Dear Family and Community, They barely teach our history as it is. And now, they want to erase even that. The Education Department’s new policy to cut funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs isn’t just about removing some feel-good diversity training—it’s about making sure that future generations never learn the full truth about Black history in America. And let’s be clear: they’re not worried about erasing what little Black history is already taught in schools. They’re targeting the parts that expose the ugly truths—the Black Codes, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, redlining, and everything else that shows how the system was designed to keep us oppressed. They want to make sure white kids never learn how their ancestors benefited from our suffering. They want to keep future generations from connecting the dots between slavery, segregation, mass incarceration, and the racial wealth gap today. Because if they don’t know, they won’t question it. And if we don’t fight b...
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