A growing group of Ohio s Republican lawmakers say they re troubled by a new way some schools are teaching history and they want to put a stop to it.
It s called critical race theory, or CRT for short. It s an academic concept based on the idea that racism is more than individual bias: It s a systemic problem that s embedded into our legal system, our algorithms and our laws.
Supporters say CRT teaches how racism shaped public policy and life in America. Opponents, like the sponsors of House Bill 322, call it a dangerous and divisive theory. It is designed to look at everything from a ‘race first’ lens, which is the very definition of racism, Rep. Don Jones, R-Freeport, said in a statement announcing the bill. CRT claiming to fight racism is laughable. Students should not be asked to ‘examine their whiteness’ or ‘check their privilege. This anti-American doctrine has no place in Ohio’s schools.
Greenberg Traurig’s Tampa Office Adds Associate Andrea E. Nieto
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A. has again expanded its Tampa office Labor & Employment Practice with the addition of Associate Andrea E. Nieto. TAMPA, Fla. (PRWEB) May 25, 2021
Currently, Nieto is working on matters involving the Florida Civil Rights Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Florida’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act, and the Defend Trade Secrets Acts. She has a particular interest in Labor & Employment issues that affect the construction industry.
“We look forward to Andrea playing an important role serving clients in our successful Labor & Employment Practice,” said David B. Weinstein, managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Tampa office and chair of the firm’s national Environmental & Toxic Torts Litigation Practice. “Andrea will be an asset to our team as we continu
LEGO released their Everyone is Awesome set on 20 May to celebrate LGBT+ Pride. (Lego)
Fox News host Will Cain suggested a new LGBT-themed Lego set “could have been designed” by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
Cain railed against the Lego “Everyone Is Awesome” set, which features 11 purposefully “ambiguous”, non-gendered figurines in the colours of the trans and POC-inclusive Progress Pride flag, in a Fox News segment titled “The Left’s Push for Racial Division”.
Missing the point entirely, Cain said of the rainbow set: “This separation into colour-coding, living up to every stereotype from hairstyle to skin colour, looks like it could have been designed by [former KKK leader, antisemite and neo-Nazi] David Duke”.
Tuesday, May 25 marks the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
There are protests and memorial events planned in several Michigan cities to mark the occasion and continue calls to fight racism and police brutality.
A protest honoring George Floyd and others killed by police in Dearborn is planned for 6:30 Tuesday night in Dearborn, an hour before Dearborn’s city council meeting. The group organizing the event Accountability Dearborn is encouraging people to “show up and speak out” at the Dearborn Administrative Center starting at 5:30 p.m., not just in the name of George Floyd, but for all people who have been killed at the hands of police including locals Kevin Wilson and Janet Mathews.