Good morning from Washington, which President Biden left behind yesterday to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to mark the 100th anniversary of a long-suppressed massacre of black citizens by whites. As Fred Lucas reports, he also tried to score some political points. On the podcast, a teacher who isn’t rolling over for the new gender politics. Plus: the truth about the president’s runaway spending; vandals hit home for a congresswoman; and America’s odd aversion to voter ID. On this date in 1924, Congress passes legislation conferring citizenship on all Native Americans born within the nation’s territorial limits.
“They’re pushing what they believe and their agenda onto children who have minds that are like sponges and just absorb, absorb, absorb. They don’t have a developed frontal lobe,” says Jonathan Koeppel.
President Biden announces a plan to push for the government to buy from black-owned businesses and for infrastructure targeted at minority-majority areas to help close the “racial wealth gap.”
Multiple circle-A anarchist symbols and messages such as “all politicians are bastards,” “f--- you Nancy,” and “pass the pro act” were spray painted on Rep. Nancy Mace’s home and sidewalk.
Time and time again, I was treated by school faculty, doctors, and activists as “the enemy” for being unwilling to support my son’s sterilization and mutilation.
