we really didn t find anything that could even arguably be close to critical race theory at any of these textbooks. so then tell us what did you find in those math textbooks that reference rate, that has the republicans so worried. well it s interesting and as you mentioned most of the textbooks that were rejected were for elementary school students. we obtained four of the rejected textbooks for elementary school students. and in all of those textbooks, we couldn t find any mention of race in any context. even just in passing. in the middle school textbook that we obtained, there was only one that was rejected and we got our hands on it. we did find some very brief biographies in the margins of the book about famous mathematicians. and some of those mathematicians were african americans. for instance they had a brief biography of elbert cox, the
hands on some of these banned books and judd joins me now. , chagrin to have you with us. let s go through some of these really quickly. how many of these projected books to junior team read? we were able to get our hands on eight of them. okay and how much evidence of critical race theory did you find in those books? nothing. absolutely nothing and in fact, we really didn t find anything that could even arguably be close to critical race theory at any of these textbooks. so then tell us what did you find in those math textbooks that reference rate, that has the republicans so worried. well it s interesting and as you mentioned most of the textbooks that were rejected were for elementary school students. we obtained four of the rejected textbooks for elementary school students. and in all of those textbooks, we couldn t find any mention of race in any context. even just in passing. in the middle school textbook that we obtained, there was