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>Florida school district cancels professor�s
>civil rights lecture over critical race
>theory concerns
>Jan 24
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>A Florida school district canceled
>a professor�s civil rights history
>seminar for teachers, citing in
>part concerns over �critical race
>theory� � even though his lecture
>had nothing to do with the topic.
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>J. Michael Butler, a history
>professor at Flagler College in
>St. Augustine, was scheduled to
>give a presentation Saturday to
>Osceola County School District
>teachers called �The Long Civil
>Rights Movement,� which postulates
>that the civil rights movement
>preceded and post-dated Martin
>Luther King Jr. by decades.
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>He said that he was shocked to learn
>why the seminar had been canceled
>through an email Wednesday but that
>he wasn�t surprised because educators
>feel increasingly intimidated over
>teaching about race.
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>Less than 24 hours before Butler was
>informed of the cancellation, a state
>Senate committee advanced legislation
>Tuesday at the behest of Republican
>Gov. Ron DeSantis to block public
>schools and private businesses from
>making people feel �discomfort� when
>they�re taught about race. DeSantis
>also wants to empower parents to sue
>schools that teach critical race
>theory.
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>�The victims of this censorship are
>history and the truth,� Butler said.
>�The end game is they�re going to
>make teaching civil rights into
>�critical race theory,� and it�s not.�
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>Butler said he hadn�t shared his full
>presentation with the school district.
>In the presentation, which he provided
>to NBC News, Butler doesn�t mention
>the theory, nor structural racism or
>anti-racism.
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>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-school-district-c
>ancels-professors-civil-rights-lecture-critic-rcna13183
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