On his first day in office (Jan. 20), President-elect Joe Biden removed from the White House website former President Trump‘s “1776 Commission” page, a program designed to teach history from a patriotic perspective. (Screenshot from the White House website)
On his first day in office (Jan. 20), Joe Biden removed from the White House website former President Trump’s “1776 Commission,” an educational initiative designed to teach American history from a patriotic perspective.
The 1776 Commission was first announced last September to clarify the critical portrayal of early American history in the New York Times’ “1619 Project” and to put an end to the notion that American history is based on “irredeemable and (existential) systemic racism. . The New York Times’ “1619 Project” has been criticized by the historical community, but some radical American schools have adopted the 1619 Project as part of their teaching.
Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, and as part of his first day of executive orders to “advance racial equality,” the Biden plan revokes the commission. The White House website took down the 1776 Commission’s introductory page around 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, but it can still be found on the President Trump archives page.
In a press release on Wednesday, the Biden-Herakinli transition team said the 1776 Commission is “an attempt to erase the history of racial injustice in America.
In addition, Biden’s executive order is poised to reverse some of the Trump-era policies that previously restricted federal agencies, contractors and grantees from conducting so-called “diversity and inclusion” racial training content.
Last September, the Trump Administration ordered federal agencies to stop providing such training to federal employees. Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” program interviewed researcher Chris Rufo in August, who provided documents showing that at Sandia National Laboratories, a major nuclear lab, such training The training was on how to force white male executives to accept “white (inappropriate) privilege.
Other U.S. institutions large and small are probably adopting similar racial training programs, he said.
“I think that by this complex cultural construction – amplifying human weakness, emotion and guilt – has allowed it to extend to all institutions; I worry that from the smallest local school district in Tennessee or Kansas to the the highest levels of the federal government, it’s almost everywhere.” Roof told Fox.
For his part, M.E. Hart, an attorney who has conducted diversity training sessions for businesses and the federal government, told The Washington Post last September that the training can improve morale, cooperation and efficiency.
“If we are to fulfill the promise of this country – ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ – we must see each other as human beings, and we must do whatever it takes, including making those lessons possible.” Hart said this to The Washington Post.
The Biden Administration also directed Wednesday that each federal agency conduct an assessment and review of the state of equity within its agency and deliver an action plan within 200 days to address barriers to unequal opportunity in agency policies and programs.
The 1776 Commission released a public report just two days before Biden’s inauguration (on the 18th) and during Trump’s term. The report warns that modern political movements are in danger of departing from America’s founding principles, noting that many historical movements have succeeded because they helped uphold America’s founding principles, rather than departing from them.
The report calls for a “national renewal” Education that will teach future American citizens the basic principles and character necessary to live out those principles. According to the authors, teaching patriotism does not mean ignoring the nation’s past shortcomings, but rather looking at history with a clear and healthy attitude of reverence and love.
The report warns that U.S. colleges and universities are doing just the opposite, having become “hotbeds of anti-Americanism, defamation of America and shielding of authentic information” with the intention of “manipulating views rather than educating minds.
The report singles out historian Howard Zinn and New York Times reporter Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones’ 1619 Project as presenting a distorted version of American history to young readers and preventing students from seeing the humanity, kindness and benevolence of American historical figures.
The report reads, “American historical revisionism tramples on honest scholarship and historical truth, shames Americans by emphasizing only the sins of their ancestors, and promotes systemic racism that can only be eliminated through more discrimination. It is an ideology designed to manipulate views rather than educate minds.”
The two-year 1776 Commission, established by Trump 2020, was asked to advise the federal government on how to prioritize America’s founding principles in grants and other activities.
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