LINCOLN - The bill known as Nebraska's anti-critical race theory bill got a cool reception at a legislative hearing Thursday.

Students, teachers and representatives of higher education were among 40 people who testified against the bill. Many, like Sandra Gable, a high school teacher for 34 years, expressed concern the bill would prevent teaching an accurate history of America that included all its blemishes.

Gable said the bill is an attempt to "whitewash or even rewrite American history...This bill opposes everything that I have spent my life doing and learning and teaching," she said.

Three people testified in favor of LB 1077 during the 3-1/2 hour hearing before the Legislature's Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.The bill would prohibit Nebraska public schools, public colleges and government entities from providing training to teachers, students or employees if that training promoted race or sex "scapegoating," stereotyping or discrimination. If schools or colleges were found to violate the law, the state could withhold funding.

Committee member State Sen. Carol Blood expressed concern about the bill.

"If I were a person of color, if I were a person with a disability, if I were a person who has struggled because of how I identify, where I come from, how I look, I might be insulted by this," Blood said. She said the bill suggests that their perspective is not important.

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