Trump redirecting almost $500M to HBCUs

[SkyBubble]

How racist of him, huh? More proof that he hates black people, just like in his first term.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=68c87c92811f41fb925c7535d0dfaef6&ei=19
The Trump administration announced Monday that nearly $500 million in federal funds will be redirected to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs).

HBCUs and TCCUs will get a one-time investment of $495 million on top of what is going in the 2025 federal budget, totaling an increase of 48.4 percent for HBCUs and 109.3 percent for TCCUs.
Charter schools are also seeing a boost in their funding of $500 million from the Department of Education, along with American history and civics grants getting an extra $160 million investment.

The federal agency said the money is repurposed from other programs “that the Department determined are not in the best interest of students and families.”

“Today, the Department is making three massive investments — redirecting financial support away from ineffective and discriminatory programs toward those which support student success. We are proud to make the largest investment in the Charter Schools Grants Program in the Department’s history, support American history programs that will inspire young people to be active and informed citizens, and recognize Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ and Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities’ historic contributions to improving education and opportunity in our country,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.

“The Department has carefully scrutinized our federal grants, ensuring that taxpayers are not funding racially discriminatory programs but those programs which promote merit and excellence in education. The Trump Administration will use every available tool to meaningfully advance educational outcomes and ensure every American has the opportunity to succeed in life,” she added.

The news comes days after McMahon said her department was ending discretionary funding to multiple Minority-Serving Institutions grant programs due to the institutions’ requirements to “meet racial or ethnic quotas.”

 

[DeluxAuto]

How racist of him, huh? More proof that he hates black people, just like in his first term.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=68c87c92811f41fb925c7535d0dfaef6&ei=19
The Trump administration announced Monday that nearly $500 million in federal funds will be redirected to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs).

HBCUs and TCCUs will get a one-time investment of $495 million on top of what is going in the 2025 federal budget, totaling an increase of 48.4 percent for HBCUs and 109.3 percent for TCCUs.
Charter schools are also seeing a boost in their funding of $500 million from the Department of Education, along with American history and civics grants getting an extra $160 million investment.

The federal agency said the money is repurposed from other programs “that the Department determined are not in the best interest of students and families.”

“Today, the Department is making three massive investments — redirecting financial support away from ineffective and discriminatory programs toward those which support student success. We are proud to make the largest investment in the Charter Schools Grants Program in the Department’s history, support American history programs that will inspire young people to be active and informed citizens, and recognize Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ and Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities’ historic contributions to improving education and opportunity in our country,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.

“The Department has carefully scrutinized our federal grants, ensuring that taxpayers are not funding racially discriminatory programs but those programs which promote merit and excellence in education. The Trump Administration will use every available tool to meaningfully advance educational outcomes and ensure every American has the opportunity to succeed in life,” she added.

The news comes days after McMahon said her department was ending discretionary funding to multiple Minority-Serving Institutions grant programs due to the institutions’ requirements to “meet racial or ethnic quotas.”

How to say you don't know how politicians buy votes without saying it.

 

[PintlerMan]

What a racist. He's doing this to confuse people, like he did his 1st term, and then Jabiden took it away to protect those schools from him.

 

[SkyBubble]

How to say you don't know how politicians buy votes without saying it.

He can't run again, so what votes is he buying?

 

[DeluxAuto]

He can't run again, so what votes is he buying?

Holy Derpy!

 

[RobDownSouth]

He can't run again, so what votes is he buying?

He needs MAGA to win the midterms so he can complete his Make Murican White Only Again agenda without congressional interference.

 

[DraggonStone]

Epstein

 

[latecomer91364]

Weak fucking shit from the lying leftists.

A good thing is really bad, depending on how you twist it, right?

 

[Rotadom]

He needs MAGA to win the midterms so he can complete his Make Murican White Only Again agenda without congressional interference.

Nice way to explain it to him like he was five.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The Trump administration announced Monday that nearly $500 million in federal funds will be redirected to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs).

HBCUs and TCCUs will get a one-time investment of $495 million on top of what is going in the 2025 federal budget, totaling an increase of 48.4 percent for HBCUs and 109.3 percent for TCCUs.

The federal agency said the money is repurposed from other programs “that the Department determined are not in the best interest of students and families.”

Blatant DEI funding practices!

WOKE programs designed to defund predominantly white colleges purely based on RACE!!

The woke COMMUNIST Trump administration is attacking MERITOCRACY!!!

It’s no surprise that pinko socialist racialist MAGA sheep promote this garbage.

 

[RoryN]

How racist of him, huh?

1. Trump's biggest mentor, Roy Cohn - a man he still idolizes today, and whom helped to shape his character - regularly referred to African Americans as "n*ggers." (Which deterred Trump not one iota.)

2. Trump's second-biggest mentor, real-estate mogul William Levitt, did more to harm African Americans from a wealth perspective than any other single American besides John Rankin, and did so as an overtly, proudly-racist businessman. It was a cornerstone of his success.

3. If Obama or Biden had connections like these, you Deplorables would be screaming about them every hour to this day.

Buh bye, and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

 

[YDB95]

1. They got the money by cutting funding for other universities, which was intended to benefit Latino students.
2. This does not sound at all like a decision Trump would have made himself. That someone in his administration sees value in HBCUs is great, but you can bet Trump himself had little or nothing to do with it. I'd be surprised if he even knows what a HBCU is.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Rory is pissed. Hates HBCUs.

 

[Lazaran]

1. They got the money by cutting funding for other universities, which was intended to benefit Latino students.
2. This does not sound at all like a decision Trump would have made himself. That someone in his administration sees value in HBCUs is great, but you can bet Trump himself had little or nothing to do with it. I'd be surprised if he even knows what a HBCU is.

Yeah, DonOld gives zero fuck (less than zero fucks) about HBCUs other than how diverting funding to them helps him politically - transactional & temporary are two words that spring to mind when I think about this latest “shiny object” to distract from other issues (Jeffrey Epstein, Ukraine, Gaza, and the price of "GROCERIES!!!" - the economy -etc).



DonOld cares as much about HBCUs as he does about Charlie Kirk - DonOld used Charlie Kirk’s death for the brief positive publicity bump, and then DonOld ghosted the Charlie Kirk vigil to play golf.



I also expect DonOld will betray the black community in some other way to offset the HBCU funding bribe.



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[stxjimmy]

1. Trump's biggest mentor, Roy Cohn - a man he still idolizes today, and whom helped to shape his character - regularly referred to African Americans as "n*ggers." (Which deterred Trump not one iota.)

2. Trump's second-biggest mentor, real-estate mogul William Levitt, did more to harm African Americans from a wealth perspective than any other single American besides John Rankin, and did so as an overtly, proudly-racist businessman. It was a cornerstone of his success.

3. If Obama or Biden had connections like these, you Deplorables would be screaming about them every hour to this day.

Buh bye, and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Could you clarify #2 further please?

 

[RoryN]

Could you clarify #2 further please?

William Levitt

Racial segregation​

Levitt refused to integrate his developments. The Jewish Levitt barred Jews from Strathmore, his first pre-Levittown development on Long Island in New York, and he refused to sell his homes to African Americans.[14][15] His sales contracts also forbade the resale of properties to blacks through restrictive covenants, although in 1957 a Jewish couple resold their house to the first black family to live in a Levitt home.[16] Levitt's all-white policies also led to civil rights protests in Bowie, Maryland in 1963.[13][17] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union opposed Levitt's racist policies, and the Federal Housing Administration prepared to refuse mortgages on his next Levittown. Nevertheless, Levitt would not back down and continued planning another whites-only Levittown in Willingboro Township, New Jersey. He fought legal challenges in New Jersey courts until the United States Supreme Court refused to hear his case.[18]

**

The Racist Origins Of America’s Suburbs And The Story Of The First Black Family To Move In

(Worth noting that Levitt's policies were copied in many places around the United States.)

**

"At night [Levitt] would go to these major sites with teams of people and he'd scour the sites for nails and sawdust and small pieces of wood," he said. "And they'd clean the site so when the workers came in the next morning, the sites would be spotless and clean, and he did it properly. And he did this for 20 years, and then he was offered a lot of money for his company...He had a very interesting life...I won't go any more than that because you're Boy Scouts, so I'm not going to tell you what he did."

The crowd groaned.

"Should I tell you? Should I tell you?" Trump asked.

The crowd responded with an enthusiastic "yes."

"Oh, you're Boy Scouts, but you know life," Trump said. "You know life."

Trump talked about how Levitt "failed badly" after he bought back his company, and then he went on to detail a cocktail party.

"I was very young, and I go in — but I'm in the real estate business — and I see 100 people, some of whom I recognize and they're big in the entertainment business. And I see, sitting in the corner, was a little old man who was all by himself. Nobody was talking to him. I immediately recognized that that man was the once great William Levitt of Levittown, and I immediately went over — I wanted to talk to him more than the Hollywood show business communications people." - Speech to the Boy Scouts, July 2017

**

“I’ll just tell you a little story about a great real estate developer named William Levitt. He built Levittown. Some of you might live in a Levittown. He was the biggest developer in the country in the 1940s. He started with one house, then two, then twenty, then thousands and thousands....He was great at what he did...You see him all over the country, still Levittowns. This was a long time ago, but he was a first of the really, really big home builders, and he became very rich, a very rich man..." - May, 2025

 

[stxjimmy]

William Levitt

Racial segregation​

Levitt refused to integrate his developments. The Jewish Levitt barred Jews from Strathmore, his first pre-Levittown development on Long Island in New York, and he refused to sell his homes to African Americans.[14][15] His sales contracts also forbade the resale of properties to blacks through restrictive covenants, although in 1957 a Jewish couple resold their house to the first black family to live in a Levitt home.[16] Levitt's all-white policies also led to civil rights protests in Bowie, Maryland in 1963.[13][17] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union opposed Levitt's racist policies, and the Federal Housing Administration prepared to refuse mortgages on his next Levittown. Nevertheless, Levitt would not back down and continued planning another whites-only Levittown in Willingboro Township, New Jersey. He fought legal challenges in New Jersey courts until the United States Supreme Court refused to hear his case.[18]

**

The Racist Origins Of America’s Suburbs And The Story Of The First Black Family To Move In

(Worth noting that Levitt's policies were copied in many places around the United States.)

**

"At night [Levitt] would go to these major sites with teams of people and he'd scour the sites for nails and sawdust and small pieces of wood," he said. "And they'd clean the site so when the workers came in the next morning, the sites would be spotless and clean, and he did it properly. And he did this for 20 years, and then he was offered a lot of money for his company...He had a very interesting life...I won't go any more than that because you're Boy Scouts, so I'm not going to tell you what he did."

The crowd groaned.

"Should I tell you? Should I tell you?" Trump asked.

The crowd responded with an enthusiastic "yes."

"Oh, you're Boy Scouts, but you know life," Trump said. "You know life."

Trump talked about how Levitt "failed badly" after he bought back his company, and then he went on to detail a cocktail party.

"I was very young, and I go in — but I'm in the real estate business — and I see 100 people, some of whom I recognize and they're big in the entertainment business. And I see, sitting in the corner, was a little old man who was all by himself. Nobody was talking to him. I immediately recognized that that man was the once great William Levitt of Levittown, and I immediately went over — I wanted to talk to him more than the Hollywood show business communications people." - Speech to the Boy Scouts, July 2017

**

“I’ll just tell you a little story about a great real estate developer named William Levitt. He built Levittown. Some of you might live in a Levittown. He was the biggest developer in the country in the 1940s. He started with one house, then two, then twenty, then thousands and thousands....He was great at what he did...You see him all over the country, still Levittowns. This was a long time ago, but he was a first of the really, really big home builders, and he became very rich, a very rich man..." - May, 2025

Thank you.

 

[ll74]

So this isn't considered DEI by the right?

That's a new one

 

[MajorRewrite]

Rory is pissed. Hates HBCUs.

Babyboo supports “woke DEI” (when Donnie tells him to).

Mindless MAGA sheep are funny.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Holy Derpy!

What a well thought out reply.

 

[eric_erosfan]

I thought the Department of Education was closed down. How do they have money?

 

[Lazaran]

Babyboo supports “woke DEI” (when Donnie tells him to).

Mindless MAGA sheep are funny.

You mean, let me understand this cause, you know maybe it's me, it's a little fucked up maybe, but they’re funny how, I mean funny like a clown, they amuse you? They make you laugh, they’re here to fucking amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How are MAGAts funny?



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[DeluxAuto]

What a well thought out reply.

Did you think the idiocy I replied to was "well thought out?" Go back to bed, shit for brains.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I thought the Department of Education was closed down. How do they have money?

They HAVE cut back on the vast majority of their programs.
They still have a large amount of unspent funds allocated by Congress just sitting in bank accounts until the end of the fiscal year in September.
Trump is simply using this as a personal slush fund.

 

[Saint_Ann]

1. Trump's biggest mentor, Roy Cohn - a man he still idolizes today, and whom helped to shape his character - regularly referred to African Americans as "n*ggers." (Which deterred Trump not one iota.)

2. Trump's second-biggest mentor, real-estate mogul William Levitt, did more to harm African Americans from a wealth perspective than any other single American besides John Rankin, and did so as an overtly, proudly-racist businessman. It was a cornerstone of his success.

3. If Obama or Biden had connections like these, you Deplorables would be screaming about them every hour to this day.

Buh bye, and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

You mean racists like Rev. Wright?