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** Rhode Island School District Sued for Anti-White Racism
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** “White teachers are not eligible.”
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By Sara Dogan

A lawsuit recently filed by the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) and Providence Public School District (PPSD) violated federal law by establishing a loan forgiveness program that is open to every ethnicity—except whites.

Perhaps the name of the program—“Educators of Color Loan Forgiveness Program”— ought to have been a clue that it was incentivizing illegal discrimination.

“Through PPSD’s ‘Educators of Color Loan Forgiveness Program’ (Program), new teachers can receive student-loan repayments up to $25,000,” describes the lawsuit ([link removed]) . “The catch: white teachers are not eligible.”

The program was established in 2021, coinciding with the era of peak wokeness in American culture, and following the ‘Summer of George Floyd.’ A press release by the Justice Department explains how the program was supposed to work:

RIDE and PPSD established the Program in 2021, in partnership with the Rhode Island Foundation (RIF), a publicly supported non-profit organization, to provide $3,175,000 in student loan forgiveness to “teachers of color” over at least five years. The Program is described as an “incentive” to “encourage teachers of color” to teach at PPSD and obliges PPSD to “recruit and retain up to 127 teachers of color” during that period. Under the Program, “Teachers of color” includes teachers “who identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, and/or 2 or more races” and excludes only white teachers.

Those individuals who met the program’s racial criteria received substantial financial rewards. “Newly hired teachers of color accepted into the Program receive student loan repayment of up to $25,000 in their first three years teaching in PPSD,” states the Justice Department’s lawsuit. Only “‘New teachers of color’ with a minimum of $5,000 in student loans were eligible for the loan repayment program.”

The racially discriminatory program raised red flags from the start. The Biden administration just refused to heed them.

Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson founded the Equal Protection Project (EPP), a project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, to take on precisely these sorts of cases. The project “is devoted to the fair treatment of all persons without regard to race or ethnicity,” states its website ([link removed]) . “Our guiding principle is that there is no ‘good’ form of racism. The remedy for racism never is more racism.”

EPP filed a civil rights complaint about the program way back in 2022, but with the Biden administration’s DEI circus calling the shots, the program’s obvious and illegal discrimination went unchallenged until this year when the Trump Justice Department took up the case.

“By its own terms, the purpose of the Program is to aid PPSD’s efforts to recruit a more ‘diverse’ faculty,” the Justice Department’s suit states. “But in doing so, RIDE and PPSD engage in blatant race discrimination, which federal law has long prohibited.”

Speaking with The College Fix, Jacobson expressed ([link removed]) that he was “thrilled that the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit in federal court for race, color, and national origin discrimination at the Providence Public School District (PPSD).” He added that the program was “plainly racist,” and that he can’t imagine “any legal defense the school district and State have” to continue it.

“While assisting new teachers in paying off their student loans may be a worthy cause, such a benefit of employment simply cannot be granted or withheld on the basis of the teachers’ race,” commented Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “We will not tolerate such plainly prohibited discrimination in employment.”

Meanwhile, Providence Public School District is refusing to comment, citing “active litigation” and the webpage detailing the program has been removed (an archive may be found here ([link removed]) ).

Now that the Trump administration is in charge, the magnitude of the illegal DEI programs and racially discriminatory scholarships allowed to proliferate during the Biden years is becoming apparent. And it is massive indeed. The Equal Protection Project cites numerous such cases on its website, and it’s not hard to see what they have in common.

“Girl Boss Business Programs” at Fordham University operates initiatives that “by design and promotion, are intended for women and signal that men are not welcome as full and equal participants.”

The Claremont Colleges in California are cited “for offering, promoting, and administering one or more discriminatory scholarships and programs based on race, color, national origin, sex, or both, in violation of Title VI and Title IX, respectively.”

The University of Michigan offers a “Dreamer Scholarship” that is “open only to DACA/undocumented students in violation of Title VI”—legal U.S. citizens need not apply.

The Ithaca City School District (ICSD) desegregated its “Student of Color United (SOCU) Summit 2024” only after an EPP complaint “detailed substantial evidence that for 2021-2023, the SOCU Summits were limited to students and staff ‘of color’ and that the 2024 Summit promoted the same racial exclusion.”

For decades, programs and initiatives that violate federal civil rights law were allowed to flourish because they promoted the ‘right’ sort of discrimination. It is only now that Trump’s Justice Department is taking a principled stand against racism and sexism that we can see just how far this woke cancer has spread.

By Sara Dogan

One of the foremost principles of higher education is the pursuit of the truth through free and open discourse, no matter where it may lead. Yet over the past several decades, few places in America have become more hostile to free speech than our universities. These institutions of higher education have often lived up to their ivory tower reputation, becoming cloistered echo chambers of leftist thought where voicing a dissenting view is cause for abrupt dismissal or being hauled before a disciplinary board and sentenced to reeducation.

The last year has brought an apparent shift in these attitudes. In the wake of rising anti-Semitism and the pro-Hamas campus rallies and occupations that were sparked by the terror group’s October 7 massacre, university administrators seem to have had a sudden change of heart. Free speech, once considered suspect, is now declared to be of paramount importance to the healthy functioning of a university, even—or perhaps especially—when the group being targeted by it is Jews.

In defending Penn’s hosting of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, which featured multiple speakers well-known for their anti-Semitism, Former Penn President Liz Magill released a statement naming free expression as one of the university’s foremost values. “We unequivocally – and emphatically – condemn antisemitism as antithetical to our institutional values,” she wrote. “As a university, we also fiercely support the free exchange of ideas as central to our educational mission. This includes the expression of views that are controversial and even those that are incompatible with our institutional values.”

Columbia University’s former president Minouche Shafik, who resigned following her failure to rein in pro-Hamas demonstrations on campus, similarly pledged that the university administration “are committed to academic freedom and to ensuring that all members of our community have the right to speak their minds” and argued before Congress that “We believe we can confront antisemitism and provide a safe campus environment for our community while simultaneously supporting rigorous academic exploration and freedom.”

Responding to pro-Hamas protests on campus, the University of Louisville’s former President Kim Schatzel described why they must be permitted to continue, saying, ([link removed]) “The answer is that as a public university, the University of Louisville’s restrictions on such speech—no matter how offensive the content—would constitute a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution that protects free speech…”

These sentiments might forecast a step in the right direction—if only they were consistent. But at far too many campuses, the same administrators that have defended the free speech rights of Jew-haters, Hamas supporters, or radical gender activists have blatantly failed to secure the same rights for those with opposing views.

It is time that we hold these university administrators to account for their double standards in protecting free speech on campus and withdraw federal funding from those who do not immediately rectify this duplicity.

The following report names the most egregious perpetrators of these double standards in free expression as Ivory Tower Hypocrites. These are universities whose leaders have permitted woke leftist activists, including those affiliated with the terrorist group Hamas, to run roughshod over campus rules and violate codes of conduct—not to mention moral decency—with impunity, while failing to extend even basic free speech protections to students and faculty with opposing views. The rule of the mob has no place in academia.

We call on the universities implicated in this report to take immediate action to review and standardize their policies on free expression to protect all viewpoints equally and to further institute harsh penalties for those who disrupt organized events or speakers. We further call on all alumni of these universities to withhold any further donations until they have been sufficiently convinced that these severe defects in equal protection have been remedied. And we urge President Trump and Congress to investigate these clear violations of federal law and withhold funding to those universities who fail to uphold equal standards in protecting free speech.

#1: University of California-Los Angeles
#2: Columbia University
#3: University of Pennsylvania
#4: Georgetown University
#5: University of Louisville
#6: Wake Forest University
#7: University of Nevada-Las Vegas
#8: University of Illinois-Chicago
#9: George Mason University
#10: University of Washington

Read the full report HERE ([link removed]) .

The Top Ten Jew-Hating Academic Departments in American Universities

#1: San Francisco State University, College of Ethnic Studies

#2: University of California-Santa Cruz, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department

#3: Columbia University, Center for Palestine Studies

#4: University of Pennsylvania, Middle East Center

#5: University of Minnesota, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

#6: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies

#7: University of Colorado-Boulder, Ethnic Studies Department

#8: University of Maryland-College Park, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

#9: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Department of Latina/Latino Studies

#10: Northwestern University, Asian American Studies Program

Introduction:

Ever since October 7^th, 2023, when Hamas launched its barbaric attack on innocent Israeli civilians—slaughtering over a thousand innocent people, raping and mutilating women, massacring children and the elderly for kicks—the world has borne witness to the atrocious Jew hatred housed in our most prestigious colleges and universities.

Across the nation, on nearly every major university campus, students took to the streets—not to decry Hamas’s brutality but to applaud it as a valid act of “resistance” against their “colonial oppressors.” Chanting genocidal slogans—“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “Intifada, Intifada,” “Resistance is Justified, When People are Occupied”—these students, often accompanied by faculty, cheered for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state.

The revelation that American campuses are hotspots of Jew hatred may seem sudden for some, but in truth this hatred and prejudice has been percolating for many years, aided and abetted by the universities themselves. For the past two decades, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has shone a rare spotlight on the genocidal Jew hatred emanating from our college campuses and raised the alarm. Now, the world at large is witnessing how much ground we have already given up in this fight.

In the midst of this turmoil, the presidents of our major universities have found themselves trapped by their own complicity, forced to condemn the undeniable Jew hatred that roils their campuses while attempting to obscure their own role in abetting it.

As the Freedom Center has relentlessly documented, American universities have played an undeniable role in funding and providing a veneer of legitimacy to anti-Semitic student organizations like the Hamas-funded Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Students Association. What has received less attention—but should in fact be highlighted as American universities’ worst offense—is the Jew hatred promoted by official departments and institutes of the universities themselves.

Millions of dollars in both public and private money is funneled into academic departments and centers, housed at America’s most prestigious universities. These official organs of the university actively promote Jew hatred, glorify in Hamas’s violence against Israeli civilians, and spread genocidal lies about Israel being an “apartheid” and “settler-colonialist” state. They invite speakers and host conferences whose entire purpose is to cast aspersions on the Jews and their homeland of Israel.

Whole academic departments and institutes, under the official auspices of their prestigious universities, violate every principle of academic integrity to cast their lot with the barbaric Hamas terrorists in order to bring about the destruction of Israel—all while the presidents of those same universities declare themselves horrified by growing anti-Semitism on campus. They fuel the atrocious Jew hatred that has overtaken both students and faculty on campus and turned the halls of academia into training grounds for the next generation of jihadists.

The following report will expose the blatant hypocrisy of American universities and their leaders, who express horror at the outbreak of anti-Semitism on campus yet spend millions funding academic centers and departments which actively promote that same Jew hatred.

We call on the universities implicated in this report to take immediate action to discipline these academic centers and departments which openly defy university policy to promote Jew hatred. If they should fail to do so, we urge Congress to withhold all federal funding until they eliminate this cancer in their midst.

Read the full report HERE. ([link removed])

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