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The official course looks different from a previous draft: No more
critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black
Lives Matter — is optional.

After heavy criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis, the College Board released
on Wednesday an official curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course
in African American Studies — stripped of much of the subject matter that
had angered the governor and other conservatives.

The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black
feminism. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum.

And it added something new: “Black conservatism” is now offered as an idea
for a research project.

When it announced the A.P. course in August, the College Board clearly
believed it was providing a class whose time had come, and it was
celebrated by eminent scholars like Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard as an affirmation of the importance of African American studies. But the course quickly ran into a political buzz saw — first from conservatives after an
early draft leaked to conservative publications like The Florida Standard
and National Review. And then, once the curriculum was released on
Wednesday, some academics and liberal groups protested the changes.

The dispute over the A.P. course is about more than just the content of a
high school class. Education is the center of much vitriolic partisan
debate, and the College Board’s decision to try to build a curriculum
covering one of the most charged subjects in the country — the history of
race in America — may have all but guaranteed controversy. If anything,
the arguments over the curriculum underscore the fact that the United
States is a country that cannot agree on its own story, especially the
complex history of Black Americans.

There is nothing complex about black American history. They are lazy
shitbags, bred for stupidity and there is absolutely nothing Democrats can
do to lift their intelligence.

<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement- african-american-studies.html>

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