| Here's one of the bills that NPR is presumably referring to: Texas HB 3979, which was just signed into law by the governor yesterday: https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/2021 That's its full text. You can read it, it's short. Some highlights are that the bill mandates (that's mandates - not prevents) that Texan schoolchildren are educated about: * "the history of Native Americans;" * "the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong;" * "the history and importance of the civil right movement" * "the history and importance of the women's suffrage movement" * The Indian Removal Act * the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850; * Brown v. Board of Education; * The Underground Railroad The bill also mandates that Texan schoolchildren learn about such historical figures as MLK, Frederick Douglass, Sally Hemings and Cesar Chavez, to name but a few. So tell me: who wants to prevent a "historically accurate picture of the United States" from being taught in schools - those who support a bill that requires children to be taught about the history of slavery, Indian genocide, the civil rights movement and white supremacy, or those who oppose such a bill? And I've only talked about what what the bill requires. What does it prevent? What does HB3979 ban from Texan classroom? Again, I encourage you to read the whole thing yourself, but I know that most people don't click through to the source, so I'll quote again. Some of the things that HB3979 bans from being taught to Texan schoolchildren include that: * "an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex;" * "an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual's race;" * "an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual's race or sex;" Similar wording appears in most of the anti-CRT bills working their way through state legislatures. You need to understand this: critical race theorists want to teach the above. They oppose these bills (and lie about their contents) because they want to discriminate on the basis of race, make people feel discomfort, guilt and anguish based on their race, hold entire races collectively responsible for the actions of individual members of that race, and engage in racial stereotyping and scapegoating. The sooner you realise this, the sooner you'll be able to make sense of our current moment. |