The two main targets of contemporary Fascists are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Education (DEI).
The EPA is assailed because laws that protect people and the environment, if enforced, reduce profits to America’s Rulers.
Education, however, is the PRIMARY target because ignorance makes mental enslavement simpler to achieve. MENTAL SLAVES are easily deceived into trusting, supporting, abetting and defending their oppressors, oppressing themselves, and attacking those who are trying to open their minds and free them.
“The only method that can render a democratic form of government durable is the dissemination of the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the nation in the proper places and by the proper modes of education.” (Benjamin Rush)
The objectives of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) were delineated by The Virginia Declaration of Rights; The Declaration of Independence; and The United States Constitution.
Thus, anyone who interferes with citizens’ access to high quality education is a TRAITOR — a Domestic Enemy of the highest order — against individual citizens and, consequently, against the nation. Individual Freedom and National Sovereignty are linked and are contingent upon citizen’s level and quality of education.
Only Domestic Enemies can harm America in this way.
Attacks against the objectives of DEI began even before the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION was enacted.
In 1830, North Carolina passed a law punishing anyone teaching blacks to read with fines, imprisonment or floggings.
In 1832, Virginia enacted legislation prohibiting teaching blacks to read or write, punishable by fines and floggings.
In 1896, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision rendered Separate but Equal education legal. While Legal, it certainly was not Equal, at least not everywhere.
In 1954, America, with the passage of Brown versus the Board of Education, declared that Black children would gain schooling that would eliminate inferior schooling. I had just begun Lucy Addison High School at the time, having passed all-Black Gregory Nursery School, the Heller Kindergarten, Gilmer Elementary School, and Booker T. Washington Junior High School.
I was a PRE-BROWN BABY. BROWN had no effect during my high school years; so I knew practically nothing about the law. By the time I completely understood the purpose of BROWN, I was delighted because I had graduated from Michigan State University’s Academic Honors College, Magna Cum Laude; inducted into three academic honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa; tapped for a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; and was enrolled in graduate school at the University of Colorado. My GPA from Addison was a whopping 2.52; but my freshman year GPA was 4.0. And my BA, MA and PhD were paid for by Air Force scholarships.
You can understand my elation when I learned about BROWN – that Black children would be imbued with the quality and quantity of educational coursework with which I was inculcated. You can imagine my dismay when I found out how wrong were my conclusions.
The tragic impact of the broken promise was summarized by Jack Greenburg, former head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 50 years after BROWN was enacted. He said BROWN had been a failure for poor Black school children in the south. (NEWSWEEK, May 17, 2004).
In current times, some 70 years after BROWN – of the Black students who took the ACT in 2017, only a dismal 9% of them with these characteristics — first generation in their family to attend college, in low-income families and identify their race/ethnicity as minority — met the college readiness criteria.
The most alarming statistic in 2021 was that only 6% of all Black test-takers were rated ready for college-level courses in all four areas of English, mathematics, science, and reading.
This Failure did not evolve just because of the power of evil-doers. At the start of first grade, students will have spent 100% of their lives at “home” with their families, where the rudiments of education and respect for are imparted. At the end of high school, 92% of their lives will have been spent outside of formal schools.
Nevertheless, after the mid-sixties, BROWN advocates contended that the whiteness of schools was synonymous with educational quality, the teaching/learning process and educational outcomes, handing diplomas to illiterate graduates. Black-White numerical ratios became the Gold Standard for measuring success. Another principal inhibitor of the objectives of BROWN was that low scores on Standardized Tests were attributed to Blackness not inferior education.
Currently, the Trump/FASCIST controlled GOP has made clear its intention with respect to quality education for the masses. Since 2023, at least 157 bills attacking DEI have been introduced across 34 states. Many are now law; most of the remaining bills are moving through legislatures.
The Advocates for Democracy and the Voting Public did not stop the DEI opponents in the 2016 presidential election and conditions seem primed to allow their ascendancy to national power again on November 6.
