22 Mar The lies we are teaching our children

The lies we are teaching our children

Yesterday, I wrote about some states trying to ban drag queens, and now this. Are these politicians trying to take everyone’s rights away? Sure, as hell looks like it.
A Florida textbook publisher removed all references of race from a lesson about civil rights icon Rosa Parks in order to get a Florida committee’s approval, according to The New York Times.

Parks helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955. The theory has become a major point of contention for Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed legislation last year that prohibits instruction that could make students feel responsibility, guilt, or anguish for what other members of their race did in the past.

DeSantis’s administration has taken this law and used it to reject more than 40 math textbooks for allegedly incorporating “prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies,” including critical race theory. This year, his administration banned an Advanced Placement African American studies course from running in schools, accusing the college board of “indoctrination not education.”

So seriously, we are now taking the truth out of our textbooks because we don’t like the way it makes us look? Are we trying to erase all that we did? The execution of Native Americans, the Holocaust, the years of slavery and the rights we took from Black people? Like that’s supposed to make things better?

Our children need to know the horrors we did and the pain we caused to so many people. We can’t just pretend it didn’t happen. Otherwise, we are likely to repeat our mistakes. We need to teach our children the difference between right and wrong, and trying to pretend it never happened is definitely not doing this.

The first thing in order to change is to admit you have a problem. We must admit our wrongdoings. When we know better, we do better.
That is how we grow.

So today my friends, I tell you all the time, be the change you want to see. These are people you voted into office, whether you voted for them or by not voting at all because you think your vote doesn’t count.
We need to protest, run for office, and get out and vote. That is the only way change will happen. We must tell our children that we made mistakes in the past and that we are trying to do better, not by pretending it never happened.
You want to see change? Then be the change you want to see.
@TreadmillTreats