But orca’s are cool as shit. Maybe we could think of another animal or change it to obese blobfish or something, but Ted Cruz already has that one wrapped up if I remember correctly...

Florida is really gunning hard for the most white nationalist state, 2022. I guess DeSantis thinks it will help him in 2024. 

If this obese orca doesn’t stop f**king around with Black folks…

Specifics, regarding what racial slur flashed on the electronic sign have not been released.

You forget that the baseline here is Florida; if he was a white guy with a gun, Stand Yer Ground would have prevented the police from so much as arresting him.

And without even trying to provide another explanation. Usually there is at least a “I misspoke, what I really meant to say was X”. This time, he is literally just saying what he said isn’t what he meant with no other alternative meaning attached. It’s hard to believe that isn’t what you meant when you can’t even come…

“I would suggest that part of the problem is, there’s a number of things,” he said, “poverty impacts that for sure, having a respect for learning … there’s a lot of things that come into play.”

I came to say exactly this. How can you not mean it when it’s literally what you just said?

Nailed it.

Damn you really encapsulated Merican shit right there

What kid wants to be part of an education system run by people who hate those children? Shit on Black students for years and then turn around and go “It seems like Black kids just don’t value this system.”

I am a product of the Indiana public school system. My classmates became Ivy League & West Point grads, an Army Major General and White House Fellow as well as countless doctors, lawyers, professional athletes, artists, entertainers and business owners. Their successes can be directly attributed to their parents,…

That lawmaker probably simply went back to his daily brainwashing via Faux News after this debacle.

This feels like projection...  since when do Republicans respect learning?

I’d enjoy it very much if I could show him my Bachelors in English(American Lit. concentration) and my Masters in Seondary Education.....I don’t live in his state, but I am betting I’m not the only black person who did well in school in my state, so there had to be kids that had good grades that just didn’t pass the…

He says that in no way he meant to imply Black children lack a ”respect for learning.”

The logic of another insulated person in power, free to dictate and decide the future of the children of a race he likely never grew to understand or relate with.

Letting kids know what incest and rape are is better than letting them experience them firsthand and not know what’s going on, just thinking that somehow they’re being punished.  For... an imaginary something they can’t comprehend.  But nothing else makes sense.

Remember, when your school district or local library start talking about banning books — you need to show up and request things like the bible be banned as well. Very few schools or public libraries actually ban it, and it hits almost* all of the hot points used to ban books now.

Because banning books that deal with incest and rape is exactly the same thing as protecting kids from incest and rape.

Someone on that schoolboard has no idea how anything works.