<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: SOPHIA <smcfarland@sophiawaukesha.org><br>To: Gerald Flakas <gerflak@aol.com><br>Sent: Tue, Aug 10, 2021 9:53 am<br>Subject: It's Time to Stand Up for the Truth<br><br></div><div id="yiv8931720991">
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<div><span style="display:none !important;visibility:hidden;font-size:1px;color:#ffffff;line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;overflow:hidden;">Please attend a hearing on Wednesday</span>
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<td class="yiv8931720991wrapper yiv8931720991last" style="border-collapse:collapse !important;vertical-align:top;color:#394357;font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;position:relative;padding-right:0px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black;">Wisconsin State </span><span style="color:null;">Senate Bill 411</span><span style="color:black;"> (with a companion bill in the Assembly) was introduced on July 10. Although phrased as race-neutral and never referring to "critical race theory," it is designed to prevent schools from teaching about the realities of racial oppression over the last 400 years. It would absolve white people of any responsibility for acknowledging or addressing the damage done by previous and continuing unjust treatment of people of color in our society. The bill would even prevent anti-racism and anti-sexism training for employees of public school districts. </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color:black;">We are calling on everyone who is able to please attend a hearing: </span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40px;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color:black;">Wednesday, August 11 </span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40px;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color:black;">10 am </span></b></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40px;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color:black;">Room 412 East of the State Capitol</span></b></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black;">This is a Joint Hearing of the Senate and Assembly Education Committees regarding SB 411.<b><i> We need as many people as possible to appear and at least "register against" the bill.</i></b> <b><i>Better yet, we need our legislators to hear your voices.</i></b> </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:black;">Some Reasons to Reject SB411:</span></strong></span></span></p>
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<li style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black;">The mandates in this bill would teach platitudes to our youth while ignoring and obfuscating the truth of race and sex in our society. </span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black;">We must teach what our society has actually done. We must teach the truth, not an idealized version of it. Our young people CAN handle the truth! </span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black;">Our educational system must prepare our youth to thrive in the real world. They must learn to be citizens of a multicultural society and be equipped to understand and work with a diversity of people, cultures and viewpoints. If we fail to do this, we will fail our youth and jeopardize their future. </span></span></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black;">Education should provide our children with a clear-eyed view of our country’s history so they can celebrate our country’s greatness but also understand its shortcomings. Our hope is for whites and people of color to work together without blame or rancor to repair the divisions between races, to advance true equality, and to create a fairer and more just world. </span> </span></span></li>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color:black;">If you can't be in Madison on Wednesday, please contact your legislators</span></b><span style="color:black;">. If you are not sure who they are or how to contact them, just go to <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/33819943/300045790/162518782?emci=896d3714-16f9-eb11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVldJVy8xLzYyOTg1IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImMzOTM2N2MxLWVhZjktZWIxMS1iNTYzLTUwMWFjNTdiOGZhNyIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2VyZmxha0Bhb2wuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=PJWoID9amWnUSFnazegx0euheSFtDuAXyOOM2_uwuLo=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="color:blue;">www.myvote.wi.gov</span></a> and select "my voter info". </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black;">Let them know that real Wisconsinites are not afraid of the truth, and that we want real racial equity for our schools and our state. </span></span></span></p>
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