Colonizer Curriculum: Texas Educators Want To Characterize Slavery As ‘Involuntary Relocation’

By Zack Linly, Newsone

By now, it should be as clear as day that Texas is chief among the many red states where white fragility goes to die, be reborn and become the catalyst for virtually all policy changes.

Apparently, for one group of Texas educators, it’s not enough that the state passed an anti-critical race theory law that dropped requirements for teachers to give lessons on, among other things, the KKK, the teachings of Martin Luther King or any curricula that might make (white) students uncomfortable. This group also feels the need to sanitize slavery for second graders by describing it as “involuntary relocation.”

From the Texas Tribune:

The working group of nine educators, including a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is one of many such groups advising the state education board to make curriculum changes. This summer, the board will consider updates to social studies instruction a year after lawmakers passed a law to keep topics that make students “feel discomfort” out of Texas classrooms. The board will have a final vote on the curriculum in November.

Part of the proposed social studies curriculum standards outlines that students should “compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.

Read about the latest efforts to whitewash history and education in Texas.

Make no mistake: African people were kidnapped and forced into three centuries of slavery, and the repercussions of these actions are present to this day.

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