(Providence, RI) -- A proposed bill in the Rhode Island legislature would ban "divisive teaching concepts" on race. The bill is proposed by Republican state Representative Patricia Morgan, the former House Minority Leader. It would prevent schools from teaching that the state is fundamentally racist and that people are responsible for the past actions of those who are of the same race. The bill is similar to others that have popped up in the U.S. after President Trump issued an executive order banning anti-bias training from being taught in federal agencies which relied on "critical race theory"; Trump called it toxic propaganda. The Providence Journal reported over one-hundred-fifty people testified mostly against the bill at a House Education Committee hearing this week.
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