Way too late, the was confirmed a long way back.
More recent proof (6/5) that McMahon has no business running DOE;
Linda McMahon unsure if teaching Black history flouts Trump’s anti-DEI policy
Linda McMahon, the education secretary, said on Wednesday she was unsure if teaching students about two of the most notorious racist episodes in US history would fall foul of the Trump administration’s onslaught against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Testifying before the House of Representatives’ education and workforce subcommittee, McMahon appeared uncertain of her facts when confronted by Summer Lee, a Democratic representative from Pennsylvania. Lee asked her about the 1921
Tulsa race massacre and
Ruby Bridges, a civil rights workers who as a six-year-old, braved a screaming mob to become the first Black child to attend a previously all-white school.
The exchange occurred after Lee asked her if teaching an African American history course would breach the administration’s anti-DEI policies.
“I do not think that African studies or Middle East studies or Chinese studies are part of DEI if they are taught as part of the total history package,” she said. “
So that if you’re giving the facts on both sides, of course they’re not DEI.”
Lee said she was unsure what both sides of a Black history course would be and raised the questions about Tulsa and Bridges, prompting McMahon to respond that she would “look into them”.
That in turn led to Lee asking: “Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?” McMahon replied: “I’d like to look into it more.”
McMahon also
clashed with the Democratic representative Mark Takano when he challenged her about “viewpoint diversity” at Harvard, a principle the administration says it wants to enforce to counteract supposed liberal bias.
“Does refusing to hire a Holocaust denier as a member of Harvard’s history department faculty count as an ideological limit test?” Takano asked.
Replying, McMahon said: “
I believe that there should be diversity of viewpoints relative to teachings and opinions on campuses.”
Education secretary said ‘if you’re giving facts on both sides’ of Tulsa race massacre and Ruby Bridges, it wouldn’t be DEI
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