Republican Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin’s education officials attempted to edit the course guide for an elective African American studies course available in state high schools to erase references to things like white supremacy and systemic racism from lessons, the Washington Post reports.
Youngkin’s Department of Education reviewed the curriculum for the class as part of his pledge to eliminate “divisive” concepts from state schools, following petite Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s effort to purge accurate history from his state’s schools.
In their recommendations, Youngkin’s education misinformation specialists removed references to “white privilege” and “white supremacy” as well as deleted descriptions of “inherent racism” and “systemic racism.” In one case, a reference to the “war on persistence of institutional racism” was edited to read “the persistent war on racism.”