Mississippi Bans Critical Race Theory and Celebrates the Confederacy

[Nevilledog]

https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/mississippi-bans-critical-race-theory?s=w

Last month, Mississippi’s Republican governor, Tate Reeves, claimed without any evidence that, “critical race theory is running amok” in public schools. He went on to suggest that:

Students are being force-fed an unhealthy dose of progressive fundamentalism that runs counter to the principles of America’s founding. Children are dragged to the front of the classroom and are coerced to declare themselves as oppressors, that that they should feel guilty because of the color of their skin, or that they are inherently a victim because of their race.

Later that day the governor signed legislation banning the teaching of critical race theory even though it is not currently included in any part of Mississippi’s school curricula. According to the bill educators are prevented from teaching, "that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior; or that individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.”

In my twenty-plus years of teaching I have never once talked to a teacher who has suggested anything remotely along these lines in front of students.

This is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist and, as I have suggested before, it has nothing to do with the critical race theory or history education.

But perhaps Mississippi’s students should learn critical race theory if we understand it as the study of the ways in which racism is embedded in America's culture, society, and legal codes. How else can we understand Governor Reeves’s decision to sign a proclamation recognizing April as Confederate Heritage Month for all Mississippians?

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[lame54]

1. Obvious lies that become policy

[Get Me Outta Here]

2. Which is why

I have banned Mississippi & co.

[johnp3907]

3. "Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of."

[struggle4progress]

4. Mississippi state flags

1894 - 1996


1996 - 2001


2001 - 2020

[Hugin]

5. I had to check the calendar to make sure I hadn't gotten caught up in a time vortex...

Like before, but, nope 2022.

[struggle4progress]

6. Burying a burning

The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask.

By Ko Bragg
APRIL 7, 2022

... on a chilly November day, we hopped into his white pickup truck at dusk with his mean little mutt, Rex. We pulled out of the long gravel driveway and drove into history ...

The Klan had been monitoring 24-year-old Michael Schwerner, a Jewish civil-rights worker originally from New York who was on staff at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the civil-rights groups that had come together as the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to organize Freedom Summer. Schwerner had opened the COFO field office in nearby Meridian, and led the office with his wife, Rita. He was also leading the effort to turn Mount Zion into a Freedom School—a center to help the surrounding community combat voter-suppression tactics. Places like Mount Zion—Black churches in Black communities—were the only spaces where the activists could hope to have any safety. But on that June night, Klansmen came to Mount Zion after getting a tip that a meeting was happening at the church, and that Schwerner and other white civil-rights workers might be there. They weren’t—but Klan members still exacted violence on the church’s parishioners.

One man, Bud Cole, suffered a beating so brutal that he walked with a limp for the rest of his life. Georgia Rush and one of her sons, John Thomas, were also beaten. Klansmen returned later that night and set fire to Mount Zion, burning it down completely. A report from the Associated Press said Mount Zion was one of four “Negro” churches scorched in Mississippi within a 10-day period ...

Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman arrived in Philadelphia on June 21, five days after the fire, to interview community members. One of the last places they stopped was Rush’s home, to pay their respects. The three men knew they had to get out of Neshoba County before nightfall. An agency called the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission had been tracking civil-rights workers and had given the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Office — and thus the Klan — a description of the car the men were driving ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/mississippi-civil-rights-murders/629367/

[struggle4progress]

7. Murder of Mississippi NAACP leader unsolved after 55 years

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. The "Principles of America's Founding" he is referring to are....

a nation founded by and for white, land owning men, many of whom owned slaves, slavery was established and protected, land was regularly stolen from the indigenous people that lived here for centuries, women could not vote and children could work in dangerous industries and those industries were free to pollute any and all waterways they wished.

THAT'S the things they hold dear, right? Just so we are clear?