White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One

[Demovictory9]

White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-parents-rallied-to-chase-a-black-educator-out-of-town-then-they-followed-her-to-the-next-one/ar-AAYwL7x

Another parent wrote to a school board member, citing Cherokee County’s recent census statistics: “Did you know that 77.8% of the population is considered ‘whtie [sic] alone’ 7.7% are black and 11.1% hispanic? Are we now in a county that is going to cater to a handful of people?”


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Today, the metal detectors remain installed at the entrance to the building where Cherokee County School Board meetings are held. A staff member is permanently assigned the task of evacuating students in attendance, should the need ever arise. And an increased number of security officers are strategically placed throughout the meeting room and beyond.

Standing in line outside the building before a recent school board meeting, mothers identified themselves to each other as “a Marjorie” — meaning a proponent of the speaking style of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, known for her provocative and unfiltered claims.

A little while later, once the meeting was underway, a man who described himself as a school bus driver and a grandfather stepped to the microphone during the public comment period.

A security officer keeps tabs on the May 19, 2022, Cherokee County School Board meeting. After the events of 2021, county officials increased the number of security officers at the meetings. (Lynsey Weatherspoon for ProPublica)
“This is not California or New York. This is Cherokee County, Georgia. We can choose what and how our students learn on a local level,” said the man.

“I was raised in a different era, in the ’50s and ’60s, where we were equipped to survive and succeed.”

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Again, as a Georgian... I apologize. We are not all like that. F Cherokee County Repubes/haters.

[SYFROYH]

10. +1

Not all of us.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. What's missing:

The United States is not a majoritarian democracy. It is a constitutional republic.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic

And in a constitutional republic, the civil rights of minority populations are protected against the will of the majority which seeks to limit those rights.

In this case, you have a white majority insisting upon their views being prevalent and to attack and persecute those advocating for views that don't subscribe to the that majority. This is counter to how this country was set up. Sometimes "local" has to step aside for "federal". That's why we've had desegregation of schools throughout the U.S. Jim Crow laws perhaps still on the books, but not enforced.

[madaboutharry]

3. This story is terribly sad.

It shows how people always seek verification. The unfounded reaction to The 1619 Project and CRT is an example of how small minded and racist people seek permission to be racist. That is what MAGA has done. People now know it is just fine to say the quiet part out loud.

[Solly Mack]

4. I'll refrain from stating my immediate thoughts about the racist pieces of garbage in the article.

Nothing but miracles of affliction.

[70sEraVet]

5. They identify themselves as 'Marjories'?? They aspire to become little MTG's??

It would be completely funny, if they weren't busy making this a miserable, intolerant world.

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Exactly. Holy shit. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Racism and ignorance is now a fashion statement, in a marjorie way.

[Hugin]

9. It is the Gish Gallop being weaponized by the crazy.

Very disturbing.

[mopinko]

12. a gish gallop w guns. lord help us.

[CurtEastPoint]

11. They should call themselves AUNTS.

GDBs.

[keithbvadu2]

14. 'Marjories' - Proud adulteress?

'Marjories' - Proud adulteress?

[Hugin]

8. The ironic nature of the county being named after a native american tribe...

Who are not at all represented in the county going right over all of their heads.

[Ray Bruns]

13. "I was raised in a different era, in the '50s and '60s"

Therein lies the problem.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. "... when racism was widespread and freely practiced, without shame or penalty." nt

[ellie]

16. Oh my God.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. McCarthyite, ignorant, knee-jerk racism, stirred up by Tucker Carlson and others

They proudly say they want to be ready to get on Carlson's hatefest. They assumed, because Ms. Lewis is Black, that she'd have a "Critical Race Theory" agenda, when she literally had not heard of it (to her, 'CRT' was "culturally responsive teaching" ). They assumed, because she's Black, she had something she needed to "leave that at the border" (despite her coming from a majority-white, Trump-voting Maryland county).

They had a literal mob banging on the windows of the meeting. Despite never actually having had any indication she would do anything other than a normal job, they continued their witchhunt (sole indication of "guilt": being Black) at another job she took (and she wants jobs in the area because her husband relocated there). Because they actively hate her. For being Black.

Either they just made up multiple "sightings" of her, when she was still in Maryland (and why shouldn't she have been in the county she was moving to, anyway?) or they are the kind of racist that thinks and says "they all look the same".

Cherokee County has a high proportion of pieces of shit, and must be an awful place to exist. These are the kind of people who ransacked the Capitol on Jan 6th. These are the kind of people who lynched Blacks a few decades ago.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

18. "where we were equipped to survive and succeed"

What does that even mean? We're schools in the 50s and 60s set up like battle royales, last man standing, to the victor go the spoils type institutions?

[maxsolomon]

20. it means bullying and ostracizing was normal and expected,

and he participated.

[Seeking Serenity]

19. As I wrote in another thread on this story

When do we start arresting these so-called "people" and especially their R*** Party enablers and influencers?

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Dixie Culture

Nostalgia. Miasma. Medieval.



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