This is why Attorney General White Citizens Council Won’t Resign. Living out his White Supremacist Fantasies

Posted on August 2, 2017 by rikyrah

RESIGN?

You gotta be kidding me. He’s living out all his White Supremacist fantasies.
To everyone who voted for this…PHUCK YOU.

From The New York Times:

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions

By CHARLIE SAVAGE
AUG. 1, 2017

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times.

The document, an internal announcement to the civil rights division, seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.”

The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division’s front office, where the Trump administration’s political appointees work, rather than its Educational Opportunities Section, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities.

The document does not explicitly identify whom the Justice Department considers at risk of discrimination because of affirmative action admissions policies. But the phrasing it uses, “intentional race-based discrimination,” cuts to the heart of programs designed to bring more minorities to university campuses.

Supporters and critics of the project said it was clearly targeting admissions programs that can give members of generally disadvantaged groups, like black and Latino students, an edge over other applicants with comparable or higher test scores.

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20 Responses to This is why Attorney General White Citizens Council Won’t Resign. Living out his White Supremacist Fantasies

  1. rikyrah says:
    August 2, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    Ted Lieu‏Verified account @tedlieu

    As an immigrant, I find this xenophobic proposal by @realDonaldTrump deeply offensive. Also, what’s the deal with his war on grandmothers?

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  7. rikyrah says:
    August 2, 2017 at 2:03 pm

    Trump Administration To Tackle Affirmative Action And Keep White Women Out Of College
    Damon Young, 8/2/17

    I thought of her this morning when learning that Darth Cheeto plans to have the Justice Department look into and possibly end affirmative action in college admissions; the latest attempt to reverse a policy that many very stupid (White) people believe props Black people up by planting our Timberlands on hard-working White people’s necks. It, like literally everything else Donald Trump has done and said in the last 18 months, is an unambiguous dog whistle to his base, who seem to believe that niggers are running free in the city — eating chicken in late model Cadillacs and using free government cell phones to order crack and White women from Seamless — while good White folks foot the bill. To them, cutting affirmative action would mean that (plantation) daddy is home, and the darkies have a curfew. And they’re so happy to end these non-existent free rides for Blacks that they’re willing to throw White women under the bus too.

    From “Affirmative Action Has Helped White Women More Than Anyone”

    While people of color, individually and as groups, have been helped by affirmative action in the subsequent years, data and studies suggest women — white women in particular — have benefited disproportionately. According to one study, in 1995, 6 million women, the majority of whom were white, had jobs they wouldn’t have otherwise held but for affirmative action.

    Another study shows that women made greater gains in employment at companies that do business with the federal government, which are therefore subject to federal affirmative-action requirements, than in other companies — with female employment rising 15.2% at federal contractors but only 2.2% elsewhere. And the women working for federal-contractor companies also held higher positions and were paid better.

    Even in the private sector, the advancements of white women eclipse those of people of color. After IBM established its own affirmative-action program, the numbers of women in management positions more than tripled in less than 10 years. Data from subsequent years show that the number of executives of color at IBM also grew, but not nearly at the same rate.

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    • yahtzeebutterfly says:
      August 2, 2017 at 2:46 pm

      Everyone reading about affirmative action today should make a point to read the article linked in the above tweet!

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  15. Ametia says:
    August 2, 2017 at 10:34 am
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