Every article mentions us in the same breath as LGBT, smh.
This is gonna be another fun ride.
I just wanna play around with AI man, damn.
Jim Crow is rapidly returning in the South - Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, North/South Carolina, Texas, Alabama
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Every article mentions us in the same breath as LGBT, smh.
This is gonna be another fun ride.
I just wanna play around with AI man, damn.
Rejection of Black educator angers some Mississippi senators
Mississippi's Republican-led Senate has voted against confirming longtime educator Robert P. Taylor as state superintendent of education, angering some lawmakers. Some Black Democrats say they believe the rejection Wednesday was at least partly because Taylor is Black and because he wrote years...
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Black people need to go it alone for once. White people are shifty and won't make good allies, same as Hispanics..
We can't keep relying on outside help.
If you look at the Black youth today, how many actually care that outright fascism has returned??
Rejection of Black educator angers some Mississippi senators
Mississippi's Republican-led Senate has voted against confirming longtime educator Robert P. Taylor as state superintendent of education, angering some lawmakers. Some Black Democrats say they believe the rejection Wednesday was at least partly because Taylor is Black and because he wrote years...
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Rejection of Black educator angers some Mississippi senators
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate voted Wednesday against confirming veteran educator Robert P. Taylor as state superintendent of education, angering some Black Democrats who said the rejection was at least partly because Taylor is Black and wrote years ago about the state’s racist history.
The state Board of Education — which has members chosen by the Republican governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker — conducted a nationwide search for a superintendent last year. Board members announced in Novemberthat their unanimous choice was Taylor, who had worked the past 30 years in North Carolina.
“This whole confirmation was a political process, and I knew that coming in,” Taylor told The Associated Press on Wednesday evening after the Senate vote. He said senators in the past have confirmed all previous nominees for state superintendent, and he is disappointed this group of senators did not confirm him.
“The fact that they didn’t, that is what I have to live with,” Taylor said. “I will always respect the process.”
It’s not unusual for nominees to serve while waiting for senators to consider confirmation, and Taylor had been working as superintendent in Mississippi since January. With the Senate’s rejection, the board will search for another superintendent.
About 38% of Mississippi residents are Black. Taylor would have been Mississippi’s second Black state superintendent of education, after Henry Johnson served from 2002 to 2005.
Taylor grew up in Laurel, Mississippi, and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1990 at the University of Southern Mississippi. As an undergraduate, he wrote for a newsletter called “The Unheard Word,” which he said gave Black students a voice that the campus newspaper often ignored.
A 2020 article on the university’s Center for Black Studies website focused on the short-lived newsletter.
“‘The Unheard Word,’ in my opinion, recognized that The University of Southern Mississippi was in the most racist state in the Union, and that while historical focus has always been on the University of Mississippi, Southern Miss had a past that was tainted as well,” Taylor told the Center for Black Studies.
Taylor told AP in a phone interview that it’s important for people to read his words in context. He said the newsletter wrote, for example, about the history of Clyde Kennard, who sought to become the first Black student the university in the 1950s and was rejected because of his race. The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state spy agency at the time, led efforts to block Kennard’s enrollment.
The Senate vote on Taylor’s nomination Wednesday was mostly along party lines, 31 Republicans voting against. Of the 21 who voted for confirmation, five were Republicans and the others were Democrats.
“Because we reject him because of his race, we’re rejecting God because God made him that way,” said Democratic Sen. David Jordan, who is Black.
Republican Sen. Chris Johnson of Hattiesburg, who is white, voted in favor of confirming Taylor. He said Taylor answered senators’ questions in a straightforward manner during a confirmation hearing, including about what he had written about Mississippi’s racist history.
“He answered that by saying, ’At that time, that’s how I felt,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday after the nomination failed.
The previous Mississippi superintendent of education, Carey Wright, retired on June 30 after 8 1/2 years in the job. An interim superintendent started July 1 and served until Taylor arrived.
Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis DeBar, a white Republican from Leaksville, said race had nothing to do with his vote against the nomination of Taylor. DeBar said he thinks Taylor is a good man and should be respected.
“I think what really hurt Dr. Taylor the most ... is we have several low-performing schools in our state,” DeBar said. “We would like to see someone with a better resume on improving low-performing schools.”
Democratic Sen. Derrick Simmons of Greenville, who is Black, said Taylor should have been confirmed.
“Dr. Taylor did everything that we tell people in the state of Mississippi to do — get a good education, try to use that good education, go out and get your experience and then come back to the state of Mississippi and give Mississippi all of your educational talents and all of your educational experience and give back to the community that gave to you,” Simmons said.
Hours after the Senate rejected Taylor’s nomination, Democratic Sen. Barbara Blackmon of Canton, who is Black, tried to amend other legislation to say Mississippi would only consider nominees who have never left the state — a way of expressing her anger about the rejection. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said the amendment was not relevant, and senators did not vote on it.
The South Gone Hold it down. 
Not exactly Jim Crow.
But gives insight into the mindset and psyche of the cacs making decisions.
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Rebecca Cohen
Tue, April 18, 2023 at 1:20 PM EDT·4 min read
The Iowa bill would allow teens to work longer hours, take jobs on assembly lines, and serve alcohol.Luis Alvarez/Getty Images
The bill passed 32-17 before 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday with two Republicans — Sens. Charlie McClintock and Jeff Taylor — joining the entire Democratic party in opposition of the bill.
The bill would allow sixteen and seventeen-year-olds to work until 9:00 p.m. during the school year and until 11:00 p.m. over the summer. It also allows same-aged kids to serve alcohol in restaurants if their parents sign off on it.
The bill prohibits fourteen and fifteen-year-olds from any mining or manufacturing work but adds that anyone under the age of eighteen can do "light" assembly line or packaging work — as long as machines aren't involved.
The voting session had dragged into the early morning because supporter GOP Sen. Adrian dikkey refused to answer a question from Democrats about amendments to the bill, the Des Moines Register reported.
The bill now goes to the House of Representatives for a vote.
A slew of Democrats and labor leaders in the state have spoken out against the bill, noting that it could create unsafe work environments for kids.
According to the Register, Democrats had tried to include additional amendments to the bill to offer additional workers' compensation benefits to any teens that got injured on the job.
Charlie Wishman, the President of the Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, told Insider in a statement he thought the passing of the bill is a "disgrace," adding that it will "do nothing to attract new Iowans, and puts children at risk of death in dangerous occupations."
"Every parent wants their kids to grow up with every opportunity to succeed, not risk an early death by working in dangerous jobs," Wishman said. "The legislation passed by the Senate tonight is every parent's worst nightmare."
He added that "the majority party's inability and unwillingness to answer any questions about this legislation disenfranchises Iowans from the political process and takes away their elected representatives' ability to get them answers."
"If the Iowa Senate wishes to operate in this fashion, democracy dies in our state," Wishman told Insider.
Iowa Senate Democratic Leader Zach Wahls in a statement to Insider called the bill "dangerous" that "will allow Iowa kids to serve alcohol, work in roofing and demolition, and inside industrial freezers – and they passed it in the dead of the night when they thought they could dodge democratic accountability."
He continued: "If this legislation becomes law, Iowa kids will be exposed to dangerous working conditions that violate federal law and threaten their health and wellbeing. This bill is immoral, illogical, and it will lead to more kids getting injured and killed in workplace accidents. While Iowa is facing a workforce crisis, Senate Republicans shouldn't try to solve it on the backs of children."
Gov. Kim Reynolds has previously spoken in favor of the bill, telling reporters this month she doesn't think "we should discourage" kids wanting to work and to earn money, the Des Moines Register reported.
At an April 4 press event, Reynolds, speaking about the bill, pointed to her own experience working as a teen babysitting and waiting tables, according to the Register.
"That's good experience," Reynolds said. "You know, it teaches the kids a lot and if they have the time to do it and they want to earn some additional money I don't think we should discourage that."
Reynolds did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Other supporters of the bill, including dikkey, have argued that the bill will teach Iowa's children important skills in workforce training programs, the Register reported.
"While the responsibility of having a job might be more valuable than having a paycheck, the reward of the paycheck will allow these youth who want to have a job to possibly save for a car, maybe buy a prom dress, go to a summer camp, take a date out for the weekend," dikkey said, according to the Register.
In addition to rolling back child labor laws, Republicans in the state have voted to restrict SNAP food benefits.
This month, legislators passed a bill that adds hurdles for those wanting food assistance, including banning anyone with more than $15,000 in liquid assets or savings from getting benefits and requiring state agencies to run identification checks on beneficiaries.
An earlier version of the bill banned people on the food assistance program from buying staples like white bread or American cheese, but that was stripped from the final bill.
But gives insight into the mindset and psyche of the cacs making decisions.
Iowa Republicans voted just before 5 a.m. to roll back child labor laws, letting teens work on packaging lines and serve alcohol
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Rebecca Cohen
Tue, April 18, 2023 at 1:20 PM EDT·4 min read
The Iowa bill would allow teens to work longer hours, take jobs on assembly lines, and serve alcohol.Luis Alvarez/Getty Images
- The Iowa Senate voted just before 5 a.m. to pass a bill that would roll back child labor laws.
- The bill, if passed by the House, would allow teens to work longer hours and serve alcohol.
- A state labor leader told Insider he thought the bill's early-morning passage was a "disgrace."
The bill passed 32-17 before 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday with two Republicans — Sens. Charlie McClintock and Jeff Taylor — joining the entire Democratic party in opposition of the bill.
The bill would allow sixteen and seventeen-year-olds to work until 9:00 p.m. during the school year and until 11:00 p.m. over the summer. It also allows same-aged kids to serve alcohol in restaurants if their parents sign off on it.
The bill prohibits fourteen and fifteen-year-olds from any mining or manufacturing work but adds that anyone under the age of eighteen can do "light" assembly line or packaging work — as long as machines aren't involved.
The voting session had dragged into the early morning because supporter GOP Sen. Adrian dikkey refused to answer a question from Democrats about amendments to the bill, the Des Moines Register reported.
The bill now goes to the House of Representatives for a vote.
A slew of Democrats and labor leaders in the state have spoken out against the bill, noting that it could create unsafe work environments for kids.
According to the Register, Democrats had tried to include additional amendments to the bill to offer additional workers' compensation benefits to any teens that got injured on the job.
Charlie Wishman, the President of the Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, told Insider in a statement he thought the passing of the bill is a "disgrace," adding that it will "do nothing to attract new Iowans, and puts children at risk of death in dangerous occupations."
"Every parent wants their kids to grow up with every opportunity to succeed, not risk an early death by working in dangerous jobs," Wishman said. "The legislation passed by the Senate tonight is every parent's worst nightmare."
He added that "the majority party's inability and unwillingness to answer any questions about this legislation disenfranchises Iowans from the political process and takes away their elected representatives' ability to get them answers."
"If the Iowa Senate wishes to operate in this fashion, democracy dies in our state," Wishman told Insider.
Iowa Senate Democratic Leader Zach Wahls in a statement to Insider called the bill "dangerous" that "will allow Iowa kids to serve alcohol, work in roofing and demolition, and inside industrial freezers – and they passed it in the dead of the night when they thought they could dodge democratic accountability."
He continued: "If this legislation becomes law, Iowa kids will be exposed to dangerous working conditions that violate federal law and threaten their health and wellbeing. This bill is immoral, illogical, and it will lead to more kids getting injured and killed in workplace accidents. While Iowa is facing a workforce crisis, Senate Republicans shouldn't try to solve it on the backs of children."
Gov. Kim Reynolds has previously spoken in favor of the bill, telling reporters this month she doesn't think "we should discourage" kids wanting to work and to earn money, the Des Moines Register reported.
At an April 4 press event, Reynolds, speaking about the bill, pointed to her own experience working as a teen babysitting and waiting tables, according to the Register.
"That's good experience," Reynolds said. "You know, it teaches the kids a lot and if they have the time to do it and they want to earn some additional money I don't think we should discourage that."
Reynolds did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Other supporters of the bill, including dikkey, have argued that the bill will teach Iowa's children important skills in workforce training programs, the Register reported.
"While the responsibility of having a job might be more valuable than having a paycheck, the reward of the paycheck will allow these youth who want to have a job to possibly save for a car, maybe buy a prom dress, go to a summer camp, take a date out for the weekend," dikkey said, according to the Register.
In addition to rolling back child labor laws, Republicans in the state have voted to restrict SNAP food benefits.
This month, legislators passed a bill that adds hurdles for those wanting food assistance, including banning anyone with more than $15,000 in liquid assets or savings from getting benefits and requiring state agencies to run identification checks on beneficiaries.
An earlier version of the bill banned people on the food assistance program from buying staples like white bread or American cheese, but that was stripped from the final bill.
Cat piss martini
Veteran
Live in the south and not vote
dumb nikka brehs.
dumb nikka brehs.
Haliax
Pro
Im not ados but i found that to be crazy, disintegration would immediately bring apartheid in the states.Well, this what the "desegregation was bad" crowd wanted. Now they can experience the great joys of Jim Crow and what our predecessors endured.
*doesn't live in the South*
It was a terrible idea to believe you could share space with a demon..
Voice of Reason
Veteran
You are correct.
‘A dangerous trend’: Florida Republicans poised to pass more voter restrictions | US news | The Guardian
Measures seek to limit third-party voter registration groups and will affect non-white voters in latest wave of restrictions
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