In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed, marking the legal end to Jim Crow in the USA. Its Title VI banned discrimination by race among any institution that receives Federal funds.
On Friday, the Acting head of the Ed Dept sent out this letter to all 50 states:
https://www.ed.gov/media/document/dear-colleague-letter-sffa-v-harvard-109506.pdf
On Friday, the Acting head of the Ed Dept sent out this letter to all 50 states:
https://www.ed.gov/media/document/dear-colleague-letter-sffa-v-harvard-109506.pdf
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The irony: those favoring race based discrimination often deny race exists, with a "social construct" argument.
1) Fed. guaranteed loans
2) Fed. grants
-- But for 1 and 2, college profs and staff would be paid like any other professional. Market price. No tenure.
-- Most college degrees are not worth the paper they're printed on.
As if that were necessary, as if nearly every aspect of American life does not already serve whiteness, whiteness and money.
if we dont pour out onto the streets, these fascists are going to resegregate this country!
There are two special elections to be held on April 1, 2025 in Florida.
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FL6 - https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jweilfl6
NY21 will hold a special election but, when is unclear
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STOP THE BELLINI MUSSOLINI!
there is your will
When its time to vacate
your will remains
Its easy to care to love
much harder
To love to care.
When Trump’s policies
Bald-faced inequality in loss of jobs and housing will cause civil unrest. And Trump will declare martial
Exhorting each other to protest peacefully won’t work. Simply assembling in large numbers will be declared militant. We’ll be imprisoned. We’ll be deported. We’ll never be heard from again.
segregation by race at graduation ceremonies and in dormitories and other facilities.”
Despite the VRA having a section explicitly saying disparate impact can be grounds for a lawsuit. Simply eliminated.
tell the real story. Whatever we have to do, we do. The lessons can teach us the appropriateness of both pride and shame. And give us strength.
https://www.americanoceans.org/facts/middle-passage-sharks/
So we are now going to punish schools for talking about actual history that happened?
This is classic authoritarian behavior; trying to scare academia away from teaching "inconvenient truths". It's Cold War hysteria redux, now with teachers afraid to answer questions about history and gender
This is doubly true if you live in a red state.
Then again, I'm always reminded that we are not a nation but a business....
Start with your PTA.
It sounds silly, but if you ever pissed off a PTA mom or dad, you know what I’m talking about.
makes me wonder what else are nebulous concepts…
morality?
fairness?
justice?
Maaaybe what you need in 2025 ins an UNcivil rights act.
Perhaps something giving the populace at large the right to haul corrupt swine out into the streets and execute them in creative ways, maybe featuring pots of thermite placed on their pelvises to the enjoyment of the crowds?
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The people who renamed the Washington Redskins and took aunt Jemima off the syrup bottles refuse to call it “the gulf of America.”
This is something a grown adult with the capacity for logic actually said.
“When history offends, it will be rewritten. When facts inconvenience, they will be denied. And when truth threatens, it will be erased.”
Not on my watch.
Ms McMahon was asked if after school clubs that are focused on special subgroups, such as an Asian/American club would be able to exist. She refused to answer.
Similar to the photo of the president with all the little girls after the EO to protect girls in sports.
It's like we're living in an alternate reality.
Horseshit shoveled to the masses, dare anyone to challenge it and just like that it becomes policy.
History, reality and commonsense are the enemy of the state.
Keep 'em stupid and unquestioning.
#TrumpsAmerica
1. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-doge-neo-apartheid/
2. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/
/Title 9. Correct me if I'm wrong
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Jokes on them, I’m going to hell for shit thats way more fun than what they said I was .
1. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-doge-neo-apartheid/
2. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/
I had to litterally read between the lines on that one!
As I read my mind screamed "holy crap!"
I predict it will be an over representation of Asian students.
Not the increase in white male students they expect.
He didn’t vote on it at all: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/100-1988/s432
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/100-1988/s487
It’s really weird watching this happen as a middle age white guy. How do you give up the privilege you never asked for.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/600/20-1199/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/us/edward-blum-affirmative-action-race.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
That not until we accept that can we honestly move forward.
Nazi America.
This dystopia of the unempathetic populist is really giving Orwell a run for his money.
But thank 🙏 you for reporting so clearly what @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com and other 📰 now fail to do. Shame on them! Thank God for @npr.org 🗼 and @wunc.org.
He literally cites a NYTimes article in describing the movement to end affirmative action.
https://bsky.app/profile/petersagal.bsky.social/post/3liccgotvcs22