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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:31 PM Sep 2020

White House memo calls for ban on federal agency training that suggests U.S. is racist

Labeling it "propaganda," President Donald Trump took aim on Friday at employee training at federal agencies on topics that include "white privilege" and "critical race theory."

"It has come to the President's attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date 'training' government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda," states a memo released Friday by Office of Management and Budget, which was sent to the heads of federal agencies.

They were ordered to stop funding any such lessons.

Written by the office's director, Russell Vought, it denounces training that frames the United States as historically racist and white people as beneficiaries of racism.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-memo-calls-for-ban-on-federal-agency-training-that-suggests-u-s-is-racist/ar-BB18JZe0?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

While one may not be racist themselves one would have to be in major denial to think that white people have not benefitted from racism in this country.

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White House memo calls for ban on federal agency training that suggests U.S. is racist (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
"Suggests U.S. is racist"?!?! abqtommy Sep 2020 #1
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