OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a invoice into legislation that restricts Oklahoma colleges from instructing essential race concept.
Stitt introduced on Twitter Friday afternoon that he signed Home Invoice 1775 into legislation.
“As governor, I firmly consider that not one cent of tax payer cash must be used to outline and divide younger Oklahomans about their race or intercourse,” Stitt stated in a video he posted on Twitter.
Educators throughout Oklahoma denounced the invoice, saying that essential race concept does create division amongst college students, however as an alternative sheds gentle on racial discrimination in numerous elements of American historical past.
“What essential race concept talks about are the insurance policies and the legislation. The main target is on the discrimination itself and the harm that discrimination brought on these individuals,” stated Christopher Lehman, an Edmond native, Oklahoma State College graduate and professor of ethnic research at St. Cloud State College in Minnesota. “Vital race concept doesn’t educate that folks of various pores and skin colours are higher. Once I educate it, I don’t deal with how individuals really feel about different individuals of shade. I deal with the actions that the legal guidelines and the insurance policies prescribe.”
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