The Progressive Pulse: “Republican appointees to the State Board of Education (SBE) fired a volley of criticism at the state’s new social studies standards Wednesday, charging that the language in the revision is “divisive” and “politically charged.”
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson led the attack, doubling down on complaints he made earlier this month about the new standards, which the state board could approve next week.
“I do not like the tone of these standards, what’s written in them,” Robinson said during a special board meeting Wednesday. “I think they’re politically charged. I think they’re divisive, and I think that they, quite frankly, smack of a lot of leftist dogma.”…
A Guilford County Republican who was elected the state’s first Black lieutenant governor in November, Robinson demanded that the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) rewrite the standards or continue to use the current ones.
Racism is a thing of the past, he argued, citing the election of Barack Obama to president in 2008, then again in 2012, and his own election in November.
“The system of government that we have in this nation is not systemically racist,” Robinson said. “In fact, it is not racist at all.””