Alabama Board of Education bombarded with complaints about 'too much Black history' in schools
Right-wing activists are trying to crack down on the discussion of Black history in Alabama textbooks, reported AL.com on Thursday.
"Earlier this year, the State Board of Education approved English Language Arts textbooks for kindergarten through third grade after a public hearing where critics suggested the books had too much Black history and multicultural stories," reported Jemma Stephenson. "These books had already been delayed after they were originally meant to be adopted in 2022."
The report goes on to quote right-wing activist Melissa Gates, who is a self-identified member of Eagle Forum and who attacked schools for trying to "indoctrinate our children with DEI [Diversity Equity and Inclusion], SEL [Social Emotional Learning], woke agenda and grooming our little ones."
The report also quoted Mobile County resident Cathy Odom, who flat-out said that "I thought personally there was too much Black history."
The Eagle Forum is the brainchild of the late right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly, who was instrumental in blocking the Equal Rights Amendment from being ratified in the Constitution. Her son Andrew Schlafly is the founder of Conservapedia, a bizarre alternate-facts wiki site that reinvents all of world history, science, and a variety of other topics with far-right and fundamentalist Christian propaganda and even purports to debunk Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
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It’s just called ‘history’ 