This is an interesting article from a historical perspective. The KKK was at the forefront of pushing public education and having a federal education department. Why... do you ask? Because they wanted to eliminate private Catholic schools and they wanted a uniform educational agenda across the nation (i.e. that is a "white nationalist agenda"). It is also interesting to note that the NEA was joined at the hip to the KKK. The KKK's Push for Compulsory Schooling and a Federal Education Department In the early 20th century, the Klan's virulent nativism and anti-Catholicism fueled its interest in education policy. https://reason.com/2023/01/23/the-kkks-push-for-a-federal-education-department/ "The greatest duty of America today is to build up our educational system." That sentiment probably seems anodyne, like something you might have heard on the campaign trail in the recently concluded midterms. A century ago, it represented the top priority of the Ku Klux Klan. "Throughout the boom years of the early 1920s," the historian Adam Laats notes in a 2012 History of Education Quarterly article, "every local Klan group made education reform a leading goal of its public activism." Eventually, Laats writes, a push for compulsory public schooling overseen by a federal cabinet agency became the "linchpin" of the organization's agenda. Why the Klan's sudden interest in education policy? First and foremost, because of the KKK's virulent nativism and anti-Catholicism. Most private schools at the time were associated with the Catholic Church, while most public schools were openly, if unofficially, Protestant. By requiring all children to attend the latter institutions, Klan members thought they could strip Catholic parishes of an income source, reduce the Catholic hierarchy's ability to indoctrinate the next generation, and secure their own right to inculcate values instead. The effort to shutter parochial institutions altogether would soon be halted. In 1922, Oregon passed a law requiring every child to attend a local public school. Supporters including the KKK admitted the aim was to drive all private schools in the state out of business. But before the law went into effect, the U.S. Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional. Undeterred, the Klan continued pursuing its education agenda in the public sphere. Members bullied Catholic teachers and principals into vacating public school jobs. They made donations of (Protestant) Bibles and agitated for mandatory (Protestant) prayer and religion classes. And they lined up behind the National Education Association (NEA), the country's largest teachers union, as it lobbied over more than a decade for the establishment of a federal Department of Education. The groups wanted an Education Department that would provide funding to schools across the country, thereby promoting literacy and patriotism. An influx of immigrants had raised concerns that pockets of the country were not being assimilated into the American way of life. Compulsory education was meant to build national unity, ensuring the country's future workers could speak the same language and preparing them to be productive members of society. Supporters of this effort often portrayed it as a grand humanitarian crusade. "We must have a compulsory education system to reach and uplift every future citizen," national Ku Klux Klan leader Hiram Evans said in 1924. If the campaign was successful, "all our humanity might live in harmony." The cruelly coercive nature of the proposals nevertheless was apparent. "We will be a homogeneous people," Evans told a friendly audience in 1923. "We will grind out Americans like meat out of a grinder." Or as an early Progressive education reformer chillingly put it in 1902, "The nation has a right to demand intelligence and virtue of every citizen, and to obtain these by force if necessary." As the NEA and KKK pushed to federalize education funding, they met opposition from Catholic institutions. The National Catholic Welfare Council, a U.S. body of Catholic bishops and staff, worked diligently to oppose bills that would have elevated an Interior Department bureau collecting education statistics into its own cabinet agency. America, a Jesuit magazine, editorialized against the legislative proposals as well. Fearing that federal funding of education would lead to federal control of education, Catholic leaders argued that parents must be allowed to determine what kind of schooling was right for their kids. History was on the Catholics' side. Education in America had always been a state and local issue. Although the Founders "wanted a nation of virtuous, informed citizens," wrote Kevin Kosar, then of the R Street Institute, in 2015, "almost nobody saw educating them as the federal government's job. The Constitution didn't authorize the federal government to make schools policy." In the 1920s and '30s, opponents were successful at preventing the establishment of a standalone cabinet agency. But the push for a centralized education authority didn't go away even when the Klan did. Lawmakers in Washington began appropriating school funding in the decades that followed, and a federal Department of Education was officially created in 1979.
This is not taught in the American public school system. Yet, if you're lucky enough to have attended a private Catholic school with an educator that's a historian about the KKK...who the KKK viewed as their enemies... You would have learned about this intentionally forgotten bit of history. I myself first learned about it in the few years I spent in Europe's (France) private Catholic secondary school system while learning U.S. History class elective (honor class). wrbtrader
Some things never changed: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/critical-race-theory-parents-fight-back.359357/
Damm those Democrats, will they ever get over their racism How Woodrow Wilson Tried to Reverse Black American Progress But Wilson was also a segregationist who wrote a history textbook praising the Confederacy and, in particular, the Ku Klux Klan. As president, he rolled back hard-fought economic progress for Black Americans, overseeing the segregation of multiple agencies of the federal government. By promoting the Ku Klux Klan and overseeing segregation of the federal workforce, the 28th president helped erase gains African Americans had made since Reconstruction. During Wilson’s presidency, he allowed his cabinet to segregate the Treasury, the Post Office, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Navy, the Interior, the Marine Hospital, the War Department and the Government Printing Office. This meant creating separate offices, lunchrooms, bathrooms and other facilities for white and Black workers. It also meant dismissing Black supervisors, cutting off Black employees’ access to promotions and better-paying jobs and reserving those jobs for white people. https://www.history.com/news/woodrow-wilson-racial-segregation-jim-crow-ku-klux-klan
As an interesting point in North Carolina history. The Democrats renamed their yearly fund-raiser in our state in 2011 after over 50 years. It was named after two former governors and known as the "Vance-Aycock Dinner". Vance was a confederate leader. Gov. Charles B. Aycock (1901-1905) was known as a progressive leader in education in our state. "He became known as "the Education Governor" for his advocacy for the improvement of North Carolina's public school systems, and following his term in office, he traveled the country promoting educational causes." Gov. Charles B. Aycock focused on providing public education for all people in our state - both black and white. He was viewed as a "progressive leader" nationally. Aycock regularly gave speeches that improved public education was tied to economic development in the state. However Aycocks' views aligned with the perspectives during his time -- whites and blacks would be educated separately and whites would get much more government money for education. Aycock also aligned with the white supremacy movement at the time. He was also a firm advocate of keeping blacks separate, subservient, and locked out of representative government. For many years the Democrats upheld Charles Ayock as a hero and a great educational progressive. They named numerous public university and K-12 school buildings after him. However in recent years, the state has been stripping his name from numerous buildings.
(Dems, KKK, FBI) all the same anti Christian commies (Fed, central banks, UN, globalist WEF) Brazil military says if you can't beat them, join them.
I'm not a fan of the White / Black issue or its discussions maybe because my mom is European (French) White Catholic and my father is Indigenous American Catholic. The issue in your opening statement was the KKK and Catholicism (Catholics)...essentially the KKK efforts to marginalize Catholics. I forgot to post the below link in my prior message post... https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6273&context=etd A story of incidents in Butte, Montana. Yet, I already knew that the KKK and White Supremacist disliked Irish, Italian, French & Native American Catholics. The key was Catholics and it's something you don't hear about in the U.S. public school education system (K level). Yet, you can learn about it at the University level. It reminds me of an incident in South Dakota prior to the Pandemic when the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally came nearby to reservation land...home of my father/grandmother land. Home to some Native American Catholics that were very offended by some of the bikers with confederate flags...a few with A.K.I.A (A Klansman I Am). https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/conte...e-Ku-Klux-Klan-in-South-Dakota-442066983.html Anyways, most people think of the KKK in terms of Confederate versus Blacks. I instead view the KKK in terms of White Supremacists versus Catholics. wrbtrader
I view them as incels, against everyone who points out the slightest reason why they might have responsibility for their condition.
White Supremacy and White Nationalism are words used more frequently in political debates but maybe because ethnic minorities (e.g. hispanics, blacks, indigenous, asians) are growing in power, education & numbers with the ability rise quickly and fight back. We do have a few of them (incels) making their home here at Elitetrader.com They are very public here (allowed) too...not hiding there frequent targeting of one particular ethnic group. wrbtrader
This article shows how the KKK was involved in education policy in the early 20th century. They wanted to eliminate Catholic schools and control the education across the nation with their white nationalist agenda. They worked with the NEA and pushed for compulsory public schooling and a federal education department. This article reminds us to always be cautious and examine the motives behind education policy changes.