Posted on 04/28/2021 3:50:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A pair of Republican congressmen are calling on the Department of Education to reconsider spending federal dollars to promote critical race theory in civics and history classes across the country.
In a letter (pdf) to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Reps. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) and Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) said they have “deep concern” about a newly proposed priority criteria for a $5.3 million American History and Civics Education grant. Under the new rule (pdf), the grant will prioritize education programs that incorporate the ideas of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi into their teaching.
“Students should learn about the uniqueness and greatness of the American systems and the challenges we have overcome as a nation,” the letter reads in part. “It is therefore counterproductive and even dangerous to allow our vulnerable school children to be taught the falsehoods prevalent in the 1619 Project or in Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘How to Be an Anti-Racist.'”
Kendi’s work, according to the congressmen, is antithetical to the American Dream, which has “drawn millions of individuals to America’s shores and created the most prosperous nation in human history.” They also pointed out that the 1619 Project is “a racially divisive, revisionist account of history” that, as its name suggests, is in fundamental opposition to the true founding date of the United States in 1776.
The congressmen added that while they believe students should be taught about the negative consequences of slavery and the significant contributions of the black community in U.S. history, schools should not promote critical race theory, an ideology that undermines America’s founding ideals.
“Simply put, the teachings of Critical Race Theory want to reject the principles established in our Constitution and our individual God-given rights, and instead divide individuals into competing racial identity groups while doing...
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Time for separation of school and state.
The Republican Party can’t find their penis to shake at anybody. What a crock of feces.
GOP is feckless
It’s just your standard Democrat brainwashing of children like when Obama traveled the first place he would go was a school
At least they helped get rid of trump.....
The Idaho gov just signed a bill keeping that garbage out of Idaho schools.
Time for separation from the fed.
County by county.
They should let him go ahead - parents will vote for the GOP en masse.
😂😂😂😂 They’ll get an invite behind the gym if they ain’t careful. Pull back in 3..., 2...
GOP is feckless
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They whine and complain but don’t fight. The conservative agenda will never advance under the GOP.
Do these clowns really believe this feckless response to Biden is going to impress anybody? One of the best signals they could have sent was removing Cheney from leadership, but they all buckled to party pressure. The best thing conservatives can do at this point is move to a red state to support the inevitable fracture of the republic.
That they did. The GOP desperately wanted to get rid of Trump. Its one of the few things they have ever succeeded at.
Agree. There is no coexisting with people who want total control over you.
The Republican Leadership betrayed their supporters in the 2020 election. Voting no longer matters if you have not figured that out. The elections are rigged.
This is why the Democrats are showing their true colors. They have nothing to fear. The cowardly Recucklicans will do nothing about it because they have sold out. Not all of them of course, but enough to do critical damage.
CRT should be viewed as nothing less than an attack on the United States, Constitution, and the Country’s children.
Are they going to write an angry letter?
If this means the end of government schools, then I’m all for it. It’s not just critical race theory. The public schools are indoctrinating kids in all the left’s ideas.
Ohno, a strongly worded letter! They must be quaking in their boots.
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