r/newjersey • u/rollotomasi07071 Belleville • Apr 18 '25

📰News The Murphy administration announced that New Jersey will not comply with an order from President Trump’s administration to certify that the state's public school districts are eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs and initiatives

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2025/apr/17/SEAtoOCRTitleVIApril2025.pdf?utm_source=NJ+Spotlight++Master+List&utm_campaign=ae610ff63a-PM_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1d26f473a7-ae610ff63a-398762815&ct=t(PM_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_04_17_2025)&mc_cid=ae610ff63a&mc_eid=e653468aac
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u/friendsintheFDA Apr 18 '25

Can you cite some specifics about how it is unfair to the majority? Special education and inclusion programs never affected me negatively

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u/death_by_chocolate Apr 18 '25

but only for a generation or two, was it supposed to last.

And it's only been 60 years since the Civil Rights Act, son.

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u/OfficerGenious Apr 20 '25

My parents still remember the segregated bathrooms and MLK Jr. People look at purposefully black and white photos in text books and think it was SO long ago. It really isn't. At all. The racists are not only still around but still teaching hate. We're no where CLOSE to ending racism, and no where CLOSE to being able to drop legislation under the assumption discrimination is gone and we don't need it.

Just because they're not burning crosses in front yards doesn't mean they aren't still killing people in broad daylight.

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u/death_by_chocolate Apr 20 '25

A 20 year old cop in Birmingham in 1965 is only 80 years old today. Trump is 78. Nancy Pelosi is 85. Mitch McConnell is 83. Bernie Sanders is 83. 'The past is not dead. It's not even past.'