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Black History is American History

Floor Speech

Date: March 24, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today angered and upset over H.R. 5, an attempt to make Black history not American history.

I have listened to my Republican colleagues suggest how this bill empowers parents--I am a grandparent; that is not true--and how it protects our children. From what?

Protect our children from reading about Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Protect our children from reading about Barack Obama, the first Black President; Kamala Harris, the first Black Vice President; or Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black Supreme Court Justice in this country?

Protect them from the Tuskegee Airmen, who were wingmen to save the lives of White pilots?

Protect our children from what? American history and Black history are the same.

Protect them from the research that Kizzmekia Corbett did on COVID- 19?

Protect them from all the inventions that we all benefit from?

Mr. Speaker, it is not right. It does not protect our children. What are Republicans afraid of?

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