NJ legislation requires education on Asian
American history
Posted By: Ribicon, 1/21/2022 7:54:28 PM
New Jersey—Considered an engineering marvel of its time, the Transcontinental Railroad was a game changer, connecting the east and west in the back end of the 1800s. The contribution of roughly 20,000 Chinese immigrants proved to be vital in the railway’s completion, but as New Jersey 12-year-old Bryan Zhao discovered, it was widely ignored in his social studies classes growing up. “It just felt very weird being excluded like we weren’t part of US history and that was completely wrong,” Zhao told PIX11 News.(Snip)Learning about the contributions of Asian Americans will now be part of the curriculum statewide after Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation this week
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They'll learn how the evil White man exploited the oppressed Chinamen to build railroads, and also how that mean Republican FDR (who only pretended to be a Democrat) rounded up Japanese Americans and placed them in containment camps during WWII. All well and good, but how will this stop the bLACK kids from beating up the Asian kids?