The Trump administration just announced that all public schools must do the following to receive federal education funding:

• Teach the Marxist roots of CRT, DEI, and show how ethnic studies promote hate, racial division, and destroy civilization.
• Teach how slavery was only possible because of the black tribes who captured other black tribes for money and sold them to Arab and European slave traders.
• Teach that transgenderism is biologically false and destroys children.
• Include alternative scientific theories to evolution in biology class.
• Present statistical data showing that homosexual lifestyles are linked to shorter lifespans, disease, and pedophilia.

Any school that fails to comply will lose federal funding immediately.

If you’re a conservative, you likely yelled “AMEN.” If you’re a liberal, you just screamed, “The Department of Education must be stopped!”

That’s the moment of clarity.

OK, he didn’t really do that, but you get the point.

The Department of Education doesn’t educate.
It doesn’t run a single school. It exists to coerce behavior through money. It takes your tax dollars, dangles them in front of your school, then says: “Comply with our social agenda—or your kids lose funding.”

It’s extortion in a suit and tie. And it doesn’t matter who’s president—the threat remains. The only thing that changes is the agenda.

The same Department of Education that forced LGBTQ+ policies on your children can be used tomorrow to enforce conservative values. And if that terrifies you as a liberal—it should! Because that’s the problem. No president should have that kind of power over your children’s education. Children’s education should be controlled by their parents.

In truth, education is a service, not a right. You should not be prevented from getting an education, but you have no right to force your neighbor to pay for that education at the point of an IRS agent’s gun. So the state should not be paying for it anyway. But until we get to that point, we need to deal with the situation.

The real headline this time was actually: The NAACP is suing the Trump administration, claiming that dismantling the DOE will roll back civil rights protections.

On its face, the headline sounds noble. Who wants to bring back racism? But that’s a red herring. A canard. A fear tactic. Dig one inch below the surface and the truth becomes impossible to ignore: this isn’t about racism. It’s about power. The power to control your child’s education. The power to hold your tax dollars hostage. And the power to dictate a social agenda—no matter what parents think.

We already have:

• The Civil Rights Act
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Title VI, Title IX, and Section 504

These are laws. They don’t disappear if the DOE does. They’re enforced by the courts and the Constitution. If the NAACP were right, then a new racist president—like Democrat Woodrow Wilson—could simply reinstate segregation by fiat. And if that were possible, the DOE wouldn’t stop it. It would enforce it.

So their argument collapses under its own weight.

Here’s the real betrayal: 80% of black parents want their kids out of public schools.

Why? Because public schools today are failing them. In some districts, black literacy rates are as low as 17%. Back when schools were segregated—yes, segregated—black literacy was over 70%. Today, the Department of Education has prioritized pronouns and gender ideology over reading and math. And the NAACP calls that progress?

Black parents want real education—not woke agendas. But the NAACP isn’t fighting for black families. It’s fighting for the bureaucracy. The system. The same broken machine that’s failed black children for generations.

And what’s worse? The DOE’s annual budget is now over $102 billion—money taken from taxpayers across the country. And instead of going directly to classrooms, most of it is funneled through layers of grants, paperwork, compliance offices, and political strings. Much of it doesn’t even make it to the schools—let alone to the teachers doing the actual teaching. That money should never have been taxed in the first place. It’s being used not to educate, but to coerce.

On a side note, that’s why Every Black Life Matters launched the Institute for Family and Community Advancement (IFCA)—a direct replacement for the failed NAACP, just as EBLM stood as the righteous alternative to BLM.

Just as the Trump administration disrupted stale political structures, IFCA is here to disrupt the failed advocacy models that have sold out black families for decades.

• We support school choice, not systems.
• We defend parental rights, not bureaucratic control.
• We rebuild communities from the ground up—not the top down.

If the Left is finally scared of what can happen when the DOE swings the other way, then now is the time to act. Ask Trump to push the DOE to force all the things the Left hates in an active way.

In the meantime, let’s see if we can’t win the right way. We call on Congress to do the right thing: Shut down the Department of Education—permanently. Not just for this presidency. Not just until the next election. End it. Abolish it. Never revive it.

Because education belongs to parents, not politicians. To small communities, not D.C. To truth—not ideology.

And if we can all finally agree—even for a moment—that no one should wield this kind of power… Then now is the time to bury it.

Once. And for all.

Until then, ask Trump to make the DOE do what the Left fears most. Send him this article. Post it. Share it. Tag him on X. Let’s see what happens.

Sources:

1. DOE Budget (~$102 billion):
   • Source: usaspending.gov
   • Direct link: usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-education
2. Federal contribution to public school funding (about 13.7%):
   • Source: usafacts.org
   • Direct link: usafacts.org/answers/what-percentage-of-public-school-funding-comes-from-the-federal-government/country/united-states
3. Administrative cost savings if DOE were eliminated (~$900 million/year):
   • Source: Cato Institute
   • Article: “How the Federal Government Spends $6.7 Trillion”
   • Direct link: cato.org/briefing-paper/how-federal-government-spends-67-trillion
4. Black literacy rates and historical comparison:
   • Multiple reports confirm low literacy in inner-city schools, with some areas showing as low as 17%. Historical data on black literacy post-segregation sourced from education historians and government archives. You can cite:
   • gov (National Center for Education Statistics) for current literacy rates
   • Thomas Sowell’s works on education and segregation for historical comparisons