Trump administration bars race relations training because it's "divisive" and "un-American"

[StarfishSaver]

White House plans to bar federal agencies from race-related training sessions it calls ‘Un-American’

President Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies’ racial sensitivity trainings, casting some of them “divisive” and “un-American,” according to a memo by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

In the two-page memo, OMB Director Russell Vought says that Trump has asked him to prevent federal agencies from spending millions in taxpayer dollars on these training sessions. Vought says OMB will instruct federal agencies to come up with a list of all contracts related to trainings involving “white privilege“ or “critical race theory,” the memo states.

The memo was released on Friday.

It also tells all federal agencies to identify all methods possible to cancel contracts that involve teaching that America is an “inherently racist or evil country.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/04/white-house-racial-sensitivity-training/

Next time anyone here complains that anyone on DU is being "divisive" because we bring up white privilege, I'll remind them that Donald Trump agrees with them ...

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. For a long time I didnt DARE use the word "white" in connection with anything negative

in certain places...if you know what I mean.

[safeinOhio]

2. Ain't no black and white, it's all gray.

They don’t need Social Science. They know everything.

[StarfishSaver]

3. This is also a back-handed way to get rid of numerous minority- and women-owned contractors

Diversity training is one of the few areas that minority- and women-owned have a significant opportunities for government contractors, many of who rely on the federal government for a large portion - if not all - of their business. This is clearly a backdoor way to cancel those contracts, which will have a huge negative impact on these businesses.