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Wednesday, July 4th, 2018

Trump administration rolls back racial diversity guidelines for colleges

Author:     Doina Chiacu and Damon Darlin
Source:     Reuters
Publication Date:     JULY 3, 2018 / 5:32 AM
 Link: Trump administration rolls back racial diversity guidelines for colleges
Stephan:   The Trump administration doesn't even bother to hide their racism; quite the contrary, they tout it because it speaks to their White supremacist racist base. They see it as a plus.

Graduating seniors line up to receive their diplomas during Commencement at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S., May 26, 2017.
Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded an extensive set of guidelines put in place under President Barack Obama that had called on colleges and universities to consider race as a way of promoting diversity.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the 24 documents many of which gave advice to schools on how to deal with Supreme Court decisions on race and admissions “were unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.”

It has the effect of bringing the federal government’s position on affirmative action close to that of the George W. Bush administration which held that race could be considered only if a university had no other way of achieving a diverse student class.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled over a series of cases that universities may use affirmative action to help minority applicants get into college. Conservatives have argued such programs can hurt whites […]

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2 Comments

  1. John Gabriel Otvos on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 7:37 pm

    Like the Germans, Japanese and Italian citizens prior to and during WW2, the countrymen and women knew what was happening, but, chose to ignore it. All of this, including the new tariff squabbles, not only between Canada and the US, but, China and the EU, spells the end coming for global capitalism.

    This is a cancer eating away at itself from the inside. This overt racism is like what happened to the Jews during Hitler’s time. As with climate change, the rise is exiting the stage of linear and blowing open to exponential. It will have a life of its own soon enough. There is no protection when the food grains fail as they did in 2010 for Russia (loss of 40%) which began the Arab spring with rising food prices.

    It’s all connected folks, just like in quantum this and that.

  2. Rev. Dean on Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    With climate change hitting us harder and harder, and water shortages increasing due to faulty government decisions, all of us will feel the impact of the draughts and other crop damaging plagues, we will all have to become vegetarians very soon, or become victims of the sixth mass extinction in the history of the earth. Everything is connected on the earth: People, vegetation, animals, fish. and especially water which is the source of all life on earth, yet is being wasted and polluted to the point that there will come a time when water wars will replace these “oil wars” that are so predominant, now. We are on a downhill path with the end clearly in sight to those who are watching.