The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Trump & Dept. Of Education Eliminate All Race-Based Programs In Schools

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

Charlamagne Tha God Gives Donkey of The Day To Donald Trump's US Dept. Of Education, Who Eliminate All Race-Based Programs In Schools. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey, man, what are you into? I have the hookup. The hookup? The hookup for what? I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now? Poppers? Why are there so many poppers? All roads lead to... The hookup. You think it's causing people to turn aggro? I'm gonna rip your arms off and use them to... Yeah, that's a word for it.

Listen to The Hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories

in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians, people like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait. Listen and subscribe to Greatest Escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Catch Jon Stewart back in action on The Daily Show and in your ears with The Daily Show podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. What's happening now? Plus, you'll get special content just for podcast listeners, like in-depth interviews and a roundup of the week's top headlines.

Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Dressing. Dressing. Oh, French dressing. Exactly. Oh, that's good. I'm AJ Jacobs, and my current obsession is puzzles. And that has given birth to my podcast, The Puzzler.

Something about Mary Poppins? Exactly. This is fun. You can get your daily puzzle nuggets delivered straight to your ears. Listen to The Puzzler every day on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacy is violence. It always has been the number one threat to our society.

But I'm also very proud that my wife was white. That's a breakfast club, bitch. All right, Sean Lee, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? The way things are going, they're going to sign an executive order to make me change that intro soon. But Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, February 18th, goes to the US Department of Education. Well, should I say Donald Trump's US Department of Education? Now, if you haven't been paying attention to what's going on in the world because it hasn't popped up on Shade Room just yet, let me be the first to tell you

that Donald Trump and the Department of Education have decided to eliminate all race-based programs in schools. Okay and they got 14 days to get rid of it. That's right the Department of Education plans to cut funding for initiatives that address racial disparities in education. They will penalize schools that consider race in scholarships, hiring, and a bunch of other activities. Okay, they warn schools that they risk losing federal funding if they continue to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions are so much as nodded to race in all other aspects of student academic and campus life. Oh, I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go to the National Dessert Report, please.

Doge's newest target? Diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Department of Education, identifying 70 DEI training grants amounting to $373 million. According to Doge, one such grant trained teachers to engage in self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism. This comes as the Department of Education continues its crackdown on DEI programs and policies in schools. On Friday, the Acting Assistant Secretary sent out a letter reminding institutions any

discrimination based on race, color or national origin is illegal, adding institutions failing to comply with federal civil rights law face potential loss of federal funding. Critics quick to respond. What does this mean? Are they going to take away funding from historically black colleges? Are they going to take away funding from public schools that have a Latino student union? To me, it indicates just the fanatical obsession that this administration has in terms of going against DEI. This is America, 2025. You know America's core values allegedly

have always been liberty, equality, and justice. These values are supposed to be the foundation of American democracy. But they aren't, OK, never have been. It's liberty, equality, injustice for white men and then there's the rest of us. All right, in fact, the only reason things like affirmative action exist is because government needed a remedy for the effects of long-standing discrimination in this country. Now somebody needs to explain to me what's changed. Okay,

in a country where systemic racism is literally rooted in every institution, the solution is now to pretend that racism and other forms of discrimination just simply don't exist. Let's go back to doing things the way they were being done before these race-based programs existed so let's go back to doing what caused us to have to come up with the race-based programs to begin with. This is all part of a broader agenda to remove what they call wokeness from American education. Hey look, I don't care for wokeness either, okay? I believe most woke people just simply need some sleep.

But the reality is, wokeness and programs designed to level the playing field for marginalized students are not the same, okay? You can't just strip away those programs. That's like having a leaky roof and you decide to fix that leaky roof by removing the roof entirely. That would make no sense. Now this is also the latest step in the Trump administration's move to reshape programs intended to make things equal for historically underserved populations

as a form of racial discrimination. Craig Traynor, who's the Education Department's acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said related programs and scholarships, many of which have historically helped black and Latino students attain college degrees, our fine community had come at the expense of white and Asian students, many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Now, let me read to you a quote from Craig Trana because this is interesting. He said, and I quote, At its core, the test is simple. If an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person's race, the educational institution violates the law. Well, goddamn, how many institutions have treated white people differently and given them preferential treatment over every other other. Trainer says, put simply, educational institutions

may neither separate or segregate students based on race nor distribute benefits or burdens based on race. I could be wrong, because I am not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary, but we got to these race-based programs. We implemented things like affirmative action to make sure that policies and programs gave limited preferences to minorities and women, not just in institutions of higher education but job hiring, awarding of government

contracts, other social benefits. They had to implement these things because if they didn't, white privilege would rule everything around me. Education is supposed to be the great equalizer but how can it be when the very programs aimed at uplifting the underserved are being dismantled? Donald Trump and the Department of Education are sending a very clear message, and that message is F you niggas. They aren't interested in addressing the real issues of inequality in our schools. Instead they would rather gaslight us, tell us we trippin', sweep the inequality under

the rug, and then tell us to act like we don't see the lump So all these colleges that offer scholarships and grants specifically for students of certain ethnic backgrounds all that's just gone schools are just barred from using race and decisions pertaining to admissions and hiring and promotion compensation financial aid scholarships prizes administrative support discipline housing graduation ceremonies and all other aspects of student, academic, and campus life, who is gonna be policing this? Okay? What about America in 2025 should make any of us believe we can trust people to do the right thing in regards to prejudice and discrimination? Because if you ask me, what the

Department of Education is currently doing is indeed prejudice and discrimination. And you know the main reason we should teach the true history of America? So we don't repeat our mistakes. Winston Churchill once said, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We have learned nothing. And so here we are.

Please let Kathy Griffin give the Department of Education the biggest hee haw. Please give this giant jar of mail the biggest hee haw. Hee haw. Hee haw. Hee haw. It's cold world. Yes, it is. It's cold world.

It's crazy. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Mm-hmm. Donkey of the Day is sponsored by renowned personal injury attorney Michael the Bull Lamonsoff. Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on your side. If you're ever injured, go to michaelthebull.com,

that's michaelthebull.com, and when you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Wake that ass up. In the morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey man, what are you into? I have the hookup. The hookup?

The hookup for what? I'm solving a mystery through sex and haven't made a private dick joke until now? Poppers? Why are there so many poppers? All roads lead to... The hookup. You think it's causing people to turn aggro? I'm gonna rip your arms off and use them to...

Yeah, that's a word for it. Listen to the hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and Narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crowded enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians, people like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I love storytelling and I love you, so I can't wait. Listen and subscribe to Greatest Escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. to greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. John Stewart is back at The Daily Show and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Dive into John's unique take on the biggest topics in politics, entertainment, sports, and more.

Joined by the sharp voices of the shows, correspondents, and contributors. And with extended interviews and exclusive weekly headline roundups, this podcast gives you content you won't find anywhere else. Ready to laugh and stay informed? Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Dressing. Dressing. Dressing. French dressing. Exactly. I'm AJ Jacobs and my current obsession is puzzles. And that has given birth to my podcast, The Puzzler. Something about Mary Poppins. Exactly. This is fun. You can get your daily puzzle nuggets delivered straight to your ears. Listen to the puzzler every day on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.