Illinois Bets on Teaching Asian American History to Fight Racism – Bloomberg

“The unfortunate rise in anti-Asian hate made it even more urgent,” said Ram Villivalam, Illinois’s first and only Indian American state senator and another co-sponsor of the bill. The Illinois bill received broad bipartisan support from Illinois lawmakers and unanimous votes in the State Senate.
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Ain't No Senator's Son
4 years ago

Why not work on teaching true American History and forget this other stuff until we get that learned.

debtsor
4 years ago

“There are a lot of immediate things to address the violence. But the long-term strategy to deal with racism has to be education…”

But when ‘education’ in IL is so atrocious it’s unlikely education will solve anything.

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