Plus: Office for Civil Rights Sticks Its Nose Unnecessarily Into School Masks Debate
September 2 2021
Good morning from Washington, where the Department of Education apparently thinks it’s cool to teach critical race theory to children. Our Jarrett Stepman samples examples of classroom indoctrination in North Carolina. Why are educrats threatening states that don’t mandate masks in school? Lindsey Burke and Sarah Parshall Perry weigh in. On the podcast, a mom who happens to be black stands up to a woke school board near the nation’s capital. Plus: Ukraine’s leader visits the White House; Texas takes on Big Tech censors; and “Problematic Women” considers the future for Afghan women. On this date in 2013, in her fifth attempt, American Diana Nyad, 64, becomes the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.
The Education Department’s ever-politicized Office for Civil Rights has decided to use the heft of the federal government to investigate states that don’t mandate that children wear masks.
President Biden very likely has triggered a new global war on terror, not to mention hamstringing the U.S. in the competition with China over South Asia.
The bill would prohibit social media platforms from “censoring” users based on viewpoints. “Censoring” includes removing content, banning users, and suppressing posts.
“??Color has nothing to do with how you raise your child. You teach them how to be victors … how to be strong, and to take things lightly when it comes to this social justice,” says Shawntel Cooper.
