Everyone Is Saying The Same Thing About This New Banner On The Department Of Education Building

I found these to be interesting selections to put next to him, so here’s a little background: 

Booker T. Washington, born into slavery, became a pre-eminent intellectual, founding the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and the National Negro Business League. While an influential speaker and advocate for education for Black Americans, he did not support desegregation, instead advocating that Black Americans follow economic self-determination over political and civil rights, which was famously criticized by civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois.

Catharine Beecher was a 19th-century advocate for women’s education, but she’s best known for promoting the idea that women’s central role was as mothers and educators in the home — reinforcing rigid gender hierarchies that positioned women as subordinate to men. She did not support women’s suffrage.

While certainly pioneers of their time, they’re definitely… a choice… to place next to Charlie Kirk — who once said slavery “was bad and was evil” but Black Americans “committed less crimes,” and who largely advocated for women to stay home and have babies — on the façade of the modern-day Department of Education building.