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Lawmaker Pushes for Education Standards That Teach the KKK Is Anti-Republican -- Not Anti-Black
Republican lawmakers and conservative activists in Michigan have removed references to civil rights and “core democratic values” in state standards for social studies classes.
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The focus group proposed the elimination of references to individual minority groups in state standards on civil rights, and recommended teaching high school students “how the expansion of rights for some groups can be viewed as an infringement of rights and freedoms of others.”
Five existing references to the NAACP were cut, leaving only one, as well as both references to LGBT people in sections on civil rights.
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The lone reference to the Ku Klux Klan was cut, but Colbeck’s original recommendation called for teachers to instruct students that the racist hate group “was founded as an anti-Republican organization not an anti-black organization,” saying that most southern blacks were members of the GOP at the time.
Colbeck told participants that he got about 10 percent of his proposed recommendations into the document sent on the state officials.
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The focus group proposed the elimination of references to individual minority groups in state standards on civil rights, and recommended teaching high school students “how the expansion of rights for some groups can be viewed as an infringement of rights and freedoms of others.”
Five existing references to the NAACP were cut, leaving only one, as well as both references to LGBT people in sections on civil rights.
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The lone reference to the Ku Klux Klan was cut, but Colbeck’s original recommendation called for teachers to instruct students that the racist hate group “was founded as an anti-Republican organization not an anti-black organization,” saying that most southern blacks were members of the GOP at the time.
Colbeck told participants that he got about 10 percent of his proposed recommendations into the document sent on the state officials.
[link:https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/06/lawmaker-pushes-for-education-standards-that-teach-the-kkk-is-anti-republican-not-anti-black/|
So much discrimination - so little time....