The all-white school board voted 5-2 to stop offering Black history and literature courses.
A Missouri school board that previously voted to rescind an anti-discrimination resolution has voted in favor of removing elective Black history and literature classes.
The seven-member Francis Howell School Board voted 5-2 Thursday night to stop offering Black History and Black Literature courses, which had been offered at the district’s three high schools since 2021, KSDK reported. All seven members of the board are white.
“Our students really wanted these electives,” Harry Harris, whose son is a student in the district, said during the board meeting. “Our families really wanted them and our teachers really wanted them. It’s important. It’s been great.”
In July, the conservative-led board revoked an anti-racism resolution that had been passed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
The south was not burned enough during the civil war.
Unfortunately what gets considered as “The South” is actually anywhere in the country more than ~30 minutes outside of any Metropolitan area. It’s not North VS South, it’s urban v rural, and Big Ag dropped a fuck load of money a long time ago to ensure land votes harder than people.
As someone who somewhat recently moved to California, it was shocking to see how conservative anywhere outside of urban areas is. Like California is seen as this haven of progressiveness, but that’s only because we have two of the biggest cities in the country.
There are more people who voted for Trump in California than in Texas. There are just a LOT of people in California. But there are also a lot of republicans.
IMHO it’s compassionate vs cruel. And like the paradox of tolerance, showing compassion for the cruel is the way to a cruel world.
Unfortunately Lincoln severely hampered the radical reconstruction movement, and then Johnson absolutely killed it.
Recommended reading: “Black Reconstruction in America” is a really great book that covers this kind of stuff. It’s by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois