The Fight over Black History: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Khalil Gibran Muhammad & E. Patrick Johnson

We host a roundtable discussion with three leading Black scholars about the College Board's decision to revise its curriculum for an Advanced Placement course in African American studies after criticism from Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The revised curriculum removes Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer theory as required topics, while it adds a section on Black conservatism. The College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers Advanced Placement courses across the country, denies that it buckled to political pressure. "Florida is a laboratory of fascism at this point," says Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. We also speak with two scholars whose writings are among those purged from the revised curriculum: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, and E. Patrick Johnson, dean of Northwestern's School of Communication and a pioneer in the formation of Black sexuality studies as a field of scholarship.
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[@tiffanywilloughby-herard2501]

“If anything lacks educational value it’s the governor.”

[@annlarry4565]

will African Americans in this country be able to not learn about white history because we know a lot of it is just untruth and just crap to make their ancestors look good around the world

[@agro-valleyfarm7217]

“If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.”- Karl Marx Meaning: People can be lied to, CONNED and easily MANIPULATED when they forget the past. “A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”. (Marcus Garvey)

[@Ron-ep3zl]

That does seem to be their plan. Something they have been successful of doing in the past.

[@daviddavis6732]

Yes,and they been doing that to us for the last 100 plus years by narrating our history to us (blacks) and they did lied,conned and malipulated our history,first by saying that we blacks were bought over here during the trans-Atlantic slave trade when in actuality we were here already.

[@Ron-ep3zl]

@@daviddavis6732 shhh don't tell Black conservatives that. They claim that's victim hood think. 😆 🤣

[@praizzzeGod]

if they use history to control the perception of the present it is equally dangerous. Thats whats happening in America today. Blacks can kill thousands of other blacks and nothing much is said but let a few die at the hand of white cops, we ready to burn down the country.

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, required reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father in the home.

[@truthserum6808]

When schools teach Italian-American or other ethnic groups history, does anyone attach “queer” history to it? No. Black History is not a “catch all” for all oppressed and intersectional groups. It should not be used as a political pawn - left or right.

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@russellbarbee6974]

Yes...... You're correct. "Queer Theory"? WTF is that? More importantly, what is its direct connection to Black Studies, and African American education? I say, it's inappropriate. Sure, some Blacks are gay, ( just like every other race ), but an entire subject area, devoted to simply that? No thanks. Don't do Black people any favors? You never have before.......

[@calculusadvancedodq4968]

Agree to agree 👍! Especially, when it relates to black queers ideology and not facts. This queer theory is all about the cactus mountain caves queers. It's an eurocentric European imperialism 👿👿👿 culture. Not African American... it's implemented in the culture based on 400 years of slavery on black folks However, woke and critical race theory are critical to allow students to fully understand...the black history and tell the truth.

[@kimwalter8753]

Yup, they always want to use Black people as the trash heap and garbage dump. What did Black folk ever do to anybody, as a group and as a collective.......R@c!sts are spiteful, vindictive, vengeful, narcissistic, excessively unwarrantingly punitive, and n@sty. For no reason, rage for 0 reason. A r@c!st is a mentally fractured mind and a darkened dead spirit. It's a r@c!'st virus and a r@c!st fungus that quickly spreads.

[@douglasmarvin81]

Saints and Angels be praised!!!….Thank you Amy and all of Democracy Now for this extraordinary, inspirational, and intelligent discussion-analysis of this topic………Well done!………I’m 70 years old…..White……Progressive………raised in a conservative area…….but had access to intelligent schooling, plus very good parents who taught me to think……….it was a given, not everyone agreed, but we could at least discuss without fear or favor……..mind you my upbringing was white and entitled, but holy smokes, the discourse today in general smells, screams of 1950’s McCarthyism(sp) in its social-political approach to education…….” Find the boogie man!”………fear and hatred has fueled so much of this country………many awesome things as well……..If USA is so great then let’s discuss it…..warts and all, the beauty and the beast………..Some authentic collaborative learning could make America truly great NOW!!!… Be well everyone………..and vote PROGRESSIVE!………….

[@Facts-Over-Feelings]

GOOD. WHAT THE HELL DOES QUEER CRAP HAVE TO DO WITH BLACK HISTORY....NOTHING.. BLACK AMERICANS NEED TO TEACH THEMSELVES. EUROPEAN AMERICANS WILL PUSH ALL THERE TRASH AND CALL IT EDUCATION..

[@tamikajackson3419]

You should know better, you already passed the pads with wings and you still didn't learn of rebellious angels Our Heavenly Father called fallen angels false gods in his commandments and implemented his discipline and you still didn't learn even after Our Heavenly Father remove the cycle of old age.

[@Kali4Action]

@@tamikajackson3419 Oh, how obviously they follow the first Racist Shaytan (Satan), in his racism. Shaytan (Satan) was the leader of the Jinn ( his name before he became Shaytan was Iblis, (his worship was perfect why he is described as like an Angel, but, an Angel he was not); Angels do not disobey their creator. When Allah (God) asked Iblis:- "What prevented you (Iblis) that you did not prostrate?" Iblis said:- "I am better than him, you created me from fire, and you created him from clay"...Then Iblis became haughty with pride and became Shaitan. And, even when Allah (Gad) made His mercy available, and taught Adam words of inspiration and guidance, when Adam repented to Allah (God), not so Shayitan, he asked for more time......More time......they ask, just as the racist white supremacist in our society today, ask for more time, not forgiveness. Insha’Allah, we have to deconstruct every molecule of white supremacist mentality, offer spiritual treatment, and psychoanalysis to western civilization, treating this civilization as though it is backward and sick with a curable mental disease even though we know with Yaqeen (certainty) that the western civilization it is sick with a disease of the heart and soul, that only Allah can cure (Being sure (having yaqeen) means certainty in the Strength of Allah, in His Quran, and His Messenger Prophet Muhammad ) - Kevin M Ali DM.

[@michaelwiley7794]

Saints be praised? Not all of our People believe or give praise to the LGBTQRSWYZ. Stop saying and teaching that all Black people are gay or bear unnatural affection!!! lifeDubois all received the Margaret Sanger Award!!! teach that... Tired of these supposed intelligent reprobates trying to convince US that homosexuality is similar to our struggle!!!

[@gary100dm]

Offer the courses. No mandate. Let the students decide .

[@kandeedee2913]

Amy and your staff. We all enjoy your shows. All your videos. Keep up the good work. Peace

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@knowledge9890]

The problem is that the LGBTQ communities struggle, isn't the same struggle for the Black struggle, I Agree that both groups have issues to work on bit both issues are completely different, and they both are being joined together, Blacks have been fighting over 400 years against opposition in America and its a totally different struggle, this is like saying police brutality is the same as environmental reform

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

True, but there are people who are both Black and queer, so they understand the struggle of both. And the relationship of police brutality and environmental degradation is linked by one factor - dominance culture perpetuated by a small group of ultra wealthy and powerful individuals and institutions. Violence and control directed towards Black people and violence and exploitation of natural resources for profit come from the exact same source…

[@truthserum6808]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school When schools teach Italian-American history, does anyone attach “queer” history to it? No. Black History is not a “catch” all for all oppressed and intersectional groups.

[@datboyvader4784]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school queer theory is NOT blk history

[@russellbarbee6974]

"Queer Theory"? WTF is that? More importantly, what is its direct connection to Black Studies, and African American education? I say, it's inappropriate. Sure, some Blacks are gay, ( just like every other race ), but an entire subject area, devoted to simply that? No thanks. Don't do Black people any favors? You never have before.... ALSO: Most Blacks have always resented how White liberals "decided" to join together the Civil Rights Movement, with the Gay Rights Movement. Nobody asked Blacks, if we were interested in that. All of a sudden, ( out of the blue ), back in the late 1970s, and '80s, you began hearing the Civil Rights Movement, and the Gay Rights Movement mentioned in the same breath. Appearing together in the same news stories. Covered by the press, as if there was some union between the two movements. That's never been the case. And it's not true today, either. Most black people, want nothing to do with the Gay Rights Movement, whatsoever. Instead of seeking shelter around Blacks, and our Civil Rights Movement, gays will have to make their own way. Just like Blacks did.

[@russellbarbee6974]

@Empath Leaders Gays, ( from all races ), are very few, numerically. Not enough people to justify a field of academic study, ( unless you're talking about abnormal psychology ).

[@dereckwallace1428]

This is criminal. I'm angered that they would remove these topics

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

When are the courses about the American German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Irish, Korean, Slavic, Mexican (just to name few) history going to be taught and recognized?

[@kenlandon6130]

it's in some of the ap language courses. those classes include culture in the syllabus

[@stevenwyatt5239]

American Indians?

[@BlkMagickGaia3]

Typical 🤣

[@kenlandon6130]

@@stevenwyatt5239 california is trying to implement an ethnic studies course requirement to graduate.

[@jonspengler5891]

This is the joke of multiculturalism. The whole world is under the yoke of Anglo Saxon capitalism and English, while American is high under achievers

[@ronaldotto534]

curriculum renewal led to Baldwin removal, dang! My Black Experience in California course at City College of San Francisco wouldn't have been the same had I not watched James Baldwin videos. Love that guy he was a verbal genius to me.

[@SpokenWord4]

His work yes sexuality no.

[@Yoel_Yasharala]

@@SpokenWord4 Baldwin had great American-Descendants-of-Slaves-work and history, not his personal choices in life - right.

[@SagesseNoir]

@@SpokenWord4 Sexuality issues appear in James Baldwin's work even if it isn't always expressed front and center. In fact, sexuality is a part of literature, and has been for thousands of years. Even the Bible, which is mainly literature, is full of discussions of sexuality. And "The Song of Solomon," one of the most beautiful poetic books of the bible, is suffused with eroticism that is inseparable from the general theme of Love. So, if you want to exclude discussion of sexuality, then you must either ban literature or heavily censor it.

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@sandywaters1153]

@@SpokenWord4 Why are you trying to separate the man from his sexuality??

[@TheJonnyEnglish]

Ridiculous to even presume a curriculum of African American studies without James Baldwin is one to be taken seriously

[@fallenbeforefiona9000]

Well Baldwin is a casualty of the LGBTQ, BLM and frminists hijacking Black history . They put queer theory in there BLM is a criminal org that never helped black people, they are under investigation and have no right to be on black history. Black people didn't invent queer theory. Put that in the feminist courses or the lgbtq courses.

[@rawstatustv2358]

Baldwin never made his Sexuality and issue he cared about , Justice for black people. Stop rewriting history.

[@villedocvalle]

It’s all about controlling people and having people get in line. This whole episode exposes the hypocrisy of a “free” country along with the idea that the system wants to actually “educate” it’s populace rather than train them to be subservient to it.

[@alntr2872]

Exactly

[@QuatMan]

He has always been included when the focus was on his work. The alphabet mafia constantly force teaming their sx habits to Black existence is a huge problem. Until they remove their agenda from ours, they should continue to be cancelled.

[@lauracohen4914]

I had to pick my jaw up off the floor, cannot believe all these great thinkers and voices are being banned. Disgusting. What country is this?! I am glad that people are doing searches for these authors and will learn about them when they might not have.

[@ziply123]

This is a country where Thomas Jefferson's warning is still true: Constant vigilance is the price of liberty.

[@berthabanks5223]

@lauracohen4914 That tell you all you need to know about Desantis' thought about what can and cannot be taught. If nothing else it says a lot about his Conservative Christian Nationalist hatred toward certain groups of people and that he will burn it all down if it doesn't go his way (mini Trump)

[@Dispatcher813]

@Bertha Banks Get out with that bullshit. This has nothing to do with Black history. DeSantis does not need to ban this subject to somehow hurt blacks. We are doing a well enough job on our own. The democrats have that pretty much taken care of. This whole thing comes down to pushing this Queer shit on our smartest and brightest. I am glad they banned it. If you want to learn black history, information has never been easier to access as it is now . Worry about teaching my kids technology, math, and science. Get rid of black history month also, oh my God, we are the most stupid people on earth. No wonder the TMH punished us. If I decide to waste my time and vote, I am voting Trump without a doubt.

[@berthabanks5223]

@@Dispatcher813 Ok Trumpy

[@Dispatcher813]

@Bertha Banks not a Trumpy only interested in how their policy increases my revenue. I treat politicians like I do businesses. There is no emotion or feelings involved. I have a system that can grow your wealth 20 times with about a hr a day. This strategy will cause you to forget about these distractions set in place by the democratic party. Let me know if your interested, and I will help.

[@ogunamaru-xi3924]

The biggest problem is there’s too many theories and not enough facts!!

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@bill2066]

Why isnt' this channel called, "Communism Now?"

[@julienielsen4462]

Exactly.

[@fredsimmons2793]

These speakers defended freedom of choice with elegance and great spirit .God bless their efforts and the same to Amy!

[@bbirda1287]

That they removed James Baldwin from the reading list blew my mind.

[@paulallen2919]

No exaggeration but James Baldwin literally changed my life. I can't believe what is happening in America, this anti-woke moral panic is getting out of control.

[@stephencarter744]

'bout time. James Baldwin was given to black folks. Malcolm X was taken away.

[@anthonysmith8210]

What do they remove Stephan king he's gay what about Ernest Hemingway also william shakesphere

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

@@stephencarter744 explain to me who you think malcolm x was

[@evettepierre2262]

@@anthonysmith8210 It's not about gay people they are free to live their lives...You are not getting the true agenda.

[@Boo-cb2gh]

70 tears of reading one book i read in 9th grade was black like me it was a mind changer all books need a chance

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@kropotkinbeard1]

It's an insult to democracy NOT to teach and discuss these issues.

[@SagesseNoir]

Indeed! And those who ban books are anti-democratic. Yankee fascists

[@sainttroglodyte]

I noticed the reporter's didn't invite "Thomas Sowell", I know, you don't want to invite an educated black man who lived through the civil rights era.

[@TheJonnyEnglish]

LOL you mean the one black guy who decided to hock neo con bs that white supremacists love to bring up because he just co-signs all their bullshit?

[@suezsiren117]

Glenn Loury? Obviously Democracy Now only likes black people who agree with them.

[@dipthongthathongthongthong9691]

Aww, the "black guy" the reactionaries call on to parrot their talking points? Maybe Clarence Thomas could tap dance in and take his place. You'd sure like that wouldn't Mr. Whitey?

[@stephencarter744]

@@Joe-ei8lw You're the low IQ Sambo, dude.

[@duranelida1]

👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@latishaturner1964]

First of all the black experience and sexual is completely two different things and fights…. Let them be separate because There are so many blacks to don’t agree with homosexual lifestyles… including me!! This is starting to piss me off

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Just because you don’t agree with it, doesn’t mean that Black queer people don’t exist or shouldn’t have acknowledgment or respect. Who someone loves or is attracted to, is none of your business anyway.

[@sistahb5159]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school No one said anything about some Black Americans not being LGBT, ignoring them, or not respecting them. This is a LIE! That is NOT Black American history. There is so much of Black American History from where we lived our lives before we were terrorized, kidnapped and stuffed in White slavers ships, the whole of slavery, the Devil's Punchbowl Holocaust, Reconstruction & post-Reconstruction ... all of the ongoing systematic terrorism & oppression up until theis day & our constant fight to built our our towns, farms, Black areas of later large cities which were always bombed, burned & the inhabitants murdered, no GI Bill, no FHA home loans, redlining, Cointelpro, murdered & today we continue to deal with Slavery 3.0. All of this information & the hidden history affecting ALL Black Americans should be in AP Black American History. All of this history & hidden history will take up the whole course. It is disingenuous & exploitative & anti-Black to hitch other issues like queer theory and feminism agendas so Black Americans can slave & MULE to push the agendas of other groups. Those topics belong in other history courses. Fight your own fight.

[@sparkle3000]

Nobody wants to talk about *Slavery* for 400 years which happened right here in America but we talk about, acknowledge and remember The Holocaust every, single year!

[@kingforaday8725]

Guess it show yall where you stand!!!! Hahahaha

[@sparkle3000]

@@kingforaday8725 Guilt, Shame, Fear! It's all good. Karma is Universal Law. 😅🤣😂

[@jwf2125]

Have you read the Framework?

[@kingforaday8725]

@@sparkle3000 And continually taken advantage of. and falling for anything. Signs of low IQ.

[@mrpickles3454]

You pushing CRT?

[@anthonydef3000]

Remove James Baldwin?..seriously bs

[@dianalord5825]

Every class in black history I was in included him...what are the lbgt bootlicks talking about?

[@anthonydef3000]

@@dianalord5825 lgbt bootlicks ? What are you talking about?

[@ericschryver73]

I haven't heard what is so new and relevant in "black history" that it is getting people's panties in a pinch.

[@jalalal-dinmalik5597]

"The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood." Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[@climateteacherjohnj7763]

Awesome quote. Thank you for sharing knowledge!

[@wildbill21791]

The two richest people in the world actually busted the ars to achieve that position.

[@antimarx265]

Bring your violent revolution. We are on to your Marxist ideology and will fight it to the bitter end

[@jonspengler5891]

Sore loser 😂

[@randyscrafts8575]

Nail on the head. 👍👍

[@ReneeBoomtastic]

The first known gay person and trans was a white man from Czech. It don't believe that it should be labeled as a color thing. LGBTQXYZ had it's own culture and should have it's own history. No race should own it.

[@FortitudeInMorale2316]

What about all the child slaves in Africa, South America, the middle east, china?

[@deluxe1164]

What does being queen have to do with being Black? Why do they have to intertwine the 2

[@hsmd4533]

Nothing, and they don’t. The course was written by activists.

[@papawheelie5576]

Building a coalition of self-perceived victims. The modern Democrat party.

[@deluxe1164]

@@hsmd4533 what's worse is that democrats are full of sxxx.. Republicans too..

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

So much homophobia in the comments

[@papawheelie5576]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school Derp.

[@waynehanson6872]

If knowledge is as to light then are we going backwards into the dark ages ? Or seems like we’ve never left.

[@ninadaly7639]

Correct. And for the life of me I can’t figure out the purpose of resurrecting racism in this country. How is that going to help anyone?

[@df3575]

How about starting with what "the college board" is, what it does and it's place in education. And as an aside: any "study of black history" that doesn't consider mid to late 19th century and 1st half of 20th century fight against capitalist exploitation; labor movement; coalition building; eugenics; leaders in those times, and, political economy around these issues BEFORE 1960...1965 is BS as well.

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@andreabrown4541]

My thoughts exactly! Pretty sure the abolitionist movement was activist, or so I thought.

[@pbrooks2099]

We don’t live in a democracy and I’m sick of media and politicians pretending we do. Read the Constitution.

[@n.manasseh8615]

Since when is African American History LBGT history??? The Black Community needs doctors, engineers, Mathematicians, Chemist, Physicist, IT and Social Media experts. We have enough History experts.

[@SagesseNoir]

We also have widespread ignorance of history. But as far as LBGT issues are concerned, I don't think it is literally identical with Black history. But there are and have always been gay and lesbian people in our community, so that is at least a PART of our history. There were gay people in the civil rights movement, including Bayard Rustin(who some credit with being the behind the scenes main nuts and bolts organizer of March on Washington). There were gay or bi folk in the Harlem Renaissance like Langston Hughes. And James Baldwin, a gay man, was probably the most powerful literary voice of the Black movement at least from the early to mid-1960s. But I think people didn't talk about it so much then; partly because it wasn't popular, and partly because they feared that it might discredit the Movement itself. But the gay were there and a part of the history, of black history.

[@tygar1000]

Not Franz Fanon who wrote, the Wretched of the Earth. That book is a classic.

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@pamelafranklin3452]

Why they don't want us to know our history

[@kingforaday8725]

Yeah!!! Like we all know wakanda is REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahaha

[@praizzzeGod]

Teach yourself what you want to know yourself, if I want me kids to know about Christianity I have to teach them not rely on the school to do it

[@necropolistc6357]

cough cough catholic schools cough

[@sainttroglodyte]

@@necropolistc6357 catholic schools are run privately, if want to teach this 1619 sh*tshow, start your own private schools.

[@praizzzeGod]

@@necropolistc6357 "I have to teach them not rely on the school to do it"

[@benorozco3156]

@@necropolistc6357 cough cough, non sequitur. Catholic schools are private and nothing to do with the video or dudes comment. Side bustin fool.

[@robertshipley6990]

You're right about that! Too bad I learned that the hard way.

[@OrbitTechNews]

Information relating to the history of other peoples' (concerning reparations) has been included in various textbooks. Hasn't it?

[@Yoel_Yasharala]

This should only be about American Descendants of Slaves, not worldwide black people. Those Reparations should be held by other countries or Colonizers.

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@BlakFootSamurai]

What I get from all this non-sense is: black history and everything we have been thru never happen and we don't exist. Sounds like their future for us is the same as that 500 years ago

[@gabrieltreewolf4618]

So on point!

[@massivecumshot]

But Now blacks can own guns. Arm yourselves or watch it happen again

[@antimarx265]

No, it's against teaching race Marxism. See through the narrative

[@hsmd4533]

What I get from your comment is: hyperbole, lack of perspective and insanity.

[@massivecumshot]

@@hsmd4533 You would enjoy being lynched. Try it.

[@yolandamiltona3561]

That has nothing to do with black history at all.

[@xqt39a]

Black History needs to be developed and advanced but not with a political agenda.

[@AfroHairScience]

How can we help? I don't want to text...I want to help!

[@israelite546]

We don't need to learn about same sex stuff. Ugh

[@j-note3285]

I doubt the only consideration for revising courses is history. I would imaging the first consideration of college administrators and the last for that matter is funding. You know, money.

[@rivermountain7315]

If we allow those who oppose us and have for centuries, determine our history we will forever be their slaves. Which is what they want. Hasn't past and present history taught us that?

[@hsmd4533]

Your comment highlights the reason that any AA class needs to be reviewed.

[@kingforaday8725]

Hahahahaha!!!!

[@danielwest2186]

Amy I saw you on The Bellmarsh Tribunal in honor of freeing Julian Assange. My respect for your deep concern for humanity and the reasonable freedoms the movement of democracy perpetuates and promises to human beings continues to grow in Love and friendship. You are truly at the top of my A list for human beings as a human being and a woman for all seasons. Thank you Amy without the light of truth, you share and shed on the global news, our world would be much darker. You rock

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@mypeople1stwilliam]

I agree with what he said about queer theory. That should not be a part of Africa American history. The sexuality of our people is not relevant to the actual history of how we got to where we are.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

He actually said it was very relevant, when slave owners used forced breeding to generate more workers. Plus, the contributions of the Black lesbian activist coalition in the 1960s was not acknowledged. All Black people aren’t straight…

[@datboyvader4784]

@Empath Leaders queer theory has nothing to do with us keep your agenda over there thank you

[@mypeople1stwilliam]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school how does any of that have anything to do with the historical importance of one’s race? If it’s about race, then race should be the topic. Sexuality is a completely different subject matter. You must be liberal. Y’all always tell people how they’re supposed to feel or think when it comes to their issues. Always poking your nose somewhere it doesn’t belong.

[@tflg3257]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school Parasites exploiting black Americans.

[@amapparatistkwabena]

Place gender studies in ALL studies of history or in none. Don’t select AA History as the only place for it to reside as an integral part of the culture. I’m tired of EVERY minority group being lumped in with AA CULTURE , and then then the broader group of African Americans losing out. Miss me with the foolery.

[@alienishere002]

Exactly this!

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

They weren’t talking about gender studies, they were talking about an activist group of lesbian Black women who were very influential in changing policy in the 1960s who have been scrubbed from the curriculum to only feature Malcom X, who should of course also be featured.

[@saynotocensorship]

It’s ideology, not education.

[@dee2231]

The truth is the truth and does not matter who likes it or not.. let the truth ring free & wide all over this world... stand and fight for the truth to be heard and taught... only then can we learn & change what should have never been allowed to happen and if the white man can't take it they should have never allowed it to happen... from a honest white woman 👩‍🦳. Truth is Truth....

[@anniemunson3675]

These people are mad because their words have been removed. They are acting like ALL black history has been removed.

[@kchilz32]

For real

[@TeeMilzz]

Stop showing elementary school children in your news clips when describing CRT as if they are being taught AP college courses.

[@tflg3257]

That's a tired trope by political operatives. Special interest groups are trying to et gay/trans, CRT, etc., into elementary schools using every tactic possible.

[@LegendsAre_Made]

Here we go, here we go It's about time that we set it off Here we go, here we go Red lights, I could never stop A dreamer with the fever to be great was all I ever want Was all I ever wanted (wanted) A fighter with the fever for the fame was all I ever want Was all I ever wanted Got me singin' like Bang, bang Bang, bang Bang, bang Let's fire the weapon we gonna change the world 🌎!!!!!! 🏈 🥅 Let The Games Begin!!!!!!!!

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@charliecharlie1761]

Don't forget, July is White History Month!

[@charliecharlie1761]

Weeding out Communist propaganda is a good thing.

[@evertonsjackson4753]

I am 100% for a black AP history course, but I am 100% against mixing sex and queer teaching in the curriculum. Keep them separate.

[@dianewhalen9721]

How is that possible are we going back in time?!

[@BlakFootSamurai]

History repeats itself

[@antimarx265]

Yeah, Marxism didn't work, the revolution never materialized, so we now have a new cultural Marxist ideology making it's way through academia

[@mab4858]

Ask democrats, they are bringing back segregation, and continuing their never ending racism

[@solomonkane102]

Civil rights is a 50 year failed experiment, we need to bring back segregation.

[@stephencarter744]

When in history did we teach _'queer threory'_ to black folks?

[@NelsonGuzmanGarcia]

The more ideas are out there, popular or unpopular, the richer we become.

[@SacClass650]

Within _reason_

[@TrrrollinCuzItsFun-Relax]

@@SacClass650 exactly! ....because although I do not align myself with RonD, the question of Why must Queer ANYTHING be included in African American Studies? ...or Feminism, for that matter? Unanswered, it gives the appearance of Hidden Agendas deftly embedded in legitimately-themed AP Studies😳 Hey, I've always called Ron D a tool! Different on this one👀

[@kesart8378]

@@SacClass650 With respect, in the current moment it is unreasonable people who are defining what is "within reason." Cheers

[@SacClass650]

@@kesart8378 Yes, the Left.

[@NelsonGuzmanGarcia]

@@SacClass650 who dictates "within reason"?

[@shelanderson9088]

So very interesting - thank you

[@reedjames9416]

I haven't seen a syllabus of the AP African-American course so I can't determine it's educational value but I believe some in higher places have a vested interest in keeping us ignorant about the past. Ron DeSantis has political aspirations but I won't let him or anyone else tell me what Black History is or isn't. I will be discerning what is education and what is indoctrination and I won't let any group or individual to subvert my initiative and pursuit of a better understanding of matters pertaining to African-American History. I think such censorship of knowledge is abysmal and woefully inadequate because it is a form of mind control and I won't confine my quest for knowledge to some College Board!

[@jwf2125]

Just search anything like “college board African American” and you’ll soon find the actual Framework.

[@mzbize1]

That's good. The students will still have to study what is in the list

[@jwf2125]

@@mzbize1 On the bright side, the list of optional topics students can tackle is 40 items long and includes BLM, aff action, redlining, and every other topic this panel wants. And the instructions make clear that these 40 are only examples; students may choose any topic they want.

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affected the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism or the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@reedjames9416]

@@robertplant2059 You mean lack of a concerned, caring, and loving father. Every black child has a father, however unfavorable circumstances can be a hindrance or a enhancement to intellectual growth. Good parents can help overcome such a predicament. An AP class is optional but it won't guarantee a proper understanding of life. Too many professors think they know but are subjecting students to their own biases and ideologies instead of teaching students how to think for themselves.

[@Angelic_Spirit_]

When he says students he really means test subjects.

[@evettepierre2262]

Bingo

[@rw9207]

The justification for something not to be taught, should be far higher than the justification needed to teach it. If you're going to critique CRT Then you need to be specific about what aspects of it Are unreasonable.

[@Angelic_Spirit_]

@@rw9207 Maybe in a form but not in the KZbin comments section.

[@tflg3257]

@@rw9207 C'mon, the content creators are the ones withholding details from the public. They are trying to appeal to emotions, not facts.

[@BLKnPrd67]

Black queer studies has no place within that curriculum. It is rooted in a political agenda. I'm Black and PanAfrican all day long, but I can not endorse that.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Why is it your business who someone else is attracted to? Oh, it’s not

[@raydugas845]

They should definitely include BLM and photos of their mansions. 👍

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

BLM is a grassroots movement. The organization isn't the movement.

[@ROMEgreeneyes]

Yeah they should teach about the corruption of BLM

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

@@ROMEgreeneyes blm the organization is corrupt, just as is all capitalist institutions. Walmart had the black fist but still donated to police during blm protests. BLM, the grassroots movement, is a different entity. Stop being stupid.

[@evettepierre2262]

Ooooh Baby, you can say that Again. Facts

[@dianadowie3985]

Yes, we should and should have photos of houses White people stole land and property after deleting their Black owners.

[@jonspengler5891]

Democracy Now- still the biggest joke on Tv

[@cassandrastanton7955]

We need to teach our children our history. There is so much that is left out that B needs to be told. We are the ones who should tell it. We don’t need them to teach our children.

[@robertmarley8852]

Sadly people think the colonizer should be in charge of teaching their kids .. Home school is the only way

[@kesart8378]

Americans pay taxes in part to maintain a public school system, a system intended to educate young people, to enlighten them for an enlightened citizenry is essential to the survival of a democracy. Given that citizens pay for this educational system, do they not have the right to expect better of said system, to expect that it will teach a factual history of America and not mythology? Beyond that, how many parents have the tools to research, analyze and make comprehensible (to their children) a history of Black people in America? This course was designed by great Black scholars. It deserves to be championed, not dismissed with vague promises that parents will take care of this deficit in their children's education. Cheers Cheers

[@mab4858]

Don’t forget to teach them about the African kings who kept and sold the slaves all over the world, don’t forget to teach them that people of color started slavery and continue it to this day, don’t forget to teach them that is was the British yes white men that were the first to abolish slavery , somehow I suspect your ignorant ass won’t be teaching any of that

[@anniemunson3675]

They didn’t take out all African American studies. Just sections. These people are mad because theirs was removed. Why didn’t they have the people whose studies/curriculum WASNT removed? This is so close minded.

[@Cryptonymicus]

We should start all US history courses with details about how the traitor South started the Civil War by attacking the US Army at Fort Sumter while the people of Charleston, SC, cheered them on.

[@charlestidwell4970]

it is not a dream that this bigotry will be removed from the public consciousness, eventually. We are suffering witness to these times because overcoming ignorance and bigotry has never been pretty or safely done. The ignorance of trying to force this on erudite and educated people is the first step in its eventual demise. Painful it is, but as with anything, without struggle, without contest, there is no true achievement. There is no more lofty goal than to strive for the truth in the turbulent sea of inequality and injustice.

[@rashid9891]

I'm not interested in Queer studies or any other type of LBGTQ studies

[@charliemccarthy5854]

If you were born in America you are American. We all are American

[@charliemccarthy5854]

@@wesleyswafford2462 yeah. We all are American if you born in America. The leftist elites want to divide us.

[@papepcool]

Its the entanglement of "Queer Theory" into Black studies that most people have a problem with.

[@russellbarbee6974]

Yes indeed... "Queer Theory"? WTF is that? More importantly, what is its direct connection to Black Studies, and African American education? I say, it's inappropriate. Sure, some Blacks are gay, ( just like every other race ), but an entire subject area, devoted to simply that? No thanks. Don't do Black people any favors? You never have before.......

[@randyscrafts8575]

I do not want my tax dollars going to such lunacy. Stick to what matters and keep politics and racial and gender dysphoria out of my public school system or you can just shut down that entire mess of unsustainably wasteful outlived it's usefulness tax dollar waste.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Yeh, continuing the myth of white supremacy benefits you, right?

[@Rhythmicons]

In Arkansas Sarah Suckadee Sanders is also banning African American History.

[@wyndhl8309]

Caucasian Europeans still insist on telling the diasporic Africans who they are, who they must be; what, how, when, where and/or why to think, as well as about whom to think! Surprised? Shouldn't be! Africans seem to be proud of their European names; proud to surrender their African Heritage; contented to be followers of European thoughts, ideology, religion, as well as to be defensive all of the time... Would the enemy tell you how to defeat them? Europeans are effectively using the color bogey as an ENTRAPMENT, a diversionary tactic from the main challenges facing all human beings, viz Liberty, Equality and Justice 👌 It's The African Holocaust; It's African Heritage Month, if one must. (Brought as the ENslaved... ) Pax vobiscum!

[@wyndhl8309]

...brought as the CAPTURED and the ENSLAVED...) Use of Language matters, doesn't it?

[@shellysmith1037]

cool.

[@Rhythmicons]

@@shellysmith1037 nice to know that the white supremacist has entered the chat.

[@renelane]

Parents are making a mistake supporting these laws. Not that Im saying your being bad parents in anyway. What I am saying is you are allowing some outside people to determine what you feel and what is YOUR children must learn, based on someones elses belief. Read those books that are being band and determine for yourself if your child should read it. Please, give your children some credit for what you have taught them and what they have learned. Sit down with them and teach them what is appropriate or not through open dialog. My 16 year old grandson is extremely smart to the realities of life. Including education, politics. We have some the best debates. He is opened minded to his peers, he does not judge people based on their diferences. He also gets the problems this country facing. All I am saying try giving our kids the opportuntity learn from others perspective to make future decisions that is not biased to certain peoples belief.

[@Marijuanifornia]

In the 1942 USDA film *Hemp for Victory,* a Black man is seen performing the same job which the majority of slaves were tasked. It is called 'breaking,' where handfuls of hemp stalks are threshed over a table while a heavy wooden bar is slammed down to crush the stalks to separate the fibers within. That fiber is what made the United States of America. So, Black Americans were persecuted for hundreds of years to work in the Cannabis fields, and then Cannabis was outlawed as an excuse for police to target poor minorities. *Hemp for Victory* ends the drug war, but that is why not a single news outlet in the US will talk about it. There is an official .gov link to the video from the US National Archives. It became public in 1990.

[@optimisticfuture6808]

That’s only a tragedy of pay and workers rights.

[@pranays]

@@optimisticfuture6808 you're a simpleton

[@robertmarley8852]

Look where we at ...cause they didn't stand up then we hurting right now

[@Marijuanifornia]

@@optimisticfuture6808 No, it's a crime against humanity. Cannabis Sativa was demonized in the early 1920s because a machine was invented in 1917 that could crush the stalks of hemp plants and remove the fiber faster than had previously been done by hand for thousands of years. This was the same very racist era as the Red Summer of 1919 and the burning of Tulsa in 1920 among numerous other examples. So, the term "Marihuana" was contrived to turn public opinion against Cannabis by associating it with Mexican immigrants and poor minorities. Cannabis prohibition has been used for the last 100 years as a ready excuse for police to target, harass, intimidate, arrest, beat and kill Americans, especially people of color. It is an ongoing crime against humanity that the *Hemp for Victory* film can be online at an official US government website and barely anyone knows about it because no one in national media has the courage to showcase the film to the public. Videos of some random person living in a camper trailer can get hundreds of thousands of views in a single day, while *Hemp for Victory* remains ignored for decades.

[@optimisticfuture6808]

@@Marijuanifornia good point.

[@DC-rd6oq]

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is right when she said the College Board realized they needed to weed out the radical writers.

[@amarbyrd2520]

Only if you're someone who considers "equal rights for all people" a "radical" concept. Professor Taylor is a Mac Arthur Genius Grant winner as well as a Northwestern Professor. I won't deny that some people DO think that "equal rights for all people" is a "radical" concept to some people -- I would also submit that those people have a psychopathological need for power & dominance particularly outsize in comparison to their ability to govern or care for others, quite possibly to the point where those people could be said to be fascist

[@DC-rd6oq]

@@amarbyrd2520 The mental gymnastics you must have gone through to get from what I wrote to how you responded is astonishing!

[@nightstalker6444]

Black history? Need to be talking about the black crime wave

[@anitawilson1284]

Thank you.

[@ggraves7321]

RIGHTEOUS!!!

[@GrimLocke161]

Didn’t Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor cover up for sexual predators in the ISO? 🤔

[@charlenegarrigan1393]

@Mark Taylor Try using a different search engine. I just did n there was quite a bit of information related to the topic.

[@karld884]

@marktaylor3489 Found nada on Bing and Yahoo. Surprising.

[@GrimLocke161]

@Mark Taylor Search for "Daily Kos Word of Warning" 🤗

[@jwf2125]

What's ISO?

[@GrimLocke161]

@@jwf2125 The International Socialist Organization. They were a Trotskyist sect.

[@jsmooth2057]

As a Black man I fully agree with the governor.

[@SagesseNoir]

A Black man who agrees with with a fascist and a white supremacist.

[@stellardesign7955]

I appreciate the education of the speakers. And I felt compelled (obligated) to comment on the whole bit about ... something to the effect of: "How can we expect others to help/defend us if we can't help/defend ourselves." If a person is being attacked (in ANY way), I think it is often, in part, BECAUSE they are in a weakened position of being ABLE to defend themselves from it. Add to this, THAT they are being attacked (ESPECIALLY if unjustly)... which requires them to focus on protecting themselves from the attack as best they can, while also recovering from the attack. IF they talk to anybody about what happened to them, my hope is that the informed party would ask them permission to defend them and be specific as possible about HOW they intend to do so and how this might foreseeably affect them (within reason). That they would do their best to defend others as well from such an attack (as well as themself, obviously). But I think, generally, it's a measure of human decency to help, protect and stand up for each other even if (and, potentially, ESPECIALLY if) the receptive party is unable to do that for themself.

[@ocean1233]

IT IS ALL ABOUT 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 and SUPREMACISTS

[@robertplant2059]

They should make The Moynihan Scissors by the late Democratic Senator from NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan, require reading and study the comment by Quasi Mfume, the ex President of the NCAAP, asked at the 2008 Dem Convention in Boston, what affect the life of a black child more in America today, institutional racism of the lack of a father, he replied the lack of a father.

[@Rhythmicons]

There is sound

[@mikecohen2400]

Why are Black professors bemoaning the clearly junk course that the AP is putting out, instead of putting out a proper course that covers the entire cannon.

[@jwf2125]

Have actually read the Framework?

[@dexterwilliams7172]

How did queer theory get linked to Black Histiry and Reparations?

[@markanthony3259]

As a black man I am so proud of the Gov (on this issue) for protecting our GREAT heritage & history from agenda pushing parasites.

[@delawarefootball8836]

exactly queer has nothing to do with black history, push the gay agenda just horrible

[@AmandaTroutman]

Wut

[@floydwilson9150]

EXACTLY 💯💯💯

[@elviswilliams9990]

FAZT!!!

[@sistahb5159]

Queer Theory doesn't belong in Black History BUT Reparations does. DeSantis is still an anti-Black bigot.

[@thebaconchannel8501]

You can't disquise political indoctorinization as history.

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

Thats literally what america does all the time.

[@thebaconchannel8501]

@@HERES_JAWNiE When? example?

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

@@thebaconchannel8501 right now. Last year. 2 years ago. 10 years ago. 20 years ago Shit, what was "white man's burden"? What was the "lost cause"? Literally the majority of "history" you learn is political indoctrination

[@thebaconchannel8501]

@@HERES_JAWNiE was never taught any of that, don't know what you're talking about. What is "Lost cause" or "white mans burden"?

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

@@thebaconchannel8501 You're proving my point. Google would be a good beginning, I guess? Just Google the things I put in quotations.

[@drmarioschannel]

Sometimes take a while for KZbin to update sound.

[@equillawoods9082]

He doesn't want the children to know the truth

[@papawheelie5576]

your "truth" = divisive nonsense

[@AC-re9ee]

F Black history

[@buckeyewill2166]

Typical Right Wing Reactionary .

[@lawrencegreene6231]

Is white queer history part of a regular AP history class? Is queer theory part of any Asian American history classes?

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Queer people are all ethnicities, so yeh, their history should be taught

[@goodgreenenergy]

What does queer theory have to do with black history? No disrespect to anybody at all and love to all

[@russellbarbee6974]

Correct... "Queer Theory"? WTF is that? More importantly, what is its direct connection to Black Studies, and African American education? I say, it's inappropriate. Sure, some Blacks are gay, ( just like every other race ), but an entire subject area, devoted to simply that? No thanks. Don't do Black people any favors? You never have before.......

[@rocknrobert1]

Forget black history let's talk about the current state of the black community LMAO 🤣

[@zmw2634]

Black history begins in our home ..buy books and read the children will follow .. All my black history learning inside my home my parents were about that consciousness..lead by example.

[@kingforaday8725]

Yeah! Wasnt it some black dude that invented peanuts?

[@19Mister75]

I’ll say this, ANYONE that describes themselves by a color (ie:BLACK-MAN/WOMAN) is LOST! Notice how our fellow Aboriginal American sisters, & brothers of this land DEMANDED the cessation to the term “REDSKIN”? That slur was also spoken as “RED-MAN”. ALWAYS REMEMBER OUR GENETIC HERITAGE IS NOT A COLOR! I hail from SOVEREIGN, PROUD, & EPIC lineages of Queens, Kings, & Chieftains…

[@sandybeaches3950]

@@kingforaday8725 No he did not invent the peanut. He invented 100s of products made from peanuts, that are still being used today. He played a big part in shaping American capitalism. All the products you see in stores, came from the mindset of George Carver. A Black man.

[@epicsseven7686]

@@kingforaday8725 yeah. His name is Charles Schultz I really enjoyed watching his show, Charlie Brown.

[@kingforaday8725]

@@sandybeaches3950 Hahahaha. Best joke ive heard all day!

[@anitainmo489]

I am so relieved that I do not have school age children. Cannot imagine the harm this is doing to the future of our country.

[@glitttersores]

What is the College Board?

[@skillz1855]

Well I can tell you Queer studies has absolutely nothing to do with AA studies..

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Why? There are many Black queer people…

[@sheepheard483]

if there ever was a lizard person, this is her.

[@pamelafranklin3452]

Why hide behind sheep heard use your real name

[@sheepheard483]

@@pamelafranklin3452 lol, wow thats dum. as if that would mean ANYTHING

[@gregoryuschold3870]

Not history. Indoctrination

[@datboyvader4784]

Can someone explain how queer theory has anything to do with black history?

[@russellbarbee6974]

Correct.... "Queer Theory"? WTF is that? More importantly, what is its direct connection to Black Studies, and African American education? I say, it's inappropriate. Sure, some Blacks are gay, ( just like every other race ), but an entire subject area, devoted to simply that? No thanks. Don't do Black people any favors? You never have before.......

[@EarthMamaNetwork]

I watch your show daily, but I must admit that you don't represent the entire balance of views from the Black community. Some African American/Black People are not teaching or want others to teach our children about people's lifestyle, sexuality, and political opinions regarding Black History. As an African America Black Straight Woman, I didn't see myself in this whole interview. Please do better when discussing true-lived African/Black Americans topics and history. We are not a monolith. So sad that the only thing you focus on is Queer, Black Lives Matter, and left-wing issues! That is about 10% of my community. And to be very honest the bully and cancel culture comes from that (10%) community. When people remain quiet (can't express or share their views) for fear of being targeted, they quietly go and vote against that 10%.

[@hsmd4533]

You sound like a very intelligent woman.

[@cryptbeast3222]

Left wing issues are held by far more than 10% of the community. Reparations, mutual aid, environmental racism, and further civil rights battles? All left wing and very important to many. Pertaining to queer people, what you are doing is trying to erase minorities in your community because their existence makes you uncomfortable. Not a good reason in the slightest. Black queer people are a legitimate black experience and a part of the history as a whole. Teaching kids that other people outside the majority exist, have always existed and some include prominent figures in history is not controversial. Just existing while being queer is not inherently sexual or threatening. You are right that we are not a monolith, so no reason to remove information about any aspect of the community.

[@vincentjeffrey7758]

It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with the BLM movement. The movement has been one of the most prominent forces in the last couple of years. It is the reason more police officers are being prosecuted for wrong doing. How do you discuss recent events without mentioning BLM? I don't believe reparations as a realistic goal. But leaving it out of the curriculum is nuts. And no James Baldwin? Baldwin was one of the most prominent Black authors of the 20th century. Also, some Black folks are Queer. A discussion of their history is certainly in order.

[@rolandawilkins7607]

@@cryptbeast3222 you didn’t address what i wrote. it should be up to the parents on what their children learn in school. where was the straight black woman in that interview? no balance

[@cryptbeast3222]

@@rolandawilkins7607 It should not. There are plenty of crazy, hyper controlling parents that would gladly knee cap their children to prevent them from learning more and diverging into their own person. Also, I personally don't know the sexuality of everyone in that interview, so for all I know there was one. Apparently, you have some kind of shitty super power to tell that sort of thing though.

[@luzbarrett-hayes1746]

Off course but they will not remove us nor make us disappear, in Jesus Christ name amen 🙏🏼

[@Max0017]

I fail to see the difference between this, and the disenfranchisement of African Americans in the late 19th century, an era commonly referred to as the Gilded Age.

[@zaneleb8597]

I'm glad KYT commented on the College Board's decision. The Dean was happy to be in the banned list but went on to show that maybe he's not worthy by chickening out of critiquing the CB and chose the easy way of going after the politician. Both deserve scrutiny. In life, some people are just happy to ride the coattails.