evoluted to this idea that you know, pronouns were so focused on pronouns and perhaps that

is a distraction and less substantive a fight than some other fights.

But if Republicans are really able to attack and censor African American AP history course

material, if they're actually able to attack and censor as they're doing with what 150

plus odd pieces of legislation, the various substantive rights for trans people had they

made these perhaps more symbolic fights into substantive fights that the left can't ignore.

Look, there are many things to say about that and I'm going to try in an unsystematic way

just to go through them because the ideas will come to my head in not a methodical, unfortunately,

not methodically.

First of all, I did sit down and look at the curriculum.

It's 254 pages.

I was curious.

I looked through the curriculum.

I thought the structure, the structure.

Now, I'm not an expert by far, I'm not an expert by far in African American history or studies.

It's now a refined field.

It may have started out, you know, flaky, but most disciplines go through that process

from flakiness and politically tainted too gradually unfolding as a solid field.

Fortunately for the field, it's originators.

Precursors, people like the boys were very solid, very solid.

So put it on a firm foundation and then after the 1960s, it went through its permutations,

combinations, evolution and it's solid.

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