This past weekend is a PRIME example of why the GOP does NOT want CRT taught outside of higher education. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided to reach back into history and repeat it. He LIED to migrants, promising jobs just to pull off an expensive political stunt steeped in racism. He decided to use the tax dollars of Florida for the human trafficking of individuals seeking asylum and assistance.
This is NOT the first time that tactics such as this have been utilized by racists within the confines of the US. The irony here is that DeSantis is the descendent of an immigrant that was deemed "undesirable" when she entered the country to join her husband in 1917. The Immigration Act of 1917, decided that Luigia "Louise" Colucci Storti (1876-1956) should be barred from entering because she was illiterate. She was able to enter on February 2, 1917, simply because the ACT did not go into effect until May of 1917.
Fast forward to September of 2022 and the great-grandson of Mrs. Storti decided to revive the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 1962. The Reverse Freedom Rides were (to explain simply) a test for "liberal Northerners". George Singlemann (organizer) along with Southern segregationists wanted to prove that Northern white people were not serious about racial equality and equity.
During the 1962 attempts, Black people were promised any combination of the following:
- free housing
- better-paying employment
- a meeting with then Pres. John F. Kennedy
- an opportunity to increase the education levels of their children
SOUND FAMILIAR? They NEVER have new excuses, tactics, methods, or reasonings. Racism is the single item that they seem to be able to [successfully] recycle.
Regardless of the year (1962 or 2022) there was NO better life awaiting those deemed "undesirable" to the [self-proclaimed] social default of the "best country in the world". The same people that will brag (incessantly) to you about how their IMMIGRANT parents/grandparents/great-grandparents made a way out of nothing; will ensure that you never have anything. The same people that will shout to the heavens that "we ALL have the same opportunities" will support shipping BIPOC away from the opportunities that they covet.
Isn't it ironic?
It is 2022 and we are living through a repetition of Jim Crow and Nazi tactics and rhetoric. The descendants of those that fought against such things are PROUDLY supporting fascism and racism. Wonder why? They have NEVER been taught what either truly is. They have NEVER been taught a full, unwhite-washed history. Those that hold (as well as those that desire) power REFUSE to allow it to be taught because they would be exposed to their recycled methods. They would also be exposed to their familial connection to those that penned the handbook from which they draw inspiration and guidance.
They fear CRT and fight vigorously to keep it hidden from their younger generations while vilifying it to their peers because the truth will set the country free. If it is revealed that those that have been upheld as heroes, founders, trendsetters, and more were not who they have been rewritten to be; the core of U.S. patriotism will crumble. Without this bastardized patriotism, there will no longer be a foundation for the indoctrination and control of the GOP base. Equity will begin to move into the land forcing the standard of white mediocracy being enough out of existence.
They KNOW that they can not compete on an equitable playing field and the wealth acquired through the blood, breeding, and bodies of BIPOC will no longer be a badge of honor. They REQUIRE the field of ignorance so that racism continues to grow. It is that harvest that allows them to remain at the peak of the hierarchy they have inherited from their precious "founding fathers".
Moreover, remind them every chance that you can that you KNOW who they are and their history. As did our ancestors, let them know that we WILL NOT be condemned to their groundhog day of insidious history. Use your rights...use your voice..use your VOTE to remove the new Jim Crow leaders from their perches. It is time to FINALLY end the era of Civil Rights and FINALLY achieve what our ancestors walked for so that we could run through the finish line.
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