FOIA Lawsuit Accuses Biden Administration of Supporting Woke Nonprofits

A reader chastised me this week for sometimes throwing hissy fits and calling names.  We had a nice exchange of views, to both our mutual surprise, and I allowed that I might catch more flies with honey than vinegar.  We plan on continuing our conversation in hopes of reaching higher ground.  But for now, I gotta tell you, a bunch of racist imbeciles have filed a FOIA complaint as part of a larger effort to prohibit exempt organizations from teaching about or otherwise advocating the elimination of systemic racism and other forms of discrimination.  See, that’s exactly the kind of bovine defecation that makes me pound the keyboard and start cussing.  From the Defense of Freedom Institute’s Press Release:

Through grant awards in 2016 and 2022, ED has abused its authority under the Desegregation Center program to fund regional Equity Assistance Centers across the United States. Rather than focus on racial desegregation in schools as intended by Congress, ED has transformed the program into one that promotes “woke” education policies, including Critical Race Theory, Gender Identity Theory, and “intersectionality theory,” and provides guidance on how to undermine parents who want a say in their children’s education.

For example, one grantee, Great Lakes Equity Center (GLEC), states in its Center Statement, “For those who are white (non-disabled, Christian, non-LGBTQIA+, English-only speaking, US born, and otherwise privileged) educators/scholars, we urge you to focus your work on dismantling the racism and ableism, and other oppressions you engage to maintain this systemic trauma for our Youth of Color and intersectionally-marginalized youth, alongside your community of white educators and scholars. Position yourselves as vulnerable and work toward the redistribution of your own power and resources, not the deficit-based fixing of children who are already brilliant and beautiful exactly as they show up in our schools, classrooms, and online spaces each and every day.”

Another grantee, the Center for Education Equity (CEE), published a blog post entitled “Bold Classroom Conversations: Let’s Talk About Racism!” declaring that there isn’t a better place to discuss historical racism than the classroom, and that although “parental pushback is a powerful force,” it must be minimized by “making sure that any discussions on racism tie back to the curriculum. After all, how can they [parents] argue with that? Ok . . . they still find a way, but you get my point!”

Here are two allegations from the complaint:

15. The release of these records is in the public interest because their disclosure will inform the American people about the Department’s diversion of funding directed at racial desegregation of schools to expanding and refocusing the program on new “equity-based” social agendas relating to, for example, gender and sexual preferences.

37. The release of these records is in the public interest because their disclosure will inform the American people about the Department’s diversion of funding directed at racial desegregation to expanding and refocusing the program on new “equity-based” social agendas relating to, for example, gender and sexual preferences that are far outside the Department’s statutory authority.

DFI filed the complaint right here on the DeSatan plantation too.  

darryll k. jones