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The system is racist and is overwhelmingly controlled by white liberals. The constant division fueled by the propaganda media is a big problem. Liberals are no longer the anti authoritarian hippies from the '60s and 7 days. They have been replaced with big corporate big government elites.
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I am surprised they had finally gotten over having to teach evolution and appeared to be making progress, I wonder if we'll have another Scopes type trial when a teacher is caught teaching that the Confederacy was racist....
This is an attempt to erase the painful legacy of our past and the intentional intent to erase the history of a people.
Most Americans don't know about slave breeding which was a major "industry" in VA prior to the Civil War. Most don't know about sundown towns and counties in the south where Blacks had to leave before sundown. The burning of Tulsa's Black Wall Street, the white coup which forced the elected Black government of Wilmington NC from office all are part of our painful history. For those of us who lived through the 1950's, we remember the reign of white terror in the south in which churches and synagogues were bombed and where Birmingham AL had earned the name of "Bombingham." We are now hearing that somehow Citizen Councils were civic groups. In fact they were the first step in being terrorized by the Klan. Getting a visit from them was a warning, not abide by the warning to stop serving Blacks and it would be followed by the Klan.
Slavery was reintroduced in the south after the Civil War through convict leasing. Almost a million were swept up into a system where a minor infraction of law would land a person in jail where then the local magistrate could lease the person out to a business and the state would get the money. Ask a kid what "red-lining" was and they are ignorant of it.
In short, the GOP is trying to further dummy down Americans in our history.
My guess is those objecting to the lessons of history feel guilty and can't admit the horror of what was done.
TN has not a foot to stand on when it comes to racism. Of course they don't want to shine a light on that ugly subject. It might interfere with them driving around in their pickup trucks with the confederate flags flying in the back.
" It might interfere with them driving around in their pickup trucks with the confederate flags flying in the back"
Those damn DEMS who started and fought in the Civil War.
Those damn DEMS who started the KKK.
Those damn DEMS who started Planned Parenthood to STOP blacks from over population.
Those damn dems who talk about repubs bringing back "Jim Crow laws.
"Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.[1] These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period.[2] Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965.
Etc., etc., etc.
Are these thing taught in non southern public schools?
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I always laugh how people want to point out that Democrats were the supporters of slavery in the 19th century
as if party ideologies, views and positions have never changed. Sorry to say they have as it has been the Democrats who supported equal rights, voting, removal of Jim Crow Laws and has advocated for those people of color since the 20th century. It was the departure of the "Dixiecrats" that removed the final racist elements from the Democratic Party planting them firmly with Republicans where they remain today.
Actually that does look pretty reasonable. Wonder why TN would want to block that?
Did you actually read and think about the list? It is basically critical race theory. You are racists because of your skin color and you should receive preferential treatment because of your skin color. Excuse me, but that is the very definition of racism and this sort of nonsense will only divide the races further. In no way does it unite anyone.
It seems to me that some of the new anti-racism instruction goes too far but the current education in that area is also insufficient. That’s what you get in a country that has refused to do right for so long. Oh well...
This is an attempt to erase the painful legacy of our past and the intentional intent to erase the history of a people.
Most Americans don't know about slave breeding which was a major "industry" in VA prior to the Civil War. Most don't know about sundown towns and counties in the south where Blacks had to leave before sundown. The burning of Tulsa's Black Wall Street, the white coup which forced the elected Black government of Wilmington NC from office all are part of our painful history. For those of us who lived through the 1950's, we remember the reign of white terror in the south in which churches and synagogues were bombed and where Birmingham AL had earned the name of "Bombingham." We are now hearing that somehow Citizen Councils were civic groups. In fact they were the first step in being terrorized by the Klan. Getting a visit from them was a warning, not abide by the warning to stop serving Blacks and it would be followed by the Klan.
Slavery was reintroduced in the south after the Civil War through convict leasing. Almost a million were swept up into a system where a minor infraction of law would land a person in jail where then the local magistrate could lease the person out to a business and the state would get the money. Ask a kid what "red-lining" was and they are ignorant of it.
In short, the GOP is trying to further dummy down Americans in our history.
My guess is those objecting to the lessons of history feel guilty and can't admit the horror of what was done.
Is any of this going on currently? At least where I grew up in the Northeast, people have been learning about the horrors of slavery and what went on during the civil rights movement for decades. There is no "white washing" of history. None of what you said has anything to do with critical race theory. It's a social justice movement that seeks to inject racial related "corrective measures" into every facet of American life.
I'm tired of being told that I don't "understand" critical race theory because I'm only hearing about it from people who oppose it, so I stopped listening to right wingers or moderates and went right to the source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G3UQlNvo-o and, yeah, it isn't being misrepresented. the language is much fruitier and academic, but just listen to the "basic tenets" section and you'll find out most of what you need to know.
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