence wouldn't work anyway). Someone who knows about education needs to be Secretary of Education. Not her.

[MrScorpio]

16. Jeezus freaking Keryst

SMDH.

[CottonBear]

17. WTF?

Horrific. I am fucking speechless. 😳

[Kimchijeon]

18. WTF! Yeah, Jim Crow was so pioneering and awesome

What an idiot.

[Paladin]

19. Un-fucking-believable.

I guess DeVos views slavery as just another employment choice.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. We are in the era of James Crow Jr., Esq

and she is example #1.

[nadine_mn]

21. Just like they 'chose' separate drinking fountains? Separate train cars? Literacy tests?

What the actual fuck? I mean is she really that stupid - or is she just being a jackass? I don't understand how anyone can be so fucking stupid.

I admit to living in a white privilege bubble and have learned a lot of things over the years that frankly make me sick to my stomach at just how racist our country has been and is.

I just can't handle this shit.

[snort]

23. "I mean is she really that stupid - or is she just being a jackass?"

Yes

[TNNurse]

24. I want the names of the schools she attended.

We need to be aware of how they do not actually teach American History.

[Greensix1]

25. Pioneers??? Really?

Harvard University began in 1634. The First college for black student began in 1837, Two Hundred Years Later. And, only because WHITE colleges and universities, Like Harvard wouldn't let them in. Hardly Pioneers, and certainly not by choice. DeVos is a total moron.

[Warpy]

26. What a damned clueless twit that woman is

Black colleges started because there was no choice for black citizens and thank goodness they did start.

I hope that stupid woman gets enough serious flak that she learns to keep that sewer of ignorance she calls a mouth shut.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Wadda maroon. Black colleges were created because black students

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had no choice to go to white-only colleges. The only "choice" they had in those days, before those colleges were founded, was not to go to college.

DeVos once again proves she's an ignorant fool.

[erpowers]

28. Stupid Comment

That was a stupid comment by Betsy DeVoss. I am glad Democrats responded with the facts.