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Big Government Bob once again displays either his ignorence or his shooting from the hip without knowing what he is talking about. Hillsdale College was founded by abolitionists and has admitted black students since it was founded in 1844. That was a time that many northern states had "Black Codes" that were far more draconian in stripping black people of their rights than the later Jim Crow laws. In spite of those Black Codes, Hillsdale took a stand and admitted black students. "KKK" "white supremacy" Nonsense! You are an uninformed blowhard, Big Government Bob.

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 10:15 pm By: Conservative Voter

Said the smartest man in the room. Bahahahahaha

Commented: Friday, April 28th, 2023 @ 4:03 pm By: Big Bob

All you have to offer, Bob is the ideological rhetoric of the political left, and that is certainly NOT "truth". For example two of the "woke" distortions of history that are often put forward by the left, CRT (Critical Race Theory) and the 1619 Project both grossly distort facts to try to advance political points. The inventor of the 1619 Project has even admitted it is not history.

Critical Race Theory is part of Critical Theory, which was developed by Herbert Marcuse, a university professor who had been chief ideologue of the German Communist Party during the Weimar Republic. Marcuse's goal was to find other ways to create divisions in society since Marx's economic divide had failed to work for the German Communists. Critical Race Theory was developed a bit later by a group of Marxist law professors as a specific part of Marcuse's Critical Theory. All of Critical Theory is designed to do one thing, and that is divid society so that the far left can politically exploit those divisions.

Why is this all so dangerous? I will give you another quote from George Orwell: "The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth." I think Orwell hit the nail on the head as to your version of "truth" and why you on the far left constantly push the distortion of history.

Commented: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 10:03 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Hillsdale's course is tradional history, not the woke crap that is being taught in so many public schools. It is used across the country and is a respected program. The racist program is CRT or its clones DEI or ESG, which are distorted history. As George Orwell wrote, "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." That is what the far left is now trying to do to our history.

Commented: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 2:39 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The problem seems to be that we have a number of shallow whiny school board members who are complete rubber stamps for a superintendant who is in thick with the education establishment and are taking orders from him, instead of representing the parents, citiens, and taxpayers who elected them. If they don't get their focus back on the public instead of brown nosing the supreintendant, they will have a big comeupance in the next elections.

Commented: Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 @ 4:52 pm By: John Steed

The education committee, keeping an eye on the school board, is beginning to pay off.

However, there are many more cow piles to be turned over.

More volunteers and more information, fed to the right places will be helpful.

Commented: Monday, April 24th, 2023 @ 6:26 am By: Hood Richardson