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Diversity is one of Michigan’s greatest strengths. Many of us are descendants of immigrants. Some of our forebearers were kidnapped from their ancestral homelands and brought to this nation. Some of us are the progeny of ancestors who are native to this land. All of us belong here.
That is why it is distressing to hear a person who has taken up the mantle of leadership in our state promote the odious and racist, “great replacement theory.” State Representative Josh Schriver’s (R-Oxford) refusal to acknowledge the pain caused by his promotion of a divisive conspiracy theory and House Minority Leader Matt Hall’s (R-Richland Twp.) refusal to address his colleague’s offense, are an affront to people of color who call Michigan home. The ignorance that animates this theory and those who choose to propagate it is among the many reasons the Black Leadership Advisory Council (BLAC) is grateful that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other Michigan leaders have spoken out against efforts to dilute or distort the teaching of history in Michigan schools.
In our most recent policy report, BLAC urged Michigan leaders to support, “history instruction that is presented by professionals with the subject matter expertise, pedagogical skills, and judgment necessary to present complex information to students that is grounded in provable facts and adds to the understanding of modern-day America.” Rep. Schriver’s statement is an example of how distorted history lessons pose a grave threat to our democracy.
We applaud House Speaker Joe TATE (D-Detroit) for stripping Rep. Schriver of his office allotment, reassign his staff and remove him from one committee in response to Schriver’s “sustained campaign of racist rhetoric and hate speech on social media” and we urge Rep. Schriver to replace his support for racist theories with a sincere commitment to respecting the racial and cultural diversity of our great state.
Read Gov. Whitmer, Lt. Gov. Gilchrist Statements on Rep. Schriver’s Racist Social Media Posts