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Rhode Island State Rep. Patricia Morgan bizarrely complained her Black friend is now hostile and unpleasant thanks to racial identity politics and critical race theory.https://www.thedailybeast.com/patricia-morgan-rhode-island-lawmaker-who-sponsored-anti-crt-bill-whines-that-black-pal-no-longer-likes-her
Rhode Island State Rep. Patricia Morgan set Twitter ablaze Tuesday when she blasted out a bizarre post claiming shed lost a Black friend due to a recent conservative obsession: critical race theory. In the tweet, the Republican lawmaker complained that her friend had become hostile and unpleasant towards hersimply because shes a white woman. Is that what teachers and our political leaders really want for our society? Divide us because of our skin color? #CRT, Morgan wrote.
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Morgans post was immediately flooded with responses, as thousands called out her tone deaf statement. Oof....the fact that you think this tweet is ok shows just how much you have to learn. It might be she was just too exhausted to be your teacher, one Twitter user posted. Its not CRT...its you. Had you had access to CRT, maybe you wouldn't have alienated your friend. CRT is about learning actual history and why people have an advantage for having white skin, another wrote. None of my friends are asking me to hate myself. That's not the issue. They want me to be aware/learn & do what I can to help.
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In an interview with The Daily Beast, Morgan refused to name the pal, but said they used to be close until the friend stopped responding to her phone calls and messages. Im sad that she doesnt feel like shes my friend anymore, Morgan said. I know that she has become a real proponent of racial identity politics. And Im pretty sure thats the reason behind it. Im sad that our country is going down that road. I think its bad for our country.
In March, Morgan co-sponsored a bill in Rhode Island that would have banned the teaching of more than just critical race theory in public schools. The bill, RI H6070, failed to pass in June but was meant to prohibit the teaching of divisive concepts as well as mandate that any contract, grant or training entered into by state or municipality include provisions prohibiting divisive concepts and prohibit making individual feel distress on account of their race or sex.
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Walleye
(33,916 posts)Im waiting for the schools to stop making girls feel distressed because of their sex.Did she really mean to put that in the law?Plus Im sure shes lying
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Can 100% guarantee the person was never in her house.
Not as a guest anyway.
brush
(56,313 posts)CRT and so-called divisive teaching may have had something to do with her friend re-accessing their friendship.
Having such a friend is hardly worth it.
David__77
(23,863 posts)
Solly Mack
(91,691 posts)(That was sarcasm and not an excuse of her behavior - just in case)
Her "black friend" reminds me of Trump's "Sir" stories.
Didn't happen but she made shit up so she could make a comment she was itching to make about CRT and black people.
Trump did it to praise himself.
She did it to further her attacks on CRT and black people.
Sympthsical
(9,862 posts)Is she a new character on the Sex and the City reboot?
ShazzieB
(17,973 posts)"I had a black friend."
"A" black friend. One whole, single, solitary, black friend. "Had," past tense. The fact that she lacks the awareness to realize how pathetic that sounds says volumes, doesnt it?
Collimator
(1,699 posts)But, in my defense, I don't have a lot of friends. There are three people with whom I speak on a regular basis and one of them is Black. He is also male, gay, tall, young and kinda hot.
I am white, female, straight, short, old and sorta cute. We joke about starring in a TV series about a pair of mismatched detectives. Oh, and even though we do discuss social justice issues, our main bonding took place over our love of the show, Firefly. . . Well, that and our shared experience working in customer service. War stories, you know?
orwell
(7,856 posts)...with made up lies by a serial sexual predator considered a "divisive concept?"
How about gerrymandering districts to keep a minority in power?
How about denying the right to vote to people of color?
Asking for a friend...
wyn borkins
(1,109 posts)A non-hostile (but seriously unpleasant) 'hello' (from afar) to Rhode Island State Rep. Patricia Morgan. I don't live in Rhode Island so I am not in your (voting) district; however, please know and understand that I dislike you even more than your ex-friend (!).
malaise
(275,303 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 1, 2022, 06:19 PM - Edit history (1)
Happy. New Year sis
Celerity
(46,154 posts)lol
But in all seriousness, Happy New Year as well to you and yours.
malaise
(275,303 posts)Y
Baitball Blogger
(47,476 posts)spooky3
(35,573 posts)electric_blue68
(16,850 posts)Talk about being politically, and emotionally unintelligent.
spooky3
(35,573 posts)Ms. Morgan, not because of your demographics.
What a Moran.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,654 posts)spooky3
(35,573 posts)SergeStorms
(19,259 posts)I'm sure she gained many, many more white supremacist "friends", that she'll be much more comfortable around than her imaginary "Black Friend".
I hope she can sleep at night, worrying about the loss of her imaginary "Black Friend". Maybe she can construct an imaginary "Latina Friend" this time.
yardwork
(63,358 posts)SCantiGOP
(14,103 posts)Like the High School nerd who has a hot girlfriend, but she lives in another state.
yardwork
(63,358 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,036 posts)halfulglas
(1,654 posts)You were never a caring individual who thought how your actions blocking teaching the truth about history could hurt other people. You never really did thing all people are created equal. You think teaching truth is a divisive concept and can make you "feel bad" so it shouldn't be taught. CRT and skin color doesn't divide people, your interpretation of them do. She realizes you are the proponent of identify politics because it's your identity that is threatened.
Boomerproud
(8,256 posts)colleague with equal power you would be better off to STFU.
AverageOldGuy
(1,834 posts)That's what racist complain about when someone points out systemic racism to them.
Whiskeytide
(4,487 posts)SCantiGOP
(14,103 posts)to have a negative IQ?
What a clueless idiot.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)I really did have a black friend. We first me at the company where we both worked part-time while attending the same college in the early 1980s. At the beginning of our friendship, we were talking about hair care. She said she only needed to wash hers once a week. I said I had to wash mine nearly every day. Without a moment's hesitation, she deadpanned, "well, that's what you get for being white."
I had the best times with my friend.
housecat
(3,135 posts)sarchasm
(1,149 posts)... that these so-called "divisive concepts" make her "feel distress" ... projection much?
paleotn
(18,767 posts)Can't teach WWII since it might make German or Japanese folks fell distress? And since when has making individuals feel distress on account of their race or sex being a thing with reich wingers?
AZLD4Candidate
(6,118 posts)and to hell with German and Japanese distress. Hell, I don't even care about American distress.
Holocaust, Josef Mengele
Rape of Naking, Unit 731
Trail of Tears, Long March of the Navajo
paleotn
(18,767 posts)just not their own.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,118 posts)electric_blue68
(16,850 posts)Oh, come on, lady!
How do you think most Black people following this issue are going to feel. A theory that helps to point out various roadblocks, etc in civil rights progress as it
relates to the law, and you're not supporting it.
You're a Representative dealing with making laws.
I can remember Professor Bell (I was surprised to find out it was he who created CRT) being interviewed a few times on public radio. I admit I don't remember if it was specifically on CRT at those times.
It did seem he was getting more, and more pessimistic about further civil rights successes. That distressed me bc I try and hope for the best, while also trying to do my small part in making things better including justice, equality.
maxrandb
(15,741 posts)of slavery, racism, Jim Crowe laws, or discrimination because it hurts her "fee-fees", and is using her position of power to silence it is accusing her "friend" of racial identity politics?