Here’s a piece from The Boston Globe—Schools directed to expand history courses—about a new commission in New York that will examine whether the “physical and psychological terrorism” against Africans in the slave trade is being adequately taught in schools. The commission is named for the slave ship Amistad, which was commandeered by slaves who eventually won their freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Easy to answer this one…NO.
The “outrage” over this “dabbling” expressed by Carl Hayden (head of the NYS Board of Regents) and Candice DeRussy, the ultra-right wing SUNY trustee is laughable as these two have been on the cutting edge of making K-16 public education in safe for coporate capitalism.
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