My take on this is: those people donāt just believe theyāre not racist, they believe theyāre *anti-racist*.
Thereās no āAP white studiesā class, so this move addresses that āracism.ā
Since this is the internet, I should back up and say, Iām obviously not talking about the people who passed this and people like them, they know what theyāre doing.
JFC!!!
āThose that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.ā
- Sir Winston Churchill
So tired of seeing reruns of the worst of humans! Why can't we be better? *sigh*
most white people actively try not to think about it. they can't be racist, racism was solved with the civil rights act, therefore only racists think about racism. (it's so easy to see from this side of it, but they willfully refuse to think about racism that applies to then)
id say no since when i was in uk high schools learning history they refused to acknowledge uk black history and acts like only america is racist.
so no
Something on my mind since Arizona went after Ethnic Studies in '10 was people creating alternate reading list/syllabi. The way things are going - and may get worse depending on who wins in November - I get the feeling that people are going to start putting together and expanding those lists.
They've been for so long that they have become complacent & so comfortable & tolerable of racism that they know its racist, but have no way to gauge it. But as we've both pointed out, thet was never a prerogative of theirs to begin with. When something bad is around too long, it becomes the norm. ā ļø
I'm not Christian, but I am South Carolinian. And in that sense, I know I carry a sin. It's a uniquely white American sin that I have to work at all the time to comprehend and a civic religion is what white Americans owe Black Americans as part of reparations, and owe the body politic in general.
And by a civic religion, I mean a belief that the American state was founded for explicitly unjust reasons--slavery--and has to be made right by us now.
The Roberts Court, McMaster, Rufo--all those working to disenfranchise Black South Carolinians, they live in fear of the idea that that argument could become viable in a civics course curriculum. And of course they start with Black life because re-segregation is their passion.
They all want to deny what happened during Jim Crow. But you don't need to go back that far. The killings of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd are modern day lynchings. It's hard to forget that. I can't even watch that video.
As a white person, part of the whole system is so that we don't _have_ to understand it. Until a fish breaches the surface, it does not realize it is in water. I had to have my aquarium walls breached multiple times in multiple other ways to realize it at all.
The thing people need to confront head on is that the race-based social/economic hierarchies, low taxes due to prison labor, and the overall massive inequality are a functional
system that local whites not only adore and protect but expect to outlast liberalism.
Itās shame and morality resistant.
Cites funding. Supposed that they line item zeroed the program and cited a funding issue. Great. Have a friend who has run for Governor of SC several times. Wish SC voted him into office. No idea what he'd do, but everything he has talked about is better than this.
