The officials in Itawamba County, Mississippi, decided to cancel the main county high school's prom because of a lesbian couple want to attend together as a couple. Now, unlike what went down at Thraptown High School in Franklin County last year in Northwest Alabama, these students both attend this high school, so the circumstances have a more internalized effect. Whereas, the Franklin County situation was their "justification" of outside-of-district, but it was soon resolved when the lack of logic and rationale of the argument was exposed for the world to see. However, in the case of Itawamba County in Northern Mississippi, the officials are standing by their guns so one of the teens has filed a lawsuit against the school district in federal court. In all likelihood, she will win because the school isn't violating any real policies since they are both students of the school at an event just hosted by not an official event of the school.
In Texas, a state that I've always considered a lost cause socially and politically, the state board of education has approved a referendum that would enforce an ultra-conservative curriculum in state public schools. An ultra-conservative faction within the Texas Board of Education was successful in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade. They want to remove mentions of the Enlightenment period and Thomas Jefferson from the state curriculum and replace these with the discussion of John Calvin and the Judeo-Christian ideology of the nation. Also mention the nation is not a democracy, but constitutional republic. Now, that is true about the last part, but the rest is bologna. However, I stand my statement that Texas is a lost cause politically because it is one of those places where you see more ignorance-based emotional foolishness pedaled than logic. Let's be real, the only real election there is the Republican elections because outside of Dallas, Houston, and Austin, there is little to any progressiveness in the state, and even then I wouldn't waste my time trying to move there. Honestly, Austin doesn't count because it is too damn whitewashed for politically because the non-white population is too small to make any real affect, so that "Keep Austin Weird" crap is for the birds. It's a crazy state where you have to give the side-eye to altogether.
Also in Oklahoma, another lost cause, the state senate has approved a bill that would become an amendment of the state constitutional allowing the law enforcement to chose not to assist federal officials in the investigation of hate crimes. Here's some of the bill's language: Under the new provisions of Senate Bill 1965, reports that were collected during investigations of possible hate crime that did not end in a conviction would be destroyed or kept by the Oklahoma Bureau of Invesigations. The bill originally was to investigate the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, but state senator Steve Russell, a socially conservative Republican from Oklahoma City and former army commander at Fort Hood in Texas, was the one who perverted the bill into its current form. I'm going to take some words from Dr. Martin Luther King, "an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere". Especially in a racially-aversive state like Oklahoma, where if you are non-white, LGBT/SGL, or anything out of the WASPy-ordinary then you are subject to be a victim of this ignorant law.
Oh yeah, the jackal and that xenophobic third-generation Greek immigrant mayor of Hoover, Tony Petelos, wanted to question the financing of the monstrosity that is being forced-fed on people in the Greater Birmingham area. Here's a clue you two morons, why don't you flat out and oppose the thing instead allowing this bullshit to be constructed? Also the Battle Royale of 2 white women with power trips is amusing to me, Jefferson County Commission President Bettye Fine Collins and Jefferson County Treasury Jennifer Parsons Champion over the distribution of federal funds that were allocated from the federal stimulus package last year. CUTE, BUT YOU BITCHES ARE BOTH STUPID...
That's what been going on that I want to talk about in the past week, and I'll be back to regularly posting probably this week...
I can't disagree with you that Oklahoma appears to be a lost cause. Our only hope is that there are still some progressive minded folks here who are committed to social justice.
ReplyDeleteThe Cimarron Alliance Foundation, along with other groups promoting justice and equality, is standing firm against this nonsense legislation. What must be made clear is that this is not merely an issue impacting the LGBT community. By its very passage it indicates that policymakers have little consideration for things as frivolous as civil rights.
While such legislation will ultimately prove to be unconstitutional, the damage is already done to every under-represented and under-served segment of Oklahoma society. If we are ever to progress beyond the "hopeless cause" mantle, every person in Oklahoma--and all right-thinking people everywhere--must demand that no hate-filled legislator or hate-fueled legislation be allowed to impede our life, liberty, OR pursuit of happiness.