Juan Williams, the former resident liberal member of the popular Fox News panel show “The Five” took aim at critical race theory and censorship in a piece he wrote for the publication The Hill.
To start, Williams centers his piece in Virginia where Glenn Youngkin and Terry McAuliffe are battling to become the state’s next governor. The former Fox News analyst points out that Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin has been in favor of parents having the ability to dictate what books your kids will and will not study in school. Specifically, the book, Beloved by Toni Morrison, has been used as a centerpiece for the argument. The book outlines the horrors of slavery in America and many of Youngkin’s supporters have argued that it should not be introduced as reading material in public schools. To drive his point home, Youngkin enlisted the help of Virginia resident Laura Murphy to participate in an ad calling for parents to have the right to decide what books that their children will and will not read.
“Now the message is that white parents are being ignored when they complain that their children are uncomfortable learning about racism. Republican advertising now fails to mention the movement in Virginia was born from opposition to advanced placement high school students reading a prize-winning novel about the horrors of slavery — Beloved by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison,” Williams wrote.
“One commercial features a white Virginia mother complaining that McAuliffe opposed a law to allow parents to have their children opt out from studying unnamed books. The mom, Laura Murphy, does not mention that she is talking about Beloved. Nor does she mention that she is a conservative activist whose son went on to intern in the Trump White House. She only offers the anodyne comment that McAuliffe doesn’t think parents should have a say. … He shut us out.’”
Murphy’s argument is not uncommon within America. There is a growing group…
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