Trump Plans to Denounce Focus on Slavery, Racism in Schools

[demmiblue]

Source: Bloomberg

President Donald Trump plans to denounce school curricula that emphasize the impact of slavery and racism on American history during a roundtable discussion at the National Archives on Thursday.

“The president will deliver remarks on his administration’s efforts to promote a more balanced, accurate, and patriotic curricula in America’s schools,” the White House said in a statement.

That includes criticizing what the White House calls “the liberal indoctrination of America’s youth.” Trump is expected to explicitly fault the New York Times’ “1619 Project.” The Pulitzer-Prize winning public school curriculum developed by the newspaper orients American history from the date that the first slave ship arrived in what later became the U.S.

Trump has sought to rally his core supporters, who are disproportionately White, ahead of the November election. He trails Democrat Joe Biden in polls, and he has tried to make his demands for “law and order” amid sometimes violent national protests over racism and police brutality a central issue in the campaign.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-17/trump-plans-to-denounce-focus-on-slavery-racism-in-schools

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[jayfish]

1. This Is Going To Go Over Well.

[PatrickforO]

3. A lead balloon!!! I love it!

Yeah, we need to go the complete opposite direction with curriculum, get rid of the concerned 'christian' parents who want to teach creationism, and the Kluxers and Storm Fronters who want to give equal time to Jefferson Davis.

We also need to seriously beef up civics, rhetoric and debate classes, as well as geography and REAL history. Do that, ensure everyone who wants can vote, get rid of the electoral college and we will have our republic back -

Well, Biden has said he wants to build back better. Here's a great opportunity.

[jayfish]

8. It's Been Bad For Decades.

Civics/Government was a required class while I was in high-school in the 80's. ...a semester of it. I got more out of Schoolhouse Rock.

[ArizonaLib]

16. In 1986 civics was gone and my economics class was titled 'Free Enterprise'

I was a Senior in high school and the Reagan revolution had taken. I was in 6th grade in 1980-81 and from then all through high school I was never required to learn the preamble, etc. My parents were both required, as well as my aunts and uncles. It is harder for them to dictate social studies standards because so much text comes from online texts. Most of our textbooks were published in Texas.

[groundloop]

10. I love your ideas, but doubt that we'll ever rid ourselves of the electoral college

I'm afraid that albatross will hang around our necks forever. Small, right wing states, as we know, have a disproportionate amount of power in choosing a President thanks to the electoral college. They'll never in a million years vote to give that up.

The electoral college gives a 2 to 3 percentage point advantage to GOPers, and we've seen the results of that with Bush and tRump. That's a pretty significant disadvantage for Democrats, and it will keep this country tilted far more to the right than what the majority of people favor.

[PatrickforO]

22. Look into the National Popular Vote initiative.

We know we'll never overturn the Amendment that provides for the Electoral College because as you say, the little states will never ratify.

However..........the NPV initiative has been passed by a number of state legislatures. Basically, since each state manages its own elections, this legislation, if passed by a state legislature and signed by that state's governor, requires the 'electors' from the state to vote according to the national popular vote.

If you think it through, the net result is one-person-one-vote. Everybody's vote counts equally, and the Electoral College is permanently circumvented.

Here's a link: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation

[amcgrath]

2. He announces this

In the week when it’s announced that two thirds of students don’t know about the Holocaust.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Wasn't he recently bragging about his support among African-Americans?

But this move seems to cater to his white right-wing supporters

[groundloop]

5. Well, today didn't disappoint me..... it gave me another reason to hate tRump more than yesterday

What a vile piece of shit, we can't simply sweep that ugly part of our past under the rug and hope that nobody notices.

[Joe Nation]

6. Red meat for the racists

Pretty much sums it up.

[abqtommy]

7. Denounce tRUMP, not the focus on slavery/racism!

[llashram]

9. such an openly racist pig

he is just losing votes with BS like this and getting his militia's, National Guards, so far, agitiated enough to take matters(us libruls) into their Red State hands after his defeat in November. Blue State, Red State this time instead of the Blue nd the Gray? This is typical dictator wannabe shit in trying a serious rewriting of ameriKKKan history from the lead racist in america trump.

[raging moderate]

11. WE should be yelling LAW AND ORDER! WE should be yelling USA! USA!

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The right wing has broken more law and disrupted more order than the left wing, and violated more of the United States Constitution! We should be yelling USA! USA! LAW AND ORDER! LAW AND ORDER! LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALLLLL! Emphasize the LLLLL in the word ALL; when I was working in the schools in little right-wing towns, it was disturbing how many of the students seemed to be pledging allegiance to a country with "liberty and justice for US!"

[llashram]

20. this

times10

[jaxexpat]

12. At first I thought your headline was, "Trump plans to denounce slavery and racism."

I thought, this doesn't sound right.

But now I get it.

Blaming slaves and their descendants for the tragedies of their multi-generational interaction with the progeny of their former owners is exactly in line with the Trump I know. As is pushing a plan for "law and order" in which the only logical way it provides it's promise is by a targeted re-enslaving of people. Man, slave owners are soooo predictable.

[Bengus81]

13. Use this as a talking point at the debates.

[IronLionZion]

14. Because you can't erase history...

These assholes want to literally erase history from schools, textbooks, libraries, etc. Why not have a good old fashioned Nazi book burning

[ashredux]

15. Totally unnecessary, for he has all the Klan votes

[Chakaconcarne]

17. This is idiotic... and based on Barr's recent (unrelated) comments....

this close to an election tells me they have the election in the bag......

[Botany]

18. Running for President of the Confederate States of America?

The man will be beaten soundly in almost every demographic except w/uneducated
white racists educated racists, and some really rich white people.

[donte]

19. Trump doesn't want to talk about the effect of slavery and racism in our country

I wonder how the blacks for Trump coalition feels about this?

[maxsolomon]

21. Ugh, there IS NOT a focus on Slavery & Racism in the current curriculum.

That's what the 1619 project is meant to address, and it doesn't even touch on the genocide of Native peoples, or discrimination against immigrants. It's not "Liberal Indoctrination", it is FACTS to correct the flag-waving Jingoism of current history education.

It is still possible to be honest about America's past AND still be patriotic, but that would mean letting go of Binary Thinking, and that is never to the GOP's advantage.