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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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When I was in high school here in Portland, my father told me that by state law I was prohibited from attending a public school in South Carolina.
 
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Saying quality of their character did not mean racism doesn't exist.
 
School board backed down and teachers can now say Nazis were bad. Yippee!

Quote from Youngkin is accurate.
 
When my brothers and I were young (11-12 years old) our grandfather gave us copies of Black Like Me and Nigger (by Dick Gregory) and insisted we read them. I’ll be the first to admit they made this little white boy extremely uncomfortable……which is EXACTLY what my grandfather set out to accomplish. It’s hard to do serious critical thinking when you’re comfortable and wrapped in a cocoon of privilege. But the discussions with my grandfather that came out of reading those books were some of the most enlightening (and actually enjoyable) events in my lifelong “education”. The entire point of Critical Race Theory is to make white people uncomfortable…….and to force them to think critically and outside themselves. Unfortunately, too many white people are too stupid to understand that……..
 
crandc said:
But teaching about them makes some white people uncomfortable. Schools have banned books about Dr. King and Anne Frank's diary.
Besides, she talks frankly, no pun intended, about menstruation. Horror!
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Anne Frank, a young girl had to hide in a small secret room with friends and family for over two years because of her religion and ethnicity. When she was betrayed by a man who gave up the hiding place to protect his own family, she was sent to a concentration camp where she just escaped the gas chamber as she had just turned 15 (kids under 15 were immediately sent to the gas chamber...so if she was caught earlier she would have died then).

Many of her friends were sent to the gas chamber. She, her sister, and mother were sent to hard labor. Their mother gave them all of her food so they could survive, effectively sacrificing herself. After, they were moved to another camp, Frank and her sister wasted away. A friend of theirs who survived, said in the end Frank was so emaciated she was confined to a bed and her friend could hardly bear to look at her. She died in a way no child, no person, should have to experience. Weeks later the war ended and the camp she was in was freed.

Her father survived and was given her diaries by a secretary who had found and kept them after she was taken to the camp. She wrote about wanting to publish her writings and about sharing them with the public records of her people's oppression. Her father published her work, granting his daughters wish.

But, we can't learn this in school because it makes white people uncomfortable to say Nazis are bad. It's makes them uncomfortable to have to think about the millions of Jews sent to the gas chambers, or the many others the starved to death in camps.

The excuse is there are depictions of menstruation in her diary. But, that's a fascade.
 
Chris Craig said:
But, we can't learn this in school because it makes white people uncomfortable to say Nazis are bad. It's makes them uncomfortable to have to think about the millions of Jews sent to the gas chambers, or the many others the starved to death in camps.

The excuse is there are depictions of menstruation in her diary. But, that's a fascade.
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Not exactly the "land of the free", is it?
 
You ever notice on the Amazing Race they never actually say which race is amazing?
 
ABM said:
CRT is a very controversial and disconcerting subject on many levels. I still don't completely understand it, nor pretend to have answers to overcome it. That said, I continue to research and want to learn more.

I came across this article and was intrigued.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22464746/critical-race-theory-anti-racism-jarvis-givens

Moreover, makes me want to go out and purchase this book. Think I might.

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I have the answers.
Teach history the way it happened.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I've posted this before but take a few minutes from your day and listen to this episode of the podcast, Stuff You Missed in History Class about the Vanport flood here in Portland.

I grew up in NE Portland and learned a lot.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/stuf...-21124503/episode/the-vanport-flood-30207620/
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I saw that flood. I stood in front of it which I believe bordered somewhere around Vanport. Hey this reminds me, does anyone remember the name of Portland State College before it was Portland State College?
Vanport College.
 
Virginia Republican governor, who ran as moderate, has set up an email tip line where parents can report anything being taught that makes white people uncomfortable so he can put an end to it.
 
crandc said:
Virginia Republican governor, who ran as moderate, has set up an email tip line where parents can report anything being taught that makes white people uncomfortable so he can put an end to it.
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This travesty of social justice is happening in several states across the country and will only happen in more.

It is a terrible regression, a mockery, a repudiation, a rip in the very fabric of decades and centuries of strife and suffering in the great battle for equality and acknowledgement.

It's sickening after so much progress has been made, certain people want to pretend the oppression of another people never happened. They want to erase history because they feel uncomfortable.

How do they think black people felt when they were forced to be slaves? Beaten? Sold? Hung from trees? Forced to use different schools, resturuants, stores, bathrooms, water fountains, to live in different parts of town, to be chased by men in masks too cowardly to show their own faces, to be dragged behind trucks, to wake to find burning crosses in their yards, to be mutilated and murdered, to being paid a small percentage of what others are paid, to not being able to get a loan at the bank, to having police unfairly stop them and beat them, to having their house valued less, to have signs posted in their yard and letters taped to their doors or put in their mailbox saying they aren't welcome, etc etc etc... all because the color of their skin?

As uncomfortable as it may be to learn of these things, to acknowledge that they happened, white people will never have to feel what Black people have, not an iota of it. The people creating these stupid racist laws would do well to see that.
 
Mississippi mayor withholds funds to county libraries unless they remove all 'homosexual materials': report


Gene McGee, the mayor of Ridgeland, Mississippi, is reportedly threatening to withhold funding from the local county library system unless it removes LGBTQ-related materials from its premises.


Mississippi Free Press reports that McGee is withholding $110,000 in funds for the libraries because he's upset that they're carrying books with LGBTQ characters and themes.

Tonja Johnson, executive director for the Madison County Library System, tells Mississippi Free Press that she questioned McGee about why he was withholding money after she noticed that Ridgeland did not make its first quarterly payment this year.

"He explained his opposition to what he called ‘homosexual materials’ in the library, that it went against his Christian beliefs, and that he would not release the money as the long as the materials were there," Johnson explains.

https://www.rawstory.com/mississippi-banned-books/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
 
A year ago Republicans were screaming about denial of free speech on college campuses when students protested white supremacists.
It's not just literature and history. Add science. Can't tell each biology because evangelical Christians get upset.
 
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Tennessee school district banned Maus, Pulitzer Prize winning graphic book about Nazi Holocaust because it makes some people uncomfortable.

Texas high school students protested censorship at School Board meeting. They really don't want to be stupid. Among books being banned is one on teen pregnancy. District already bans sex education.

Important to note when they say parents they mean straight white Christian parents. Not Black parents, or Latinx parents, or Jewish and Muslim parents, not parents of LGBTQ students. Not progressive white parents.
 
Black women, of all educational levels and all socioeconomic levels, have higher maternal and infant mortality than comparable white women, something so called pro life conveniently ignores. Black people are more likely to be poor, more likely to live in substandard housing, more likely to attend underfunded schools, have less access to health care, and are more likely to live in heavily polluted neighborhoods. Black students, boys and girls, are more likely to be suspended from school for infractions for which white students typically receive detention. Black people, youth and adults, are more likely to be arrested, more likely to be killed in the process, more likely to be criminally charged, more likely to be convicted, more likely to be sentenced to prison, and receive longer prison terms than white people committing comparable crimes.

The authors @ABM cited who talk about crime and absent fathers with no context are copouts and sellouts. They are writing for white people, telling whites they are responsible Negroes*, not like those Black Lives Matter protesters. They whitewash Martin Luther King into some benevolent goo who didn't oppose racism or even believe it exists.

Two options. The situations of Black Americans are the result of systemic racism. Or they are simply inferior to whites, innately inclined to violence and sexual irresponsibility. Not like good Christian white people like Bret Kavanaugh, Roy Moore, Madison Cawthorne, Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump...

And since more and more states are prohibiting saying systemic racism, what is conclusion?

*Some years ago, Rosie O'Donnell appeared on serial sexual abuser Bill O'Reilly's TV program explaining she was one of the responsible gay people, not like the flamboyant queers and activists in the streets. Ms. O'Donnell only has civil rights because of flamboyant queers and activists in streets.
 
crandc said:
Tennessee school district banned Maus, Pulitzer Prize winning graphic book about Nazi Holocaust because it makes some people uncomfortable.

Texas high school students protested censorship at School Board meeting. They really don't want to be stupid. Among books being banned is one on teen pregnancy. District already bans sex education.
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It will be interesting to see if the Satanic church calls for the banning of the bible - because it demonizes satan - what will they do?
 
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