*Donald Trump threatened to pull federal funding from California schools planning to incorporate The New York Times’ 1619 Project into curriculums.
On Sunday, the president tweeted that the Department of Education would be “looking at” claims that California intends to teach students about America’s history of slavery via the 1619 Project.
“Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” Trump tweeted.
One Twitter user responded to trump’s message with, “All that the 1619 project wants to do is speak of the beginning of America at the time that Slavery began. It was black men and women who built this country from the origins.”
Other noted that this is Trump and the revisionists latest attempt at erasing “the history of slavery.”
The 1619 Project is named after the year that the first group of enslaved Africans arrived via ship to the shores of America. It is also the year the authors claim the county actually began, rather than in 1776, as U.S. history currently teaches in schools.
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Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded! https://t.co/dHsw6Y6Y3M
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 6, 2020
Meanwhile, in a piece written for Forbes, writer Seth Cohen accused the Trump administration of “threatening to censor the way schools teach about the history of slavery and racism in the United States.”
The tweet, Cohen wrote, “continues a trend of [the Trump administration’s] provocative actions regarding educational approaches to racial injustice in America, with the writer pointing out that it came just days after the Trump administration announced plans to cease diversity training it determines to be “anti-American.”
Trump’s tweet comes days after he instructed federal agencies to end racial sensitivity training related to white privilege, calling it “divisive, anti-American propaganda.”
“This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue,” Trump told his Twitter followers. “Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish!”
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said such trainings “not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce,” Vought wrote in a two-page memo., adding that “we cannot accept our employees receiving training that seeks to undercut our core values as Americans and drive division within our workforce.”
Trump previously said he doesn’t believe that systemic racism exists in the United States.
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