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A new poll indicates that the overwhelming majority of voters in Ohio support teaching about racism in schools, which some might consider surprising considering Ohio is a red state that has become the focal point of Donald Trump’s and J.D. Vance’s transparently racist campaign against Haitian migrants .
Baldwin Wallace University’s Community Research Institute surveyed 877 registered voters across Ohio, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, and found that a whopping 84% of those respondents favored teaching America’s history of systemic racism. Respondents were specifically asked about what educators should teach, whether prayer belongs in school and if parents should have control over what students are taught in classrooms.
The results indicate that while Republicans would have us believe that most Americans prefer a more conservative approach to educating the youth — which would include giving parents more say so when it comes to educational material, whitewashing Black history in order to preserve white America’s delusional perception of their “shining city on the hill,” and generally pretending the LGBTQ community doesn’t exist — voters prefer a more progressive approach.