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@MSgt Michael Bischoff ... Fock their feelings...
..."In the end, justice was served.

Chambliss received life in prison in 1977 following a case led by Alabama Attorney General Robert Baxley. And eventually the fear, prejudice, and reticence that kept witnesses from coming forward began to subside. We re-opened our case in the mid-1990s, and Blanton and Cherry were indicted in May 2000. Both were convicted at trial and sentenced to life in prison. The fourth man, Herman Frank Cash, had died in 1994."
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MSgt Michael Bischoff
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The last did not sentence until 2002 so sad it took that long
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MSgt Michael Bischoff - true... I was thinking that when I posted... ultimately Justice was served.
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I'm a conservative. I have feelings. Teaching about the Birmingham 16th Baptist church bombing doesn't hurt my feelings. It is an ugly part of American history and should be taught in any school curriculum (American history/civics) that deals with civil liberties. Right now, I'd have to say your assertion is unsupported nonsense BS.

_Who told you it hurts conservatives' feelings? It was an act of Klan violence. Conservative does not equal Klan.
_What makes you think that conservatives are on monolithic block that feel that racially motivated violence should be swept under the carpet?
_What makes you think even a significant minority of conservatives would have their feelings hurt by teaching children about the 16th street Baptist Church bombing? Afterall, feelings are personal and why should I or any conservatives feel "hurt" over something with which they were not personally involved.

Let's just take a look at one of the bombers. Bobby Frank Cherry was a former Marine. Why not assert that Marines would want the states not to be allowed to teach in our schools because it hurts their feelings! He was also a Truck driver, a Democrat, a wife-beater, a welder and a business owner at one time or another. Will it hurt the feelings of those groups also?

Right now, I'd have to say your assertion is unsupported nonsense BS. I'd also have to say that unless you can come up with serious answers, supported by credible evidence, that you are engaging in political misinformation. Is that through malice aforethought, with evil intent or are you just that misinformed and misguided?
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MSgt Michael Bischoff
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I bet you are in favor of the idiots blaming CRT on the their for their problems though. This is no misinformation just ask DeSantas, if it hurts your feeling it can’t be taught
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Maj John Bell
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MSgt Michael Bischoff - I am the son of a legal Mexican immigrant mother and a white father. I Grew up in Tucson in the late 60's and 70's. Granted there were not, to the best of my recollection, any racially motivated killings there at that time. But I took my share of insults and lumps, and had doors shut in my face, for not being one or the other, from businesses, from parents and from some kids.

Your statement "Idiots blaming CRT [for] on their for their problems" doesn't make sense. Proponents of Critical Race Theory are theorizing that some of the woes of minority communities are explained by CRT. They are correct.

But as far as I can tell whites are not blaming their problems on CRT. Some think CRT is nonsense. I'm not one of those. Some just think institutional CRT at the public-school level may be the wrong thing at the wrong time and the wrong place, taught by the wrong people. I think CRT at the public-school level is too complex a concept to be taught as part of some other requirement for public schools. They should be teaching the fundamentals which our kids are currently not mastering. [I mostly lay that blame on parents.] CRT taught superficially or unartfully has the potential to create racial antipathy in younger generations where it doesn't exist or is far less than it was for previous generations.

There is systemic racism in American, absolutely undeniable. You can legislate actions. You cannot legislate prejudices and biases. What we don't need is a sledgehammer solution to a delicate problem. All that does is harden resistance, perhaps even take us backwards.

When did Governor DeSantis say that the history of the civil rights movement in general, or the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing doesn't belong in a classroom teaching American History or civics? I think you're using your political "distaste" project horns on the boogeyman that are not really there. Then you sow political antipathy with unsupported nonsense.

And my other questions remain unanswered.
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