Anonymous wrote:Those white parents in Georgia don’t want to have to explain to their kids why granny and gramps are in those old black and white photos yelling and spitting on black students. So uncomfortable!

Or photos of whites outside of Chicago hurling objects and mean words at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his group when fighting for better housing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero_March

Good lord people racism is not confined to the South. Someone already hinted at the Boston busing problems. The Tulsa Massacre was in Oklahoma, which I don't consider a Southern state. Western states also had their racial problems but they weren't as ready for television as the South. And in the west it was more anti-Native American violence (for very obvious reasons) and genocide which all made better by lame land acknowledgements.

I grew up in the South and I'm Black. And unless you are retired, and are a great-grandparent, too young to be a parent on a mom's site, you did not experience lynchings, except the figurative ones, like Clarence Thomas experienced at the hands of Joe Biden. The race riots after and since King's death (DC, Watts, Detroit) have all been started by Black people in Black neighborhoods. The most recent in Baltimore. Redlining has been illegal since the late 1940s and fair housing laws have been enforced since the late 1960s. Not to let the South off, but please bring it's sins into the 21st century and stop bringing up stuff that isn't applicable to todays' population.

Anonymous wrote:If you grew up in the deep south, like I did, you would understand. No one likes to talk about race, history, race riots, redlining, lynching, beatings, hatred, or anything that feels bad or immoral. We all know what happened, the unspoken rules, where everyone belongs, the pecking order. Law of Dixieland - Stay in your place, hush up and smile. This past year has shaken things up and they all want quiet so that things can settle back down like they used to be. No one from up North understands this.

Yeah cause places up North like Boston never had problems, and Bensonhurst in New York was so safe for black people which is why Yusef Hawkins got to live to see middle age. I could be persuaded that some racists in some Southern locales have more of a polite veneer. If you are arguing that Southern fried racism is different than Northern sauteed racism, that could be an interesting conversation.

If you grew up in the deep south, like I did, you would understand. No one likes to talk about race, history, race riots, redlining, lynching, beatings, hatred, or anything that feels bad or immoral. We all know what happened, the unspoken rules, where everyone belongs, the pecking order. Law of Dixieland - Stay in your place, hush up and smile. This past year has shaken things up and they all want quiet so that things can settle back down like they used to be. No one from up North understands this.

Anonymous wrote:Those white parents in Georgia don’t want to have to explain to their kids why granny and gramps are in those old black and white photos yelling and spitting on black students. So uncomfortable!

Cause they were racist and thought them inferior. It's really not hard. People often tell their kids how society including their own ancestors messed up in the bad old days.

It's the same explanation for why some think that lowering academic standards is the best way to get "representation" of black and latino students in advanced classes and magnet schools.

Cause they're racist and think them inferior.

Those white parents in Georgia don’t want to have to explain to their kids why granny and gramps are in those old black and white photos yelling and spitting on black students. So uncomfortable!

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Anonymous wrote:Why shouldn’t white children be educated about their own culpability in systemic racism, all their unearned white privilege, and made to sit with their discomfort?

Why shouldn’t public schools be the ones to advance this effort?

Georgia is clearly trying to fight against teaching critical race theory in public schools.

Explain to me how a third grader is culpable in systemic racism.

Give me some examples of a third grader's unearned white privilege.

One of the emerging beliefs of CRT is that people are either racist or antiracist. There is no middle ground.

White kids are racist by their inaction if they do not actively seek to be antiracist.

Which is never enough if everyone isn't actively working to dismantling all existing institutions and laws, why by definition, are racist. It is in impossible burden, and not an appropriate burden to place on young learners who don't even understand the world yet.

Where are all these racist institutions and laws that need dismantling?

Poor Tom Hanks is under fire for his career of playing good white men doing the right thing.

It's his turn to dance and perform and justify his existence lol.

Exactly. That these laws are being passed actually proves the CRt thesis. Way to go republicans!