First, I’d like to make one correction to an otherwise well-balanced and well-written article “Ethnic studies debate in San Mateo Union” by Sierra Lopez in the Feb. 15 edition of the Daily Journal. The Liberated Ethnic Studies Curriculum came into being after the first and second drafts of the Ethnic Studies Manual Curriculum produced under supervision of an advisory committee was soundly rejected by Californians for their racial divisiveness, pure pro-Marxist ideology, anti-Americanism, antisemitism and jargon filled language. Not waiting for the third draft, most of the advisory committee united under the name Liberated and came up with the LESC, which has now been pushed through California’s school districts while being nothing more than a compilation of the rejected first two drafts.
Second, the article clearly delineates the differences between two camps in the ethnic studies debate. One, Liberated, presents America as a country frozen in her flaws, never changing and oppressing minorities by the power system structured at her founding.
The second camp, Alliance for Ethnic Studies, sees America as a giant that moves ahead and is capable of recognizing its flaws, correcting them, and using the system of powers, called the American Constitution, to empower individuals of all races to reach their potentials and beyond.
It is up to parents and the community which camp to choose and which ethnic studies curriculum to teach in our school district.
Thank you very much for your incisive and well researched letter about ethnic studies. Young children should educated, not propagandized. The increasing rate of upward mobility, intermarriage and success of immigrant groups is an American success story. No other country has succeeded in uniting so many diverse ethnic groups. It is no surprise that leftist seek to dis-unite these groups with identity politics to promote their extreme leftist agenda.
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Thank you very much for your incisive and well researched letter about ethnic studies. Young children should educated, not propagandized. The increasing rate of upward mobility, intermarriage and success of immigrant groups is an American success story. No other country has succeeded in uniting so many diverse ethnic groups. It is no surprise that leftist seek to dis-unite these groups with identity politics to promote their extreme leftist agenda.
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