It appears there’s no finish to the racism underpinning the Trump administration beneath President Donald Trump, which often trumpets its efforts at remaking the federal authorities within the picture of a Jim Crow, Nineteen Fifties-era America.
And sooner or later, critics contend, the racist and bigoted actions will not be solely concerning the white energy message, but additionally about stoking manufactured outrage to maintain the nation as politically divided as potential whereas diverting consideration from the rampant corruption of Trump, his household and his billionaire buddies.
Such is the background of the newest spherical of backlash in response to what opponents name a racist social media publish by the Division of Schooling.
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The division posted a photograph from Nationwide Geographic exhibiting a classroom stuffed with white youngsters from 1959 reciting the pledge of allegiance with the caption, “MAKE EDUCATION GREAT AGAIN.”
The implication and message the division is sending out with the publish is obvious, and it didn’t take lengthy for social media to erupt in anger and disbelief.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom was one of many first out of the gate, utilizing simply two phrases to sentence the company, drive dwelling a transparent and direct counter message, and identify it.
“WHITE NATIONALISM?”
This poster blasted the division, which is led by former professional wrestling government Linda McMahon, “Why are you revering a clearly racially segregated time & classroom? What’s fallacious with you??”
One other person referred to as it out for what it’s.
“This shameless propaganda focusing on mockingly uneducated white r-tards makes use of a 1959 picture from a virginia classroom throughout a interval the place the state was nonetheless actively contravening the brown choice on desegregation of faculties.. so yeah, maga can eat sh-t.”
This X person bluntly identified what the division was actually attempting to say with the message.
“This publish does three issues: 1. Promotes anti-Americanism 2. Implicitly implies it’s by some means fallacious or immoral to imagine America ought to stay a predominantly White nation (btw I believed White erasure was a fable) 3. Conversely implies we live beneath non-White nationalism.”
From eradicating Black and girls’s historical past from the Pentagon and army annals to whitewashing American historical past on a wider scale, together with scrubbing range from museums and taking down historic markers on slavery and the Native American journey from Nationwide Parks and different federal buildings, the Trump administration is working laborious and quick to destroy the nation’s wealthy and various historical past and change it with solely white male accomplishments.
All of this, which continues to be underway, follows certainly one of Trump’s first government orders in January of 2025, ordering the elimination of Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) packages, places of work, and coaching throughout the federal authorities. Trump then used a canine whistle when demanding that the so-called “merit-based insurance policies” change DEI initiatives.
