Texas Governor Signs Law To Stop Teachers From Talking About Racism

[Nevilledog]

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The governor of Texas has just signed a law to stop teachers from talking about racism

Texas Governor Signs Law To Stop Teachers From Talking About Racism
"The idea is to whitewash American history of any legacy of racism," said state Democratic Rep. James Talarico.
huffpost.com
5:23 PM · Jun 15, 2021

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-republicans-ban-teachers-racism_n_60b18524e4b06da8bd76bf50?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed one of his party’s top legislative priorities into law: a bill aimed at stopping teachers from talking about racism and any current events that may be contentious.

The legislation, supported by virtually every GOP state legislator, states that social studies teachers in public K-12 schools “may not be compelled” to talk about current events or public policy or social issues considered controversial. If they do talk about such things, they are required to present the issue “without giving deference to any one perspective.”

The law specifies all the things that social studies teachers aren’t allowed to talk about.

They can’t make it part of a course to talk about the concept that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.”

They can’t make it part of a course to talk about the concept that someone could “be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual’s race.”

*snip*

[LuckyLib]

1. Yeah, and during the Vietnam War, very few high schools

would talk about it. What a travesty! Not lost on high schoolers that the Emperor had no clothes!

[Hoyt]

2. Hopefully, there will be plenty of support for teachers who ignore the BS law.

[Cha]

3. head up his Stupid Ass, Abbot & the magats.

Hopefully a Dem Gov comes in and undoes this fucking racist law

[FloridaBlues]

4. The red states have the same legislation and laws making the rounds

Slowly to all of them.

[struggle4progress]

5. Texas revolution fought to preserve slavery

By Emily McCullar
October 29, 2020

... Slavery was a much more pressing issue to Texian settlers than was religious freedom or the language barrier. Though only a quarter of the original three hundred settling families brought enslaved persons with them, the Texas economy was incredibly dependent on cotton, and cotton was only really profitable when picked by the enslaved. In 1829, when Vicente Guerrero, then president of the Republic of Mexico, issued a decree that all enslaved people were henceforth emancipated, Anglo settlers were aghast. “We are ruined forever should this measure be adopted,” wrote John Durst, a prominent landowner and politician. Stephen F. Austin replied, “I am the owner of one slave only, an old decrepit woman, not worth much, but in this matter I should feel that my constitutional rights as a Mexican were just as much infringed, as they would be if I had a thousand” ...

... No slave owner in the Republic of Texas could free his slaves without the consent of the Republic’s congress. Any free Black person living in Texas could continue living there only with the approval of the congress. The prospect of any free Black people in Texas was considered a threat to the institution of slavery, because it could embolden slaves to run away ...

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/how-leaders-texas-revolution-fought-preserve-slavery/

[bahboo]

6. can't sweep this under the rug forever, asshole....

hope there is a ton of pushback on this....

[struggle4progress]

7. Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836)

General Provisions

... SEC. 6. All free white persons who shall emigrate to this Republic, and who shall, after a residence of six months, make oath before some competent authority that he intends to reside permanently in the same, and shall swear to support this Constitution, and that he will bear true allegiance to the Republic of Texas, shall be entitled to all the privileges of citizenship ...

SEC. 8. All persons who shall leave the country for the purpose of evading a participation in the present struggle, or shall refuse to participate in it, or shall give aid or assistance to the present enemy, shall forfeit all rights of citizenship and such lands as they may hold in the Republic.

SEC. 9. All persons of color who were slaves for life previous to their emigration to Texas, and who are now held in bondage, shall remain in the like state of servitude, provide the said slave shall be the bona fide property of the person so holding said slave as aforesaid. Congress shall pass no laws to prohibit emigrants from the United States of America from bringing their slaves into the Republic with them, and holding them by the same tenure by which such slaves were held in the United States; nor shall Congress have power to emancipate slaves; nor shall any slave-holder be allowed to emancipate his or her slave or slaves, without the consent of Congress, unless he or she shall send his or her slave or slaves without the limits of the Republic. No free person of African descent, either in whole or in part, shall be permitted to reside permanently in the Republic, without the consent of Congress, and the importation or admission of Africans or negroes into this Republic, excepting from the United States of America, is forever prohibited, and declared to be piracy.

SEC. 10. All persons, (Africans, the descendants of Africans, and Indians excepted,) who were residing in Texas on the day of the Declaration of Independence, shall be considered citizens of the Republic, and entitled to all the privileges of such ...

https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/c.php?g=815580&p=5820525

[struggle4progress]

8. Constitution of Texas (1845)

ARTICLE VIII.
Slaves.

SEC. 1. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, nor without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated. They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to this State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any of the United States, so long as any person of the same age or description shall be continued in slavery by the laws of this State: Provided, That such slave be the bona fide property of such emigrants: Provided, also, That laws shall be passed to inhibit the introduction into this State of slaves who have committed high crimes in other States or Territories. They shall have the right to pass laws to permit the owners of slaves to emancipate them, saving the rights of creditors, and preventing them from becoming a public charge. They shall have full power to pass laws which will oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity; to provide for their necessary food and clothing; to abstain from all injuries to them, extending to life or limb; and, in case of their neglect or refusal to comply with the directions of such laws, to have such slave or slaves taken from such owner and sold for the benefit of such owner or owners. They may pass laws to prevent slaves from being brought into this State as merchandise only ...

https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/c.php?g=787754&p=5639731

[Nevilledog]

12. I 💗 when you add stuff.

[struggle4progress]

15. thanks!

[Saboburns]

9. Literal thoughtcrimes.

smdh

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."

[struggle4progress]

10. Declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede

February 2, 1861

... Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States ... She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery -- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits -- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy ... But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?

The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretences and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slave-holding States ...

In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon the unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of the equality of all men, irrespective of race or color--a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of the Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and the negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States.

For years past this abolition organization has been actively sowing the seeds of discord through the Union, and has rendered the federal congress the arena for spreading firebrands and hatred between the slave-holding and non-slave-holding States.

By consolidating their strength, they have placed the slave-holding States in a hopeless minority ...

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html

[struggle4progress]

11. Texas stands third among the states, after Mississippi and Georgia, in the total number

of lynching victims. Of the 468 victims in Texas between 1885 and 1942, 339 were Black, 77 White, 53 Hispanic, and 1 American Indian ...

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lynching

[jcmaine72]

13. They shouldn't receive a dime in federal funding until they agree to teach historical facts.

[dutch777]

14. Did TX get ALL the copies of the Dumb Law Generating App?! (Works best on flip phones I hear)

And I doubt their legislative changes to date took care of their potential future power grid and related cost to consumer issues either.

[Johonny]

16. Snowflake-ism codified into law

I can't possibly hear about race... oh my stars.