EPISODE · Aug 5, 2024 · 44 MIN
Friday, August 2, 2024 - The 'divisive concept?' A thorough learning of America's racial history
from The Ron Show · host Ron Roberts
Kinda ... "curious" ... that Georgia's school superintendent Richard Woods took more than a week to reveal why he pulled state funding for AP African Americans studies. Turns out its the state's two-year old "divisive concepts" law. What's funny about that is governor Brian Kemp - who signed the law - wasn't aware that was Woods' rationale. We know that because, remember, Kemp made a big public spectacle by sending a letter asking for Woods' reasoning. Gwinnett County Schools - the state's largest - is already abandoning AP African American studies curriculum. The root of the problem? Questioning 'intersectionality' - which, like "critical race theory" - is a relatively new term and one hastily demonized by conservatives eager to see to it future generations of Americans are less and less aware of the nation's awful history on race, racism and bias.
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Kinda ... "curious" ... that Georgia's school superintendent Richard Woods took more than a week to reveal why he pulled state funding for AP African Americans studies. Turns out its the state's two-year old "divisive concepts" law. What's funny about that is governor Brian Kemp - who signed the law - wasn't aware that was Woods' rationale. We know that because, remember, Kemp made a big public spectacle by sending a letter asking for Woods' reasoning. Gwinnett County Schools - the state's largest - is already abandoning AP African American studies curriculum. The root of the problem? Questioning 'intersectionality' - which, like "critical race theory" - is a relatively new term and one hastily demonized by conservatives eager to see to it future generations of Americans are less and less aware of the nation's awful history on race, racism and bias.
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