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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how many racist school districts across the US don't offer an AP African American studies class?[/quote]

Almost all. [/quote]

Most school districts don’t offer it — because it’s still a pilot program.  
Many do offer African American history/ studies — just not AP, and many more appropriately integrate and teach African American studies throughout the curriculum. [/quote]

Most high schools that currently teach an African American History/studies course would modify it to prepare for the AP test. Why not? It isn’t and wouldn’t be required for any school. [b]I doubt that many Florida high schools currently have an African American history course.[/b] Desantis is just blocking those that do from offering students an AP credit opportunity. [/quote]

DP.  You would be wrong.  Black history isn't an elective in Florida schools - it's [b]*mandatory*[/b].  All students are taught about black history in the U.S.

Florida mandates instruction on “the enslavement experience,” “the civil rights movement,” and the contributions of black Americans. Three years ago, DeSantis signed a law to teach the 1920 Ocoee massacre, in which a white mob killed dozens of black Floridians - funny how DCUM doesn't see fit to acknowledge any of this.

On the other hand, here are some topics from the proposed AP African American History class, Unit 4:

• “The Reparations Movement,” a topic that “explores the case for reparations,” in which students “may examine House Bill H.R. 40 and a text by Ta-Nehisi Coates.”

• “Movements for Black Lives,” which “explores the origins, mission, and global influence of the Black Lives Matter movement,” some of whose adherents have called for the abolition of prisons and police.

• “Black Queer Studies,” which “explores the concept of the queer of color critique, grounded in Black feminism and intersectionality, as a Black studies lens that shifts sexuality studies toward racial analysis.”

• “‘Postracial’ Racism and Colorblindness,” which “explores concepts such as postracialism, colorblindness, racecraft, or inequality.”

• “Intersectionality and Activism,” which “examines intersectionality as an analytical framework and its connection to Chicana and Asian American feminist thought.” Students “may explore a text” by [b]Kimberlé Crenshaw, whose official Columbia Law School bio says that her work is “foundational in critical race theory.”[/b]

“We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think,” the Governor said, “but we don’t believe they should have an agenda imposed on them.”

Good for DeSantis.[/quote]

These are all good topics for discussion when it comes to black people whether you believe it or not. These are relevant topics. You don't get to decide what is important to black people. The point of an AP class is discussion. These are all topics worthy of discussion and debate.[/quote]

DP.   These are topics for discussion and debate, for and against.  Not for one side only.  [/quote]

DP.  Yep, but can you imagine the blowback on any student (or teacher) who argued against them?  No other group of people has their own, separate history course, complete with controversial subjects.  [/quote]
No other group has been dragged to the colonies/America, enslaved, brutalized, excluded from every possible avenue of belonging and respect and been so thoroughly erased from history. You white pointy hat people are so effing weird and so openly racist. [/quote]

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