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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1340038)	1/26/2022 5:17:11 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572366

"if you ever require heart surgery, does your surgeon have to be a Black woman, because 'racial equity'?" I hope my mind is sound enuf to refuse surgery. "I bet you would also mind if said heart surgeon never actually performed surgery before" I'd rather have a generic internist who says, "I understand. I'll put you on a morphine and oxygen diet."

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1340038)	1/26/2022 8:58:10 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1572366

The eyes at night Are woke and bright Deep in the heart of Texas Texas kids cancel cancelers. Texas students go off on school district's push to ban books on inequality Fed-up students in Texas' Granbury Independent School District voiced their anger at school officials looking to ban books on social inequality from libraries. / Joy Reid on book banning trend: ‘We should buy these books and give them as gifts’ NOV. 30, 202103:11 Jan. 26, 2022, 12:16 PM PST / Updated Jan. 26, 2022, 2:51 PM PST By Ja'han Jones In the last year, conservative lawmakers, school officials and parents across the country have embarked on a crusade against school lesson plans focused on social inequality. Laws and bans, ostensibly introduced to protect students from these allegedly “obscene” materials, have actually been crafted to coddle white parents — and by extension, their children — who don’t want to be reminded of the ways they benefit from oppression. But we’ve rarely heard from students themselves about how they view the conservative assault on school lesson plans. High school students in Granbury, Texas, helped solve that problem Monday. Several of them teed off on education officials during a public meeting about their school district's efforts to review and potentially ban hundreds of books from school libraries. Check out a few below. “No government — and public school is an extension of government — has ever banned books and banned information from its public and been remembered in history as the good guys,” one student said. Check out a few below. “No government — and public school is an extension of government — has ever banned books and banned information from its public and been remembered in history as the good guys,” one student said. Granbury ISD junior, speaking out against the school district looking to remove books from the shelves of school libraries 👏 pic.twitter.com/7zzhEr27CM — Christopher Tackett (@cjtackett) January 25, 2022 Another student demanded the school district "stop the censorship." “It’s plain and simple: If you don’t like it, put the book down,” another student said. “No one is forcing you to read it." "Wake up to the reality that we are all different and we should all embrace each other with love — not blatant hate," she added. Granbury ISD senior @kennedyytackett, who created a petition to push back on removing books, speaking at the board meeting. 👏 pic.twitter.com/knnFnf6bx5 — Christopher Tackett (@cjtackett) January 25, 2022 Education should be "free from bias," another student said. "We want to learn about things that may not be the prettiest or the most comfortable, but we as students are entitled to complete knowledge — not information that has been disseminated," the student said. Granbury ISD sophomore speaking out against books being pulled off of school library shelves. 👏 pic.twitter.com/MHPL8MNrAD — Christopher Tackett (@cjtackett) January 25, 2022 Granbury ISD senior speaking out against books being removed from shelves on schools libraries, and why it matters to her 👏 pic.twitter.com/eyS2ZRYG15 — Christopher Tackett (@cjtackett) January 25, 2022 One student criticized officials for targeting books important to her identity, which she said has been shaped by “colonialism and the survival of my people. Granbury ISD senior speaking out against books being removed from shelves on schools libraries, and why it matters to her 👏 pic.twitter.com/eyS2ZRYG15 — Christopher Tackett (@cjtackett) January 25, 2022 Often, the fight over school lesson plans is framed as a political one — conservatives versus progressives. In truth, the fight is between conservatives and the history they wish to ignore. And the students, in many cases, are on history’s side. msnbc.com