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Kids always do what they are told not to do. By this rationale, they may actually read more because the books are banned.
You are so right! 
Part of "don't talk to strangers" education. But in this case, those trying to limit their education are the dangerous ones... 
Which is why this one hits home. When ignorance is the standard, reading is subversive.
He was holding a small bag of what was presumably candy. My mother must have kept it since I remember seeing it around. 
But I agree with the point of this one, these children are getting a limited education. I grew up in a fairly diverse community, so I went to school with other kids from different ethnicities and backgrounds, teachers, too, so I never thought of anyone else as "different." President Carter's first elective office was on the local school board and he fought against the "separate, but equal" customs of the times (early 1950s). Is that what this limited education is attempting to recreate? 
I don't think they're trying to limit education any more than they already have through two generations. Education for 65% of America doesn't go beyond high school, so any hype is directed toward that crowd, with AV and social media help, of course.
Because the GOP are a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, this is the old, scripted divisive corporate PR campaign to stir the fear-of-a-black-planet pot. Variations of this will break out in headlines for the rest of the year. When we win it will stop.
Yet there are corners of this country where things will never change unless we change them. But it's an uphill battle since there are still areas of this country which never got past the Civil War. Education is part of it, but it's deeply ingrained. Reconstruction was a failure thanks to Andrew Johnson's blocking the plans to assimilate Freedmen into mainstream society, he gave back the land intended for them to the original owners so they'd be beholden to him.
And the leaders of the secession faced no punishment for their crimes. Robert E Lee became president of Washington College which was renamed Washington and Lee in honor of him. Meanwhile, a chapter of the KKK was established on that campus while he looked the other way. His attempt to regain his citizenship was rejected in his lifetime by Secretary of State Seward, but was restored in 1975 by President Gerald Ford after a Senate vote. We're still paying for these mistakes today - and that's why we can't make the same mistakes in addressing the recent attempts to overturn our government. There need to be repercussions and those responsible need to face punishment this time around.
Still. Thank you for the informative history about the inertia in the hearts of the racist states. You're right.
It is now that we'll have to enforce, enforce, enforce law, punish through its full force, so we don't make the same mistakes of the past.
We Democrats jail crooks; we don't make them president. 
But since the law of the land, let alone the oaths that they took, mean little to TFG-supporting Republicans, their loyalty is to him now and the "law" is whatever he says it is. They uniformly failed to remove him when they had the chance for clearly impeachable offenses.
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No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.