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[IJR] A proposal suggesting schools should call slavery "involuntary relocation" has been rejected by the Texas State Board of Education.The board issued a statement, saying, "As documented in the meeting minutes, the SBOE provided feedback in the meeting indicating that the working group needed to change the language related to ’involuntary relocation.'"
The statement continued, "Any assertion that the SBOE is considering downplaying the role of slavery in American history is completely inaccurate."
The chair of the State Board of Education, Keven Ellis, told The Washington Post the board "voted unanimously to send the language back to be reworked."
Aicha Davis, a Democratic board member representing Dallas and Fort Worth, reportedly saw the proposed language the group of educators wanted to suggest and "immediately questioned it," as the Post reported.
She added, "I am not going to support anything that describes the slave trade as ’involuntary relocation.'"
Davis continued, "I’m not gonna support anything that diminishes that journey."
Texas education made headlines in 2021 after Gov. Greg Abbott
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
(R) signed an anti-Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense...
bill, as The Hill reported.
The legislation stated that schools cannot teach that "an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual ’s race or sex."
Additionally, schools cannot "require an understanding of The 1619 Project."
Schools are also not allowed to teach that "an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex."
Students are required to be educated on "the history of white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts
individual happinessfirst will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with
white supremacistsocieties, since they push the same values...
, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong."