so bad that my dad wanted me to be emancipated at my 13th birthday. i am just saying. that s an interesting comparison. i happen to know a lot about emancipation. i was a crazy partier. i drew my parents crazy. forced into emancipation. no, this is forcing children to basically want to erase history. we are proud to be here where we are today because of writing the wrongs of history. [ applause ] and slavery is a stain on american history and something that should be taught in order to teach people the way to go forward and not backward, that s what they re trying to do to our kids. think about this, tyrus, everybody - no one is arguing about learning history. there are certain things here that are being replaced. why is disney trying to get kids to enjoy life? they re trying to appease the
are like that but do i think it is rampant in our schools or in our society, no, i really don t. in all my years, this is the biggest attack i ve seen on the freedom of the classroom as i ll call it. i am just so scared of the future of public education in florida and i am scared it will be a movement across the nation. i feel like learning history so we can progress as a country, for us we just make the same mistakes. that is the state of affairs in florida. where schools started this week for most students in public schools. and where, in each and every one of those schools, there is a new guy in class. his name is ron desantis, the governor of florida, he is in the first re-election battle this november and while he has made a big impression in the first term running the state it seems clear that desantis eye is fixed on the white house in 2024 and the path to get there
away, a town almost as white as tuskegee is black. i had had this idea, anyway, about doing a column from a white perspective and trying to match it with somebody doing it from a black perspective. reporter: the shared column appears in both communities newspapers, launched after south berwick and tuskegee joined together as sister cities, hoping to bridge a rational divide. what was the initial reaction here to the proposal? it sounded like something that was healthy. our country was going through some turmoil. reporter: karen hopkins was the first to co-write with amy. when you are sharing the stories, you re actually getting to know each other. reporter: guy trammell took it over a few years ago. what has this relationship meant to you? this is one opportunity to actually bring people together. instead of a divided states, we re the united states. reporter: and two communities united. residents of each have visited the other, sampling food, learning history. many
legislation, part of the bonker stop woke agenda of governor desantis, is individual freedom. one of its provisions directs that classroom instruction not make any student feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other psychological distress on account of his or her race. that protection from discomfort, of course, is a one-way street accessible only to white students. what about the discomfort black students feel learning history that s sanitized or just plain incorrect? now, i m going back some decades, but i ll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few black kids in a predominantly white school, especially during history class when slavery, the civil war, reverend martin luther king, jr., or the civil rights movement would come up. one teacher often had students read sections of the textbook aloud in class. no one ever saw my growing alarm as i realized that the