Arkansas, Tennessee Move To Limit Education About Racism, Sexism

[Solly Mack]

4. If it passes for law then it's legal until challenged in the courts and struck down.

Slavery was legal. Black Codes were legal. Jim Crow was legal.

Black Codes were all over. California actually has a racist historical past, for example. It does, that's not me attacking the state. Oregon, too. The South doesn't seem to be able to let go of the lies it decided upon about slavery and the Civil War. Too many cling to the exact same thinking from that time. Too many cling to conservative thought now. Too many hold dear to their hate and ignorance.

And a good deal of it has to do with how history was taught in the South - the whole "Lost Cause" bullshit history found in textbook across the South, and in churches, and in homes, and everywhere you went.

I'm from the South, in case anyone thinks I'm attacking the South. Not attacking. Telling the truth about it.

Coming a long way still don't get you cross the finish line.

Racism and sexism is all over the country. Though a lot of states wouldn't stoop to something so low as passing laws to stop the teaching of a factual history.

Some localities might and that needs to be watched for as well.