Three high schoolers in New Jersey talk to NBC News NOW about their efforts to demand Asian American Pacific Islander history classes in schools, saying cultural awareness makes a different in combatting racial violence.
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New Jersey should mandate the teaching of Sodom and Gomorrah.
I’m ok with that. It’s a beautiful culture.
What would be taught about Asian American history? What does that even mean?
Who cares
Public schools haven't taught anything useful in years. Have you hired a high school grad? 100% useless and dumb.
Particularly China history. Schools are not more than indoctrination centers.
This is pandering. Highly illogical.
Perhaps with this the public will finally learn the true origin of Egg-Foo-Yung. One may only hope.
Buy a gun
These bills will have absolutely no effect, but, hey-ho, they can't hurt, can they.
Teach all history stop dividing, Black, white, Hispanic, asian all inclusive.
Be careful New Jersey, the GOP will come after you. How dare you try to teach something other than how frigging good whitey is. I can almost hear Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham clutching their pearls.
NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN RACE
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So, they can teach Asian American history, but not African American history
Asian Americans represent hard work, achievement and possibilities. That flies in the face of the popular victimhood of the typical brown person, who for some reason came to represent strength and physical agility, at least in passing bursts of popular culture. Go to any minority ghetto in the country and you won't find any East Asians, and that includes the ghetto known as jail.
Remarkable work, thank you for your efforts for awareness🌈 looking forward to see it go federal!
This is dope!
And exactly how will this help young people in their jobs after they leave school ????
This is more BS. They shouldn’t teach Black history or Asian American history – just American history
Yes, but republicans dont want teach the truth about American history and how it treated blacks. They will target this on fox. Makes so much sense. Great job NJ.
Good, now kids will realize how evil China is.
And who owns the United States ? Read between the lines.
LGBT 🏳️🌈 shows support to Asians
These asain racists that are attacking asain imagrants and citizens are a result of 2 things.
The first one is that the covid virus is a result of weaponizing the virus in a lab in china. There is no proof of this and even if there was proof how can you blame them for it. Blame the people responsible the chineese dictator that allowed it. These inocent people that were beaten and even killed had as much influence over this happening as the americans have over american government and maybe alot less.
Secondly members of our government agravated This with there off the wall conspiricey Bs.
What is happening is so non american as it gets….blame needs to be put where the blame needs to be
Lol I don’t even give a fook about American history
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and He will deliver you."
-Psalm 50 :15
Teach the US government’s involvement in Central and South American governments in the 20th Century. Nope, it’s still mostly classified.
Amazing!!!
love this! we need more representation!!
That Good stop Asian violent understand there culture and history, next should be stop violence against White people understand there history and culture, the same with Middle Eastern, Jews, Native American, Blacks and Hispanic.
As someone who loves Asian culture this makes me happy 😍😍😍
EVERY STATE, should teach this.🙏
How many words are censored? Gotta teach that G one…
no one cares, what about us black americans? when we getting reparations?
Much needed all over America. 😎
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Good job new Jersey!!! Way to go!!! I hope this is a new standard.