Phil Lewis: The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore

The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore

AP African American studies course to be dropped in SC public schoolswww.wsav.com The South Carolina Department of Education said AP African American studies will not be offered in the state’s schools anymore.

can’t have the students still most heavily impacted by racially motivated redlining and gerrymandering understanding systemic racism… every day some new fresh hell to be sad about

Exactly

Can’t “like” this. But shared it. WTF is wrong with these people!! Rhetorical question. 🥺🥺🥺🥺

I generally "like" things I don't like because of algorithms running the backend. It's also a way of saying "thank you for bringing this to my attention." But I totally feel you!

I do that quite often but sometimes the information is so repellent! I thought Post was overdoing it with their palette of reaction emojis but now I really miss being able to show what I really think about a post. This one deserves a 🤬

I don't think bluesky uses the hearts for the algorithm

Being hated is exhausting, and haters NEVER get tired.

Seems to energize them, in fact

Hmm, odd that the state superintendent didn't mention what exactly the "significant controversy" was that surrounds the course...

They get a single letter from a Karen in Florida or something, I am sure.

or, the moms for liberty assholes got to them.

You may be underestimating the number of racist white people in SC if you can’t picture a *large* group of them objecting to what they think is “CRT,” which they can’t define but *really* hate.

I never underestimate those assholes.

I’m just saying. They didn’t need outside interference for this to happen. I think we *wish* it was the usual suspects so we don’t have to confront how prevalent this racism is.

THIS is "cancel culture"

Exactly.

We are regressing

The state with John C. Calhoun at the center of its capitol rotunda decided what?

No one can claim the goal IS NOT white supremacy.

Sure, Black people played no role in South Carolina's history. No sirree, none at all.

Anti-Intellectualism is so powerful now in the US

Common SC L.

What possible reason could there be for this that is not racist or corrupt?

I want to see more politicians saying things like this.

First erase us historically, then culturally, then...

I know many of the ppl involved in designing that course & implementing the exam. They have absolute integrity, & this is yet another racist travesty designed to uphold white “supremacy”.

I know none of them but would proffer the same conclusion.

Usual suspect state doing usual suspect shit.

Has Tim Scott provided a comment?

Tim Scott never does a damn thing until three other Republicans of some notoriety have done it first

This just blows my mind. I used to present programs about African American history in elementary schools in South Carolina. The children were fascinated. They wanted to learn. This news disgusts me.

Of course not: when you arm people with facts and education they become harder to exploit and ignore.

See how they CONTINUOUSLY get rid of everything civil rights fought for UNDER BIDEN

Didn’t know that Joe Biden was governor of South Carolina. 🤷‍♀️

Didn’t know the head of the Executive Branch of the United States was so helpless to do or even say anything about anything.

Didn’t know that Joe Biden wasn’t the governor of South Carolina. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Here is the governor of South Carolina. He is a Republican. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M...

Henry McMaster - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Let me assist you with this train of thought. How will Having a Biden second term STOP this? Don’t do a “what about Trump?” How will Biden stop this if he hasn’t done it yet?

Why isn’t this the state government?

Why can't Biden be president of the USA and governor of South Carolina at the same time? If he cannot be both, then we shouldn't vote for him for either one. I am not a psychopath

This has nothing to do with Biden one way or the other.

erasing the history of entire population

Speaking from the UK, this is a grotesque decision. Sadly, the UK appears to emulate the US more and more, so coming to us soon

Depends on the state. If UK was more like the west coast, that would be good.

We like to emulate the very worst of ideas. Or so it seems

Ideas that not even we do from what I have seen. (Deporting people born in your country is a gross thing Europeans in general seem to do)

Yes. That is a spectacular low

You must do better South Carolina!