Breadcrumbs Submitted by Dave Hodges on Monday, April 5, 2021 - 03:20. by Sophie Mann
Trump responded that he did so because the programs were “racist.” He argued employees “were asked to do things that were absolutely insane” and “were teaching people to hate our country.” Biden jumped in to say, “Nobody’s doing that.” On his first day in the Oval Office, President Biden rescinded the Trump order banning critical race theory (CRT) training programs for employees of the federal government. Once again, federal employees — at the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Election Commission, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the Department of the Treasury and elsewhere — are being placed in mandatory training sessions during which, for example, white employees are told to “sit in the discomfort” of the white supremacy they are complicit in “by automatic response to the ways we’re taught.”