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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9518625/Drunk-driver-says-f-k-polic... Murderous corrupt politicians, scammy banksters, brutal cops... go free. Crazy drunk cop killers to get 15. Darknet market operators get life without parole for harming no one. Trump-Tied Group Sues Biden Admin Over Racial Discrimination In Farm Subsidy Program https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-tied-group-sues-biden-admin-over-racial-... https://wordpress.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20210425-Complaint.... https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2501_Fact-Sheet.pdf https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/2279 A newly-formed legal group tied to former President Donald Trump on April 26 sued the Biden administration, seeking to block the implementation of a farm subsidy program that overtly excludes white farmers. America First Legal, headed by former senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller, filed the lawsuit on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, against Tom Vilsack, Biden’s secretary of agriculture. Tom Vilsack speaks after being nominated to be Agriculture Secretary by President-elect Joe Biden, in Wilmington, Delaware, on Dec. 11, 2020. (JIM WATSON/AFP) The lawsuit argues that the program, enacted as part of Biden’s pandemic stimulus package, discriminates against white farmers by limiting financial aid to “socially disadvantaged” farmers or ranchers based on their race. “The Department of Agriculture lurches America dangerously backward, reversing the clock on American progress, and violating our most sacred and revered principles by actively and invidiously discriminating against American citizens solely based upon their race. This is illegal, it is unconstitutional, it is wrong, and it must stop,” the lawsuit (pdf) states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) website currently defines a “socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher” as belonging to “groups [that] include, but are not limited to African Americans, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Asians, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, refugees, immigrants.” The America First Legal lawsuit cites a different definition of “socially disadvantaged” that appears on a fact sheet (pdf) by the USDA. That fact sheet limits the definition of “socially disadvantaged” to six races and leaves out whites. The relevant section of the pandemic stimulus bill points neither to the fact sheet nor to the USDA website. The act says that the definition of the term is in the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990. That act says that “the term ‘socially disadvantaged farmer or ranchers’ means a farmer or rancher who is a member of a socially disadvantaged group.” The act further defines a “socially disadvantaged group” as “a group whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities.” Stephen Miller, senior advisor to the president, attends a joint press conference with President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 20, 2019. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times) The legal action is the first brought by America First Legal, a pro-Trump legal outfit modeled on the legal warfare model that the Democrats deployed to thwart Trump’s agenda. The organization says that its mission is to “oppose the radical left’s anti-jobs, anti-freedom, anti-faith, anti-borders, anti-police, and anti-American crusade.” The White House and the Department of Agriculture did not immediately return requests for comment. "I'm Really Living The Life Over Here" - Hot Mic Catches Illinois Profs Gloating About Social Justice Infestation In Schools https://wirepoints.org/what-a-foundation-two-illinois-profs-on-hot-mic-giddy... https://westcooknews.com/stories/591458925-it-s-all-social-justice-all-day-e... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1I8uH0fcCI Leftist Indoctrination Camps Exposed Via Hot Mic Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, If you haven’t taken two minutes to listen to the hot mic audio first published by West Cook News, do so. It’s a candid display of how pleased ideologues are about how they have captured the education establishment. The two on the audio are Ralph Martire and Gina Harris, both professors at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and both on the Oak Park and River Forest High School board where the recording was made. Ralph Martire and Gina Harris Martire is a major figure in Illinois, with frequent media appearances and op-ed publications. He served on Gov. JB Pritzker’s transition Finance Committee and is executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, a public union advocacy shop. He played a major role drafting Illinois’ school funding formula. Harris is teacher and an Illinois director of the National Education Association – a teachers’ union, and a member of the NEA’s Black Caucus. She’s also Human and Civil Rights Committee Chair at the Illinois Education Association, an NEA affiliate. On the tape, Martire says he’s glad Harris is teaching at Roosevelt because she fits in so well, to which she says, “I mean, it’s all social justice. All day, every day I get to talk about all the things I love all the time.” “All day every day,” responds Martire. “All day at the day care, all day at my night classes, all day when I’m here. I mean, really, I’m living the life over here,” says Harris. “Yeah,” says Martire. “I always flip out the kids that take my master’s class on fiscal policy and public budgets within the first three or four classes are devoted to philosophy of social justice and how you organize society. We don’t talk about one, you know, budgetary item. They’re like, Oh, man. Professor Martire, this is a really weird way to teach a budget,” [laughter]. Harris: “Now it’s part of everything, right, what a foundation!” Martire: “If you don’t understand your values, you can’t allocate resources among public priorities that are scarce, but all needed. Right? Someone: “Just so you guys know, you’re out there, you’re on the mic in the auditorium, OK?” It’s good to hear that some grad students are “flipped out” by having social justice philosophy the first three or four of their budget classes, but their concerns evidently don’t matter. Earlier this week we wrote about a poll showing that Illinoisans don’t like political indoctrination in schools, but two-thirds admit to not objecting. Martire has every reason to laugh at how thoroughly Americans have let schools become instruments of political dogma. That’s no doubt why, at the end of the tape, he said he didn’t care that he was being recorded. Martire is actually a gracious guy when you meet him. My colleague Ted Dabrowski and I have met him often in various debates and panels. Last time I saw him I said, “You know, Ralph, we are actually on the same side because we are both trying to help the little guy, it’s just that we have different means for how to do it.” I had barely finished before he answered, “Yes, yes, I know.” I was thinking in terms of government policy when I said that, but it’s more than that. We would never support replacing education with indoctrination of any kind. No viewpoint should be taught as dogma that cannot be questioned, which is common now for social justice and critical race theory, from kindergarten through college. “What a foundation,” indeed, for those who preach it. Say It Loud: "I Am Not A Racist!" https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17361 http://www.stuartreges.com/email.shtml Stuart Reges, University of Washington When young people today watch images of police turning a firehose on black demonstrators they can only imagine what America was like in those days, but I don’t have to imagine it. I lived in that America and watching its sins displayed night after night on the evening news deeply affected me. That is why I have done a great deal of soul searching ever since I have been accused of being a racist. It started when the UW College Republicans organized an affirmative action bake sale where they sold cookies at different prices depending upon the customer’s race. It was a political stunt meant to make people angry and they succeeded. Hundreds of protestors gathered around their booth along with a dozen police officers. I stopped by and tried to have a conversation with a young protestor but it degenerated into a situation where she loudly denounced me to a mob of several dozen students that surrounded me. At one point I said that I didn’t see rampant racism on campus and the crowd burst into laughter. A local paper called The Stranger wrote about the incident and a local TV station included it on the evening news. I was surprised to find that this single incident branded me as a racist to many students and colleagues. After one of our students complained, the director of my school reprimanded me for a “lack of sensitivity to minority students.” A student experience survey conducted at the time generated several angry comments about me including one that said that I am “a garbage person and should not be teaching in this institution” and that I am, “the symbol of hate, ignorance, racism, and white supremacy. I would not be surprised if they were in the KKK.” Last summer when I posted a message to a faculty mailing I was accused of being a racist for defending police officers during our summer of riots. One faculty member wrote that, “What Stuart has shared is racist, trolling behavior from a faculty member with a long history of documented racial biases.” In my lifetime I have seen this country make incredible progress on the race issue, so I was confused to find myself accused of being a racist. Shelby Steele provided an answer. In his book Shame he writes that in our divided society liberals pursue “poetic truth” that “disregards the actual truth in order to assert a larger essential truth that supports one’s ideological position” and that poetic truths “work by moral intimidation rather than by reason, so that even to question them is heresy.” He goes on to write that: “if you want to be politically correct, if you want to be seen as someone who is cleansed of America’s past ugliness, you will go along with the poetic truth that racism is still a great barrier for blacks. Conversely, embracing the literal truth—that racism is no longer a serious barrier—will make you politically incorrect and will stigmatize you with that ugliness.” I know in my heart that I do not harbor ill will towards anyone based on race and it seems clear that most Americans believe the same thing. Overt racism has all but disappeared from modern life, especially on college campuses, but progressives have concocted various explanations for hidden forms of racism. One accusation is that we have bias that we aren’t even aware of. In reviewing the many decisions I have made in my 35-year university career for admissions, hiring, and grading, I can’t find even one incident of negative racial bias. The only examples of bias were in the opposite direction with minority candidates treated more favorably. The euphemism is that they are “diversity” candidates as in, “We can hire three faculty this year, but the dean said that we can hire up to two more if they are diversity hires.” Another accusation has been the claim of systemic racism, the idea that white men built our society so that it favors them. This idea should not be dismissed out of hand. I still remember when I first visited a store for left-handed people. I was amazed to find how much our society has been designed to work well for right-handed people. I didn’t realize that can openers and desks and notebooks had all been designed for right-handed people like me. To take this idea seriously, though, the proponents would have to produce examples of how the system has been tilted in favor of white people. Where is the equivalent of the left-handed can opener? Many people have taken a stab at this although there are few convincing examples and many cases where people who make this argument have had to retract their claims. For example, The Smithsonian quickly apologized for producing a poster that indicated that white culture includes rugged individualism, the nuclear family, and the scientific method. The only solid evidence for systemic racism is the fact that there are differences in outcomes across races with whites and Asians generally performing better. But this argument falls apart when you consider alternate explanations. In my own courses I have found that course grades are highly correlated with lecture attendance and that mathematical background seems to be an issue for many students who struggle. So to the extent that some minority students perform less well in my courses, it seems most likely that this stems from factors other than race including a weak math background and students putting in less effort than others. Shame is a powerful emotion, but it’s time to stand up to these ideological bullies and to speak the truth. It is not racist to oppose affirmative action. It is not racist to challenge the claim of rampant racism on college campuses. It is not racist to support the police. It is not racist to challenge the claim of hidden bias and systemic racism. I am not a racist and I won’t stay silent any longer.