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Okay. stop teaching math! okay.tu get rid of standardized testing! all right. the fund the police, move millions of afghan refugees to swing states to help thear democratic party. okay. oppose any of it, and you are a racist vehicle in the end it always happens and in this case it may happen and probably will, but what happens then to us? how will this new wave of immigration affect america? will america be a better country, or will it be a little more like afghanistan, which is to say, not real...

Algebra project dedicating to teaching math as a means to a more equal society. bob moses was 86 years old. >> rev, can you talk about what we all owe bob moses? >> reporter: we owe bob moses a lot. he was one of the activists that was in the trenches around voting rights. he never went for headlines, he was not a high profile figure. he did the work. but had he not done the work we would not have gotten the voting rights act of 1965. those of us fighting today owe a lot to bob moses, he helped ...

When someone asks about critical race theory, that statistic comes to mind. what is priority, teaching math and reading or turning elementary schools into social justice bootcamps? now let me turn you to a woman, michelle leicht, who is wishing death on anti-crt parents. listen to this. >> lets deny this -- people that are in education, anti-teacher, anti-history, anti-opportunity, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-social justice, anti-worker, plus anti-healthcare, anti-environment, anti-polic...

Crt is based on the premise that america started in 1619, thats not true. it started in 1776. so right from the beginning, this notion is wrong. honest history, yeah. parents are also saying, lets teach math, while this is going on. let me tell you, the chinese are not teaching critical race theory and talking about uighurs, they are teaching math and they are number one in the world. we are 26th in the world. its not just the damage that the studs by itself, its what it does in terms of neglect...

And that document said the changes were to address systemic racism in mathematics, the concept is still there. deputy education secretary wrote in "the wall street journal" that the underpinning that the teachers addressing the students mistakes forthright as a form of white supremacy and sets forth indicators of white supremacy culture and the mathematics classroom including a focus on getting the right answer teaching math in a linear fashion required students to show their work and grading th...

Wasnt a simple story. when somebody you love, is close to you, is kidnapped, its a particular kind of torture. its very hard to understand unless its actually happened to you. she did change, and it wasnt too many months before i realized that we werent getting back together. everything was crushed. it was gone, it was done. but im just trying to -- you know, if this is a documentary and you want the history, you want to know what it was like before the kidnapping, thats my answer. 1972, i went ...

However long its been, it wasnt a simple story. when somebody you love is close to you is kidnapped, its a particular kind of torture. its very hard to understand unless its actually happened to you. she did change and it wasnt too many months before i realized that we werent getting back together. everything was crushed. it was gone, it was done. but im just trying to -- you know if this is a documentary and you want the history, you want to know what it was like before the kidnapping, thats my...

And hung out there. and basically after about five or ten minutes, we realized that this wasnt a drill. >> have you ever felt more responsible for other people than you were today? >> i mean, you know -- this is my 36th year teaching math. teaching students. you know -- youre responsible for the kids every day. obviously today was certainly different. its just -- its hard to describe. >> i read a stat tonight, there have been 18 school shootings elsewhere in the world over the last two decades. ...

Realized that this wasnt a drill. >> have you ever felt more responsible for other people than you were today? >> i mean, you know, this is my 36th year teaching math, teaching students. and, you know, youre responsible for the kids every day. i mean, obviously today was certainly different. its just -- its hard to describe. >> i read a stat tonight. there have been 18 school shootings elsewhere in the world over the last two decades. in our country alone, there have been 18 school shootings in ...

This wasnt a drill. >> have you ever felt more responsible for other people than you were today? >> i mean, you know -- this is my 36th year teaching math. teaching students. you know -- youre responsible for the kids every day. obviously today was certainly different. its just -- its hard to describe. >> i read a stat tonight, there have been 18 school shootings elsewhere in the world over the last two decades. in our country alone, there have been 18 school shootings in the last 35 days. i kno...