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Explain to the viewer the significance of these protests. >> first of all, thank you for having me on, katie. for those who did not know the definition of intersectionality, it was defined for them on wednesday at the march. people from all over the state of florida joined in unity and solidarity to make it clear that if you come for one of us, you come for all of us. from students and parents, black, white, gay, straight, transgender, and all types of religions, they all were there, on wednesday. it's also a resistance to what we are seeing happen across this country. people realize that if i...
With indoctrination. he just wants to be the one doing the indoctrinating. and yet, despite that, on wednesday, the college board announced major changes to its ap african-american studies chorus that include big cuts from its pilot course, along the lines that -- downgraded from the curriculum are topics that include black lives matter, mask incarceration, reparations for slavery, writers and scholars who will no longer be taught to america's brightest high school -- and guest on the show whose work has been described as foundational to critical race theory, also gone his project ferguson, wh...
Queer social movements and -- pulitzer prize-winning author has made the case for reparations for slavery. gone to his bell hooks the writer who shaped discussions about race, feminism, and class. the college board has denied that florida and desantis's objections have anything to with her changes, telling msnbc that their changes have time span records of provisions from december 22nd, which isn't the best defense, given the right have been attacking the ap african american studies course since at least last september. and, you know, announcing this purge of the curriculum just days after des...
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 the changes to how this happened. >> so, professor patterson, explain the decision as it is been rep...