Every Black Mississippi senator walked off the chamber floor in protest as white colleagues voted on a bill to ban critical race theory in the state’s public schools.
The Mississippi State Senate, which has 14 Black senators out of 52 total senators, still passed the bill titled “Critical Race Theory; prohibit” with a vote of 32-2 after two white Democratic senators, David Blount and Hob Bryan, voted against it.
It will be sent to the House next, which has its own legislation to prevent critical race theory. If it passes the House, it is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican.
The unprecedented walkout on Friday morning was captured on video by WREG, as politicos in the state told Mississippi Today that they could not recall members of the chamber ever leaving en masse before a vote.
Barbara Blackmon, one of the senators who walked out of the chamber, told WREG that the “bill is morally wrong” and that implementation of the bill would make it difficult for schools to accurately teach the history of racism.
“You will not be looking through our history to see the systemic racism that has been a part of the very fabric of America, and we do know the State of Mississippi,” Blackmon, D-Canton, said.
The Mississippi Department of Education told the Clarion Ledger around the beginning of the school year that the theory wasn’t taught in any of the district’s schools.
Sen. Michael McLendon, R-Hernando, who authored the bill, said on the Senate floor he was not aware of any school teaching the theory in the state, but he heard of the issue “on the national news” and wanted to ensure it wouldn’t be taught in Mississippi.
The bill says the state’s public schools cannot direct students “that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” or “that any individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity or national origin.”
It also says the state’s public schools cannot “make a distinction or classification of students based on account of race” except for required collection of demographics information.
“The bill is not changing anything about our past,” McLendon said. “All this bill says is that no child shall be told they’re superior or inferior to another. That’s all this bill does.”
Prior to walking out, Black senators asked Republicans repeatedly why the state needed a bill for a problem that didn’t exist.
“We cannot afford to spend our time taking up issues in Mississippi that do not exist,” Mississippi Senate Minority Leader Derrick Simmons, D-Greenville, told the Clarion Ledger after walking off the Senate floor.
Critical race theory, which addresses racism and the law, was developed by Harvard Law School’s first Black tenured professor Derrick Bell, and other scholars, including Kimberlé Crenshaw, Cheryl Harris, Richard Delgado, Patricia Williams, and Gloria Ladson-Billings, among others, according to the American Bar Association.
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Keep on walking. Take the next boat back to your home country.
I’d love to see a bill passed, that ANY SITTING SENATOR/Member of the house that WILLFULLY DOES THIS< gets immediately censured.
IF THEY DO IT a 2nd time, they have EFFECTIVELY RESIGNED their position.
These Black Senators Who Walked out beforethe vote was cast against teaching Critical Race Theory were OK with the forcing children to take Critical Race theory in Class but let tem even think about possibly doing Away With Teaching Critical Race Theory and the Black Senators Walk out, Who’s showing their ” Racism now .??
I wonder, how many VOTED TO ALLOW masking mandates in school! OR for Gay/trannie book reading in kindergartens..
“MS Black Senators Walk Out Over Bill Prohibiting The Teaching Of Critical Race Theory”
This shows again that the Black Democrats are racists!! 🙁
The bill says the state’s public schools cannot direct students “that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” or “that any individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity or national origin.”
So ask yourself: Why would the Black Mississippi senators object to children being taught that we all are equal and should be treated equal??
Answer: Blacks do not want to be treated “EQUAL”, Blacks want to be treated better than others and get more free stuff paid for by taxpayers.
What is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?? ……. NONE!
BECAUSE to those who WANT SUPERIORITY, being told “YOu are equal” to others, is ‘racist’.
” MS Senators Walk Out Over Bill Prohibiting The Teaching Of Critical Race Theory . ” The Bill States That Public
Schools Cannot Direct Students that” Any Sex Race, is Supierior to any Other Race, Sex etc. To paraphrase this Bill.
What Could These Black Representatives Object to so Much so That they Walked out ? Other than these Black Representatives ” Are Racists. ” Too. The same thing that they claim to be against…
“Barbara Blackmon, one of the senators who walked out of the chamber, told WREG that the “bill is morally wrong” and that implementation of the bill would make it difficult for schools to accurately teach the history of racism”. Hey Barbara, you and the rest of the Senators are “morally wrong” and you and the rest of the Senators who walked out, are racist. Hey Barbara, since you and the rest of the Senators are worried about racism, I suggest you clean up the black on black crime and the black on black murders, since it is obvious that black criminals are “racist” against other blacks.
I Would Suggest that those ‘ Black Representatives Who Walked Out Over Bill that C. R. T. Against Teaching ithis in Public Schools Should Read ” Matthew 7: 5 first, It applies to these Black Representative who Walked Out….
so sick of the racial blacks who can’t live without stirring the pot.
More and more, i am seeing its THE BLACKS Of this nation, who are the MOST RACIST FOLKS around…
The vast majority of racism today is in the black community. A simple fact that has been flamed by the democratic party to create division, hatred and blindness simply to attempt to gain a block of voting. The dems could care less about the black community beyond their votes. Check history – dems led slavery and fought Lincoln. dems started the KKK. dems fought black rights for decades up to the 60’s and voted against desegregation (including a young joe biden – who was quoted as saying it would turn our neighborhoods into jungles). dems have fought every positive legislation for blacks and hispanics ever since and today still have many convinced “they care” because they offer them free stuff which only makes them slaves all over. Many are having the blinders removed. CRT is just another dem tool to stir hatred and division – their only weapon.
democrat, president Joe Biden. When he was Vice President to Barack H. Oba!a, said, ” Never Underestimate Joe Biden’s Ability to F. Things Up . ” Old Joe Biden hasn’ t been a Disapointment In the Ability to F. Things Up has He…
I remember a convo i had with a black gentleman i knew from my days in the navy (He was a contractor down in Gulfport, who like me, retired up to Ohio, up near akron iirc), about all of his.. And he remembered a post he did on twitter, back in 2017, that got the IRE of his family… He said in that post, “I HATE my own kind, because of how racist they constantly act..”
The year after, during one of our email chats, he said though his wife and mother knew where he was coming from, MOST EVERY other member of his family, effectively disowned him, because of him saying that…
The Fact that the Black Representatives walked out because, ” Critical Race Theory, ” wasn’t Going to Be Forced upon our Children in Educational Institutions was more than the Black Representatives Could Stand And So They , Being Racists , Walked Off In A Huff, Black Racism is Alive And Well demonstrated by these Black Racists.
That’s why i say, the republicans need to get a SPINE, and start telling these folk “IF YOU WALK OUT LIKE THIS< consider that your resigning from office!"
Harvard Law Schoo l ” Black First Tenured Professor, Derrick Bell and Other Scholars helped But Together ” Critical Race Theory that was taught in public Schools, No Wonder that these ” Black Representatives Would Walk out to think The Legislators would present such a Bill that States , No Race or Religion is any better than Another the Nerve of the Legislators, Those Racists .!
I have had enough of these hypocritical racist politicians running their big fat mouths. Take them out & racism fixes itself. I get along real good with many different types of races in my neighborhood, till the government trash steps in.
They can walk their bigoted racist black ***e$ right back to mississippi. They are useless as representatives for anything other then satan.
THEY ARE ALREADY IN Ms!
Booker T. Washington remarked, Theres A Certain Cllass . Of Colored People Who Have Made A Pretty Good Living. keeping The Wrongs And Injustices done ,To paraprase Booker T. Washington, And they don’t want these Injustices Corrected. , And so we have C. R . T. Forced on Innocent Children and Racist Representatives Who Didn’t Like Critical Race Theory Not Being Taught.
crt teaches black children they are not as good as white children. Racism is alive and well in the black community. Stupid cannot be fixed but it sure can be passed on.
Apparently, those State Senators whom walked out of session are self-entitled parasites on the public teat whom just confirmed that they are the actual racists in this equation.