DOJ Sues Rhode Island School District Over 'Plainly Racist' Discrimination Against White Teachers

Here we go again.

But first, as I reported on Thursday, several Minneapolis public high schools are barring white and Asian students from enrolling in certain courses on Black culture, newly released documents show:

The classes, which count toward the district’s elective graduation requirement, leave white and Asian students with fewer options to fulfill those credits — and that's a problem.
One restricted course, "BLACK Culture – Building Lives Acquiring Cultural Knowledge," is open exclusively to Black male students, while another, BLACK Culture – Building Lives Acquiring Cultural Knowledge (Queens), accepts only Black female students.

I asked in the article: "How is this not in violation of civil rights laws?"

Welp, in today's similar story, the Department of Justice recently filed a lawsuit against the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) and the Providence Public School District (PPSD) for allegedly violating federal law by launching a loan forgiveness program that welcomes every ethnicity — except for white teachers.

Yep, and as title of the program suggests, the “Educators of Color Loan Forgiveness Program” hasn't exactly tried to conceal its intent; openly offering up to $25,000 in student loan repayment programss for new hires— unless they're white.

Here's the point where I urge readers to imagine, for a nanosecond, the degree of histrionic meltdown on the left if the script were flipped: a public school system offering a student loan forgiveness program to new all hires — that is, except for people of color.

Oh, the humanity! And it should be — just as should be this ridiculous program.

Incidentally, this whole thing — both cases — reminds of the silly notion of "reverse racism," which doesn't exist. Racism is racism — regardless of the skin color of the perpetrator(s) and the target(s).

Here's more, via The College Fix:

The lawsuit, which was filed in September, alleges “only white teachers are excluded” from the program “based on their race in violation of federal law.”
William Jacobson, a law professor at Cornell University, welcomed the news in an interview with The College Fix, calling the program “plainly racist.”
The Equal Protection Project, a legal nonprofit that Jacobson founded to support “the fair treatment of all persons without regard to race or ethnicity,” filed a civil rights complaint about the program back in 2022, he said in a recent email.
Jacobson said he was “thrilled that the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit in federal court for race, color, and national origin discrimination at the Providence Public School District (PPSD).”

Jacobson told the outlet he doesn't see “any legal defense the school district and State have” to support it. I'll go out on a very safe limb, and bet Jacobson is right.

The program launched in 2021, at the height of America’s cultural “wokeness” and in the aftermath of the George Floyd summer of laughably called "peaceful protests" that spread across the country. According to a Justice Department press release, the initiative was designed to operate as follows:

RIDE and PPSD established the Program in 2021, in partnership with the Rhode Island Foundation (RIF), a publicly supported non-profit organization, to provide $3,175,000 in student loan forgiveness to “teachers of color” over at least five years.
The Program is described as an “incentive” to “encourage teachers of color” to teach at PPSD and obliges PPSD to “recruit and retain up to 127 teachers of color” during that period. Under the Program, “Teachers of color” includes teachers “who identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, and/or 2 or more races” and excludes only white teachers.

According to the DOJ lawsuit:

Individuals who met the program’s racial criteria received substantial financial rewards. “Newly hired teachers of color accepted into the Program receive student loan repayment of up to $25,000 in their first three years teaching in PPSD.” Only “‘New teachers of color’ with a minimum of $5,000 in student loans were eligible for the loan repayment program.”

So, yeah — the program restricts eligibility to full-time teachers carrying at least $5,000 in student debt. Applicants must also self-identify as “Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latino, biracial, or multiracial,” according to the official webpage.

Clearly racist programs like this one, and the one I wrote about yesterday, have been allowed to flourish for decades, perhaps as an ill-advised "payback" to people of color. Yet in reality, may or most similar programs amounted to the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Thankfully, with a new sheriff in the White House, and a Justice Department that now means business, such programs will be tossed on the ash heap of history, along with the entire sickness of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion).

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