Another five star piece showing white conservatives continually find clever ways to target black Americans to spread their intense derision toward black Americans. The targeting used to be direct. The white. state legislatures would pass laws—not policies or codes but laws—constantly and overtly hurting black Americans. For example, in 1957, Kentucky passed a new part to their state constitution that made all public schools to be racially segregated. They also passed laws that made compulsory attendance suspended in school systems where federal integration ordered as a result of Brown; and one that made no state funds to nonsegregated schools, to deprive integrated schools of funding. If those held or not is not the point of passing them. When white conservative supermajority legislators met, they pass these laws to find new ways to get around the Brown decision, which they already refused to enforce. They constantly find ways to target black Americans.
But whites meeting in state legislatures to pass laws to send to the elected white conservative governor to enforce is the epitome of Anti-Democracy. The white male Kentucky legislators and governor explicitly and openly, on paper and in writing, showed anti-equality as their guiding principle, in direct opposition to the American principles in the Declaration Of Independence and the Constitution. They had practiced that hatred toward the founding principles for decades and decades and decades—every decade since the Civil War ended and they were forced to accept the Constitution as their guiding principle—which they never did before that point. White conservative men in many of those states never adopted state constitutions echoing the national American one. South Carolina’s constitutions, which I’ve recently been reading, have nothing in them about the founding principles like Massachusetts and their neighbors did, and had anti-equality built in. There is a hard reason why Critical Race Theory is not taught: because it’s not a theory, it’s the law. The whites in many states baked anti-equality explicitly into their laws and state constitutions, and even when they rewrote them, like South Carolina did in 1895, and didn’t have any language referring to race, color, ethnicity, they explicitly stated their intent when making it: to disenfranchise black American voters. Such openly stated intent is anti-American and against the core ideal of democracy itself. But laws made after that constitution, which disenfranchised all but a few thousand tenacious black Americans after the white men passed it, did explicitly state race as a way of divide. White conservatives made it a Crime when they passed a law in 1952 to give colored person custody of a white child in an adoption law. In 1935, they forced by a new school bus drivers to be of the same race as the children they transported. That is legally targeting by laws made by white legislatures and passed the white governor explicitly and openly targeting race, deepening inequality, and fundamentally anti-American. If students studied critical race facts, they would see white legislatures continually using making anti-American laws because they deepened inequality.

Thank you for bringing this to light and showing how they played Asians by pitting them against black Americans while also deepening the stereotype that “all Asians are smart” myth.