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Donald Trump cracks down on anti-racism training sessions
Donald Trump cracks down on anti-racism training sessions
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| President Donald Trump directed the Office of Management and Budget to end anti-racism trainings Friday. He later tweeted that such programs are a “sickness” that must be eradicated. He’s shown here during a news conference at the White House on Sept. 4 |
Trump calls it ‘divisive, un-American propaganda’
U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered government agencies to end anti-racism training sessions for federal employees on the grounds they amount to “divisive, un-American propaganda”.
The order comes as Mr. Trump works to appeal to his white, blue-collar base while fighting an uphill battle for re-election amid a fraught national reckoning over racial injustice in policing and other walks of life.
In a memorandum, the White House Office of Management and Budget cited unspecified reports that “employees across the Executive Branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told that 'virtually all White people contribute to racism' or where they are required to say that they 'benefit from racism.'”
It added: “According to press reports, in some cases these trainings have further claimed that there is racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most qualified person should receive a job.”
“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,” wrote the office's director, Russell Vought.
He directed agencies to “identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on 'critical race theory,' 'white privilege,' or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.”
“The divisive, false, and demeaning propaganda of the critical race theory movement is contrary to all we stand for as Americans and should have no place in the Federal government,” the memo added.
Mr. Trump doubled down on Saturday morning, firing off more than 20 tweets and retweets on the subject -- including one calling critical race theory the “greatest threat to western civilization.”
“Not any more!” Mr. Trump wrote.
Protests in major U.S. cities erupted after the death of African American George Floyd in May at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, and flared up again last month after another black man, Jacob Blake, was shot in the back by a white policeman in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Mr. Trump — who is pressing a tough law and order line in the run-up to November's elections — has blasted such demonstrators as violent anarchists.
This week, the U.S. President visited Kenosha, but did not meet with the family of Mr. Blake, who has been left paralysed , instead meeting with law enforcement officials.
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The United States has seen nationwide protests for weeks over the death of George Floyd in police custody, and the frustration that racism and racial inequality still persist throughout modern American life.
Data and research have extensively documented the ways in which Black Americans are underrepresented, overrepresented, or experience different treatment from their white counterparts
racism is still a big problem in America
The recent nationwide protests have rekindled a roaring public discourse about racial inequality in America
During the 2015–2016 school year, Black students represented only 15% of total US student enrollment, but they made up 35% of students suspended once, 44% of students suspended more than once, and 36% of students expelled. The US Department of Education concluded that this disparity is “not explained by more frequent or more serious misbehavior by students of color.”
In New York City, 88% of police stops in 2018 involved Black and Latinx people, while 10% involved white people. (Of those stops, 70% were completely innocent)
In one US survey, 15.8% of students reported experiencing race-based bullying or harassment.
From 2013 to 2017, white patients in the US received better quality health care than about 34% of Hispanic patients, 40% of Black patients, and 40% of Native American patients
Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women, even at similar levels of income and education
Black Americans are more likely than white Americans to be arrested. Once arrested, they are more likely to be convicted, and once convicted, they are more likely to experience lengthy prison sentences
Black Americans and white Americans use drugs at similar rates, but Black Americans are 6 times more likely to be arrested for it
On average, Black men in the US receive sentences that are 19.1% longer than those of white men convicted for the same crimes
In the US, Black individuals are twice as likely to be unemployed than white individuals. Once employed, Black individuals earn nearly 25% less than their white counterparts.
One US study found that job resumes with traditionally white-sounding names received 50% more callbacks than those with traditionally Black names
In the US, Black workers are less likely than white workers to be employed in a job that is consistent with their level of education.
Black Americans experience life in the United States differently from their white counterparts.
It's called "systemic" racism because it's ingrained in nearly every way people move through society in the policies and practices at institutions like banks, schools, companies, government agencies, and law enforcement.
these disparities exist along nearly every facet of American life
Since the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns across the country triggered a recession starting in March, employment for all racial groups has fallen dramatically, and fewer than half of all Black Americans had a job in April and May.
The US must reform its human rights system to ensure equal rights for all people
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