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New Lawsuit Alleges Fox News Conspired With Trump to Manufacture Fake "Seth Rich" Conspiracy Story

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BeachDem8/01/2017 6:11:35 pm PDT

re: #393 Patricia Kayden

Not even surprised. We’re living under a White Supremacist regime. As expected, Sessions’ appointment is going to have devastating consequences for minorities. Rough waters ahead. Sigh.

It gets worse.

He also suggested that the project would look for stark gaps in test scores and dropout rates among different racial cohorts within student bodies, which he said would be evidence suggesting that admissions offices were putting too great an emphasis on applicants’ race and crossing the line the Supreme Court has drawn.

Some of that data, he added, could be available through the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights,

And just who did Betsy DeVos tap for that position, you ask?

The new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white.

Although her limited background in civil rights law makes it difficult to infer her positions on specific issues, Jackson’s writings during and after college suggest she’s likely to steer one of the Education Department’s most important — and controversial — branches in a different direction than her predecessors. A longtime anti-Clinton activist and an outspoken conservative-turned-libertarian, she has denounced feminism and race-based preferences. She’s also written favorably about, and helped edit a book by, an economist who decried both compulsory education and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

More nauseating info here:
propublica.org

I need a drink.