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SlyPokerDog said:
The first complaint filed under Tennessee's new anti-critical race theory law specifically targeted a book about Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, calling it "anti-American."

The 11-page complaint — filed by the Williamson County branch of conservative parents group "Moms for Liberty" — alleged that the book "Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington" was among a set of lessons promoting "Anti-American, Anti-White, and Anti-Mexican" teaching at Williamson County Schools, a district south of Nashville.

The conservative group specifically protested a photo of segregated water fountains and images showing Black children being blasted with water by firefighters. The group claimed that an accompanying lesson plan showed a "slanted obsession with historical mistakes" and argued it shouldn't be taught.

The complaint also targeted of two books about Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to attend an all-white school in Louisiana in 1960, and "Separate is Never Equal," a story about segregation before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.

The parents group claimed that the books and teacher manuals "implies to second-grade children that people of color continue to be oppressed by an oppressive 'angry, vicious, scary, mean, loud, violent, [rude], and [hateful]' white population."

In a letter, the state's Department of Education said it won't investigate the allegations because the lessons happened during the 2020-21 school year, and it only has the authority to investigate this current school year, the Tennessean reported.
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God forbid we teach our kids history
 
crandc said:
North Dakota banned critical race theory. They defined it as any teaching that racism is not individual bad thoughts but is systemic in US political and legal system.

So, a thought experiment.

Imagine a 17 year old Black teen boy illegally purchased an assault rifle because he thought it looked cool. Imagine he took the weapon across state lines. He then attended a Proud Boys rally openly brandishing the weapon. He provoked a confrontation and started shooting, killing two people, seriously wounding another.

Do you think he would live to tell the tale?

Do you think he would be acclaimed a hero? That we would hear him called a "little boy" who was "terrified" and defending himself? Do you think he would be judged by a jury with all but one Black jurors? That the judge would bend over backwards to try to ensure an acquittal?

If not ...


why not?
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Rittenhouse was able to walk right past the cops with his assault rifle after he killed those guys. The cops would have filled a black teen with holes and asked questions later.
 
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Chris Craig said:
If Rittenhouse was black, if he hadn't been shot by police on the night in question, he would have been found guilty and given the max sentence.
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You think that's what would have happened but have no idea if it really would or not. Instead you enjoy making the claims and continuing to push the narrative that no Black person can ever get a fair trial in this country and that white people are given some magical pass.
 
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Black parents are noticing their children aren't learning about Black people in school. Because even talking about Black people gets labeled critical race theory.

A Republican official in Idaho is up in arms over a television commercial showing a father and daughter baking holiday cookies together. She gave it three vomit emojis, because they are Black. Very upset commercial doesn't show any white people.
 
A Texas public library is closing for three days in order to review books on the shelves and remove any that make white people uncomfortable or any that mention LGBTQ+ people.
 
crandc said:
Only place it is taught is law school. It's a legal concept, that racial discrimination is not about bad people or bad intentions but that laws and regulations created and reinforce racial discrimination. It's not even startling. And it's true.

A Hitler loving Trumper doesn't want anyone to learn about racism, what a shock.

Critical race theory is 2021 version of Sharia law. Remember when all those state legislatures were banning Sharia law? No one was proposing Sharia law be implemented in the US and none of these legislators even knew what was in Sharia law. It was just whip up fear of scary brown people so white folks will vote for Republicans to protect them. No one is teaching critical race theory in kindergarten, but all of a sudden Fox and other right wing media are running literally thousands of stories.

But college classes on race in American history are being cancelled (is that cancel culture?) Idaho seriously proposed teachers wear body cams so they could be monitored. States are prohibiting saying slave owners were bad people.
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Bill proposed in Oklahoma combined book burning with bounty hunting. It would allow any parent to demand any book be removed from school library. If the library does not comply, they have to pay a bounty of $10,000 a day.
Like Pink Floyd said, we don't need no education.
 
crandc said:
Bill proposed in Oklahoma combined book burning with bounty hunting. It would allow any parent to demand any book be removed from school library. If the library does not comply, they have to pay a bounty of $10,000 a day.
Like Pink Floyd said, we don't need no education.
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Disgusting.
 
DeathSantis opened the new Florida legislative session, in a Covid crisis, saying top priority is passing laws preventing schools from teaching anything that makes white people uncomfortable, as well as other bad things teachers try to sneak in. Sexuality, LGBTQ people, Biden won presidential election...
 
I saw a local article the other day that the Crook County School district was getting ready to put a bond on the ballot. One of the first comments was " Not if they continue to teach Critical Race Theory". I wonder just how much CRT is taught in Prineville Oregon??? Amazes me how out of touch some of these people are with reality.
 
Virginia Republican governor, first day in office, issued executive order misquoting Martin Luther King, banning teaching anything that makes white people uncomfortable. He said they should teach history but prohibits teaching that anyone has or had advantage or disadvantage because of race.
What color were enslaved people? Most lynching victims? The ones banned from schools, owning property, voting? In Virginia, illegal to answer that question.
 
twobullz said:
I saw a local article the other day that the Crook County School district was getting ready to put a bond on the ballot. One of the first comments was " Not if they continue to teach Critical Race Theory". I wonder just how much CRT is taught in Prineville Oregon??? Amazes me how out of touch some of these people are with reality.
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What does that comment even mean? Where is any evidence of schools teaching critical race theory?

I'd truly like to watch ome of these lessons.
 
[QUOTE="Phatguysrule, post: 5294953, member: 21617" Where is any evidence of schools teaching critical race theory?[/QUOTE]

There isn't. Any more than any city instituting Sharia law 20 years ago. Or gay people taking marriage away from straights. It plays on fear and racism to turn out votes for Republicans.
 
crandc said:
[QUOTE="Phatguysrule, post: 5294953, member: 21617" Where is any evidence of schools teaching critical race theory?
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There isn't. Any more than any city instituting Sharia law 20 years ago. Or gay people taking marriage away from straights. It plays on fear and racism to turn out votes for Republicans.[/QUOTE]
Just finishing up Grants bio and it reminds me of the democratic KKK right after the war ended trying to take away the freeman and opposing reconstruction. There were insurgencies in New Orleans and Jackson where the white dems/KKK and miltias took over government building and murdered many blacks and republican whites as most were abolitionist. Crazy how things change but yet remain the same.
 
And 50 years ago, Martin Luther King said the biggest obstacle wasn't the Klansman but the white moderate who insisted on "regular order". Doesn't THAT sound familiar?
 
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crandc said:
Virginia Republican governor, first day in office, issued executive order misquoting Martin Luther King, banning teaching anything that makes white people uncomfortable. He said they should teach history but prohibits teaching that anyone has or had advantage or disadvantage because of race.
What color were enslaved people? Most lynching victims? The ones banned from schools, owning property, voting? In Virginia, illegal to answer that question.
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Simply untrue.
 
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