The College Board announced that it will revise its Advanced Placement African American Studies course after activists and scholars accused the organization of kowtowing to pressure from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
What is important to always remember and state when discussing education is that Republicans are NOT attacking these courses and fields of study because, as they claim, they are advancing a “wok” agenda or liberal propaganda.
Rather, it is important to understand and always state that people like DeSantis and other Republicans ARE attacking education to include these courses and fields of study because it fails to sustain the ignorance they want to preserve.
It’s not great to see how mercurial the College Board can be, but it seems to show what a paper tiger DeSantis turned out to be. They were cowed before his perceived influence over the “conservative” party in the US, but now that he’s on the ropes, they are hedging back the other way. At least that’s how it appears.
Yes, they want to be able to offer the class in the broadest range of places, but they need to do more than just stick their finger in the wind to decide what goes in a course or not. Historical events should be examined as accurately as possible, not as comfortably as possible.
"Truth is required to act freely. Freedom requires knowledge, and in order to act freely in the world, you need to know what the world is and know what you’re doing. You only know what you’re doing if you have access to the truth. So freedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth."
I’m frankly disappointed there were no classes in Black Panther Thinking back when I was a high school student.
Kids these days don’t know how good they have it.
The organization explained that a development committee composed of subject matter experts will decide how to change the course framework over the next few months.
So trade people who objectively know stuff will make decisions about what constitutes “knowledge, facts, and relevent history” instead of unelected political appointees? Imagine that.
History is not supposed to be comfortable.
Rachel’s A-block last night was spot on.
When I was 9 years old I saw Angela Davis’ picture on the front page of the New York Daily News and it really flipped me out. /s
Apparently the Florida State department of education wanted more inclusion of Black conservatives like Thomas Sowell. I happened to read him in grad school. His ethnic Americans book is a solid read, not controversial about the contributions of various ethnic groups. However his views on economics are out of the Milton Friedman school of thought. Whether their views warrant an entire section making them more important than vast social movements or say the history of redlining is debatable. “Diamond and Silk, discuss”
DeSantis is a paper kitten.
Even Bucky Katt could kick his go-go-booted butt.
With one canine tied behind his back!
I don’t know about a kitten, though. Kittens are cute and playful. Maybe more of a paper polliwog?
I think there should be a college course on “Black Panther Thinking,” whatever that is. Sounds interesting as hell and it certainly wasn’t offered when I went to school.
More appropriately, DeSantis is a worthless piece of shit.
Took them a while to find their gonads…
He’s still a pocket fascist who’s sent a SWAT team to do a 4AM raid on the home of a political enemy, and set up an election secret police to arrest those suspected of voting while black. No one in florida is safe until january 2025.
One big problem is that he seems to think he is the smartest person in the room. He supposedly listens to no one except wife Casey - who definitely has aspirations to be Jackie Kennedy.
Political power, as has been said many times, is an illusion. You have it as long as other people believe you have it. That’s all it is. A parlor trick.
May I suggest ‘bias’ instead of ‘ignorance,’ as in, “attacking education to include these courses and fields of study because it fails to sustain the bias they want to preserve.”
