Proposed textbook ‘dripping in racism,’ state board member says

AUSTIN (NEXSTAR) — A group of educators and students called on the State Board of Education to keep a controversial Mexican American studies textbook out of Texas classrooms Tuesday.
“A disaster” that is “dripping in racism and intolerance” — that’s how one state board member described the history book. “And it should not even be considered a textbook,” said Ruben Cortes Jr., D-Brownsville.
Cortez formed his own advisory committee &mdash