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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/02/trump-1776-commission-education-433885Trump creates 1776 Commission to promote 'patriotic education'
The president has attacked lessons that emphasize the role of slavery in American history and Black Americans' contributions to the U.S.
President Donald Trump on Monday created a 1776 Commission to promote "patriotic education and counter lessons that he says divide Americans on race and slavery and teach students to hate their own country."
On the eve of Election Day, Trump directed the commissions creation, via executive order, to better enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.
The order follows Trumps recent attacks on critical race theory and the 1619 Project, directed by The New York Times Magazine, which revisits the countrys history with a focus on slavery and Black Americans contributions.
Racial justice issues have been at the center of this election following protests this summer and fall over the police killings of Black men and women. Trump has repeatedly lashed out at protesters, positioning himself as the "law and order" candidate.
His order blasts historical accounts that he says have vilified the nations founders.
This radicalized view of American history lacks perspective, obscures virtues, twists motives, ignores or distorts facts, and magnifies flaws, resulting in the truth being concealed and history disfigured, the order states. Failing to identify, challenge, and correct this distorted perspective could fray and ultimately erase the bonds that knit our country and culture together.
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Trump creates 1776 Commission to promote 'patriotic education' (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Nov 2020
OP
1772: Somersett's case finds that slavery in England has no basis in law.
Frasier Balzov
Nov 2020
#4
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)1. All for show.
If Biden wins, this will be another Exec. Order to be sent into the trash can of history...where it belongs.
Blue Owl
(50,523 posts)2. Chapter 1: Airports of the 1700's
n/t
Dem2theMax
(9,655 posts)3. Not fair!
Laughed so hard, I almost pulled a muscle!
Frasier Balzov
(2,669 posts)4. 1772: Somersett's case finds that slavery in England has no basis in law.
There were multiple reasons for the American colonies seeking independence. Preservation of slavery is one.