Schools are about to take a turn for the worse. Liberals are trying to dominate the field of academia, so much so, that conservatives are becoming a rarity- at least for the ones willing to speak up. They even want a diversity statement in resumes so that they will be able to filter out less progressive applicants. But now the Biden Administration is trying to make schools more woke so of course, they are pushing for divisive race theories in schools.
“The woke revolution in the classroom is about to go federal. In an early but revelatory move, President Biden’s Department of Education has signaled its intent to impose the most radical forms of Critical Race Theory on America’s schools, very much including the 1619 Project and the so-called anti-racism of Ibram X. Kendi. (Kendi’s “anti-racism” — which advocates a massive and indefinite expansion of reverse discrimination — is more like neo-racism.) Biden is obviously co-opting conservatives’ interest in reviving traditional U.S. history and civics to deliver its perfect opposite — federal imposition of the very ideas conservatives aim to combat.
Biden’s Department of Education has just released the text of a proposed new rule establishing priorities for grants in American History and Civics Education programs. That rule gives priority to grant “projects that incorporate racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives.” The rule goes on to cite and praise the New York Times’ “landmark” 1619 Project, as well as the work of Critical Race Theorist Kendi, as leading examples of the sort of ideas the Biden administration wants to spread.
The programs immediately targeted by Biden’s new priority criteria for American history and civics grants are small. Once in place, however, those criteria will undoubtedly influence the much larger and vastly more dangerous “Civics Secures Democracy Act.” That bill would appropriate $1 billion a year, for six years, for history and civic education. Support for leftist “action civics” is already written into the priority criteria of the bill itself. I have argued that additional anodyne-sounding priority criteria in the Civics Secures Democracy Act — criteria favoring grants targeted to “underserved” populations and the mitigation of various racial, ethnic, and linguistic achievement gaps — would be interpreted by the Biden administration as a green light to fund Critical Race Theory in the schools. The new draft federal rule for grant priority in American history and civics education makes it clear that this is indeed the Biden administration’s intent.”
The 1619 project “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.” They are saying slaves were the key to making America. Kendi on the other hand just believes America is very much racist against black people and feels if you think otherwise you are in denial. So basically the Biden Administration wants to change history to make black people the backbone of the country, crucial to our development, and push the notion that America is racist to the core…
There is nothing wrong with teaching the atrocities of history, as we are supposed to learn from our past. But pushing the notion that slavery was the key to America is wrong. We would have developed the same without slavery, it just would have taken longer. Kendi’s beliefs are divisive. He may be upset about the many racist times in our past but America is far better now. Anyone can succeed here in America regardless of their skin tone. Pushing division or reverse racism does by no means help our country, but it appears that’s the Biden Administration’s goal.
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