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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 really a better eacountry? we can't be sure of what is going to happen, we can't see the future, but for...

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 to lay the trail we're walking down and continue to walk down. i was so honored, he did politics nat...

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. >> let's 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-policy change, anti-inclusion and let them people, let them die. >> sandra: let them die, says a to the ...

Crt is based on the premise that america started in 1619, that's not true. it started in 1776. so right from the beginning, this notion is wrong. honest history, yeah. parents are also saying, let's 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. it's not just the damage that the studs by itself, it's what it does in terms of neglecting other subjects and other important matters. >> dana: indeed. bill bennett, always good to se...

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 them on demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter. i can imagine if you are teaching philosophy he ...