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During a local Louisiana House Education Committee hearing, Republican State Rep. Ray Garofalo argued that the state's public schools should teach students about the "good" part of slavery. The statement from Garofalo, which he later said had been a mistake of sorts, comes on the heels of the lawmaker introducing a statewide bill seeking to ban "divisive concepts" when public institutions teach about race.
On Tuesday, the hearing quickly turned tense when Garofalo was hit with a series of questions from fellow Republican Rep. Stephanie Hilferty on the terminology of the bill proposed by Garofalo, who chairs the committee. "Prohibit discussion of divisive concepts as part of a larger course of academic instruction. What does that mean?" Hilferty asked Garofalo.
"It's exactly what it says," Garofalo snapped back. "The words on the page are, if there is a ..." before Hilferty interrupted to ask, "But what is a larger course of academic instruction?"
Garofalo then responded by giving an example while making the case that the "good" side of slavery should be taught in public schools. "If you're teaching, if you're having a discussion on, whatever the case may be, on slavery, and you can talk about everything dealing with slavery. The good, the bad, the ugly, the whole ..." Garofalo declared, to which Hilferty quickly replied, "There's no good to slavery, though."
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