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MLK Day and CRT at School Board Meetings


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Eron & Josh briefly discuss the impact of the January 2022 snow storm that halted travel in the DC, MD, VA area. On this Martin Luther King Jr Day, Eron cites the 1967 "Where do we go from here" speech and how conservatives get MLK wrong when they cherry pick "I Have a Dream".  Josh discusses his recent experience speaking at a local school board meeting, the talking points being pushed at these meetings, and the types of parents showing up. The hosts try to make sense of the parent's motivations to ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), ban books, control teacher professional development, and remove politics from the classrooms using Republican/conservative ideas as justification.

Topics mentioned: MLK, survival/preparedness, Ron DeSantis, Critical Race Theory, DEI, Equity vs Equality, Winsome Sears, Redlining, school boards

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