[Lekooks] Fwd: It's Time to Stand Up for the Truth

[Gerald Flakas]

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From: SOPHIA <smcfarland at sophiawaukesha.org>
To: Gerald Flakas <gerflak at aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Aug 10, 2021 9:53 am
Subject: It's Time to Stand Up for the Truth

 Please attend a hearing on Wednesday


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Wisconsin State Senate Bill 411 (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. 

 

We are calling on everyone who is able to please attend a hearing: 

Wednesday, August 11 

10 am 

Room 412 East of the State Capitol

 

This is a Joint Hearing of the Senate and Assembly Education Committees regarding SB 411.  We need as many people as possible to appear and at least "register against" the bill.  Better yet, we need our legislators to hear your voices. 

 

Some Reasons to Reject SB411:
   
   - The mandates in this bill would teach platitudes to our youth while ignoring and obfuscating the truth of race and sex in our society. 
   - 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! 
   - 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.  
   - 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.  

If you can't be in Madison on Wednesday, please contact your legislators. If you are not sure who they are or how to contact them, just go to www.myvote.wi.gov and select "my voter info".  

 

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. 



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