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In its ongoing effort to persuade white folks — essentially the most socially and economically privileged and dominant racial group within the Western world — that they’re an oppressed folks whereas denying the precise systemic racism that exists in America, the Trump administration has targetted 45 faculties with allegations of “race-exclusionary practices.”
Based on Axios, the Division of Schooling introduced Friday that it’s investigating practically 4 dozen faculties and threatening them with lack of federal funding if they’re discovered to be participating in variety, fairness, and inclusion practices. (You know the way President Donald Trump is at all times saying training must be left as much as the states? Nicely, it seems what he actually means is, “Schooling must be left to the states, but in addition, if the colleges in these states don’t do what I need, they are going to be defunded by the federal authorities.” Stunning, I do know.) The division cited the 2023 Supreme Court docket choice overturning Affirmative Motion.
The actually insidious a part of Trump’s agenda to rid America of racial discrimination in the direction of the one racial group in America that has by no means collectively skilled systemic racism is that white conservative officers are perverting insurance policies put in place to finish the legally sanctioned anti-Black discrimination that had existed in America for the overwhelming majority of its existence, which is precisely why DEI and Affirmative Motion had been ever mandatory within the first place.
From Axios:
Framing faculties’ DEI packages, which are supposed to present equal alternatives for college students of shade, as “race-exclusionary” additionally aligns with some Trump allies’ need to reinterpret Civil Rights-era legal guidelines to give attention to “anti-white racism” quite than discrimination towards folks of shade, Axios’ Alex Thompson has reported.
The letter comes after the Schooling Division warned 60 faculties, together with Harvard and Yale, their federal funds could possibly be reduce in the event that they don’t deal with allegations of antisemitic harassment on campus.
The division mentioned in a press release that the colleges had been being investigated for doubtlessly violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which obliges faculties that obtain federal funds to supply college students with an atmosphere freed from discrimination primarily based on race, shade, or nationwide origin.
Simply think about that: Systemic racism towards Black folks doesn’t exist, however let’s use these legal guidelines that show systemic racism towards Black folks did and does exist to struggle systemic racism towards white people who undoubtedly doesn’t and has not ever existed.
Thoughts you, MAGA legislators and officers have by no means introduced a shred of unambiguous proof that white individuals are negatively impacted by DEI initiatives or that recruitment, hiring or scholarship requirements have been lowered in an effort to supply Black folks, folks of shade and different underserved teams with extra alternative.
Making white supremacy nice once more was at all times the purpose.
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