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A Missouri legislative committee held a hearing on teaching race and racism. No Black parents, teachers, or scholars testified

  |  July 23, 2021

Seriously?

Here is Summer Ballentine at the Associated Press:

A Missouri legislative committee on Monday held a hearing on how educators teach K-12 students about race and racism without hearing from any Black Missourians.

No Black parents, teachers or scholars testified to the Joint Committee on Education during the invite-only hearing on critical race theory.

Aside from an official from Missouri’s education department, the only people who testified Monday were critics of critical race theory, which is a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism.

Read the rest here.

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