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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
A lawsuit recently filed by the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) and Providence Public School District (PPSD) violated federal law by establishing a loan forgiveness program that is open to every ethnicity—except whites.
Perhaps the name of the program—“Educators of Color Loan Forgiveness Program”— ought to have been a clue that it was incentivizing illegal discrimination.
“Through PPSD’s ‘Educators of Color Loan Forgiveness Program’ (Program), new teachers can receive student-loan repayments up to $25,000,” describes the lawsuit. “The catch: white teachers are not eligible.”
The program was established in 2021, coinciding with the era of peak wokeness in American culture, and following the ‘Summer of George Floyd.’ A press release by the Justice Department explains how the program was supposed to work:
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.
Those 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,” states the Justice Department’s lawsuit. Only “‘New teachers of color’ with a minimum of $5,000 in student loans were eligible for the loan repayment program.”
The racially discriminatory program raised red flags from the start. The Biden administration just refused to heed them.
Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson founded the Equal Protection Project (EPP), a project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, to take on precisely these sorts of cases. The project “is devoted to the fair treatment of all persons without regard to race or ethnicity,” states its website. “Our guiding principle is that there is no ‘good’ form of racism. The remedy for racism never is more racism.”
EPP filed a civil rights complaint about the program way back in 2022, but with the Biden administration’s DEI circus calling the shots, the program’s obvious and illegal discrimination went unchallenged until this year when the Trump Justice Department took up the case.
“By its own terms, the purpose of the Program is to aid PPSD’s efforts to recruit a more ‘diverse’ faculty,” the Justice Department’s suit states. “But in doing so, RIDE and PPSD engage in blatant race discrimination, which federal law has long prohibited.”
Speaking with The College Fix, Jacobson expressed that 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).” He added that the program was “plainly racist,” and that he can’t imagine “any legal defense the school district and State have” to continue it.
“While assisting new teachers in paying off their student loans may be a worthy cause, such a benefit of employment simply cannot be granted or withheld on the basis of the teachers’ race,” commented Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “We will not tolerate such plainly prohibited discrimination in employment.”
Meanwhile, Providence Public School District is refusing to comment, citing “active litigation” and the webpage detailing the program has been removed (an archive may be found here).
Now that the Trump administration is in charge, the magnitude of the illegal DEI programs and racially discriminatory scholarships allowed to proliferate during the Biden years is becoming apparent. And it is massive indeed. The Equal Protection Project cites numerous such cases on its website, and it’s not hard to see what they have in common.
“Girl Boss Business Programs” at Fordham University operates initiatives that “by design and promotion, are intended for women and signal that men are not welcome as full and equal participants.”
The Claremont Colleges in California are cited “for offering, promoting, and administering one or more discriminatory scholarships and programs based on race, color, national origin, sex, or both, in violation of Title VI and Title IX, respectively.”
The University of Michigan offers a “Dreamer Scholarship” that is “open only to DACA/undocumented students in violation of Title VI”—legal U.S. citizens need not apply.
The Ithaca City School District (ICSD) desegregated its “Student of Color United (SOCU) Summit 2024” only after an EPP complaint “detailed substantial evidence that for 2021-2023, the SOCU Summits were limited to students and staff ‘of color’ and that the 2024 Summit promoted the same racial exclusion.”
For decades, programs and initiatives that violate federal civil rights law were allowed to flourish because they promoted the ‘right’ sort of discrimination. It is only now that Trump’s Justice Department is taking a principled stand against racism and sexism that we can see just how far this woke cancer has spread.
Looks to ne like R.I. was trying to sneak under the Radar and knowing that Rhode Island is the teeny weeny State it has been
Boy, for a country that is racist and controlled by white supremacists they are doing a horrible job. How did Asians and people from India have the highest medium incomes in the USA? How did blacks get every welfare program, social program, AA, CRT, DEI, and on and on, if we are such a white racist country?
White people are pushovers. This is why these “programs” came to fruition.
white people are pushovers, the left has programmed several generations of white kids to hate their own skin color, To think all whites are racist , that their parents and grandparents are awful racist. they have been programmed to think all blacks are disadvantaged. we don’t They have programmed white kids to kneel for our anthem to burn our flag. to hate their families. we can never have a country that does not operate on race, to make decisions based on race alone. like drawing up voting districts to help blacks. or to open our borders to let in only people of color. think about how many cities now have a population where whites are the minority? do you think whites get minority status in those areas? the left and many in it like crokett, killary and others have demonized white Christian men, why only white men? it is so sad to watch the white kids claim all whites are racist ha ha
Why is Rhode Assland even a state? It’s smaller than a fleck of smegma and doesn’t contribute anything to the so called Union.
Just eject it into the Atlantic and let it drift off to the hopeless UK. Let America hating losers live with other America hating losers.
you need a hobby
you’re obsessed
some of those yankee new england states that have two senators should combine to make one state. they benefit from having a small area and small population but sitll control senate seats.
We don’t want them, we have too much flotsam and jetsam in our country already and the commies won’t let us get rid of them.
White people better wake up to the hatred that self hating Whites and Blacks have shown over and over again towards our White race.
This must stop or we the White people must stand together and fight using every means necessary to eliminate this threat to our people.
you forgot to mention that all of the anti-white literature is Jew written, with few exceptions.
the anti-white racism emanates from Jews and trickles down to their various dogs.
Hey, Sinwar. Here’s a guaranteed method you can use to get away from all those scary Jew bogeymen forever:
Place a plastic bag over your head. Tie it tightly at your neck. Then wait.
Within minutes you’ll be completely Jew free. And the world will have one less asshole in it. It’s a win-win solution.
Bon voyagio, pus-brain. Don’t let the goat-shed door hit your skid-marked ass on your way out.
, the left has programmed several generations of white kids to hate their own skin color, To think all whites are racist , that their parents and grandparents are awful racist. they have been programmed to think all blacks are disadvantaged. we don’t They have programmed white kids to kneel for our anthem to burn our flag. to hate their families. we can never have a country that does not operate on race, to make decisions based on race alone. like drawing up voting districts to help blacks. or to open our borders to let in only people of color. think about how many cities now have a population where whites are the minority? do you think whites get minority status in those areas? the left and many in it like crokett, killary and others have demonized white Christian men, why only white men? it is so sad to watch the white kids claim all whites are racist ha ha
Given that Providence has 21.5% of its population living below the poverty line that money could almost certainly have better uses found for it.
Rhode Island is full blown demo-communist. People don’t hear about it due to it being irrelevant and its size, but it treats its citizens in the WEF globalist communist fashion. Example if you own a residence in R.I., have electricity and want to change your account you are in trouble. The electric company has no physical building in the state, Covid lockdown leftover, anything you want done has to be by phone or website and one knows how that goes. It can take a week just to get to talk to someone to change the name on your account due to the website not producing verification codes authorizing you are who you are.
Have friends who recently sold a house there and the tales they tell reek of communist state control over everything.
“…reek of communist state control over everything.”
I had no idea Rhode Island was in Canada.
Lie-berals are the only ones who can say what is legal or not legal ! Established laws are ignored. Don’t you know that by now ?
The work Bill Jacobson has been doing quietly under the radar for years now deserve much more visibility and credit. He chips away and chips away, working tirelessly on numberous fronts, none-the-least of which being DEI. He doesn’t get distracted and drawn into nonsensical, emotional, waste-of-time headlines. He just keeps going and forging a critical path forward. I hope FPM will consider reaching out to him to have some of his work published on these pages.
This is reverse racism. The justification is blaming the sins of the white people. In reality this is the marxist tactic that enables the useful idiots to demand replacement of the founding race of people that worked hard to get this country off the ground. If this nation is not careful we will wind up like South Africa and the current UK. Wake up American people for the rug is being pulled out from underneath you!