I am going to sue the University of Oregon and Oregon State for erasing history, and encouraging Caucasians as a whole to ignore their family history – and, be ashamed of it. I am for the naming the residence hall after Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and the Benton name restored at OSU
I have sent Governor Kotek many messages, and got no reply. I posted many times on her Facebook, and got no reply. I am wondering if she believes all white people, especially white men, are natural racists if they have an interest in their Family History. Because Lesbians do not sire children, and pass on a legacy to their children, they may find Historic Legacies – threatening! What I suspect, is, many white Democrats are voting Republican in order to save their culture – the best way they know how. There is a lot of talk about DEI being good for the children, but, there is no simple explanation what it is. Are there any Historic Success Stories? Why teach history at all if it is ruled the White Race has made only wrong history. Consider artistic and literary families. Here’s some horrific Japanese history.
John Presco
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Oregon rejects Trump administration’s school funding threat over DEI policies
By Rob Manning (OPB)
April 10, 2025 1:54 p.m.
Top officials in Oregon are refusing to sign off on a demand from the U.S. Department of Education that requires states to abandon policies related to diversity, equity and inclusion if they want to keep receiving federal funding for schools.
The four-page letter from the federal education department says “the continued use of illegal DEI practices may subject the individual or entity using such practices to serious consequences,” such as eliminating federal funding for state education departments or school districts.
Earlier this week, Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal pushed back against the letter. Now, Gov. Tina Kotek and Director of the Oregon Department of Education Charlene Williams are doing the same.
“The Trump Administration’s threat to shortchange Oregon students hurts children and families and undermines the dedication and work of our educators,” Kotek wrote in a statement Thursday. “We will not tolerate this unwarranted and unlawful attempt to take away resources promised to Oregon students and paid for by the tax dollars we send to the federal government.”
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In its letter demanding an abandonment of DEI policies, the U.S. Department of Education cites the Supreme Court ruling in SFFA v. Harvard. While that case involves race-conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities, leaders in the Trump Administration are using the decision as a basis for outlawing diversity policies “more broadly.”
Both Oregon and Washington officials argue that the states have already submitted the certifications and affirmations as required by federal law. In Oregon’s response letter, Williams argues that the demands in the April 4 letter from the U.S. Department of Education are “duplicative, unnecessary, and unduly burdensome.”
Williams’ response continues: “Oregon remains fiercely committed to its values of diversity, equity and inclusion, and we celebrate our differences and common humanity.” The letter claims a “moral and ethical obligation” to defend public education, and to ensure “children can learn and thrive in safe, welcoming, and supportive environments.”
Oregon’s response cites a handful of court cases that officials say suggest the need for regulatory processes to validate the sudden shift in education policy implied by the federal government’s letter. The state’s letter also says the demand from the federal government is “unclear” because terms such as “illegal DEI” are not defined.
In emphasizing the abrupt change underway since President Donald Trump returned to office, ODE’s letter noted a different attitude from education leaders during Trump’s first term. The letter said “former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos informed USDOE staff in 2020 that ‘[d]iversity and inclusion are the cornerstones of high organizational performance.‘”
Last month, Trump initiated an effort to close the education department entirely, on the heels of starting the process of firing numerous federal education staff.
The response from state leaders comes as local school officials in Oregon have been reaching out to parents and staff. In a message to the North Clackamas School District community Thursday, Superintendent Shay James reinforced support for values that “build relationships with students that honor their cultural heritage, foster their well-being, and engage each student to reach their full potential.”
James encouraged teachers to “continue focusing on what we can control: building trusting relationships with students and families, providing excellent instruction, and modeling calm and care.”
Japanese racism towards the Chinese
LAURENCE REES: And isn’t there also a straightforward element of racism, which is that they believe the Chinese are completely inferior to them?
AKIRA IRIYE: I’m not so sure about that aspect of it. Compared to the Germans I don’t think the Japanese sense of racial superiority is that specific. There is a sense of Japan’s superiority politically speaking. I think the sense of Japan’s superiority fundamentally comes from the fact that Japan is a unique country because of its emperor system, it’s a divine country, that kind of thing. That is not because of the racial factor, it’s not that Japan is a unique country and superior country because of its race, because, after all, the Chinese and Koreans and Vietnamese are all the same ethnic group and Japanese people understand that. Even today you really can’t tell the difference when you encounter somebody walking in the street whether that person is Chinese or Korean or Vietnamese or Japanese and so I don’t think there is that.
LAURENCE REES: Many of the Japanese veterans I’ve met talked of how they were told to believe that the Chinese were like dogs…
AKIRA IRIYE: Yes, that may be right. It’s not so much racism as probably less civilised perhaps. And there’s a real contradiction there because they’re less civilised in the Japanese and Western ways, that is that they are not as strong militarily, economically and otherwise, and they are not as well educated, but there is that sense that they have to grudgingly admire the Chinese for continuing to put up their resistance, and so I think if there was any kind of racism it had to be less blatant than the Nazi racism. After all, the Japanese did have Taiwan, and the Taiwan people are Chinese, and they say that the rule by the Japanese tended to be more benign; there were not really many brutal incidents in Taiwan. And there were still a lot of Taiwanese and Koreans who were living in Japan and studying in Japan and there may have been some sense of discrimination against them as ethnic groups, and not so much in terms of their race.
LAURENCE REES: So the predominant reason you would say that there were these appalling atrocities committed by the Japanese in China was because of a lack of dscipline and a sense of frustration that the war was going badly.
AKIRA IRIYE: Yes, they lacked the discipline because of the prolongation of war and also their sense that they have been freed from any kind of constraint enforced on them by their sense of world opinion; they’d left the League of Nations and they have the sense that there are really no universal values any more and they were free to do whatever they wanted to do.
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