public affairs targeting kids pre-k through 5th grade and one of these things says, and put it on the screen so we have it, it says racism is the marginalization or oppression of people of color based on socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people. why is apple now in the school curriculum business of kids who are 3, 4 years old? look, it s ridiculous. and i think that race consciousness does not end racism. teaching more race consciousness in the schools actually breeds and begets more racism. i have a 2-year-old son. many of you have kids, too. at the end of the day, kids don t see race at that age. they may see color but don t see race and i don t want my kids attending a school where their teachers are using addictive apple product, iphone or ipad, to teach them to see race in a way that they didn t before. and this is deeply personal to me. from here in ohio where i
can across the spectrum, whoever you are, however they may offend you is the point. nicole is with the new york times magazine, co-creator of the 1619 project. again, you are all now members of the velshi banned book club, we should get membership cards or something. like i said we will feature books and authors that have been challenged across the political spectrum or pulled in libraries and schools across the nation. we want your input and we need your input because what s a book club without comments and suggestions, your comments and your reactions to this week s book to my story at velshi.com each week to help propel our conversation. our inaugural book is all boys aren t blue by george m. johnson. this memoir manifesto explores johnson s childhood through college years as a young queer man of color covering gender identity, structural marginalization, consent and black joy.
discrimination and marginalization of ethnic groups but specifically african american groups, and i think when you look at the typical racial makeup of scholarship athletes, most of them come from middle to lower middle to lower income area where that scholarship is their way out. there s so much pressure not only in their communities but in your families and as african american men for far too long in this country we ve been unable to really share our mental health, our trauma or anything that showed weakness because we were bred, when we were first brought to this country, to be strong producers, work men, and
able to get from an education in florida or anywhere. so taking a bird s-eye view, 71 bills introduces, 122 since january of the last year and ten have been law and it is targing issues in schools that aren t problems to begin with. lgbtq topics and critical race theory and meanwhile there are real problems, teacher shortages and protocols, is there any way to make sense of this? sure, i think there is two key ways to make sense of this. i m old enough to be educated at a time to be raised by a mother who wanted me to know more than she did. wanted me to do better in life than she has. this is a cynical view of what parents want for their children. and what children in florida and around the country should have access to. what we re seeing is a coordinated attack on equal opportunity for lgbtq plus students and students of color and from other communities who are experiencing marginalization
seems like the obvious question. but we re in the second week of this now. they have faced frigid temperatures. they just keep on. now trudeau does this. now they seem to gain strengths. where does this movement go, jonathan? i m more worried about where the government is going. trudeau has reason to claim control over everything from banking to cryptocurrency. seems like a crisis has been used to expand political power. what worries me, the media, the government have marginalized these protesters. i favor vaccinations. but i share something, the right of free speech and association. it troubles me how they re being treated. it s going to magnify their sense of marginalization. that s when people get angry and detached from the government. the trudeau government has gone the wrong way in addressing these truckers and their cause.