Looks like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is not terribly pleased with one of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders – “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
Admittedly a rather lengthy executive order to review, here are some of the key highlights, annotated for convenience.
“Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” the executive order noted.
So, in other words, the executive order is extending the same concerns regarding DEI addressed in previous executive orders.
Though the remarks on rewriting bring to mind the likes of “critical race theory,” a course that has a seemingly casual relationship with historical facts.
A more “revisionist” history, to be exact – especially when proclaiming that the United States was founded in 1620 with slaves’ arrival, rather than the 1776 victory against the United Kingdom, formerly referred to as Great Britain.
Which is precisely why the executive order tackles revisionist history.
“This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light. Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed,” the order added.
The executive order also blasts the enormous degree of “national shame” inflicted by such an order, especially when major national museums appear to follow suit.
For instance, the executive order cites the Smithsonian Institution as an entity that “has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
In other words, the DEI ideology, as widely perceived by many, has steadily infiltrated just about every possible national institution that one could think of.
The order in its entirety may be reviewed here.
Unsurprisingly, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was none too pleased.
In fact, he was so displeased that he decided to get the Supreme Court involved, as evidenced by his rather pointed letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
“It is imperative that you, along with your fellow Regents, continue the storied legacy of the Smithsonian that tells the American story honestly and completely. President Trump’s proclamation, which seeks to whitewash our history, is cowardly and unpatriotic. It must fail,” Jeffries gravely intoned in a grim letter to the Court.
How will the nation’s highest court respond?
Time remains to be seen, but it is pretty clear that any Supreme Court response is likely to be a real wild card …
Especially following rather startling midnight decisions on migrants.
Author: Ofelia Thornton
