Last week, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, in partnership with Representatives Kweisi Mfume from Maryland and Joyce Beatty from Ohio, announced three bills highlighting and preserving Black history in classrooms “under attack.”
“The Republican party and Ron DeSantis, do me a favor? Pick up a book and read a book,” said Bowman at a Washington, D.C., pressCapitol Hill. “We know that you are trying to erase that history because you don’t want Black people to have knowledge of self. You want to keep us dumb, deaf and blind so that you can oppress, suppress and control us.”that intend to censor discussions and books about race, accurate depictions of Black history and even gender.
The NYC Department of Education added that her in the city educators already have access to many African American history resources via WeTeach, including comic books and posters featuring historic figures like Jackie Robinson and Bayard Rustin. Mfume sponsored the National Council on African American History and Culture Act. He said that the constitution itself was compromised in its call to end tyranny by enslaving African peoples in the first place. “Everything that the founding fathers claimed then in the name of morality, they contradicted in their attitudes toward and their treatment of descendants of Africa and the native inhabitants of this land,” said Mfume.
“African American history is American history. For too long ,our history lessons failed to fully acknowledge the role of Black Americans. And it happens in far more places than schools — so much of what we have learned for generations about history, music, culture and more has diminished the role of African American creators, writers, musicians and beyond,” said Cardin in a statement.
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