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.
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.
Glenn Youngkin Sets Up Tip Line To Report Teachers And You Know What Pranksters Did Next The GOP Virginia governor's email hotline seeking reports of “divisive practices” in schools has received some, well, interesting responses. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/glenn-youngkin-tip-line-pranksters_n_61f0f6c0e4b0061af257cbfd
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.
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.
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?
That's where the critical focus should be. It's exactly why I've cited such organizations such as The Woodson Center and Voices of Black Mothers United, just to name a couple. https://woodsoncenter.org/ https://www.voicesofblackmothers.com/about/ These are efforts being made at the ground level......where it counts the most.
What charities can do is limited. They can help a few. They can't undo systemic racism, especially when they deny it exists, like all @ABM recommended writers do, as does Woodson Center, who produced whitewashed version of history at Trump's demand. Although he of course didn't read it. Texas has put open white supremacist in charge of revising their social studies program. Tennessee county tried to defend banning Maus by referring to violence and suicide in the book. If you must talk about Nazi Holocaust, don't make it sound unpleasant.
Not related to fake critical race theory hysteria, but Texas schools banned a book by Congressman Jamie Raskin on constitutional rights of students. Subversive!
Sure, go ahead and downplay what these organizations are actually doing. Keep it up on your soapbox and bang, bang, bang.
I am not downplaying. They "responded" to carefully researched and documented 1619 Project with Trump ordered 1776 Project, not written by any historian, thrown together in a month, to satisfy executive order. Full of good white people and happy darkies. And they think you can pray away the gay. ABM, do you think systemic racism exists or not? Was the US founded, not just on professed high ideals, but on racism and slavery? Or are conditions of Black Americans to this day because they make bad choices, ones smarter white people don't?
