Black White and Blue in the South

Why Are They So Scared of the Letters C, R and T?


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A special early release for Labor Day! Cook your burgers and get your special home projects done while listening to this important, super-sized episode!

Jumelle & Bill preview the upcoming Greenwood County Democratic Party Breakfast Meeting on Sat, Sept 9. You can read about it and RSVP here.

  • After 50 years, South Carolina Department of Education will no longer partner with librarian association

They then reviewed three news items:

Rep John McCravy Announces Re-election Bid

  • Facebook Announcement
  • Nazi Propaganda
  • Defining the Enemy

US Senate a "Privileged Nursing Home"?

  • Nikki Haley Calls Senate A 'Privileged Nursing Home' After McConnell Freezes

More Salaried Workers to Qualify for Overtime Pay

  • Millions of additional salaried workers could get overtime pay under Biden proposal

They then dive into the main topic of Critical Race Theory

  • The actual definition of CRT from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • SC Critical race theory instruction prohibition - the proposed
  • The first complaint filed under Tennessee's anti-critical race theory law was over a book teaching about Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Florida mother behind ban on Amanda Gorman poem has Proud Boys links
  • Arkansas Education Department won’t allow credit for AP African American Studies course
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates Crashes School Board Meeting Over Removing His Book From Class
  • Clips of Lexington-Richland School District 5 school board meeting [TikTok]
  • New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills
  • The PragerU goal: "Indoctrinate kids at a young age into a far-right belief system"
  • PragerU Kid's Cartoon about Christopher Columbus

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