[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 54 (Friday, March 24, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1429]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY

  (Mrs. BEATTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  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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