Teaching more Black history in U.S. schools âdivisive,â Senate Republicans tell President Biden Letter comes two days after Senator Tim Scott, the Senateâs sole Black Republican, declared that âAmerica is not a racist countryâ
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Publishing date: Apr 30, 2021  â¢Â April 30, 2021  â¢Â 2 minute read  â¢Â U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress as President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi react in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, April 28, 2021. Photo by Chip Somodevillaat/Pool via Reuters
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WASHINGTON â Dozens of Senate Republicans called on the Biden administration on Friday to withdraw what they say is a âdivisiveâ education proposal that would place greater emphasis on slavery and the contributions of Black Americans in history and civics lessons taught in U.S. schools.
Republicans ask Biden to withdraw divisive proposal to teach more Black history
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Kerr: Don t be afraid to teach truth of American history
D. Allan Kerr
The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project initially claimed the preservation of slavery was one of the Founding Fathers’ key motivating factors during the American Revolution. I emphatically disagree with this conclusion, and in fact the Times later posted a clarification stating slavery was merely a motivation for “some of the colonists,” not all of them.
But the project did raise a lot of valid points, including the irony (if not downright hypocrisy) of these leaders embracing the notion “all men are created equal” even while they held others in bondage.