A Democratic lawmaker proposed exempting black people from paying taxes as a form of reparations last week.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas said on an episode of “The Black Lawyers Podcast” that a celebrity – she could not remember who – inspired her to look at exempting black people from paying taxes, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/democrat-congresswoman-suggests-black-people-be-exempt-from-paying-taxes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>.
“I don’t know that that’s … necessarily a bad idea,” Crockett remembered thinking when she heard the proposal. “One of the things they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time because … that puts money back in your pocket.”
Crockett said that a tax exemption may be a more palatable reparations solution to get behind rather than “actually giving out dollars.” The shortfall is that the proposal would only help those black people who are currently paying taxes.
“If you do the no tax thing, for people that are already, say, struggling and not paying taxes in the first place — ” Crockett said.
Progressive Democrats have backed reparations as a way to pay black Americans for the United States’ history of slavery for years, though the proposal has failed to gain popular support. Even in deep blue California, nearly 60% of voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-60-of-california-voters-oppose-cash-reparations-for-slavery-poll">said</a> they opposed such a policy. Just 28% of California voters support it, according to a September poll by the University of California Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
Elected Democrats have continued to push the policy, however. In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul in December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-signs-bill-creating-task-force-to-consider-race-based-reparations">signed</a> legislation creating a commission to study the issue. The bill set forth a nine-member committee tasked with examining “the institution of slavery” and making “determinations regarding compensation.”
In January, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) called for reparations in a post on X. Bush said that the United States “owes” the descendants of slaves.
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“Our country owes – OWES – a debt to the descendants of enslaved Black people, not just for slavery, but for what followed, like Black Codes, red lining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cori-bush-demands-reparations-gets-a-virtual-earful-instead">said</a>. “That’s why I introduced my Reparations NOW resolution. This country has an obligation.”
Aside from its unpopularity with Americans, reparations have faced other hurdles, such as questions over legality and who would qualify for the special treatment. Critics have said that such a policy would be racist against Americans who had nothing to do with the historic racism against black people.

Jasmine Crockett

Texas Democrat Proposes Race-Based Tax Exemption As Reparations

Cori Bush

Politics

Reparations

Slavery

Texas

“Anti-racist” activist Ibram X. Kendi on Friday declined Daily Wire host Matt Walsh&#8217;s offer to debate the topic of world slavery following a viral exchange the pair had over its history.
Kendi last week accused Walsh of engaging in &#8220;White savior&#8221; rhetoric after Walsh noted that white people did not invent slavery &#8220;but were the first to abolish it.&#8221; The racial activist&#8217;s vague reasoning for declining the debate offer relied on &#8220;many historians&#8221; supposedly proving Walsh&#8217;s claims wrong, though little other information was given.
&#8220;Kendi declines my invitation to debate the history of slavery because, he says, &#8216;many historians&#8217; have already said that he&#8217;s right,&#8221; Walsh said on X on Monday, quoting a post from Kendi.
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Kendi declines my invitation to debate the history of slavery because, he says, &quot;many historians&quot; have already said that he&#39;s right. <a href="https://t.co/AutVKNw8O9">https://t.co/AutVKNw8O9</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1757049102813020268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The exchange started after Walsh posted a response last Tuesday to a post on X that claimed, “Slavery is white history. How we survived it is black history.”
“Slavery is world history,” Walsh reacted. “White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn’t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981.”
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Slavery is world history. White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#39;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981. <a href="https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt">https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1754861562987196517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Kendi was apparently irked by the post &#8212; which has been viewed more than 6.8 million times &#8212; and replied to Walsh, “The ultimate White savior statement.”
In turn, Walsh offered to debate Kendi on the topic, posting, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say [Ibram X. Kendi]?
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Why don&#39;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ibramxk</a>?
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Days later, Kendi told Walsh he would not debate him because it &#8220;would be a huge waste of my time&#8221; and accused Walsh of &#8220;producing propaganda about the superior greatness of White people for White consumption.&#8221;
&#8220;Many historians have already explained why your statements about slavery are wrong,&#8221; Kendi wrote. &#8220;It would be a huge waste of my time repeating what has already been shared with you. What is factually right and factually wrong doesn’t seem to matter to you. You seem intent on producing propaganda about the superior greatness of White people for White consumption.&#8221;
The Critical Race Theory (CRT) guru then suggested Walsh was wrong because of his supposed implied emphasis, not necessarily the facts Walsh stated.
&#8220;Your propaganda, this time, can be boiled down to three ideas: (1) White enslavers are hardly responsible for slavery in the Americas—but White people *are* responsible for the global abolition of slavery. (2) White enslavers are hardly responsible for enslaving Black people, but they are responsible for saving Black people from slavery. (3) The world and the historian should be praising White people for abolishing slavery and saving Black people,&#8221; Kendi posted. &#8220;The ultimate White savior statement.&#8221;
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Many historians have already explained why your statements about slavery are wrong. It would be a huge waste of my time repeating what has already been shared with you.
What is factually right and factually wrong doesn’t seem to matter to you. You seem intent on producing…
&mdash; Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1755988813384405064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Kendi, who gained prominence after George Floyd died in 2020, developed a career pushing Critical Race Theory through books and speaking engagements. In 2021, the MacArthur Foundation announced that Kendi would receive a $625,000 five-year grant for research. Kendi, who says that America is systemically racist, often charges steep fees for speaking engagements.
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In 2020, Kendi also started an education center at Boston University that focused on “anti-racist research.” Last year, however, Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibram-x-kendis-academic-center-focusing-on-antiracism-to-fire-staffers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> around 20 staffers, and the university <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-x-kendis-antiracist-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would launch an inquiry into the center after complaints about its culture.
Since publishing “How to Be an Antiracist,” Kendi has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. He has also faced criticism for his book “Antiracist Baby,” a children’s picture book that introduces children to the concept of anti-racism.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-challenges-crt-proponent-ibram-x-kendi-to-live-debate-over-slavery-after-viral-social-media-exchange" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh Challenges CRT Proponent Ibram X. Kendi To Live Debate Over Slavery After Viral Social Media Exchange</a>

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‘Antiracist Baby’ Author Kendi Refuses To Debate Matt Walsh After Viral Exchange On Slavery

‘Antiracist Baby’ Author Ibram X. Kendi Refuses To Debate Matt Walsh After Viral Exchange On Slavery

Anti-Racism

Ibram X. Kendi

Matt Walsh

Media

The Daily Wire

Sunny Hostin of ABC’s “The View,” who recently discovered that her ancestors were slave owners, insisted that she still deserves slave reparations.
Hostin was <a href="https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/episodes/far-and-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> on PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” by host Henry Louis Gates Jr.
He informed her that her great-great-great grandfather, born in 1824, was the son of a merchant who was likely involved in the slave trade. Her great-great-great grandfather owned at least one human being, Gates Jr. stated. That side of the family came from Spain.
&#8220;Wow. I’m a little bit in shock; I just always thought of myself as Puerto Rican,&#8221; Hostin, whose husband comes from Spain, responded. &#8220;You know, half Puerto Rican. I didn’t think I was a – my family was originally from Spain and slaveholders.&#8221;
“So how are you feeling, my friend?” Gates Jr. asked.
“I think it’s actually pretty interesting that my husband and I have shared roots, so I do appreciate that,” she answered. “And I think it’s great for our children to know this information. I guess it’s a fact of life that this is how some people made their living, on the backs of others.”
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The View host Sunny Hostin is a staunch proponent of slavery reparations.
She went on PBS to explore her ancestry.
Turns out, she is the descendant of slave-owners from Spain who owned Africans.
This was her reaction when she found out: <a href="https://t.co/yFBgjMOSGc">pic.twitter.com/yFBgjMOSGc</a>
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On Thursday’s episode of The View, Hostin spoke of the revelation regarding her family, stating, “At first I was deeply disappointed.”
Co-host Joy Behar chimed in, “This slave thing, it’s a bummer.”
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“It’s a bummer,” Hostin repeated, then continued, “I still believe in reparations, by the way. So, y&#8217;all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I&#8217;m a white girl and I don&#8217;t deserve reparations! &#8230; I still believe in reparations. I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice.”
Hostin spoke of her mother, saying, “Her race is white, She’s European,” adding of her mother’s reaction to the news of her ancestry: “She was deeply disappointed. She actually cried about it. And then she said maybe that&#8217;s why I have been so connected to black culture because it&#8217;s an atonement in my spirit. And I received that. I also found out – and there were slaves on both sides of our family, mother’s and father’s. But we are seven percent indigenous Puerto Rican!”
In October 2022, Hostin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-host-sunny-hostin-fumes-being-called-racist-social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “People need to start just looking up what the definition of racism is. It’s really a power dynamic. It’s not just about the color of your skin, and I think when you talk about those who committed crimes that owe reparations, those are the people who committed the atrocities of slavery, who stole land, who killed indigenous people.”
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Sunny Hostin Says She Still Deserves Reparations After Discovering Her Ancestors Were Slave Owners

Sunny Hostin

The View

U.S.

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh challenged “anti-racist” activist Ibram X. Kendi to a debate after the leftist author said Walsh’s take on slavery was “the ultimate White savior statement.”
Kendi was irked by Walsh’s response on Tuesday to a post on X that claimed, &#8220;Slavery is white history. How we survived it is black history.&#8221;
“Slavery is world history,” Walsh wrote. “White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#8217;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981.”
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Slavery is world history. White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#39;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981. <a href="https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt">https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1754861562987196517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Walsh was applauded by numerous people for his take, including X owner Elon Musk, who simply replied, “True.” Walsh’s post, which was viewed more than six million times, triggered a huge response, including from Kendi, who <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1755249100532891764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quote-tweeted</a> Walsh’s statement and described it as “The ultimate White savior statement.”
While Kendi’s post was slammed by numerous social media users — including the popular X accounts of The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry and End Wokeness — Walsh replied to the Critical Race Theory apologist’s comment with an offer.
“Why don&#8217;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue?” he <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>. “You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say @ibramxk?”
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Why don&#39;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ibramxk</a>?
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The author of “How To Be an Antiracist” has yet to respond publicly to Walsh’s offer for an on-camera debate. Kendi, who gained prominence after George Floyd died in 2020, developed a career pushing Critical Race Theory through books and speaking engagements. In 2021, the MacArthur Foundation announced that Kendi would receive a $625,000 five-year grant for research. Kendi, who says that America is systemically racist, often charges steep fees for speaking engagements.
In 2020, Kendi also started an education center at Boston University that focused on “anti-racist research.” Last year, however, Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibram-x-kendis-academic-center-focusing-on-antiracism-to-fire-staffers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> around 20 staffers, and the university <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-x-kendis-antiracist-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would launch an inquiry into the center after complaints about its culture.
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Since publishing “How To Be an Antiracist,” Kendi has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. He has also faced criticism for his book “Antiracist Baby,” a children’s picture book that introduces children to the concept of anti-racism.
Leif Le Mahieu and Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cori-bush" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) got a virtual earful in response to her latest demand for &#8220;reparations,&#8221; in which she claimed that black Americans were &#8220;OWED&#8221; restitution for the damages wrought by slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other policies.
Bush took to X to outline her grievances and announce that she had put forth a resolution designed to address them.
&#8220;Our country owes – OWES – a debt to the descendants of enslaved Black people, not just for slavery, but for what followed, like Black Codes, red lining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;That’s why I introduced my Reparations NOW resolution. This country has an obligation.&#8221;
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Our country owes–OWES–a debt to the descendants of enslaved Black people, not just for slavery, but for what followed, like Black Codes, red lining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.
That’s why I introduced my Reparations NOW resolution. This country has an obligation.
&mdash; Cori Bush (@CoriBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1744475131626271005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Critics questioned Bush&#8217;s knowledge and understanding of history, noting that every one of the policies she had taken issue with had been authored, supported, and even championed by her own party: Democrats.
&#8220;All Democrat policies,&#8221; radio host Dana Loesch pointed out, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m totally for your party making amends for what it did — including to Indigenous Americans when they sent them on the Democrat Genocide Trail.&#8221;
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All Democrat policies. I&#39;m totally for your party making amends for what it did &#8212; including to Indigenous Americans when they sent them on the Democrat Genocide Trail. <a href="https://t.co/1YFc0xz6wC">https://t.co/1YFc0xz6wC</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1744766343323238643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Maybe *your* party does, but I&#8217;m a Republican,&#8221; Chad Felix Greene added.
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Maybe *your* party does, but I&#39;m a Republican. <a href="https://t.co/oKvCdSutm6">https://t.co/oKvCdSutm6</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1744480260677099847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Given her list of grievances, sounds like Cori Bush is calling for the Democrat party to be sued,&#8221; another posted.
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Given her list of grievances, sounds like Cori Bush is calling for the Democrat party to be sued. <a href="https://t.co/JgeK1ACsCr">https://t.co/JgeK1ACsCr</a>
&mdash; Mary Beth | ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ 🦅🇺🇸 (@mbhouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/mbhouse/status/1744831957786096022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Mass incarceration you say @CoriBush? Your Democrat boys BillClinton and @POTUS did that. You think you get to vote for the problem AND demand compensation for it?&#8221; @thevivafrei wanted to know.
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Mass incarceration you say <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoriBush</a>?
Your Democrat boys BillClinton and <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> did that. 
You think you get to vote for the problem AND demand compensation for it? <a href="https://t.co/MbFHsKNPhK">https://t.co/MbFHsKNPhK</a>
&mdash; Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) <a href="https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1744828014569865474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Attorney Marina Medvin argued that families whose loved ones died fighting to end slavery during the American Civil War ought to be eligible for reparations as well, posting, &#8220;360,000 Union soldiers died in the Civil War. They paid with their lives to end slavery. If reparations were due it would be directly to the slaves AND to the families of Union soldiers killed— out of the pockets of Confederate slave owners, not from US citizens 160 years later. Many of those asked to pay today have already paid for slavery with the lives of their ancestors.&#8221;
&#8220;This discussion is both absurd and insulting to US history,&#8221; Medvin continued. &#8220;Note to Conservatives— Do not allow the talk of reparations to go on without demanding reparations for families of Union soldiers. The left wants to play. Go play.&#8221;
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360,000 Union soldiers died in the Civil War. They paid with their lives to end slavery. If reparations were due it would be directly to the slaves AND to the families of Union soldiers killed— out of the pockets of Confederate slave owners, not from US citizens 160 years later.… <a href="https://t.co/2LbcZWKtA7">https://t.co/2LbcZWKtA7</a>
&mdash; Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1744780448515977339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cori Bush Demands Reparations, Gets A Virtual Earful Instead

American Civil War

Congress

Dana Loesch

Racism

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley faced backlash Wednesday night after she answered a voter’s question on the cause of the Civil War without mentioning slavery. 
Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was speaking at a town hall event in New Hampshire Wednesday night when a voter asked her, “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?”
“Well, don’t come with an easy question, right?” Haley said. “I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run. The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”
Haley then asked the voter what he thought was behind the deadliest war in American history, to which he responded, “I’m not running for president.” 
Haley then added, “I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. And I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people. &#8230; We need to have capitalism. We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way.”
The voter wasn’t impressed with Haley’s answer, however, and slammed her for not mentioning slavery in her response. 
“Thank you. In the year 2023, it’s astonishing to me that you’d answer that question without mentioning the word ‘slavery,'&#8221; he said, as <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/nikki-haley-fails-mention-slavery-cause-civil-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Washington Examiner. 
“What do you want me to say about slavery?” Haley shot back before moving on to the next question. 
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Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., was immediately criticized by both the Left and the Right for her remarks. President Joe Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1740221284284256645">posted</a> the clip on X Wednesday night, commenting, “It was about slavery.” The campaign for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is neck-and-neck with Haley in the polls, also responded to Haley’s comments.
“Yikes,” the DeSantis campaign <a href="https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1740228642834370755">wrote</a>. “Local New Hampshire stations are already covering Nikki Haley’s disastrous town hall tonight where she declined to mention ‘slavery’ when asked ‘What was the cause of the Civil War?’”
On Thursday morning, Haley was on local New Hampshire radio shows to comment on the town hall Q&amp;A and the answer she gave on the Civil War.
“Yes, we know the Civil War was about slavery,&#8221; Haley said. &#8220;But more than that, what’s the lesson in all this? That freedom matters. And individual rights and liberties matter for all people. That’s the blessing of America. That was a stain on America when we had slavery. But what we want is never [to] relive it. Never let anyone take those freedoms away again.”
Haley also <a href="https://twitter.com/NewHampJournal/status/1740375525754052846" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the person who asked her the question at the town hall was a &#8220;Democrat plant,&#8221; adding that she is facing heat because Democrats want to run against Trump.
&#8220;Why are they hitting me? See this for what it is&#8230; They want to run against Trump. In town halls, I answer every question, and they are planting questions there,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/NewHampJournal/status/1740375039382532451" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Haley, according to the New Hampshire Journal.
Haley has faced criticism in the past for her comments and actions related to the Civil War and the Confederate flag. In 2015, the then-governor of South Carolina signed a bill removing the Confederate flag from being displayed in front of the statehouse after nine black Americans were killed in a church by a white shooter who espoused racist ideology. Then, in an interview with conservative radio host Glenn Beck four years later, Haley <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/28/nikki-haley-slavery-civil-war/72046352007/">said</a> the Confederate flag represented “service, sacrifice and heritage” to South Carolinians, but the church shooter “hijacked” it.  
The backlash to Haley’s comments at the New Hampshire town hall comes less than a month before the state’s voters will go to the polls in the first-in-the-nation primary. Haley — who is enjoying a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/latest-presidential-polls-trump-posts-his-largest-lead-in-gop-primary-consistently-tops-biden-in-general-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent rise</a> in primary polls — currently sits in second place in New Hampshire, trailing former President Donald Trump by around 22 points, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/republican-primary/2024/new-hampshire">Real Clear Politics</a> average.

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The teaching of U.S. history in public high schools has received much attention in recent years. But what about the teaching of U.S. history at our colleges and universities? 
A <a href="https://cai.asu.edu/americanhistory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newly released commission report</a> from the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University presents a bleak picture. The imbalanced design of many introductory U.S. history courses guides impressionable students toward the conclusion that America is a failed experiment, leaving many college students with a starkly negative, narrow, and incomplete view of our country’s character and past.
Introductory courses in U.S. history – typically taught in two sections, the first half to 1877, and the second half since 1877 – play an outsized role in our university systems and have downstream effects on K-12 education. Many institutions require that non-history majors, as well as future K-12 teachers, enroll in the U.S. survey to fulfill General Education requirements. The requirement is perfectly understandable. To become informed citizens in our constitutional, democratic republic, graduates ought to have a well-rounded, basic knowledge of the history of our country. For some students, especially foreign nationals, the U.S. survey will be their first and last exposure to a comprehensive history of the United States.
These facts make the <a href="https://cai.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for American Institutions</a> commission all the more concerning. The commission on the Teaching of American History included former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, former Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Academic researchers for the commission examined syllabi for introductory U.S. history courses at the nation’s top-ranked colleges and universities. The research revealed that foundational topics and themes in U.S. history are frequently absent. Many of the courses were taught through a <a href="https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2022/is-history-history-identity-politics-and-teleologies-of-the-present" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentist perspective</a>, examining and interpreting history through the lens of contemporary politics, issues, and concerns. Absent from many of these courses were complexity, nuance, debate, and global context. Instead, many of the courses elevated an overly simplistic assessment of the past, devoid of much of the richness and complexity that characterized each historical period. It would be wrong and misguided if this were pursued in order to paint a false and extravagantly rosy picture of United States history. But in this case, it paints a false and extravagantly negative picture of United States history.
The first half of the U.S. survey, to 1877, covers the colonial period through the Civil War and Reconstruction. One syllabus for the first half of the survey announced that upon completion of the course, students will “grasp how inequality was woven into the nation’s very constitutions.” Another announced that upon completion of the course, students will “see how race and racism is snarled in every part of U.S. history.” Another course at a prestigious state university devoted the first three weeks of the U.S. survey to “ecological imperialism” and “cultural imperialism.” 
“We will spend considerable time learning about major themes that trouble the present-day,” an instructor at the university announced in the syllabus, “including the expropriation of Native American lands; the entwined histories of race, slavery, and freedom; the creation and recreation of gendered economic, political, social relations; and the rise of capitalism.”
The second half of the survey, U.S. history since 1877, is by far the more ideological and biased of the two. Many of the syllabi examined for this study were nakedly political. Most syllabi intensively focused on identity topics of race, gender, sexuality, queer theory, and militant social protest. The predominant takeaway for students in many of these classes was American history as a history of exclusion, chiefly organized around identity.
Neglected topics included basic political history, including various presidential administrations, pivotal elections, and party development. Legal history was generally excluded, as was military history and diplomatic history. Conservatism, of course, was almost universally framed in a negative context. Primary readings from conservative thinkers were rarely assigned.
Absent, also, was any indication that the United States had made real and significant progress on civil rights and race relations in the 20th century. Moreover, there was rarely any indication that the average standard of living, for all people, increased substantially across the twentieth century (better housing, health, education, and technology); instead, students were often fed an anti-market, anti-consumerist narrative about the corrupting effects of capitalism. Social, economic, and technological advancements received virtually no mention; instead, post-World War II America was often portrayed as a period – not of prosperity and expanding freedom – but of greed, decline, sexism, homophobia, and racism.
Many courses ended the semester on a sour note: the “Decline of America” and the “End of the American Empire” were common themes in course syllabi. Students exiting such a course would naturally conclude that the American experiment had failed, that it was never successful, and that drastic, revolutionary activism in the present time might therefore be warranted. Appropriately, the supplemental readings in many of these courses often championed political and social justice activism.
One syllabus, for example, announced that students will learn about the “diversity of American experiences with specific emphasis on race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation.” The final weeks of the course included the following topics: “Women’s Lib and Second Wave Feminism,” “Native Americans and Red Power,” “Gay Liberation and LGBTQ Activism,” “Chicano Activism and Latino Movements,” “Environmentalism and Green Movements,” “The Triumph of the Right,” and “From Witch-hunts and Communist-hunts to Terrorist-hunts.” 
Another syllabus at a separate university devoted an entire week to, “Final Frontiers: The Cultural War, LGBTQ Rights, and the Fight against Ablelism.”
Besides sacrificing truth for fiction, the extraordinary bias of our introductory U.S. history courses contributes to the erosion of our civic culture. It undermines the noble effort to create a common, shared vision for America’s future. It distorts our shared past, exacerbates divisions within our society, and discourages a fuller understanding of the entirety of U.S. history.
So what do we do? The report includes several noteworthy suggestions.
First, state legislatures should require educational transparency. Academic units at all public universities should be required to make syllabi publicly available and accessible so that we know what our tax dollars are being used to teach. Most syllabi, at most universities, are not available to the public.
But also we desperately need intellectual diversity. One <a href="https://econjwatch.org/File+download/944/LangbertQuainKleinSept2016.pdf?mimetype=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent study</a> of the nation’s top 40 colleges and universities, for example, found that among History faculty, there are 33.5 Democrats for every single Republican. That is obviously unacceptable and flagrantly unrepresentative of the public and student body. Upper administrations and deans should insist on faculty searches that are not so narrowly tailored that they rule out candidates who are not ideologically aligned with the orthodox political persuasion. Certainly, at a minimum, DEI statements should be immediately abolished as ideological litmus tests.
Finally, a multi-disciplinary approach – including interdisciplinary degree programs with more expansive curricula – could encourage dialogue across the disciplines and potentially foster greater intellectual diversity among the faculty.
The United States of America is a great experiment in freedom, constitutional government, and well-ordered liberty. But the experiment is fragile. To preserve and maintain it – to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity – we must have robust, vibrant American institutions, including institutions of higher education. Let’s reform the teaching of U.S. history at our colleges and universities.
<a href="https://cai.asu.edu/people">Jonathan Barth</a> is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. He specializes in the history of money and banking, in the early modern period, with corollary interests in politics, empire, culture, and ideas.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) delivered an emotionally charged rant on the House floor on Tuesday, scolding her colleagues for their plan to censure Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-house-votes-to-censure-democrat-rashida-tlaib-for-supporting-genocide-of-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI) over her recent pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic comments.
Bush defended Tlaib, who was ultimately censured after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-shares-video-promoting-israels-destruction-claims-biden-is-the-one-supporting-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sharing video</a> of Michiganders chanting genocidal anti-Semitic slogans like &#8220;From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free&#8221; — and then accusing President Joe Biden of supporting &#8220;genocide&#8221; when he said that the United States would stand with Israel in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks.
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Cori Bush just went on what is probably the most unhinged rant I&#39;ve ever seen in Congress on the censure resolution of Rashida Tlaib.
She even refused to stop after the mic was cut off. <a href="https://t.co/yon1HfFEaP">pic.twitter.com/yon1HfFEaP</a>
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Bush&#8217;s speech, delivered in a series of breathless bursts, began as a defense of Tlaib and quickly went sideways as she turned and condemned the very body she was addressing, claiming that Congress had &#8220;enslaved black people&#8221; and continued to yell even after her time expired and her mic was cut off.
Leading off with the race card, Bush claimed that Tlaib was only under fire because no one cared about or had empathy for people who &#8220;look like&#8221; her. &#8220;It&#8217;s outrageous that my colleagues are blatantly — blatantly — attempting to silence the only Palestinian American representative right here. It&#8217;s outrageous, but it&#8217;s not surprising.&#8221;
&#8220;Let me tell you, it&#8217;s not surprising because this place &#8230; is where 1,700 members &#8230; this elected body &#8230; enslaved black people,&#8221; she continued, and she began gasping for air to punctuate each point. &#8220;It&#8217;s not surprising, because they thought it was right.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not surprising because this is the place &#8230; where members continue to claim that the insurrection &#8230; on the Capitol &#8230; just looked appeared to look &#8230; like a normal tourist visit, it&#8217;s not surprising &#8230; because this is the place &#8230; where our black and brown staff members repeatedly speak &#8230; of experiencing racism and sexism &#8230; islamophobia, get pushed off of elevators &#8230; xenophobia and more right here in this workplace,&#8221; she shouted. &#8220;This is the place.&#8221;
Bush tried to pivot back to Tlaib, claiming then that she &#8220;mourns&#8221; for the 1,400 people in Israel — most of them civilians and many women and children — who were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists on October 7th. But by the time she brought the topic back around to Tlaib, her time had expired. Still, she continued to shout after being told several times that she was no longer recognized and did not stop even when her mic was cut off.
A number of critics responded to Bush&#8217;s comments, referring to her defense of Tlaib as an &#8220;unhinged rant&#8221; and pointing out the obvious historical flaw in her claim: namely that Congress has never had 1700 members and voted in 1865 to abolish slavery.
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Kenny Webster made the point, though he was slightly off on the date — that it was then President Abraham Lincoln whose Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in 1863 and the vote to abolish the practice entirely came two years later: &#8220;Cori Bush: &#8216;this place is where 1700 members of Congress enslaved black people.&#8217; Nope &#8230; There were never 1700 members of Congress but in 1863, 230 members of Congress freed the slaves. Is she high on drugs?&#8221;
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Cori Bush: &quot;this place is where 1700 members of Congress enslaved black people&quot; 
Nope&#8230; There were never 1700 members of Congress but in 1863 230 members of Congress freed the slaves.
Is she high on drugs? <a href="https://t.co/PAfJiWLlZb">https://t.co/PAfJiWLlZb</a>
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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> state senator has said he was oblivious to the fact that his fraternity held a “slave auction” fundraiser while he was its president, but new evidence obtained by The Daily Wire casts doubt on his claim. 
When Democrat legislator Monty Mason was president of his Pi Lambda Phi fraternity at College of William and Mary in 1989, the college yearbook shows the fraternity held a “slave auction.” When pressed on the event by the school newspaper in 2019, Mason said nobody called it a “slave auction” and he had “no idea” who was responsible for the error in the yearbook.
“We called it a pledge auction to raise money for our fraternity,” Mason <a href="https://flathatnews.com/2019/02/07/monty-mason-89-yearbook-pages-depict-pi-lambda-phi-slave-auctions/">told</a> William and Mary’s student newspaper in an email back in 2019 when the story first broke. “I have no idea who is responsible for using other terminology to describe it in the Colonial Echo. I washed cars to fulfill my fundraising obligation.”
Mason’s ignorance, however, seems to be contradicted by a newly unearthed flier put out by the fraternity obtained by The Daily Wire. 
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The flier for the March 31, 1989, event shows promotion of the fraternity’s “long awaited slave auction” featuring an illustration of a man, with his hands and feet shackled to a block. According to the flier, the event was set to feature an “abundance of fine cheeses and the opportunity to purchase the services of upright and wholesome young men.”  
The flier appears to show that the fundraiser was widely referred to as a “slave auction,” contrary to what Mason suggested to his alma mater&#8217;s newspaper back in 2019. During the fundraiser, members of the fraternity would be “auctioned off” for an hour of labor. 
Mason did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.
This isn&#8217;t the first time Virginia Democrats have faced criticism over racially-charged yearbook photos from the 1980s. In 2019, former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam faced calls for his resignation after pictures in his 1984 medical school yearbook placed him in a racist picture of a man in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. Northam admitted he was in the picture, but would not say which costumed individual was him. Northam was able to sidestep the firestorm and finish out his term. 
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Mason, who worked in real estate and business before his government career and escaped unscathed from widespread backlash, has thus far also been able to sidestep criticism of his fraternity&#8217;s slave event, largely due to his 2019 denial that the event even happened. Others have been less successful — an entire high school football team in Northern California was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/river-valley-high-slave-auction-apology/">forced to forfeit</a> its entire 2022 season after a prank video of the students “auctioning” off three black students emerged. And former “Bachelor” host Chris Harrison was forced by ABC to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bachelor-host-chris-harrison-steps-aside-over-accusations-of-perpetuating-racism-for-speaking-out-against-cancel-culture">leave the show</a> after he was blasted for defending a contestant on the show after it was reported that she went to an antebellum-themed party back in 2018. 
Mason is up for re-election this year in a race that could prove pivotal for control of the Virginia Senate, where Democrats currently have a four-seat advantage. He is running in the 24th Senate district against Republican retired Sheriff Danny Diggs in a race that <a href="https://www.vpap.org/offices/state-senate-24/elections/?year_and_type=2023regular" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is slated</a> to be competitive. Diggs has raised about $1.3 million while Mason, who has been a senator since 2016, has raked in just over $2 million. 
During a <a href="https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/candidates-for-virginias-24th-district-face-off-in-debate-danny-diggs-monty-mason/291-1862e544-5e64-496f-8f75-3dde455aa540" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate</a> between the two on Tuesday, Mason said he would govern as a &#8220;moderate&#8221; while Diggs said he would &#8220;uphold&#8221; conservative values.
Early voting in Virginia starts on Friday and will determine control of both the state House and state Senate. Republicans currently hold a narrow lead in the House, and the elections will determine whether Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin will be able to pursue conservative legislative priorities in his final two years in office.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> voters are against cash reparations for slavery by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a new poll.
Nearly 60% of California voters said they oppose cash reparations payments, compared with 28% who said they would support it, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-10/new-poll-finds-california-voters-resounding-oppose-paying-reparations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a University of California Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll.
More than 4 in 10 voters said they were “strongly” opposed to cash reparations, the poll found.
“It has a steep uphill climb, at least from the public’s point of view,” <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-10/new-poll-finds-california-voters-resounding-oppose-paying-reparations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Mark DiCamillo, the poll&#8217;s director.
California has been examining the possibility of reparations since 2020 when the country was reeling from George Floyd&#8217;s police custody death and the violent protests that followed.
In September 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed the law that set up the California Reparations Task Force, whose goal was to determine what cash slavery reparations could look like for black Californians.
In June, California’s task force sent its final report to the legislature after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chaos-at-californias-black-reparations-public-hearing-report-sent-to-legislature" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chaotic last public hearing</a> where advocates shouted for a national “divorce” settlement for black Americans.
The reparations task force&#8217;s <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/full-ca-reparations.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> recommended several remedies for the country’s legacy of slavery, including suggesting that monetary payments are owed to the descendants of African American slaves, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/30/sparks-fly-at-californias-final-reparations-task-force-meeting-nows-the-time-for-a-divorce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amounting</a> to $1.2 million for some people.
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The report did not recommend an exact dollar amount for every black Californian, but it did give several examples.
A 71-year-old black person who has lived in California all their life, for example, would be entitled to $967,000 due to health discrimination, the panel <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/california-reparations-task-foce-read-final-report-rcna91452" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. Black people who had suffered due to aggressive policing and prosecution in the “war on drugs” from 1971 to 2020 and lived in California during that time would be entitled to $115,000, the report said.
It is unclear whether the legislature will adopt any of the reparations task force’s recommendations, even though Democrats have a supermajority in the legislature.
Governor Gavin Newsom supports the task force, but Newsom has been careful not to comment on specific recommendations for reparations, including cash payments to black Americans.
“I am very mindful of our past,” he <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/29/california-slavery-reparations-00104249" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in June.
Meanwhile, San Francisco has its own reparations effort, the African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which was also set up in 2020 by the city&#8217;s board of supervisors.
The San Francisco committee eventually came up with the idea of giving each qualifying black resident $5 million in reparations.
The chairman of the committee <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/27/san-francisco-reparations-black-5-million/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> they did not use a mathematical formula to come up with the $5 million number.
John Dennis, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/27/san-francisco-reparations-black-5-million/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in February that he was open to a conversation about reparations, but criticized the committee&#8217;s report as unserious.
“This is just a bunch of like-minded people who got in the room and came up with a number,” Dennis said. “You’ll notice in that report, there was no justification for the number, no analysis provided. This was an opportunity to do some serious work and they blew it.”
Across the country, only about 30% of Americans say descendants of slaves should be repaid in some way, while 77% of black Americans say so, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/28/black-and-white-americans-are-far-apart-in-their-views-of-reparations-for-slavery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a 2021 Pew Research poll.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado">Colorado</a> middle-schooler who was kicked out of class for wearing a patch of the Gadsden flag on his backpack said that his school “tried to tread” on his rights <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1799-there-s-no-such-thing-as-free-medicine-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during an interview</a> with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Jaiden Rodriguez, a 12-year-old who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-7th-grader-kicked-out-of-class-for-gadsden-patch-because-of-slavery-origins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled from class</a> at The Vanguard School in part for having the iconic flag on his backpack, told Shapiro that other kids at his school are allowed to display Pride-themed pins, but that he was punished for his Gadsden flag patch because a teacher thought that it was associated with slavery.
“They don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about at all. It&#8217;s a revolutionary flag. It has nothing to do with slavery,” Rodriguez told Shapiro on his podcast. “It was meant as a warning sign not to tread on our rights in the revolution. Which is funny because they tried to tread on my rights and then they found out they [could] not.”
The Gadsden flag, a yellow flag depicting a coiled rattlesnake with the words “Don’t Tread On Me,” was flown during the Revolutionary War. The flag was designed in 1775 by U.S. brigadier general Christopher Gadsden, who critics have pointed out was a <a href="https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2949/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slave owner</a>.
Rodriguez said that he expected to win a race for student council in a “landslide” due to the controversy and that he was now “Mr. Popular” at his school.
On Monday, Vanguard School Director of Operations Jeff Yocum emailed Jaiden’s mother an explanation that cited several news articles about the flag.
Yocum cited a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/wearing-dont-tread-on-me-insignia-could-be-punishable-racial-harassment/">decision</a> by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which said that while it is “clear that the Gadsden Flag originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context,” nevertheless, “it also has since been sometimes interpreted to convey racially-tinged messages in some contexts.”
The school board of Vanguard <a href="https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/colorado-springs-mom-says-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-gadsden-flag-patch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a decision to allow Rodriguez to wear the Gadsden patch after a board meeting on Monday night.
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&#8220;Last week, a student came to school with patches affixed to his backpack, with a half dozen patches depicting guns/weapons and one referencing alcohol,&#8221; the school told parents, adding that one of the patches was the Gadsden flag.
“From Vanguard’s founding we have proudly supported our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the ordered liberty that all Americans have enjoyed for almost 250 years,&#8221; an email from the school board reportedly said. &#8220;The Vanguard School recognizes the historical significance of the Gadsden flag and its place in history. This incident is an occasion for us to reaffirm our deep commitment to a classical education in support of these American principles.&#8221;
The school added that the district had informed school administrators that the flag was not allowed. According to a Tuesday statement from Harrison School District 2, another issue was several patches that referenced guns.
“The student returned to class without incident after removing the patches of semi-automatic weapons from the backpack. The Vanguard School and Harrison School District 2 worked in collaboration to resolve this matter,” the district said in a statement.
Rodriguez said that other kids were allowed to support “Pride,” but he wasn’t allowed to wear the historic Gadsden flag.
“There&#8217;s kids with pride pins and the teachers don&#8217;t say a thing. But I wear a Gadsden flag and it’s the end of the world. I see them in the hallways. It saddens me that they can do whatever they want, but I can&#8217;t wear a Gadsden flag,” he said.
When asked by Shapiro if he had any political ambitions, Rodriguez said that he would hope to run for governor of Colorado.

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California&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-newsom-praises-reparations-task-force-doesnt-endorse-plan-for-1-2-million-payouts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reparations Task Force</a> raised eyebrows with a few of its recent proposals — namely suggesting that black residents should not be held responsible for back child support debt and public urination laws should not be enforced at all.
According to the task force&#8217;s <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/full-ca-reparations.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final report</a>, &#8220;discriminatory laws&#8221; are responsible for the large number of black children born to unwed mothers — resulting in a higher percentage of black fathers who owe child support.
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Additionally, the report determined that the state&#8217;s 10% interest applied to back child support debt makes it more difficult for black fathers to further their educations while trying to keep ahead of payments. For those reasons, the task force has called for the interest on such child support payments to be waived and for back child support debt to be erased if the debtor is black.
&#8220;The Task Force recommends that the Legislature enact legislation to terminate all interest accrued on back child support, requiring only the payment of the principal owed. At a minimum, the proposal recommends that the Legislature eliminate the prospective accrual of interest on child support debt for low-income parents,&#8221; the report read.
Additionally, the report called for a total ban on police enforcing public urination laws.
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<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-reparations-task-force-calls-ban-police-enforcing-public-urination-laws?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arguing</a> that the enforcement of public urination laws — as well as other &#8220;public nuisance&#8221; offenses — amounted to &#8220;criminalizing poverty,&#8221; the task force found that having police as the first point of contact raised the risk of a confrontation that could turn violent.
Advocating for a &#8220;public health&#8221; approach rather than one rooted in law enforcement, the task force said, &#8220;This disconnect often results in the use of excessive and sometimes fatal force that falls disproportionately on Black individuals. Given the devastating impacts of this kind of over-policing, the Task Force recommends that the Legislature prohibit law enforcement from criminally enforcing public disorder infractions and other low-level crimes.&#8221;

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