The Department of Education: Why White Supremacists Still Want It Gone

Impressionistic View of Students

I often wondered why the Republicans, the alt-right, or the various iterations of white supremacism in its various linguistic ideological forms of identification are so adamant about dismantling, defunding, destroying, completely gutting, or otherwise undermining the Department of Education. As I understand it, my research would never be able to illustrate any rationale for its creation as a move toward Black American reparation for the damage caused by unequal and inequitable education in this country. There would never be anything written or spoken that stated the Department of Education was created specifically to assure equitable and equal education for Black Americans under the law. Language being as important as it is, there could never be anything under the American law with the words Affirmative Action for, Civil Rights Act for, or Fair Housing Act for, “Black America, or Black Americans.” Not even the euphemistically favorable African American or People of Color would ever be that specific in wording on behalf of Black Americans in the United States, yet some laws are precise for other so-called protected groups, such as Asians and the LGBT+ community. Any law fashioned to help Black America is always hidden behind the shroud of neutrality, where “being neutral in American culture was intended to represent Whiteness as no longer a threat to…