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Roy S. Johnson: Alabama civil rights speaker says she was snubbed by Florida school over CRT fears

Alabama civil rights speaker says she was snubbed by Florida school over CRT fears

By Roy S. Johnson | rjohnson@al.com

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While in Pensacola, FL to speak with local civic leaders and guests about her family's loss in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan, McNair, whose sister was murdered in the attack, was snubbed by a local school district and barred from offering a Q&A by another our of fear of critical race theory.


This is an opinion column.

Lisa McNair, a young sister of Denise McNair, one of Birmingham’s four little girls murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the heinous bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church nearly six decades ago now, was in Pensacola, Florida, late last month to share her story.

Then, she said, she found out she was not welcome in a public school system of Florida.

“They were afraid I might say something that had something to do with quote-unquote critical race theory, which was ridiculous,” McNair told Al.com. “I don’t even know really what critical race theory is, just to be perfectly honest. I’m telling my history about my sister, true history of a tragic civil rights murder that took place for real in 1963. So that was disappointing.”

She went at the invitation of CivicCon, an organization that, as stated on its website, seeks, to “contribute to the creation of an informed community that is engaged in civic conversations.” Civic and civil.

She was there to share her family’s story. To share—so critically important now—our “shared American history,” as she calls it.

“If we do not learn our history,” McNair often says, “if our students are not taught our history, they are destined to repeat that history.”

She said she was warmly welcomed by civic leaders and young people at a CivicCon session hosted and a local church. However, when she was offered to speak before students in the Escambia County Schools district (47 percent white, 35 percent Black), school officials passed, McNair was told, “because they were afraid of the governor.” (Escambia Superintendant Dr. Timothy A. Smith has not yet responded to an AL.com request for comment.)

That would be Ron DeSantis, Florida’s cultural zealot-in-chief whose signature hovers over a bill passed recently by the state’s deep-red Republican legislature forbidding some race-, gender-based teachings and diversity training in K-12 public schools. Critics call the bill unconstitutional, but DeSantis regularly demonstrates he couldn’t care less about the U.S. constitution while staking his claim as the hero of the far-right’s most unrighteous fears.

Another Florida district, Santa Rosa (82 percent white, 4 percent Black), welcomed McNair but nixed the usual post-talk Q&A. Because, McNair says, school officials were “afraid the kids might ask you something that would lead to critical race theory.”

“That’s not what I’m teaching,” she told me. “All these Southern states are making it seem like civil rights history and Black History fit in the moniker of critical race theory is ridiculous, wrong, and disrespectful to what is our shared American history. The only way we can do better is to know all of our history, the good and the bad.”

Lisa was not yet born on that dreadful day Denise, just 11 years old, died--long with Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, and Carole Robertson. (Johnny Robinson, 16; and 13-year-old Vigil Ware were fatally sot in the hellish aftermath.) Yet through DEnise’s baby sis, born almost exactly a year later, the victims and ugly reverberations of the day that snatched their life still breathe. Still touch. Still educate.

Unless Republicans, in the South particularly, succeed in striking fear in the hearts of educators only seeking to teach truth.

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The chilling, frightening effects of the Republicans’ nonsensical barrage on history—our nation’s entire history—are already manifesting. More than 40 states have introduced bills trying to choke the truth from entering classrooms. Truth about our nation’s conflicting history. Truth about ourselves.

All under the guise of a construct, as I’ve written myriad times, most lawmakers couldn’t define. Critical race theory is the crutch upon which Republicans are hobbling through a maze of lingering racism.

Because no one understands it, educators are already caving to its not-so-veiled threats to transform classrooms into dens of delusion and teachers into criminals.

Caving by barring living history from speaking as boldly as George Wallace blocked the statehouse door. By barring McNair from sharing her memories, her pain, and her hopes with young people.

“What I’m telling is my history about my sister, the true history of tragic a civil rights murder that took place for real in 1963,” she said. “So [to be prevented from speaking] was disappointing.”

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While in Pensacola, FL to speak with local civic leaders and guests about her family's loss in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan, McNair, whose sister was murdered in the attack, was snubbed by a local school district and barred from offering a Q&A by another our of fear of critical race theory.


While sitting at the airport awaiting a flight home to Birmingham, McNair sent emails to Alabama lawmakers—more accurately, Alabama Republican lawmakers because the party is dangerously close to passing a similar bill here. She’s incensed over HB312, Dadeville Republican Rep. Ed Oliver’s so-dubbed “divisive concepts” bill, which forbids teachers and trainers from “compelling” students and public workers to agree with “certain” topics on race, gender, and religion. Oliver touts trying to create a “color-blind society’' (whatever that is) and prevent children from being forced to be Marxists or socialists—without providing a thread of evidence that any teacher or diversity trainer is doing any such thing.

Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, sees HB312 as a “poster child bill for prior restraint on free speech.”

It nonetheless rolled through the heavily Republican House, and is scheduled for a public hearing Tuesday in Senate committee.

One of the emails McNair sent was to Republican Sen. Jabo Waggoner of Vestavia Hills. She recalled from her youth Waggoner serving in the House with her father, Chris McNair, who was elected in 1973 and served through 1981. Waggoner was in the House from 1966 through 1983.

“He was a really nice man,” McNair said. “I need to call him and say [HB312] is not who you are as a person.”

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She also recalled words once shared with her by Rev. Samuel “Billy” Kyles, the close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King who was with him on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when King was assassinated in April 1968.

“He would say was racism and segregation were painful for Black people and shameful for white people,” McNair shared. “So, what we do is just sweep it under the rug and don’t deal with it. But the only way for true healing to take place is to take it out from under the rug and deal with it.

“The fact that a whole group of people now wants to just shut out that part of history is ludicrous—and unfair. It is very, very, very unfair.”

Shamefully so.

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White fragility..

Evryone is supposed to supress their history and culture to accommodate the infantile emotions and tantrums of a large cac society that thinks its shyt dont stink..

Infact, I say go hard on the lessons..Go hard on the graphic nature of these beasts and expose their deeds over 5 centuries..

Black educators are also lacking creativity..there has to be ways of publishing this information for all to see, not just buried in textbooks.
 
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