If a public school that receives federal funding were to teach about Black history, it might just lose its federal funding, according to Linda McMahon, who has been nominated by Idiot-in-Chief Donald Trump to serve as the next secretary of education.
During the first day of her confirmation hearings, McMahon was asked by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) about Trump’s executive order banning all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
“West Point has closed down all ethnic clubs, so the Society of Black Engineers no longer can meet because they believe that to be in compliance with this order, they cannot have groups structured around ethnic or racial affiliations,” Murphy told McMahon. “Would schools, would public schools be in violation of this order?”
“Well, I certainly today don’t want to address hypothetical situations,” McMahon responded. “I would like, once I’m confirmed, to get in and assess these programs, look at what has been covered.”
Murphy: “That’s pretty chilling. What about educational programming centered around specific ethnic and racial experiences?”
“If you’re running an African-American history class, could you perhaps be in violation of this executive order?” Murphy wondered.
“I’m not quite certain, and I’d like to look into it further and get back to you on that,” McMahon replied.
“There’s a possibility, you’re saying, that public schools that run African-American history classes, right,” Murphy noted, “could lose federal funding if they continue to teach African-American history?”
“No, that’s not what I’m saying,” McMahon remarked. “I’m saying that I would like to take a look at these programs and fully understand the breadth of the executive order and get back to you on that.”
“I think you’re gonna have a lot of educators and a lot of principals and administrators scrambling right now,” Murphy said.
Here’s another question McMahon and Trump need to answer: If they’re so damn determined to do away with the Education Department, why bother to nominate someone to lead it?
But the larger issue is what exactly is wrong with teaching about the many contributions black Americans have made to this country? Are we just supposed to pretend that only white people have done great things for the United States? And if we’re going down that road, how long will it be before the Trump administration starts sending people of color to concentration camps and gassing them?
It can’t happen here? The groundwork is already being laid for it to happen right here. So don’t claim no one warned you.