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To those who ever harbored any doubts about how blatant and virulent the racism and white supremacy were that dominated North Carolina’s culture, law and politics well into the 20th century, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Zucchino’s most recent book,
To get a sense of how grim the reality was that Zucchino describes in his painstaking account of the brutal insurrection that was perpetrated against the multi-racial government of what was, at the time, North Carolina’s largest city, try doing the following:
Take a moment to picture some of the worst and most fiendish villains you’ve ever seen in a film or another work of fiction – the bad guys who are so evil that they seem like caricatures of bad guys. Now imagine that a large collection of such individuals have been transported to late-19
In case you missed it yesterday, be sure to check out UNC law professor Gene Nichol’s spot-on assessment of the new effort by North Carolina Republican lawmakers to whitewash the truth about our state’s racist past.
House Bill 324 is like dozens of bills around the country being pushed by Republican legislatures trying to ensure unflattering parts of the nation’s history are not taught in public schools.
Critical Race Theory, an academic discipline that examines how racism has shaped the nation’s legal and social systems, is also a target of such bills.
In North Carolina, HB 324 would prohibit teachers from promoting concepts that suggest America is racists or that people are inherently racist or sexist. It would also prohibit teaching that whites or anyone else is responsible for the sins of their forefathers.
House Bill Could Restrict What Students Learn About Nationâs Racial History
This story first published online at NC Policy Watch.Â
North Carolina joined a growing list of states Tuesday pushing legislation that could restrict how Americaâs racial history is taught in schools.
House Bill 324, which the House Education Committee approved on a voice vote, prohibits schools from promoting concepts that suggest America is racist and that people are inherently racist or sexist, whether consciously or unconsciously.
HB 324 also prohibits teachers from promoting the concept that anyone is responsible for the sins of their forefathers.
The full House is expected to vote on the bill Wednesday.
Ueli Steck ascending Annapurna in the Himalayan mountains.
In 1990, Slovenian mountaineer Tomo Äesen claimed to have scaled the south face of Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world. It was declared the greatest feat ever seen in Himalayan mountaineering, but he warned that he had no photos to prove it. Soon afterward, however, he provided some snapshots â stolen from fellow climbers who had tried to conquer this slope years earlier.
In 2015, French researcher Rodolphe Popier managed to reveal a second lie by the Slovenian: photos taken with a telephoto lens by a friend of Äesenâs were not shot at base camp on the south face of Lhotse but elsewhere.