February is Black History Month and nobody’s more excited about it than Arkansas’ newest anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who decided to mark the occasion with a tweet celebrating “citizens of every race, religion, culture, and creed.”
“During Black History Month, we celebrate the Black Arkansans and Americans who have shaped our country, our culture, and our communities,” 40-year-old Sanders tweeted Wednesday morning, before adding: “Our nation is strengthened by citizens of every race, religion, culture, and creed.”
Anyone else feeling whiplash right now?
The message came less than three weeks after Sanders signed an executive order banning critical race theory in public schools across Arkansas. It was one of her very first actions as governor. (Her other action was banning government agencies from using the gender-neutral term “Latinx”, in a not-so-subtle F.U. to the queer Latin community.)
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The executive order instructed the state’s Department of Education to review any rules, policies, and regulations that could potentially “indoctrinate students with ideologies, such as CRT, that conflict with the principle of equal protection under the law or encourage students to discriminate against someone based on characteristics protected by federal or state law.”
Here’s how people reacted to Sanders’ Black History Month tweet…
Nice words for someone that doesn’t want Arklansas students learning about black folks & their contributions to societyhttps://t.co/ILbQcmVHyR
— KMG365 ☕ 🥀 🐝 (@starbucksgirl51) February 2, 2023
In honor of black history month, SHS bans books & classes that teach black history
— Mary Medlock 🐝 (@libertynjustus) February 2, 2023
Sit this out Sarah
— Grandpa Chronicles (@milehi_5280) February 2, 2023
Really? So it’s OK for school children to learn about the Little Rock 9 now? pic.twitter.com/zwBrprOtr5
— Darryn M. Briggs (@darryn_briggs) February 2, 2023
Have you banned books about Rosa Parks in schools yet?
— Yes, Karen (@FreeStateKaren) February 2, 2023
…WE JUST WON’T ALLOW THEIR HISTORY TO BE TAUGHT IN ARKANSAS…
— B. Grayson (@bagrayson) February 2, 2023
There I finished it for you!🤨
If you actually believed this, you’d be a much better human. Alas.
— Rebecca Welton’s Eyebrow Arch (@WeltonArch) February 2, 2023
I’m really confused, you want to celebrate black history but ban the teaching of it?
— cody smith (@Gingerbeardcody) February 2, 2023
You started with good intentions but you basicly ended with “all lives matter”.
— RamRog (@RamRog3) February 2, 2023
While you’re here, re-live that time Michelle Wolf roasted Sanders during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner back in 2018…
mastik8
Life is obviously much easier without a conscience. No shame, no guilt, no cognitive dissonance at your own hypocrisy.
Cam
Republicans are rac-ists, but love pretending they don’t hate minorities, no surprise here
Morticia7702
SHS knowing she needs the minority vote to stay in power, but also knowing if she gets her way, they won’t matter for much longer. When she takes away their right to vote they won’t be able to vote against her, so…”problem” solved!
Sound silly? It is NOT! This is what SHS and her GOP co-conspirators are actually doing, taking away the rights and freedoms of people that don’t follow their beliefs! POC, LGBTQ, Women, any one who is not white and Christian, listen to them and they will tell you who they really are!
Kangol2
Unfortunately for Arkansans, Huckabee Sanders does not need the “minority” vote to stay in power. She is in a state in which the majority White voters overwhelmingly support the Republican Party, so she is assured of staying in office, unless she screws up badly, for the two allowed terms, or eight years. She very likely could then run for US Senator from Arkansas, and be elected to that post as well.
Kangol2
She’s a soulless Nepo Baby hack who proved when she worked for Don the Con that she could almost match him in the lying department. Her tweet equals hollow words from a hollow creature!
LumpyPillows
Already on the NEPO baby bandwagon? Is there one woke trend you won’t embrace?
Kangol2
Is there one bit of right-wing claptrap you won’t vomit up on here, Lumpy? “Woke woke” blah blah. The word is so overused by cons it’s almost lost its meaning.
Huckabee Sanders is about as much of a Nepo Baby as exists. Her daddy was a right-wing Republican governor of Arkansas, and her mother was a politician as well! You might not like it but it’s the truth!
LumpyPillows
Yeah, your typical shallow nonsense. Repeat the latest line like a parrot. You’ve never changed anyone’s mind…even.
Den
Distaste for nepotism is hardly a “woke” trend. It is a reasonable response to someone with even less ability than their parent (but similar mendacity and lack of ethics in this case) riding their coattails into a position of authority. If you can’t see or understand that you have definite intellectual deficits of some sort. And Kangol didn’t mention “woke” once in his post. Yet here you are spouting the term like some right wing budgie. Get a grip.
LumpyPillows
Den, nepotism isn’t new. It has been newly embraced by the woke cancel folks most recently. Like most of what they do, they apply it usually to people they do not like and ignore using on those they do like. I do assume you read and follow what’s going on and understand trends on social media – while nepotism isn’t new “nepo baby” is. Funny how they abhor misgendering someone, unless it Caitlyn Jenner. Or they abhor calling Lizzo fat, but think its fine to call SHS fat. You know, hypocrisy.
As far as you being totally rude, and completely wrong about me, I’ll let it slide. You’re too easy a target.
inbama
Yes, she’s a POS like her father.
But why must our response be pretending that CRT is African American history? It’s a social theory used to justify affirmative action, reparations and other measures based on the idea that historic discrimination and current “systemic racism” prevents blacks from ever achieving equality through equal treatment.
Of course students should learn about Jim Crow, segregation, voter suppression, red-lining and other actions that prevented historically prevented black families from accumulating wealth. That is history.
CRT belongs in a high school civics or politics class along with other ideas like meritocracy, capitalism, socialism, etc. where students would learn about them, their originators, their proponents and their critics. Then, through discussion and debate, students should be free to draw their own conclusions without fear of judgment.
Cam
The same old right wing troll account STILL thinks that putting a phony tepid agreement statement up first will hide what it’s doing?
Yeah, she’s bad, BUT…….then 3 paragraphs all lying about CRT and agreeing with Huckabee’s actions, which is actually simply about teaching actual history that took place and not erasing things like Japanese internment camps, slavery, and other things that actually happened.
Nice try, but as always ,your trolling is sad and weak.
LumpyPillows
Imbama, thoughtful ideas. I’m not sure I agree with your initial thoughts on CRT as widespread, but I am sure some crazy progressives are going there.
@cam go suck a lemon.
Kangol2
There is no CRITICAL RACE THEORY being taught in Arkansas high schools. None. I don’t think you have a grasp of critical race theory, but discussing systemic and structural racism is not CRT. She banned something that didn’t and doesn’t exist. On top of which, banning speech violates the Constitution of the state of Arkansas AND the US Constitution.
Arkansas Constitution (1874), Article 2, Section 6:
“The free communication of thoughts and opinions, is one of the invaluable rights of man; and all persons may freely write and publish their sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of such right.”
There is nothing in there allowing the banning of teaching about race or racism or any other subjects, and the Constitution guarantees teachers and students the right to discuss whatever subjects they like. “All persons may freely write and publish their sentiments on all subjects…” What about this is unclear to Huckabee Sanders and the GQP?
People on the right love to crow about free speech but when it comes down to, they’re as willing to ban it and violate as anyone on the left.
LumpyPillows
Better comment this time kang. Not sure how it responds to the previous comments, but I don’t hate it.
Mack
What do you expect from Sarah Huckleberry Hound Sanders? She’s just another right wing bigot & racist.
LumpyPillows
She’s not our friend, but a more nuanced approach is needed than your simplistic bigot and racist charge.
Den
She is quite obviously right wing. And she is bigoted in the sense that she will legislate to constrain legal protections for LGBT people to the extent that she is able under the guise of “Christian values”. Whether or not she is knowingly racist (and I suspect the could be), her actions are certainly colored by systemic racism (a term you may well object to, but which is nonetheless a valid one).
LumpyPillows
Den, it is about changing people’s minds. Being a douche doesn’t do that.
Fahd
It’s clear that she’s ugly on the inside too; a mean-spirited Republican who’s not going to help the people of Arkansas.
LumpyPillows
Attacking her looks? I thought we we’re against attacking women for their looks? Do better.
Jack
Lumpy….please go troll elsewhere. That wonky eyed bish gets NO passes for anything. She was a mean, lying attack dog and deserves every criticism she gets. We want to hurt her feelings. You and Michelle Obama go over there and “go high”.
inbama
@Jack
Who appointed you to control the thoughts of other gay men? Disagreeing with you and telling the truth is not “trolling.”
You’d make a great “morality cop” in Iran beating women who removed their headscarves.
LumpyPillows
Jack, calling out nastiness isn’t trolling. What you just did was trolling. Not very bright.
scotty
bobby hill called…he wants his face back. the hair you can keep.