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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,324 posts)
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 08:49 PM Jan 2022

Black Lawmakers Walk Out As Mississippi Senate Passes Anti-'Critical Race Theory' Bill

Mississippi’s Black state senators walked out of a vote on Friday, protesting a Republican-backed bill that purports to ban “critical race theory” in schools.

All 14 Black state senators — all of whom are Democrats — withheld their votes when they walked out, and the bill passed 32-2. (Two white Democrats voted against the bill, The Associated Press reported).

While the bill is titled “critical race theory,” its text does not mention critical race theory at all.

Actual critical race theory is an academic discipline usually studied in graduate or law school that focuses on how racism is embedded in the country’s legal, political and social institutions.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-lawmakers-walk-mississippi-senate-202015814.html

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Black Lawmakers Walk Out As Mississippi Senate Passes Anti-'Critical Race Theory' Bill (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 OP
This whole republican sham about critical race theory is very distressing. madaboutharry Jan 2022 #1
I'd like to see a push to ban multigraincracker Jan 2022 #2
These states are trying to kill Martin Luther King a second time. 70sEraVet Jan 2022 #3
So no more 'Hamilton'? cbabe Jan 2022 #4

madaboutharry

(41,356 posts)
1. This whole republican sham about critical race theory is very distressing.
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 08:53 PM
Jan 2022

It really is about white people not being able to accept the 21st century.

multigraincracker

(34,077 posts)
2. I'd like to see a push to ban
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 09:07 PM
Jan 2022

the teaching of White Replacement Theory in public schools and let FOX news suck on that. Let’s cancel that too.

70sEraVet

(4,145 posts)
3. These states are trying to kill Martin Luther King a second time.
Fri Jan 21, 2022, 09:33 PM
Jan 2022

I just don't know how we can move forward as a nation, when one party is trying so hard to push us backwards.

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