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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldalso it was in the 60s
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    I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

    – Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)













  • Bullshit headline, though the reality is not flattering either.

    Instead, the statement reframed the remarks as referring to political and ideological separation, not race. Noble wrote that Republicans have ‘self-segregated out of the leftist indoctrination centres for decades’ and suggested that if Democrats had their own schools and Republicans theirs, families could choose accordingly, citing the state’s education freedom account programme.

    Her statement criticised what she described as excessive focus on social justice in public education, including references to gender identity policies and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) curricula, arguing such emphases led to ‘terrible test scores.’ Republican lawmakers have otherwise been cautious in public articulation of support for Noble. Rep. Mike Belcher, another committee member, responded via email that he interpreted Noble’s reference as a ‘quip meant to be humorous’, but declined to endorse ideologically segregated schools as policy.