The legal profession need to oppose these efforts. Law school students can do it as a project.
Mississippi evidently aims to join the wave of red state legislatures prohibiting the teaching of “critical race theory” in public schools of any kind, even though legislative sponsors cannot either define CRT, or identify any educational program actually teaching it. (See https://mississippitoday.org/2022/01/21/every-black-mississippi-senator-walked-out-as-white-colleagues-voted-to-ban-critical-race-theory/.) No matter: the political rightwing wants to crow about suppressing discussions of race, for at least two reasons, I think.
First, I can’t help but believe that belligerent authoritarians (sadly, a rising proportion of Republicans, displacing traditional consensus-oriented conservatives) want to raise a middle finger to the racial justice protesters of the George Floyd rebellion who filled the streets in cities and towns across the country in the summer of 2020. It’s a stern message to the discontented troublemakers: Take that you radical-socialist-unpatriotic-antifa-loving-rioters! How dare you challenge the fairness and legitimacy of the system we faithfully serve, the rewards and privileges of which we (and our generous funders)…
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