Now come on, you survived without a Department of Education and can do it again, right? It only started in 1980. Seriously, 1980. Look at it now. Still little real power on the K-12 front. I looked it up and it provides .1% of our local school district budget. See, not needed. My kids don’t mind having their schools liquidated by our wonderful Governor Greggory Abbott. He shut down the bussing to save money, which made white privileged parents angry, but the kids need to walk to school and the exercise does the sixth graders good. Pretty soon they’ll be going to private voucher Christian schools and can pray when they get there for even better health. They also subverted my child’s fourth amendment property rights to illegal search and seizure, and the children are now forced to turn over their cell phones and earbuds to any government authority figure in the school that asks (like a teacher or assistant principal) then charge the children $15 dollars to get their own seized asset back. I call it “a tax on child’s property without due process payment”, though I’m working on a better acronym. My point is, we are already practicing giving up our constitutional rights in Texas (except the right to bear arms!), so a few more won’t be a big deal.
Yes, I personally viewed Affirmative Action as a kind of mini-reparations, a way to let black Americans know that millions and millions were denied public education during the first sixty five years of the 20th century by white districts in the Jim Crow states. But that’s just me being silly I suppose. It could have been to make up for children who went to school only four months for decades, a shortened school year in the South to increase cotton picking, which they did (at least according to the dozen I saw testify in the SNCC documentary in 1962). Black Children. From 6-16. Testifying to picking cotton in 1962 before the John Deere SF-22 Harvester was rolled out in the late 1950s and started taking away their jobs. That was because unions were banned in the 1935 Wagner Act for (black) agricultural workers and domestic workers, targeting only a few millions of black Americans from organizing to get better working conditions and better wages (or wages at all!).
Wait, wait, all this sounds really bad. This whole government repression of human rights abuses by making laws targeting primarily blacks and browns. And now Trump will return? Oh, oh yeah, not good. He is definitely going to do all this you’re saying, and more. No, it is this bad. We need to vote like we mean it. And let’s hope on November 6th or 7th a civil war doesn’t break out when the right candidate wins because the wrong candidate loses. Stay safe and well, and drink stronger tea until then.
