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Looks like the bill affirms Dr. Martin Luther King's dream, that people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Equal- not one being better or worse than another.

Seems pretty common sense to me.

Carry on.

Math, Science, English, Mandarin, History

They love to march, protest, walk out and create as much disruption as possible.

The black political dynamic is not about equality anymore, it's about payback, control and asserting themselves as perpetual victims.

This is a meaningless law that recites Constitutional requirements, and nothing more than a right wing dog whistle.

10:11 nails it. Unnecessary law - telling people how to think or not think - from folks who purport to want less government interference in daily lives.

And, no, I don’t agree with the CRT stuff. Just don’t think adding another law helps.

The law is pointless as critical race theory is not being taught in our schools. Also we must do anything we can to stop its passage!

9:56 hit the nail on the head. It's not about everyone being equal now. It hasn't been for a while.

Republicans can’t even stop the Marxist left from stealing an election. The war on Marxist indoctrination like CRT is too little too late.

Preemptive now better than rooting it out later.

more sad chalkie desperation

Keep trying to ban books and outlaw teaching parts of our history and see how that works out for the ultra conservative lunatics that are running the GOP.

Who are the "tenants" that this law is seeking to affirm? My goodness, a meaningless law written by someone who doesn't even know the difference between tenants (people who rent property) and tenets (basic ideas or beliefs). We are governed by some real geniuses.

@9:56 for the win!

Subsection (3) could arguably be read to police college courses that take the view that affirmative action is a good thing, which seems to infringe on the First Amendment. Other than that, this seems to be “a meaningless law that recites Constitutional requirements” and is likely a “right wing dog whistle,” as 10:11 said.

Honestly, if RCSD is the way it was in the mid-2000’s, where the district gladly looked the other way while it’s schools elevated one religion over the other (evangelical Christianity), this bill, if enacted into law, could likely be used more against conservative leaning districts than liberal leaning districts.

Dog whistles on all sides in this one. A complete waste of resources and time on all sides. Hey, but they all have to stay focused on their most important objective - RE-ELECTION!! Both sides don't give a shit about the citizens, they only care about drawing that paycheck, building that cushy legislative retirement account, and eating those delicious steaks at Tico's.

10:11am If your use of the word "Dog Whistle" in your post isn't used correctly. A "Dog Whistle" styled message is subtle and masked. This is the opposite. This message is clearly defined in writing and in oratory by the Senate and in by the US Constitution and US Supreme Court.

This Bill is more of a restatement of the obvious, right? As you read the Bill these aren't notions that need to be reinforced in our minds that we don't use sex, race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin to discriminate against others, right? Tell that to Harvard as the US Supreme Court shall be hearing a Race Discrimination case against the school this Spring.

By the way, no matter their ruling. It will solidify or change the landscape of equality for generations. BWC

@9:56 Spot on!

Just love the way this nation is headed. South, and I don't mean Dixie.

Just politicians on both sides, pandering to the simplest minded of their respective parties....because they can't fix any real problems.

The largest problems facing this state are arrogance and ignorance.
I doubt many if the legislators have ever read books like The Iceman Inheritance.
If they had then they would have a better understanding of how evil this endeavor truly is.

tenants. wow

Banning CRT from the education in Mississippi is just the legislation making it more difficult from new graduates to leave the state since high paying employers will be hesitant to hire Mississippians who are dangerously socially ignorant. Nobody wants to deal with the liability that comes with hiring an uneducated bigot.

@9:56 I completely agree with you on your comment. Thank you

It's a good proposed law. Why do we need cathode ray tubes? Everything is either LED or plasma now.

Creating drama- They again are creating drama
They missed a big vote since they all left the room.
What does that make them? Answer: absent
No one will remember that.

I read this bullshit and waited to comment so I could see if any of the astute commenters on this blog had even enough wit to notice that this bill bans nothing that isn't already prohibited and hasn't even begun to touch actual Critical Race Theory. If this bill contains the Dixie definition of Critical Race Theory or it's origins in Marxist Critical Theory philosophy we are living in an insane asylum. Derrick Bell, the professor who promulgated this field of analysis made it clear that at it's heart is the notion that law and the society it governs are never race-neutral....that systemic racism permeates all aspects of Western society whether consciously or unconsciously. It is a philosophy debated in law schools and certain doctoral programs. The simplistic bullshit in this bill is nothing more than political claptrap to satisfy the raving mob who haven't the slightest idea what CRT is but know they hate it cause somebody said "they" were teaching kids to hate white people and it's all because of CRT. Really?

The perpetual victims in the GOP are trying to solve an imaginary problem that is affecting them deeply. It’s very sad how victimized they are in their own heads. Let the book burnings commence! We can’t have any books that might make them sad.

@11:49
This is America, where whites enslaved Africans on plantations and those same whites have benefited from the profits of that slavery for generations. What relevance does tribal warfare on the African continent centuries ago have to the American history of slavery and institutional white supremacy?

What is more relevant is learning about the dehumanization of African Americans and the wholesale robbery of their culture and identity. The brutal sexual abuse of both men and women slaves by white males has caused deep scars and social disfunction to this very day. You white men love to share your disdain for sagging pants but you don’t even realize that it merely echos the sexual violence committed against young African-American males by slave bosses in the 19th century.

Perhaps you wouldn’t be so ignorant if you had been taught Critical Race Theory.

CRT IS taught here. Ole Miss Spring 21-22 Course Catalog:

Law 743: Critical Race Theory
School of Law

This course dissects the social construction of race's impact on our legal history and conducts a study of the American Jurisprudence's treatment of racial and social issues.

And that's the tip of the iceberg. Long over due.

So stop bleating the lie that it is not taught or it is not in a watered down version in lower level schools.

This has been the judicial activist agenda for decades and it does need to be stopped. It's bled from SJW nutjob faculty to law and then to jurists. It's NOT a joke or a myth.

A dog whistle is not subtle to the dumb ass followers that hear it and believe it.

@12:55..."The perpetual victims in the GOP."

The Democrats invented "victimhood."

If this is a waste of time and unnecessary, then why is the left freaking out over it?

@1:57
Mississippi makes one step forward by removing the confederate battle flag from the state flag.
Mississippi takes two steps back by legislatively attacking the widely accepted Critical Race Theory.
Despite the toothless nature of the law, national media will not be kind to Mississippi over this.
And it will be very bad for business.

1:47 Finally someone points out the only real instance when a ban on CRT might actually apply in the state of Mississippi. And guess what? It's in a LAW SCHOOL course. And it you read that bill it still does not prevent the
course as described. And it won't prevent a rational discussion of the very relevant issues described therein. On the other hand, is there rational discussion at Ole Miss?

Some are trying to turn this into a discussion about slavery. Not approving those comments.

A BILL TO TEACH PERSONS OF ALL RACES, SEXES, CREEDS, AND PARTY AFFILIATIONS HOW TO WRITE MEANINGLESS AND INEFFECTUAL LEGISLATION WHICH IS BOTH LACKING IN SPECIFICITY AND OVERBROAD AT THE SAME TIME.

The Ayes have it. Bill passes.

We may not know what the hell it is, but we are damn sure gonna stop it by God! Go Mississippi!

2:31 : Yet CRT was thought up due directly to slavery KF. WOW. BE SURE TO REMOVE 1:05 . Ice T states "racism is real but not it ...the system is against anyone poor" . Lol, all I did was offer a good idea for the inventor of this bullshit theory to make it work. Poor whites across this country do not benefit from "the system".

@10:20 If this Bill as proposed is indeed totally meaningless since CRT is, as you assert, not being taught in any school in the State, then why do the people need to pull out all the stops to prevent its passage? If it is truly meaningless, just ignore it because it will affect nothing. Right?

What we can learn from this bill is that the people who drafted it don't actually know what CRT is.

Critical Race Theory is actually an incredibly interesting subject, and requires a graduate level understanding of American history and government.

Your kids are not being taught CRT.

This is insanity!
CRT is a college level subject and rarely taught outside of law schools.

It's about past policies that made Jim Crow and upward mobility more difficult.

The irony is, more than a few of those policies hurt poor whites as well.

Funny. No one really knows "what" CRT is. Well folks, it is a theory. Do High Schools here in the state "teach" any other theories ? Taking a subjects facts and twisting them into teachable theories ? Why yes. Sociology...AAS...but CRT is an actual theory. So only the folks who thunk it up can maybe know what it is.

These sluggards stayed out under the oaks just long enough to miss the teacher pay vote.

"Widely accepted Critical Race Theory". You can't possibly back up that claim. Unless you meant 'widely accepted' down to the club.

Once again the party of limited government creating laws "just in case". No one will go on the record with evidence of this actually occurring but constituents are worried that it might. Chris McDaniel stands at the well and talks about how in the fifties this would have been a the most progressive piece of legislation in Mississippi history and no one in the chamber seems to grasp the irony of that. Senator Blount made very good points about the religion piece. Just wait for the first lawsuit to be filed because Christianity is affirmed over other religions in many of our districts. And, as many have pointed out it doesn't even have a darn thing to do with academic CRT.

It appears that those who walked out are against prohibiting teaching the following:
(a) That any sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior; or
(b) That individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.
Therefore, by logical deduction one would conclude that those who walked out in protest are RACISTS.

One day these same cats grandchildren will be in the minority and they will suffer for their sins.

Horrors! If this bill passes all the businesses will pack up and move to California.

Stop this bill and let's raise the state income taxes to 15% so we can attract more businesses.

@7:39
You joke but Apple has been building factories in the USA and Tim Apple is a big flaming liberal who probably had positive thoughts about Mississippi after the flag change but this bad press means we will never get a factory making plastic bits for their next hit gadget.

Neither, Microsoft, Alphabet, or Meta won’t be starting any stateside opportunities here either

Those that assert that CRT isn’t taught in schools are ignoring a lot of data that points to CRT concepts being incorporated into secondary and elementary curricula around the country. Most people who comment that CRT is only about the history of slavery know little about the scholarship behind CRT. CRT materials have been made available to school teachers as resources for teaching about history or other subjects. The premise of CRT is that the entire enterprise of capitalism in the Western World was built on black slavery, and that the entire system must be dismantled to produce “equity.” Most of those who are saying it’s a conservative bugaboo haven’t read the first bit of CRT scholarship, which is heavily influenced by Marxism. That isn’t something made up, it is quite openly stated in CRT literature. Here is just a taste of what CRT scholars say:
“Critical Race Theory is a modernist project. Marxist and Freudian influences abound.” Anthony Farley, When the Stars Begin to Fall: an Introduction to Critical Race Theory and Marxism, 1 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 226 (2012).
And it isn’t limited to law schools. The theory has been incorporated into other disciplines, like education for example.

@9:05 there is no evidence that schoolchildren in Mississippi are being taught that they are inferior. As with most things you can probably dig around until you find an outlier but if that is the case it can be handled at the local level- where we say as a small government state we want things handled. And, we have evidence that for decades there were a group of children who were taught they were inferior and yet no law. Now, that some fragile white parents "think" that there is the slimmest of possibilities that their child might encounter something uncomfortable all of a sudden we need a law. No one is disagreeing that children should not be taught they are inferior. People are disagreeing about the motive behind the policy. And, the motive is not pure.

Does anyone else read section 2 as prohibiting the consideration of "race" in preferential treatment, such as in the implementation of any affirmative action preferences, yet allowing consideration of sex, ethnicity, religion, or national origin for purposes of preferential treatment? I read it that way. "Race" is the only prohibited "distinction or classification" listed under section 2. And it seems unconstitutional because it allows "affirmative action" based on sex, religion, ethnicity, and national origin, but prohibits it based on race. i.e., allows the state to bestow preferential treatment in educational context based on anything other than race, therefore discriminating in the bestowing of benefits based on race. Am I reading it incorrectly? Is that better Kingfish?

632 & 905 have it nailed

The bill is as useless as renaming schools, roads, removing statues, and changing flags. It’s all pointless and waste of time and money, it’s more of a look what we did thing, but they can’t solve the real issues, just virtue signal. If they taught actual history in schools and not a slanted version the perpetually offended victimhood crew might realize they aren’t the only victims on the planet, but that would defeat the narrative.

CRT has been an indoctrination point of order (taught) in public schools in this state for 80 years - more so in those districts controlled by predominantly black school boards, superintendents and staff. The only difference is that it's never been mandated as policy or included in mission statements and handbooks or, frankly, openly admitted. Even our clueless Education Department head denies its existence.

Those of you who feel children should know more about the THEORY of our racial history, I'm sure will advocate all perspectives and points of view. Right?

Of course Kingfish fails to realize (or acknowledge) that this whole thing, nationally, boils down to slavery and the plight of the black man being blamed on the white man. The goal of it all is to create a mentality of guilt in white children and a mentality of resentment in black children. How does any of that move us forward and better prepare children for their world? Well, it doesn't. Those are not the goals. The goals are guilt and reparations in its many forms.

At least 10 other states have already banned it either by law, regulation or resolution and about 15 other states are in the process of doing so. The reaction to the proposed ban proves how dangerous this Marxist philosophy is.

@9:05 pm While you are referring readers to scholarship regarding CRT you might refer your legislators to a course on legal writing. The bill does not describe the theory which you decry. No one can find anywhere in Mississippi where the precepts mentioned in the bill are being taught while actual Critical Race Theory is only taught, or rather analyzed, in Law School where it belongs. It is doubtful whether the bill affects the Law School course at all. Face it, it's just a political ploy. How's the Kool-Aid?

As long as the new crop of "teachers" are uber liberal tits then no bill you pass will matter all that much. Call the theory what ever you want. It's still YOUR JOB to counter and help your child decide. In the 70's the Trail of Tears wasn't taught in schools but slavery was. Guess what ? We were lead to believe the Native's had it good on the Rez.

2:08 What predominantly black school district did you attend? Stop making up facts to bolster your narrow-minded view of current events. The only districts in the south openly teaching racial superiority, separation of the races, or racial animus of any kind through the last 80 years certainly were not predominantly black. If anything it's people like you who give the Critical Race Theorists their best hope!

Black Caucus: Right idea, wrong tactic.

Know for a fact that many teachers in the Hinds County System DO NOT stick to the subject they teach. And even encourage back handed prejudice. How is running a CNN crawl during algebra class teaching algebra ?

Show us where someone, and I don't mean some crackpot in a bunker in Florence, is trying to stop the teaching of slavery, Jim Crow, and civil rights in schools. I don't know of anyone who opposes teaching these subjects.

Your gestapo like ability to suppress speaking truth to power is astounding, Kingfish.

KF, it is not that slavery, etc. are not taught, it is how the subjects are glossed over or dare I say white-washed.