GOVERNOR DESANTIS WILL END CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN FLORIDA SCHOOLS
Governor Ron DeSantis denounced Critical Race Theory (CRT) at a press conference Friday. DeSantis said CRT needs to be addressed by the Florida Board of Education at a press conference in Pensacola he held to announce a series of tax breaks for consumers. The governor said that it is offensive to the taxpayers to fund a program that teaches children to hate each other and their country.
“You can put lipstick on a pig and it’s still a pig,” DeSantis said about CRT. “It’s offensive to the taxpayer that they would be asked to fund critical race theory, that they would be asked to fund teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other,” DeSantis said.
CRT teaches students that race is socially constructed, and that racism is embedded within American institutions and public policy, according to the American Bar Association. CRT is based on false history that is disputed by historians, DeSantis said.
“It’s also based on false history when they try to look back and denigrate the founding fathers, denigrate the American revolution, doing all these different things that even very liberal historians say is not supported by the facts.”
DeSantis said that civics and the Constitution need to be a part of the curriculum and that accurate history needs to be taught. He said the state of Florida will play “whack-a-mole” to prevent CRT from being a part of a child’s education.
“It [the school curriculum] needs to be taught in a fact-based way, not in an ideological based way. If we have to play whack-a- mole all over this state stopping this CRT, we will do it,” he said.
“We will be taking action, don’t worry.” The governor banned CRT from Florida schools and announced that his administration will spend $106 million to fund civics education titled the Florida Civic Seal of Excellence in March. Teachers are promised to earn a $3,000 bonus for completing the training.
The Florida Board of Education plans to meet on June 10 where CRT will be addressed.
TRUMP'S 1776 COMMISSION MEETING DESPITE BIDEN ABOLITION
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By Charles Kim
Former President Donald Trump's 1776 Advisory Commission, charged with developing a more patriotic education curriculum, plans to continue meeting in Washington next week despite being abolished by President Joe Biden, the Washington Examiner reported Friday.
Trump created the commission to counter teaching critical race theory and curriculum pieces like The New York Times' 1619 Project in the nation's schools.
The commission's Executive Director, Matthew Spalding, told the Examiner that the commission still sees itself in a ''major role'' in the debate over how to teach American History in public and private schools.
''[The] 1776 Commission — comprised of some of America's most distinguished scholars and historians — has released a report presenting a definitive chronicle of the American founding, a powerful description of the effect the principles of the Declaration of Independence have had on this Nation's history, and a dispositive rebuttal of reckless 're-education' attempts that seek to reframe American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country but an evil one,'' a statement from the last days of the Trump White House said.
In its report from January, the commission said that America has always been evolving to reach the pinnacles of the founding documents and striving — albeit not perfectly — to live up to those principles.
''As we approach the 250th anniversary of our independence, we must resolve to teach future generations of Americans an accurate history of our country so that we all learn and cherish our founding principles once again,'' the commission's report concluded.
This contrasts with The 1619 Project, sponsored by the Times, that concludes the nation was founded more on the slavery trade and the evils associated with capitalism rather than an honest attempt to make all its citizens equal under the law.
''The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery,'' said a description of the project on the Times website. ''It aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.''
The curriculum based on the Times project, and currently being debated by school boards and education organizations throughout the country, aligns with an older concept known as critical race theory that posits racism as a social construct through public organizations and institutions as opposed to individual bias or prejudice.
This idea began in the late 1970s and early 1980s by legal scholars Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw and Richard Delgado, according to an article on the topic from Education Week on May 18.
Examples such as the 1930s practice of ''red-lining'' areas based on race being judged as poor financial risks, are used to express how racism has survived through seemingly benign actions that do not show the true nature of the cause, according to the article.
''When we start going about dividing people by groups, by social identities, and especially by identities that deal with race, and we're starting to make those kinds of divisions, all Americans should get very nervous,'' Spalding, who runs Hillsdale's Washington campus where the commission plans to meet and is a faculty member, said to the Examiner. ''It's a departure away from the historic grounding of civil rights in America, which is that we all are equal.''
WASHINGTON POST HITS OBAMA!
The fact that a Washington Post newspaper editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama in its newspaper makes this a truly amazing event and a news story in and of itself.
By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: "how on Earth was such a man elected president?"
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:
To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.
Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.
Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly, in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow.
Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action.
Yes, racist! Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is!
And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of cliches, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent, he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess.
It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence.
But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our past president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job.
When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense.
It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
And now Obama is back, with his hand up Biden's *** moving his demented mouth - the USA is in real trouble!
ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHLEY MOODY
Attorney General Ashley Moody warns Joe Biden and members of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States about the dangers posed by court packing.
The commission held its inaugural meeting online this week. According to reports, commissioners will consider adding justices to SCOTUS—a political maneuver known as court packing that has helped unravel democracy and elevate totalitarian regimes in South American nations.
Ahead of the meeting, Attorney General Moody held a roundtable discussion with Venezuelan exiles, including Venezuelan Supreme Court Justices in exile, who fled the country to evade authoritarian rule supported by a politically packed high court.
Attorney General Ashley Moody said, “I will not stand idly by while President Biden and other radicals ignore the historical travesties of court packing and the resulting demise of economies, rule of law and freedoms in other nations. Those who have witnessed firsthand the destruction of democracies and rise of dictators from these extremist attacks on a nation’s highest court must be allowed to testify before the commission in person.
“Our freedom and American democracy may depend on these voices being heard and the careful, thorough examination of historical facts. That is also why I felt compelled to personally provide comments to President Biden and his commission that is considering taking our independent judicial system down a very dangerous road.”
Attorney General Moody’s public comments implore the commission to fully examine the consequences of court packing, arguing that changes increasing the size of SCOTUS would undermine the rule of law, respect for the courts, the independence of our judiciary and could lead to devolution of the constitutional system—as seen in many South American nations:
“This Commission should hear from people like Antonio Marval, Chief Justice of the Venezuela Supreme Court in exile, or Roberto Marrero, an opposition leader and political prisoner from Venezuela. Both these gentlemen now live in Florida. Both would lay out in stark detail what happens when a president packs a supreme court to achieve the policies that he prefers. That is what happened in Venezuela, where almost overnight, the rule of law eroded, and the country descended into dictatorship. The story of Venezuela is one of many, where once vibrant democracies devolved triggered largely by actions like the packing of courts.”
To read Attorney General Moody’s full public comments to the commission, click here.
Last month, Attorney General Moody demanded President Biden allow public access to every meeting of the commission. While the public was allowed to view the initial virtual meeting online, public testimony had to be filed prior to any discussion of the commission. To learn more, click here.
Additionally, Attorney General Moody led a multistate coalition of other attorneys general from across the nation in opposition to the recent steps President Biden and congressional leaders have taken toward packing the Supreme Court. To read the letter signed by 20 attorneys general, click here.
Crime-fighting Resources Now on Display in Florida Tax Collector offices
Beginning Wednesday, resources on combating human trafficking and opioid epidemic, avoiding scams, and anonymously reporting crime will be found in tax collector offices.
Moody made the announcement about the collaboration with the Florida Tax Collectors Association at a news conference in Jacksonville.
Information shared through the new partnership includes:
~The Florida Association of Crime Stoppers’ statewide anonymous reporting line.
In October 2020, Moody and the state Association of Crime Stoppers announced the first statewide number in the nation to submit anonymous crime tips. Through the tip line, anyone can report information about crimes from anywhere in the state using a cellphone by dialing **TIPS (**8477). Previously, each of Florida’s 27 regional Crime Stoppers only used separate, local phone numbers for reporting.
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