DeVos Pick For Civil Rights Office: White Woman Who Claims Anti-White Discrimination
Donald Trump’s presidency has characterized as “opposite land” – an EPA head who doesn’t believe in protecting the enforcement, Rick Perry running the department he once forgot he wanted to abolish and Education Secretary who never went to public school, never sent her kids to public school and thinks there shouldn’t be public schools.
And speaking of Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s Education Secretary just appointed a new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. And in a shocking turn of events, she’s a white woman who once alleged she faced discrimination for being white.
Candice Jackson, according to ProPublica, has a very limited background in civil rights work.
“A longtime anti-Clinton activist and an outspoken conservative-turned-libertarian, she has denounced feminism and race-based preferences. She’s also written favorably about, and helped edit a book by, an economist who decried both compulsory education and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964,” ProPublica noted.
This is how ProPublic described it, “Jackson’s inexperience, along with speculation that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will roll back civil rights enforcement, lead some observers to wonder whether Jackson, like several other Trump administration appointees, lacks sympathy for the traditional mission of the office she’s been chosen to lead.”
Jackson will be in charge of 55o full-time staff who are responsible for investigating civil rights complaints.
You can read the full ProPublica story here.
