Daily Wire host: Courses on African American history should not not be offered
Matt Walsh: “Any kind of African American history or studies, that should not be a course that is offered or presented in grade school, in public schools. It shouldn't be there at all.”
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Citation From the January 25, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): There's just no chance that in the modern age, in the government school system they can have any course related to something like African-American studies that will not be highly political, ideologically-charged, and, yeah, include things like queer theory. Because that's going to be shoehorned into anything where the left is involved. It's always going to come down to LGBT indoctrination. It's always a forum for that.
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Though, I'll also say, that I'm not favor of – you know, you hear some conservatives say, we need to reform this program, we need to take a look at it, we need to audit it and figure out a way to – we don't need this at all. Ok?
This is not an appropriate or relevant thing -- any kind of African American history or studies, that should not be a course that is offered or presented in grade school, in public schools. It shouldn't be there at all.
And why is that? Because what we should be teaching kids is American history. The courses should be focused on American history, not breaking history down by racial groups. The moment you start to do that, it is, again, going to automatically become political and ideological. But it's also not appropriate for a public school environment. Teach the kids American history. And that will include the story of everyone who's been an American.