Back when she was just one of Donald Trump’s least qualified nominees, Betsy DeVos was caught plagiarizing part of the answer to a written question from Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). Now that she’s one of Donald Trump’s least qualified cabinet members, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos … is still doing what can be most generously described as appropriating language from other sources.
Tuesday, DeVos followed up the outrageously offensive statement in which she suggested historically black colleges and universities came out of a desire for more “choice” and not out of violently enforced segregation with remarks at a luncheon in which she said of HBCUs that:
Today, your institutions are responsible for graduating the majority of African-American teachers, doctors, judges, engineers and other technological professionals.
Look at DeVos making a complimentary and factual statement there without even trying to erase the ugly history of Jim Crow!
And, uh, look at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund making essentially the same complimentary and factual statement:
HBCUs historically have provided an affordable education to millions of students of color, graduating the majority of America’s African American teachers, doctors, judges, engineers, and other scientific and technological professionals.
It’s a short passage, sure, but if DeVos had ever worked as an educator, she’d know that’s not acceptable.