Posted on 08/11/2021 5:32:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Senate on Tuesday passed an amendment that bans federal tax dollars from being used to promote or teach critical race theory (CRT), a quasi-Marxist ideology, in schools.
The amendment, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), was included in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation budget package. Last month, the Arkansas senator introduced the Stop CRT Act to prevent federal funds from being funneled to teach the theory in public schools.
CRT ideologues, Cotton said on the Senate floor, “want to teach our children that America is not a good nation but a racist nation,” adding: “Those teachings are wrong and our tax dollars should not support them.”
“My amendment will ensure that federal funds aren’t used to indoctrinate children as young as pre-K to hate America,” Cotton further stated. “Our future depends on the next generation of kids loving America and loving each other as fellow citizens, no matter their race.”
All Republicans and one Democrat voted in favor of Cotton’s amendment, passing 51–49 in the upper chamber. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), whose home state of West Virginia voted heavily in favor of former President Donald Trump, was the lone Democrat senator to join the GOP.
There has been fierce debate over whether CRT or similar initiatives—including the New York Times’ “1619 Project” or diversity, equity, and inclusion training—should be taught to schoolchildren. Parents across the United States have held protests against school boards that have increasingly started to promote CRT or CRT-aligned viewpoints in class.
Meanwhile, some media outlets and pundits have claimed that CRT is only taught in higher education settings, such as in colleges and universities, and isn’t being widely adopted by teachers.
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This is good news. It will be contested, but Tom Cotton’s ammendment sends a strong message.
This may be a good poison pill to kill the bill.
The whole Bill is Bunk.
Cotton has really done nothing but support the end of the USA.
No country on earth has a more diverse melting pot of different races than America
RE: Cotton has really done nothing but support the end of the USA.
Supposed you were the Senator, what would you have done instead?
I am sad to say that I agree that system/institutional racism does indeed exist in the USA, and its name is “affirmative action.”
Straight, white males are the only people it is legal to discriminate against, and discrimination against them is required by law.
Stood up and railed and railed against the whole travesty.
It’s a pimple on a gaping chest wound.
Beat Ditch to a pulp with a buggy whip?
Is the CRT ammendment cover for repubs to vote for the 3.5 T albatross??
Nope
It was bait
IE an easy concession for the dems
RE: Stood up and railed and railed against the whole travesty.
And what good will that do to stop CRT?
Is Cotton’s amendment going to stand?
RE: Is Cotton’s amendment going to stand?
Better to try something than do nothing. At least with this, we have a majority that works to stop it.
Barely avoiding funding more Marxism isn’t a huge win. It’s something, but damn that Overton window is pushed way over to the left.
I’m going to call Kabuki.
A short time will tell.
And how did Sen Krysten Sinema vote? I can’t find that anywhere. Was she the one who skipped?
No she voted with the Rats on the budget .
The AZ Lesbo is a LIAR and did a Joe M PR lie ..
China Mitch did what he was ordered to by the CCP and Chamber of Crony Capitalist.
The all want AMNESTY FOR 30 MILLION .
The Kill the GOP Budget .
Will it knock it out of the military academies?
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