After the Supremacist Court rulings, Wisconsin Republicans indicated they planned to rollback the meager assistance directed to minorities to attend University in Wisconsin.
"We are reviewing the decision and will introduce legislation to correct the discriminatory laws on the books and pass repeals in the fall," Vos, a Republican of Rochester, tweeted Thursday.
Vos was referring to the Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant program, which provides scholarships ranging from $250 to $2,500 to Black, Native American, Hispanic or Southeast Asian students to attend technical colleges, private nonprofit colleges and tribal colleges.
Vos' plan comes amid a broader Republican push to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within the University of Wisconsin System. The state budget, which passed both chambers this week, includes a $32 million cut to the UW System in an attempt to eliminate positions related to DEI.
The Republican Party has nothing to offer the American people so Robin Vos' headlong rush backwards should not be surprising. But, one of the key propaganda components for the last 50 years has been to tell the White Middle Class people, whom Republicans are oppressing, that the oppression actually comes from some unqualified black or woman who got their job. Vos has explicitly expressed the ridiculous rightwing claim the only discrimination that exists in America is so-called "Reverse-Racism".
"The overt racism, the overt exclusion, the overt indoctrination is so deep inside the UW System, I am embarrassed to be an alumni," said Vos, who graduated from UW-Whitewater in 1991. "We have got to fix that.”
When Republicans speak of "fixing" America they mean the goal of destroying the United States and replacing it with a Fundamentalist Apartheid Nation with religious edicts and White Supremacy as the new law of the land. To that end we see the Republicans in Wisconsin and across the country, curtailing voting rights, undoing protections for the less fortunate, gutting opportunities for minorities and the poor, and seeking to shackle women into child birth against their consent.
The Constitution is not color-blind. After southern conservatives launched their War in defense of Slavery and lost. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments tried to alleviate some of this and Southern Conservatives were furious. So, Southern Conservatives began a campaign of Terrorism and infiltration and subversion of the United States Government. Today, the lies and hatred of the South has permeated every State in the Nation.
Fortunately, for Wisconsin residents, despite having a large cadre of NeoConfederates undermining the State, Governor Tony Evers has used his powers to defend the Wisconsin working class and ensure those of modest or no financial means will be able to attend higher education.
Evers reduced the GOP income tax cut from $3.5 billion to $175 million, and did away entirely with lower rates for the two highest earning brackets. He also used his partial veto power to increase how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year until 2425.
Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425.
The Wisconsin Republican Legislature had proposed stealing half the Wisconsin budget surplus and funneling it to rich assholes. Because the Republican Party raison d'être is returning political power to the obscene Rich. We are faced with a violently Reactionary Supreme Court, financed by obscene Rich assholes, comprised of viciously mad old men who have conspired their whole lives to destroy the Progressive Era and undo any modest gains for the poor, the sick, the tired, the homeless, huddled masses, and re-establish the United States as it was intended by the Founders; a Nation with the Government and Power tightly controlled by the Rich who dispense concepts like Freedom, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness through the largesse or not at all if they so desire. A Neo-Confederate Nation under the Rule of Billionaire Class. Republicans have made their choice.
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