Trump threatens to defund schools teaching about slavery

During today’s bizarre appearance on FOX News, Donald Trump sat on a small couch with the network’s hosts and gave a teasing response when presented with a scenario about what to do with schools that teach the reality about American history.

“Suppose you have a liberal city.” said the FOX hostBrian Kilmeade.

“Let’s say it’s Los Angeles, San Diego and they just decide… ‘Oh, we’ll get rid of… the history,'” Kilmeade posed. “We have a new story. This is America built on the backs of slaves on stolen land, and this is the curriculum that comes along.”

“We don’t send them money,” Trump replied. “We would save half our budget.”

Trump’s threat to withhold funding for schools that taught that slavery was central to American history was a part of a broader speech he made during a segment on the shutdown of the U.S. Department of Education. The former president’s promise suits into certainly one of the key policy proposals specified by Project 2025, a policy document that Trump has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of or connection to, regardless that former Trump officials were key leaders of the Project 2025 initiative.

Project 2025 aimed to reduce federal involvement in education and return control to state and native governments. “Power to the states” rhetoric has been used up to now to undermine progress on civil rights and laws, allowing states to resist change. Trump and Project 2025’s proposal to close the Department of Education would have a dramatic impact on the education landscape, especially for America’s most vulnerable students: Black and Brown students.

This can be reflected in Trump’s strategy of withholding money from schools that teach about slavery greater attacks on DEI which the previous president supported, and his view that DEI is anti-white racism.

“I believe there is a clear anti-white bias in this country and it cannot be allowed to happen” – Trump once said TIME magazine.

The Department of Education is accountable for over 50 mANDlions of scholars in 18,200 school districts across the country.

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