Posted on Jan 28, 2022
These Black mothers don't want their kids taught 'whitewashed history'
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About a year ago, in Round Rock, Texas, about 20 miles outside Austin, complaints about a book on the history of racist ideas in the United States led to threats to remove it from the school’s reading list.
But as the local school district debated whether “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” should remain part of the curriculum, thousands of parents, teachers and community members signed a petition calling on the district's board of trustees to keep the book on school shelves.
The Round Rock Black Parents Association was a crucial part of the mobilization against the attempt to ban the book, which is by the Black authors Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, and is a young adult adaptation of Kendi's "Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America," which won the national book award for nonfiction in 2016.
But as the local school district debated whether “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” should remain part of the curriculum, thousands of parents, teachers and community members signed a petition calling on the district's board of trustees to keep the book on school shelves.
The Round Rock Black Parents Association was a crucial part of the mobilization against the attempt to ban the book, which is by the Black authors Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, and is a young adult adaptation of Kendi's "Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America," which won the national book award for nonfiction in 2016.
These Black mothers don't want their kids taught 'whitewashed history'
Posted from nbcnews.com
American History
Racism
Austin
Round Rock
Education
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Teaching real history is not whitewashing...I have no objection to any factual history instruction
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."We will fight that battle’
Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican, signed a bill that regulates how U.S. history and certain ideas about race can be taught in schools. At least nine states in mostly Republican areas have passed similar “anti-critical race theory” bills.
Before the bill became law, Walker and her daughter, who’s in first grade, tried to persuade state senators to vote against it. Walker recalled knocking on senators’ doors at the Capitol building in Texas, pleading with them to reconsider their votes.
“We went to speak to them and ask them not to support this bill because it was going to hinder kids from learning the truth,” Walker said. “My daughter being with me, she just turned 6, but she was able to speak about how she wanted to see herself in school books and curriculum.” "...
..."We will fight that battle’
Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican, signed a bill that regulates how U.S. history and certain ideas about race can be taught in schools. At least nine states in mostly Republican areas have passed similar “anti-critical race theory” bills.
Before the bill became law, Walker and her daughter, who’s in first grade, tried to persuade state senators to vote against it. Walker recalled knocking on senators’ doors at the Capitol building in Texas, pleading with them to reconsider their votes.
“We went to speak to them and ask them not to support this bill because it was going to hinder kids from learning the truth,” Walker said. “My daughter being with me, she just turned 6, but she was able to speak about how she wanted to see herself in school books and curriculum.” "...
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