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Mississippi Senate Passes Anti-CRT Bill as Black Democrats Walk out on Vote

By Bill Pan

A bill that would ban tenants of critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in public schools and colleges has passed Mississippi’s Republican-dominated state Senate, with most of the Democratic minority refusing to vote on the measure.

Senate Bill 2113, proposed by Republican state Sen. Michael McLendon, was approved on Friday by 32-2 in a party line vote. All 14 black Democrats walked out of the chamber in protest against the proposal, leaving their two white colleagues to vote against it.

The one-page bill doesn’t mention the CRT by name. Instead, it specifically seeks to prohibit public institutions from teaching that “any sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” or that anyone should be “adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.”…

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  1. Ventriloquist Kriket Ventriloquist Kriket January 24, 2022

    should go back to school saying “tenants” in the CRT school article which is clearly “tenets” not the word misused

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