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Josh Hawley's "Love America Act" Is All About Protecting Racism
Sen. Josh Hawley speaks during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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Thom Hartmann, The Hartmann Report
PUBLISHED
July 27, 2021
Former-slave-state Missouri Senator Josh Hawley doesnt want Americas white children to be exposed to the simple reality that slavery was not only legal at the founding of our country but was, in several places, written into our Constitution.
And that the rest of America subsidized the slave-owners states and continues to subsidize them to this day.
Hawley, of course, is the guy who gave a fist-salute to the armed white supremacist traitors who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th to assassinate Vice President Pence and Speaker Pelosi. He hopes to ride his white supremacy shtick to the White House
Doubling down on the GOP notion that America is a nation exclusively of, by and for white people, Hawley has now proposed a law he calls The Love America Act of 2021. The bill is only 3 ½ pages long. Theres a bit of legalese to make it into legislation, defining what school means, etc., but this is what it says:
RESTRICTION ON FEDERAL FUNDS FOR TEACHING THAT CERTAIN DOCUMENTS ARE PRODUCTS OF WHITE SUPREMACY OR RACISM [N]o Federal funds shall be provided to an educational agency or school that teaches that the Pledge of Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution of the United States is a product of white supremacy or racism.
Thats it. Thats the gist of the entire bill.
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Josh Hawley's "Love America Act" Is All About Protecting Racism (Original Post)
BeckyDem
Jul 2021
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Walleye
(30,697 posts)1. And the Dred Scott decision?
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)2. Yep. Hawley is a highly educated and dangerous creep.
He knows exactly what he is crafting.
2naSalit
(86,031 posts)3. Of course it is...
Because what else is he about?