Written statement by champions of campaign against racism
Here's a clear statement, written by prominent educators and champions
of the campaign against racism, of how the pressure to censor the
Advanced Placement African-American Studies course is an attack on
freedom of thought and education, and part of a much broader campaign
against education and to cover up important areas of Americans
history.
It says nothing to suggest that today's young Americans should feel
guilty about crimes that American whites in the past committed against
Americans blacks (though some people do that). Rather, it says that
we should teach young Americans these aspects of their country's
history, so they can carefully draw moral lessons from those past
events and apply the conclusions today and in the future.
That goal applies to other issues besides racism. If democracy and
schools exist 50 years from now, they will teach what has been learned
from investigations based on critical environment theory and critical
computation theory, showing how powerful interests distorted laws and
institutions to poison the Earth and make computing subjugate its
users.