trumpy cuts money to combant racism

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-slashes-grant-group-combatting-white-extremism-48241669



The Trump administration on Friday slashed $400,000 in federal funding for one of the few U.S. groups that combat white extremism but denied it is now focusing only on fighting radical Islamists.
A grant announcement by the Department of Homeland Security eliminated funding for the Chicago-based Life After Hate, which was initially awarded the money in January during the closing days of the Obama administration.
Life After Hate, run by a former skinhead, is among a handful of domestic programs dedicated to helping people leave white power groups including neo-Nazi organizations and the Ku Klux Klan, and it was the only one of the original grant recipients dedicated solely to combatting white extremism.
The co-founder of Life After Hate, Christian Picciolini, said in an emailed statement, "While it's disappointing that DHS broke its promise to us by changing the rules to the grant after we'd already won it, it is more alarming that the current administration is refusing to acknowledge that white nationalist extremists are a major domestic terrorist threat."
Picciolini has publicly criticized the Trump administration for ties to white extremists. He pledged to continue serving those in need.
 
Neo-nazis, skinheads, and Klan are an important constituency and most enthusiastic supporters of our morbidly overweight Orange Clown.

So my take is this amounts to a political reward, a gratuity to America's reich wing.
 
why is this group entitled to federal grants? go do some fundraising..the fed's are not your piggy bank
 
The agency said the grants, awarded under the Combatting Violent Extremism program, will target "all forms of violent extremism, including the rising threat from Islamist terrorism." Spokesman David Lapan this week denied the program is now concentrating only on Islamic extremism.

Grant applications were re-evaluated based on factors including whether an organization had a track record of combatting violent extremism, the department said, and groups that didn't were eliminated.
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ridiculous. It appears this organization had no actual track record..But the entire concept of getting DHS funding is bogus.
 
evince said:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-slashes-grant-group-combatting-white-extremism-48241669



The Trump administration on Friday slashed $400,000 in federal funding for one of the few U.S. groups that combat white extremism but denied it is now focusing only on fighting radical Islamists.
A grant announcement by the Department of Homeland Security eliminated funding for the Chicago-based Life After Hate, which was initially awarded the money in January during the closing days of the Obama administration.
Life After Hate, run by a former skinhead, is among a handful of domestic programs dedicated to helping people leave white power groups including neo-Nazi organizations and the Ku Klux Klan, and it was the only one of the original grant recipients dedicated solely to combatting white extremism.
The co-founder of Life After Hate, Christian Picciolini, said in an emailed statement, "While it's disappointing that DHS broke its promise to us by changing the rules to the grant after we'd already won it, it is more alarming that the current administration is refusing to acknowledge that white nationalist extremists are a major domestic terrorist threat."
Picciolini has publicly criticized the Trump administration for ties to white extremists. He pledged to continue serving those in need.
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Chicago is not having a white on black killing problem. White extremism is not the reason for all the black murders in that city. I am sure those monies could be better spent on a real solution to what is happening there.
 
"Money to combat racism?"

How many more years and generations do we throw this solution at the wall and watch it slide down that wall into the streets and into the gutter?
If money cured racism, the patient would have been well by now. It's not. Just how much money does it take, over what period of time does it yield love in a person's heart?

As if there are no wealth-laden racists in 'upper' society?
As if there are no racists with fist-fulls of cold hard cash in the inner cities from crime, welfare fraud and drug deals?
Combatting racism begins in the hearts, souls and minds...not in the wallet or the coffers.

It's a moral problem. How often we hear over and over especially from the left that the government has no business funding, preaching or addressing morality. And, that government money should not be given to organizations preaching, expressing or teaching morality, such as churches. Yet, we're all supposed to be fine with the government giving money to other groups who teach it which have yielded no results. It doesn't require cash to instill good and virtuous behavior in a person.
 
Stretch said:
"Money to combat racism?"

How many more years and generations do we throw this solution at the wall and watch it slide down that wall into the streets and into the gutter?
If money cured racism, the patient would have been well by now. It's not. Just how much money does it take, over what period of time does it yield love in a person's heart?

As if there are no wealth-laden racists in 'upper' society?
As if there are no racists with fist-fulls of cold hard cash in the inner cities from crime, welfare fraud and drug deals?
Combatting racism begins in the hearts, souls and minds...not in the wallet or the coffers.

It's a moral problem. How often we hear over and over especially from the left that the government has no business funding, preaching or addressing morality. And, that government money should not be given to organizations preaching, expressing or teaching morality, such as churches. Yet, we're all supposed to be fine with the government giving money to other groups who teach it which have yielded no results. It doesn't require cash to instill good and virtuous behavior in a person.
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I absolutely love this. Spot on. Accurate. And one can tell it was written with emotion. NICE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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