9/5/2020
It's un-American! That's the reason Donald Trump gave when he asked OMB director Russell Vought to stop any and all racial sensitivity training in federal agencies.
"The President has directed me to ensure that federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions," the memo read.
Ya’ gotta save a buck somewhere, at least if you've led America into the worst coast-to-coast epidemic in more than a hundred years and in doing so, plunged America into its deepest debt since 1945. Why not start by cutting an Obama-era program that aims to make peace break out in a racially divided nation?
"Propanda training sessions" means any sessions that "discuss 'white privilege' or 'critical race theory,' and any that suggest that America is an 'inherently racist or evil country,'" Vought wrote.
Critical Race Theory says that "racial inequality emerges from the social, economic, and legal differences that white people create ... to maintain elite white interests," the Encyclopedia Britannica says, "giving rise to poverty and criminality in many minority communities." The theory bubbled up in white law schools in the '60s and '70s, and made its academic debut in 1989. It's the theory underlying the "1619 Project" in the New York Times.
The divisiveness may be a function of how much emphasis is put on deliberate planning by whites to subjugate others. For every liberal who thinks critical race theory is just a tad over the top, there may be 50 conservatives who get angry just thinking about it. They feel they've been accused, and that deliberate planning has never happened, not even during the rise of Jim Crow. That's just my hunch.
Have you ever had diversity or sensitivity training? Was it worthwhile or a waste of time? Does it make sense to sweep away all such training? Has the time for such training passed?
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