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Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day

TU Curmudgeon

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From CNN

Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day​

Washington (CNN)A commission stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US issued its inflammatory report on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Trump announced that he was establishing the commission last fall, following a slew of Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the country. He blamed the school curriculum for violence that resulted from some of the protests, saying that "the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools."

The commission is an apparent counter to The New York Times' 1619 Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning project aimed at teaching American students about slavery. Trump, speaking last fall, called the project "toxic propaganda."

A sitting US president typically has the power to dissolve existing presidential commissions and advisory councils, which sometimes provide reports and recommendations to the White House.
It's not clear what action President-elect Joe Biden will take with the commission once he's in office.

COMMENT:-

The "optics" of issuing a report that can easily be read as "Dem No***rs iz gettin' uppity an' its time to putta stop tooit." on MLK Day aren't all that great. Tossing in "An dem Bi**hes haz gotta be slapped down, too." doesn't help.​
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From CNN

Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day​

Washington (CNN)A commission stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US issued its inflammatory report on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Trump announced that he was establishing the commission last fall, following a slew of Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the country. He blamed the school curriculum for violence that resulted from some of the protests, saying that "the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools."

The commission is an apparent counter to The New York Times' 1619 Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning project aimed at teaching American students about slavery. Trump, speaking last fall, called the project "toxic propaganda."

A sitting US president typically has the power to dissolve existing presidential commissions and advisory councils, which sometimes provide reports and recommendations to the White House.
It's not clear what action President-elect Joe Biden will take with the commission once he's in office.

COMMENT:-
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The "optics" of issuing a report that can easily be read as "Dem No***rs iz gettin' uppity an' its time to putta stop tooit." on MLK Day aren't all that great. Tossing in "An dem Bi**hes haz gotta be slapped down, too." doesn't help.​
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You have to admire the timing. Instead of going out with a bang, Trump's term in office will finish with a loud, wet fart.
 
The mischief done by the administration of President of the United States of America Donald Trump is about to end. By noon tomorrow, 1/20/2021, we will see in our mind's eye a sign hung from the White House balcony, "Under new management."

Just what that will foretell remains to be seen.

America has dodged a bullet. In the process, we've learned much about who we, the people, actually are. Some of what we've learned should raise caution flags. We, the people, are not the peaceful, suburban-house, white picket fence folks that many pundits, talking heads and talk show hosts would like us to believe we are. We are not, many of us, the thoughtful analyzers of the needs of ourselves and our nation that some rosy-glassed democratic apologists would have us, either.

We have also learned that our democracy*, such as it is, is fragile and far from perfect.

Regards, stay safe 'n well. Remember the prophylactic Big 3: masks, hand washing and physical distancing.

Reminder. I try to respond to all who quote my posts. If you do not get a response from me, it may be that you've made it onto my 'Ignore' list.

* Yes, Gotcha! Gang, I know the United States of America is a republic.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From CNN

Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day​

Washington (CNN)A commission stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US issued its inflammatory report on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Trump announced that he was establishing the commission last fall, following a slew of Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the country. He blamed the school curriculum for violence that resulted from some of the protests, saying that "the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools."

The commission is an apparent counter to The New York Times' 1619 Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning project aimed at teaching American students about slavery. Trump, speaking last fall, called the project "toxic propaganda."

A sitting US president typically has the power to dissolve existing presidential commissions and advisory councils, which sometimes provide reports and recommendations to the White House.
It's not clear what action President-elect Joe Biden will take with the commission once he's in office.

COMMENT:-
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The "optics" of issuing a report that can easily be read as "Dem No***rs iz gettin' uppity an' its time to putta stop tooit." on MLK Day aren't all that great. Tossing in "An dem Bi**hes haz gotta be slapped down, too." doesn't help.​
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It's just going to get immediately wiped out so Trump's just doing this as a giant last minute 🖕 to Biden.
 
Lol - CNN.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From CNN

Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day​

Washington (CNN)A commission stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US issued its inflammatory report on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Trump announced that he was establishing the commission last fall, following a slew of Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the country. He blamed the school curriculum for violence that resulted from some of the protests, saying that "the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools."

The commission is an apparent counter to The New York Times' 1619 Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning project aimed at teaching American students about slavery. Trump, speaking last fall, called the project "toxic propaganda."

A sitting US president typically has the power to dissolve existing presidential commissions and advisory councils, which sometimes provide reports and recommendations to the White House.
It's not clear what action President-elect Joe Biden will take with the commission once he's in office.

COMMENT:-
​
The "optics" of issuing a report that can easily be read as "Dem No***rs iz gettin' uppity an' its time to putta stop tooit." on MLK Day aren't all that great. Tossing in "An dem Bi**hes haz gotta be slapped down, too." doesn't help.​
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Kudos to President Trump's commission for having the guts to speak the brutal truth.

For the next four years (and possibly for the rest of the century), Americans will be hearing the opposite of the brutal truth.
 
MamboDervish said:
You have to admire the timing. Instead of going out with a bang, Trump's term in office will finish with a loud, wet fart.
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Now that wasn't nice. Graphic, most surely - appropriate, very likely - but nice, not at all.

Keep up the good work.
 
Torus34 said:
The mischief done by the administration of President of the United States of America Donald Trump is about to end. By noon tomorrow, 1/20/2021, we will see in our mind's eye a sign hung from the White House balcony, "Under new management."

Just what that will foretell remains to be seen.

America has dodged a bullet. In the process, we've learned much about who we, the people, actually are. Some of what we've learned should raise caution flags. We, the people, are not the peaceful, suburban-house, white picket fence folks that many pundits, talking heads and talk show hosts would like us to believe we are. We are not, many of us, the thoughtful analyzers of the needs of ourselves and our nation that some rosy-glassed democratic apologists would have us, either.

We have also learned that our democracy*, such as it is, is fragile and far from perfect.

Regards, stay safe 'n well. Remember the prophylactic Big 3: masks, hand washing and physical distancing.

Reminder. I try to respond to all who quote my posts. If you do not get a response from me, it may be that you've made it onto my 'Ignore' list.

* Yes, Gotcha! Gang, I know the United States of America is a republic.
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Here is a countdown clock for you.
 
TheParser said:
Kudos to President Trump's commission for having the guts to speak the brutal truth.

For the next four years (and possibly for the rest of the century), Americans will be hearing the opposite of the brutal truth.
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I rather suspect that you wouldn't recognize "the brutal truth" if it crept up behind you and bit you on the ass.
 
Say it louder Mr. Trump! Keep shoving that white racism down our throats so we can't keep ignoring it anymore. You only help the righteous cause with your undisguised bigotry.

"We may not remember the words of our enemies, but we will remember the silence of our friends." - MLK
 
GummyVitamins said:
I think CNN accidentally filed this article under the news section.
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Maybe, that Trump is and always has been a racist isn't exactly news to anyone by now.
 
GummyVitamins said:
I think CNN accidentally filed this article under the news section.
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And it's from the 'news' I take it that the Right gets that ridiculous rumor it clings to about Rep. Omar marrying her brother?

Roosevelt said great minds talk about ideas, average minds about events, and small minds about people. really small minds don't even know the difference between the last two, which is why we see some rags plaster Kanye's divorce plastered on the front page next to Georgia's election.

Now my two cents: as others here have commented it's another middle finger to the incoming admin from Trump's point of view; but it's also another sore spot for the Right to add to the Great Tome of Grudges it carefully assembles against everyone else. Curriculums take time to implement so Biden can undo it before it ever starts.

But in terms of white grievance, conservatives can complain for years that we wuz robbed of confederate appreciation in school textbooks and had some progressive gay blaxican Muslim agenda thrust upon them in the school curriculum. They'll pick that scab for years.
 
uptower said:
But in terms of white grievance, conservatives can complain for years that we wuz robbed of confederate appreciation in school textbooks and had some progressive gay blaxican Muslim agenda thrust upon them in the school curriculum. They'll pick that scab for years.
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The 1619 Project is fake history. It's not academically accurate. There's no rational reason to peddle fake history just because you enjoy complaining about "white grievance." History and science has nothing to do with grievance, unless your side is pushing a false narrative for some intrinsic racial benefit. The Trump administration's response is on par with the quality of information that came from the 1619 Project, yet for some reason CNN doesn't like having their false narrative being challenged.

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you don't like reading corrections to the 1619 Project and the government pushing against the idea that racial bias and misinformation should be more important than facts?
 
GummyVitamins said:
Biden is also racist by whatever standard you're using. Why isn't CNN running that story?
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Yeah, that must be why our first Black President chose him to be his running mate and why he fully supported Biden's campaign for President. :rolleyes: Biden is about as much a racist as you are a democracy loving liberal.
 
Atomic Kid said:
Yeah, that must be why our first Black President chose him to be his running mate and why he fully supported Biden campaign for President.
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He probably didn't know at the time that Biden thought that black people have a monoculture or that without Obama's support he would have had to take away his black card. Obama being separate, is there are reason you personally support an openly racist president?
 
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