Commentary: Do you believe in discussion in our schools? Or do you want the schools to discuss just what you believe? That’s the big question that all Americans need to ask themselves right now.
We don’t know why Florida objected to the BLM passage, which noted that “many Americans sympathized with the Black Lives Matter movement” while other people criticized looting and violence and denounced BLM as anti-police. But here’s what we do know: The book provided multiple perspectives on BLM, which is exactly what our students need in order to make sense of it themselves.because it addressed Black Lives Matter, as well as reparations and prison abolition. To Gov.
“It’s the same fear that brings Muslim bans,” Tokuda-Hall’s note continues. “It’s the same contempt that creates voter suppression, medical apartheid, and food deserts. The same cruelty that carved reservations out of stolen, sovereign land, that paved the Trail of Tears. Hate is not a virus. It is an American tradition.”
“By refusing to let this story be situated in the context of government oppression and enslavement of other minority groups, past and present, it makes it safe for them to say, ‘historically, mistakes were made, but look at how successful Japanese American communities are now,’”That’s a defensible view, but it’s also a debatable one. And Tokuda-Hall and her supporters don’t seem to want that debate, any more than Florida officials want schools to discuss Black Lives Matter.
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