Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the IBEW 490 headquarters during her one-on-one interview with the Monitor on Friday afternoon, April 23, 2021.
Efforts to prevent New Hampshire public schools from discussing systemic racism or teaching topics related to racism and sexism, are a disservice to children and American history, Vice President Kamala Harris said.
“It is absolutely critical that we teach our children the truth about the history of our country in its best moments, and it’s in its worst moments,” Harris said during a trip to the state Friday. “If we are ever to go forward in a way that we learn from history and not repeat mistakes, we must know what those mistakes have been. We must know those tragic moments happened, so that we can ensure they don’t repeat themselves.”
State lawmakers have debated a bill that seeks to limit public schools and state contractors from discussing “divisive concepts” related to racism and sexism, and would specifically ban teaching that the state of New Hampshire or the U.S. is racist or sexist.
The legislation is reminiscent of former President Trump’s executive order that banned the federal government and its contractors from participating in diversity training that examined systemic racism another other bias issues. The Biden administration reversed the ban in late January.
On Saturday, a rally was held outside the State House in Concord in support of the ban.
The group, including Republican state Reps. Keith Ammon and Daryl Abbas and former GOP candidate for Congress Steve Negron, wants to stop “divisive racist propaganda from being forced onto our school children as facts,” organizers said. “Critical Race Theory is a radical doctrine that is rooted in Marxism, intended to drive us apart from one another.”
Last week, in an interview with N.H. Public Radio, Gov. Chris Sununu said he would veto the legislation should it land on his desk, not because he disagrees with it, but because he doesn’t believe the government should restrict what schools teach.
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