Breaking: D.C. public schools were not invited to mostly white White House Easter Egg Roll

[riversedge]

Tuesday, April 18th, 2017

Breaking: D.C. public schools were not invited to mostly white White House Easter Egg Roll
By Tommy Christopher | April 18, 2017

Even as Donald Trump's administration was demanding gratitude for holding an Easter event which has been held for 139 years, they excluded children from the predominantly-Black Washington, D.C., public schools. But they did make sure to have an all-white band on hand to perform slave spirituals and soul music.
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump kicked off the week by holding his first-ever White House Easter Egg Roll, and forgetting to hold his hand over his heart during the National Anthem.

Nevertheless, the event managed to earn him fair-to-glowing press from the likes of The New York Times and The Washington Post, the latter of which reported that “despite concerns, all seemed to go off without a hitch.”

Aside from the thin crowds and Trump’s anthem gaffe, however, there was actually a major hitch: Unlike previous Easter Egg Rolls under President Obama, children from the Washington, D.C., public schools were not invited, as a spokesperson for the district confirmed in an email to Shareblue.

It was a glaring absence, unnoticed by a corporate media desperate for a positive narrative, in an event that was notably lacking in diversity, as illustrated by other choices that the Trump White House made. For example, the musical acts that performed on the “Bunny Hop Stage” at the event were almost entirely white — even the ones who stood in for The Jackson Five:............................

[luvMIdog]

1. well I freaking noticed it right off the bat! nt

[olegramps]

61. Just another dog-whistle to his fascist constituents. Nothing more than Purity of the race crap.

I have no regard for the MSM. They allowed a demagogue to run virtually unchallenged. He is nothing more than a detestable fascist. When in the hell are the people going to rise up against the Republican Party that starting with
Reagan has been transformed into a party that is no different than the Nazis. They are nothing more that White Supremacists.

[sharedvalues]

2. Corporate media - that's the problem.

[liberal N proud]

3. Not a surprise at all, just part of the racist nature of this regime

But the children of DC probably spared bullying from trump and his minions.

[2naSalit]

4. True that! ...nt

[sheshe2]

5. tRump terrifying babies...again.

[LakeArenal]

40. Which of the three is the biggest baby....

[sheshe2]

41. Lol

[niyad]

6. does this surprise any of us??? not in the least.. .

[calimary]

7. Yep.

Link:

http://shareblue.com/breaking-d-c-public-schools-were-not-invited-to-mostly-white-white-house-easter-egg-roll/

I saw a photo in which there was exactly ONE black kid in a cluster of what looked like maybe 20 kids who were being read to. But every other photo I saw looked like Easter for sheet-heads. Granted, I didn't see ALL the photos, but the ones I did see suggested that the attendance was not exactly multi-color.

[pangaia]

13. Did you catch Kelly Ann (AKA the White House Easter Moose,) with a little tongue slip

right at the start of the interview interview said "First Lady Michele, I mean Melania trump................ ?

OOppssie

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. I was too busy listening to the Loony Tunes theme behind her.

[calimary]

42. I've been completely changed by something I saw in the coverage of the marches.

Somebody had a protest sign that addressed "SMELLYANNE" !

[toddwv]

45. Oooh I like it.

I hereby officially change my reference for her to Smellyanne Conaway.

[Cryptoad]

8. Those Public Ed Kids are,,,

kids of lazyAss poor working folks, they dont deserve any Easter.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Well, come on guys. It is the *White* House, after all.

I mean, who do you think built it?


The preceding message was brought to you by Sean Spicer.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. No loss for the DC kids, AFAIC. . .

Heck, the DC schools had already boycotted the Inaugural earlier this year, and did not send any marching bands, IIRC.

[Nonhlanhla]

11. Well, obviously

It is, after all, simply part of the Make American White Again approach of this presidency.

[NastyRiffraff]

14. Historically, DC public schools have been given a block of tickets

but it's no surprise that they were left out this year. Betsy DeVos must be proud.

[ancianita]

15. That there is the ugly classist, racist global elitism Trump aspires to. The White House reflects

all the ugly lifelong bigotry and contempt for the public and their children that all his wealth can't hide.

This man has never really cared about America, except for what it can deliver unto him and how good it can make him look.

[tclambert]

16. Hey, the eggs were colored

despite Steve Bannon pushing for only white eggs.

[Ilsa]

19. Okay. I vote your reply for thread winner,

Even though I'm going

[dalton99a]

18. Can the racism be any more obvious?

[Retrograde]

20. Their families didn't vote for Trump, so what do they expect?

IIRC, DC went heavily for Clinton in 2016. Trump is a petty grudge-holder. Ergo, no kids from DC schools.

This is the administration of and for the 1%. If you (or your parents) can't help line Trump's pockets he sees no need for you.

[Ilsa]

21. I noticed it in the pics I saw: ten white kids, one hispanic, one black.

Doesn't surprise me that my suspicions were confirmed.

[Hekate]

22. Same here. I was blinded by the white -- and I'm white myself. Damn I miss the Obamas & Bidens.

[gopiscrap]

27. Me too!!!

[Doreen]

30. So, they had a token black and a token hispanic. Gee, how mighty white of them.

[Ilsa]

34. Exactly. They probably had to look everywhere on the grounds to round them

up for the photo-op. I wonder if they found an asian child to throw into the mix, but we couldn't tell because they were looking away.

[Doreen]

37. They could have been hiding in a bush shivering out of pure fear alos.

[Fast Walker 52]

23. fucking outrageous. I hate this WhiteHouse with a passion!

[B Stieg]

24. Who wrote the guest list?

Let me guess.

Betsy DeVos.

[Sunlei]

25. because as usual!,Republican Trump WH forgot until the egg maker told them deadline for order!

There wasn't time to mail out tickets/invites and arrange real entertainment for children.

[ATL Ebony]

33. Nice but I can't buy that excuse

If they had time to send ANY tickets/invites to the small crowd there was certainly time to include the school district which should have been at top of the list.

[Sunlei]

48. Republicans can't even finish the transition. Our country doesn't even have a decent website.

so fucking incompetent

[ATL Ebony]

57. It's alright, hoping he's leaving soon anyway.

[Crash2Parties]

54. And even then they really skimped.

"Mr Trump's team was expected to hand out 18,000 wooden eggs to around 20,000 people, compared to his predecessor Barack Obama who welcomed 37,000 guests and handed out 85,000 eggs."

Even Betsy DeVoss could work out those ratios.

[gopiscrap]

26. totally fucked up

I did notice the pictures I saw made that hunt look awfully homogenous

[Achilleaze]

28. republican 'family values" role model: lewd, crude, rude and...

socially unacceptable draft-&-tax-dodging casino sharpie.

I do not want my kids to grow up seeing republican role model & evil empire symp, Comrade Casino, as someone they should strive to be like. He & his cabal really are freakin deplorable.

[oberliner]

29. Link?

Source?

[randome]

31. Spicer: "They weren't invited to safeguard their privacy! Next question!"

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[oberliner]

32. The tickets were distributed via an online lottery

This is another non-story.

[randome]

38. Whoops.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Tanuki]

62. "Tickets were allocated to schools,

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/17/politics/white-house-easter-egg-roll/
"Tickets were allocated to schools, children' hospitals and military and law enforcement families, as well as the families of White House staff, according to Spicer."

[oberliner]

63. Easter Egg Roll Lottery

Easter Egg Roll tickets are free and were made available via an online lottery March 15-18, 2017. To enter the lottery, participants were prompted to create an account on the Recreation.gov website. The lottery page had a list of all of the available time slots and entrants had to rank them in the order of preference. Entrants also had to specify the number of adults/children on the ticket request screen along with their time slot choices.

[JPZenger]

35. Trump only received 4% of the vote from DC voters

Barack and Michele used to spend time at various places around DC, including public schools. However, Trump is scared of DC and leaves every chance he gets. He only received 4% of the vote in DC, and the numbers were not much higher in the surrounding counties.

[DK504]

36. Not inviting the normal kids to the WH Easter egg roll was a gaffe.

“despite concerns, all seemed to go off without a hitch.”

[Raine1967]

39. could you provide a link? eom.

[bathroommonkey76]

43. You do know the Easter Egg Roll was run by Obama admin holdovers.

Link to tweet

[coco22]

44. They made sure to show the one..

AA girl hugging and kissing Melania. If this issue is brought up to Trump I'll bet he will use this as an example.

[mercuryblues]

46. Trump was elected to put

the white back in the White House.

[dflprincess]

47. And did you catch the story Sessions read to the kiddies?

All about a little bunny who thought he wanted to something else (like a bear or a skunk) but in the end realized he's a bunny and that was good.

Coming from Sessions I'm suspicious of what his point was. (And there was a picture of two little girls sitting in front of he and his wife while he was reading who looked like they wished they were any where else.)

[LeftInTX]

58. Sessions sounded like he hadn't read the book ahead of time

He really did the story a disservice. (Kinda weird having the AG read stories to little kids)

Those kids were his grandkids

[3catwoman3]

49. RElated observation. I thought it was...

...odd that Melania spoke of "renewing" this tradition. If it has been going on for 139 years, would that not be continuing the tradition?

[Lotusflower70]

53. What a joke

But she is totally clueless anyway so not surprised I guess.

[Cha]

50. President Obama and FL Michelle also invited Military

FAMILIES!

[colorado_ufo]

51. You have to forgive Betsy DV -

She probably didn't realize there WERE public schools in Washington, D.C.

[MFM008]

52. The toad prince

Doesn't even bother to hide the racism.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

55. IIRC, many DC schools didn't send bands to the inaugural parade

...so I suspect that it's payback, since that's how he operates.

[L. Coyote]

56. Racists in the White House. They think Jesus was white too, I bet.

And the probably don't know he was Jewish.

[LeftInTX]

59. They didn't have Bannon reading any stories to the kiddos did they?