Robert J Patterson News Today

we began this morning with an update on that traumatic incident with the chinese spy balloon 60,000 feet in the air. eight days after it was first spotted in u.s. airspace, and have 22 raptor shot down the balloon with a single missile yesterday off the carolina coast. the search for degree is now underway. it my touch off a war of words between the u.s. and china. heightening tensions in an already data diplomatic relationship. china expressed its, quote, strong dissatisfaction. they ...

The topics will instead be offered as options for research products. and though the college board says the changes are not the result of any political pressure, questions still linger as to whether desantis influenced the boards decision. joining me now is robert j. patterson, professor of african american studies at georgetown university. professor patterson, thank you for coming to the sunday show. you co-chaired a committee that developed the ap african american studies course. did the colleg...

Of their things that are not true. so i think that those types of reports, those types of narratives underscores the significance of what the college board has done, and is doing, and how that can reshape american education fundamentally to foreground the rightful contributions that black people have made across the world. that is the lead story. >> and, professor patterson, to your point, can we just not forget that it is 2023. and this is the first ap african american studies curriculum in the...

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It cant even put it in the ap classroom because it doesnt have permission. and the importance of having permissions is to take the burden off of individual school districts, and teachers to provide those sources. >> professor patterson, -- of the new york times editorial board has a column with the headline, erasing black history is not the role of the college board, and she writes in part that the way forward is to confront this history, not bend it to our will or whitewash it or wish it away. ...

Currently piloting the course, as a resident example, jonathan, the course that is being piloted now is not even the document that the state of florida was responding to. and so the whole suggestion that ron desantis, as you said earlier, had a temper tantrum and then suddenly all of the professionals, the teachers, on the college board and staff, suddenly decided no, we are not going to do this course, we are going or move these topics, it is factually incorrect. and i am willing to talk about ...