DeSantis Forces College Board To Temper Anti-American Classes, But The War Has Just Begun

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DeSantis Forces College Board To Temper Anti-American Classes, But The War Has Just Begun

The long march through the institutions must meet a long march back to sanity. DeSantis’ battle with College Board is just one of many necessary engagements.

BY: JOY PULLMANN
FEBRUARY 06, 2023

For decades, Democrat and Republican politicians have forced Americans to fund schools, nonprofits, and bureaucracies that undermine our personal well-being and country. Breaking this wicked pattern of political sloth, Gov. Ron DeSantis resisted when College Board applied for Florida public schools to teach its anti-American African-American studies class.

Due to DeSantis’ courageous and principled stand, College Board backed down. The massive curriculum and testing organization last week released a revised version of the grievance studies class’s scope and sequence, which it had formerly kept secret from the very taxpayers funding it. College Board removed most of the overtly Marxist and violence-baiting study materials and added a token “black conservatism” option to its long list of voluntary essay topics.

The course still shamefully lacks any note of, for example, Clarence Thomas, one of the best legal thinkers in world history of any ancestry. It is also still clearly tilted politically left, including by omitting serious study of the deep and wide African-American tradition of Christian worship. Scholar Stanley Kurtz summarizes the changes at National Review:

Nearly every now-omitted topic was filled with socialism, CRT, or some other radical perspective. Originally, an entire topic was devoted to Frantz Fanon’s glorification of violence — and its influence on black radicals in America. That topic is now gone. Another topic one-sidedly excoriated American foreign policy in Haiti. Gone. The unit on black queer studies has also been deleted. DeSantis won that showdown with Governor Pritzker. A topic on ‘Afrocentricity,’ the scholarly legitimacy of which is very much in dispute, is gone. Also gone is a CRT-based unit calling colorblindness racist (in direct violation of Florida law). Units plugging reparations, prison abolition, intersectionality, the socialist platform of the Movement for Black Lives, and the revolutionary meditations of Marxist radical Robin D. G. Kelley, are likewise gone.

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African-American studies is to African-American history as “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is to genuine human equality. That is to say, it presents itself as the opposite of what it really is. It preaches “history” while really providing agitation. This inherent deception — a core Marxist tactic — is yet another reason to reject its peddlers. They don’t operate in good faith, and they shouldn’t be treated as if they do.

African-American studies gurus don’t really want to teach African-American history. But they want you to think they do, while they really do something evil. The whole thing is a con.

Increasing group hatred is the true goal and majority outcome of all identity politics classes, which are typically labeled some kind of “studies.” These departments in universities have for decades worked to pit Americans against each other, and in so doing divide the United States so it can be more easily ruled by centralized diktat instead of self-government.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/06/desantis-forces-college-board-to-temper-anti-american-classes-but-the-war-has-just-begun/