Comment by dopylitty
4 years ago
> They made Georgia out to be an unreformed Confederate backwater
They wouldn't be wrong. For example in April 2021 a black woman from Md was drummed out of a wealthy town in GA for the crime of being black and an educator[0]. This is the kind of thing that happens all the time in the south and west.
0. https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dei-crt-schools-p...
>Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion.
They disagreed with her politics.
She had no politics that they knew of. They disagreed with willful misrepresentations of politics that she had never expressed, and felt that they could get away with it because of race politics in Georgia.
And they did.
Being willing to be part of a DEI office is politics, just like choosing to be a commissar rather than an artillery officer is politics. It’s deeply unfortunate that Ms Lewis was unaware of that but it’s going to become clear over the next decade or two of backlash that DEI is a loser, politically. People are going to either attack it or dissociate from it.
Are you saying that being asked to apply for a job is a political act?
>At first, the scope of the role gave Lewis pause. In her current district, these responsibilities were split among several people, and she’d never held a position dedicated to anything as specific as that before. But she had served on the District Equity Leadership Team in her Maryland county and felt prepared for this new challenge. She believed the job would allow her, as she put it, to analyze the district’s “systemic and instructional practices” in order to better support “the whole child.”
She was drummed out of town because she was supporting DEI and CRT, not because she was black.
Did you read the article?
"This is not about the color of her skin. It’s what she’s going to bring into our district and what she’s going to teach our children"
Your statement suggests that you did not actually read the article.
She was drummed out of town because white radical Republicans made up positions that the educator in question did not hold and had never hold (that you can pretend to talk about CRT with respect to primary or secondary school is indicative that you have bought into the propaganda; it is a post-graduate law school concept, unless you’re a radical republican hell bent on fighting anything that does anything other than support a white supremacist distortion of history).
The reality is that the moment someone in Georgia says "this is not about the colour of her skin", it’s about the colour of her skin. Everything about what she was going to "bring into" the district was fabricated out of whole cloth and had nothing to do with either (a) anything the educator in question had said or (b) anything the educator in question had been hired for.
"The reality is that the moment someone in Georgia says "this is not about the colour of her skin", it’s about the colour of her skin."
Ironically, what you wrote is a very classical example of prejudice.
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>She was drummed out of town because white radical Republicans made up positions that the educator in question did not hold and had never hold
Assuming that is true, that may or may not have to do with race. Please provide proof race had anything to do with this.
>that you can pretend to talk about CRT with respect to primary or secondary school is indicative that you have bought into the propaganda; it is a post-graduate law school concept, unless you’re a radical republican hell bent on fighting anything that does anything other than support a white supremacist distortion of history).
CRT is clearly being used as a generic term and not a college level idea. Maybe we should have two separate terms, but similar concepts are absolutely being taught.
>The reality is that the moment someone in Georgia says "this is not about the colour of her skin", it’s about the colour of her skin.
You are clearly bias and assume the worst in people you disagree with.
You are doing the very thing you accuse these Georgians of doing.
>Everything about what she was going to "bring into" the district was fabricated out of whole cloth and had nothing to do with either (a) anything the educator in question had said or (b) anything the educator in question had been hired for.
Maybe, but seeing how white people pushing this get yelled at and kicked out as well, assuming this has anything to do with race is nothing more than a theory.
If we ever want to solve racial tension, we need to stop calling everybody a racist when they disagree on policies.
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