The all-white school board voted 5-2 to stop offering Black history and literature courses.
A Missouri school board that previously voted to rescind an anti-discrimination resolution has voted in favor of removing elective Black history and literature classes.
The seven-member Francis Howell School Board voted 5-2 Thursday night to stop offering Black History and Black Literature courses, which had been offered at the district’s three high schools since 2021, KSDK reported. All seven members of the board are white.
“Our students really wanted these electives,” Harry Harris, whose son is a student in the district, said during the board meeting. “Our families really wanted them and our teachers really wanted them. It’s important. It’s been great.”
In July, the conservative-led board revoked an anti-racism resolution that had been passed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
Removal of black history classes completes the erasure of generations of racial terrorism against black people, of course they want that.
A policy of denying racial inequity and preventing the truth from being told about it is the very definition of structural racism.
I’m reminded of a guy I knew (who wasn’t even white!) that had a sort of “racism is over” attitude. I was like, “Ok, let’s look at one very specific part of racism in the US. Do you know what redlining is?” He did not. I explained it, and generational wealth transfer. Then he was like, “Oh. Yeah, I guess that would still have an effect today.” Made a big crack in his world view with one twenty minute talk.
Of course conservative shitheads don’t want this stuff taught. They don’t want that kind of eye opening happening all over the place.