Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Here a Senator asks the incoming Secretary of Education whether celebrating Martin Luther King Day would run afoul of the directive not to fund DEI programs.
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Of course the answer is no, and the question is disenginuine considering that Trump has said through his press secretary that of course he will celebrate Black History Month. The same Senator goes on to act shocked, SHOCKED, that Ms. McMahon does not immediately agree that she will fund racially segregated clubs.
Here is the problem: It is bad if we do not teach the history of Blacks in America, the history of slavery, the emancipation, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, and all the rest, warts and all.
The problem with educators at the campus level and at the level of the universities in which they are trained and the unions that represent them. Too many times, they have turned such history lessons into current events lessons about "White Privilege," the ongoing institutional racism they claim exist in the U.S., and even discussing the perceived racism of specific contemporary political figures.
Any reasonable person can agree that this is not appropriate, nor is it simply "going to far" in teaching our history. Screaming at a student wearing a MAGA had has nothing to do with any history lesson. Nor does requiring white students to lament their own inherent racism.
I am a public school teacher, and sadly, many of my collegues have earned this lack of trust. It has led many to decide that they cannot be trusted to talk about racial topics, because they are unable to resist the opportunity for propaganda. So, we loose the opportunity to teach our children valuable lessons in our history.
Those lessons, taught factually, cannot help but recognize the wrongness of racism. There is no need for the kind of screechy propaganda they often turn into.
1:08:23
Of course the answer is no, and the question is disenginuine considering that Trump has said through his press secretary that of course he will celebrate Black History Month. The same Senator goes on to act shocked, SHOCKED, that Ms. McMahon does not immediately agree that she will fund racially segregated clubs.
Here is the problem: It is bad if we do not teach the history of Blacks in America, the history of slavery, the emancipation, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, and all the rest, warts and all.
The problem with educators at the campus level and at the level of the universities in which they are trained and the unions that represent them. Too many times, they have turned such history lessons into current events lessons about "White Privilege," the ongoing institutional racism they claim exist in the U.S., and even discussing the perceived racism of specific contemporary political figures.
Any reasonable person can agree that this is not appropriate, nor is it simply "going to far" in teaching our history. Screaming at a student wearing a MAGA had has nothing to do with any history lesson. Nor does requiring white students to lament their own inherent racism.
I am a public school teacher, and sadly, many of my collegues have earned this lack of trust. It has led many to decide that they cannot be trusted to talk about racial topics, because they are unable to resist the opportunity for propaganda. So, we loose the opportunity to teach our children valuable lessons in our history.
Those lessons, taught factually, cannot help but recognize the wrongness of racism. There is no need for the kind of screechy propaganda they often turn into.
