NBC is reporting that a school administrator in Southlake, Texas recently cautioned teachers to provide students with positive views of the holocaust and other atrocities.

According to the report, “Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, made the comment Friday afternoon during a training session on which books teachers can have in classroom libraries.”

Peddy didn’t realize she was being recorded.

“Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust,” Peddy told the assembled teachers, “that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.”

 Six teachers at Carroll High School decided to make their concerns public. “There are no children’s books that show the ‘opposing perspective’ of the Holocaust or the ‘opposing perspective’ of slavery,” one teacher said. “Are we supposed to get rid of all of the books on those subjects?”

NBC has been following developments I n Southlake ISD after a diversity plan developed by the school board was voted down in a recent election. If you haven’t checked out the Southlake podcast, it is an eye-opener.

Peddy’s guidance may strike you as bizarre. But it is a fair reading of Senate Bill 3 which demands that teachers present both sides of every historical and social issue.

SB3 is designed to discourage the teaching of America’s toxic and tragic racial history. The fear appears to be that white children will be traumatized by the truth.

But the Carroll teacher is asking the right question. If a teacher is forced to present “both sides” on topics like the holocaust or enslavement, there are certainly texts that fit the purpose. Unfortunately, this material was produced by Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists.

The final episode of the Southlake podcast deals with the fate of James Whitfield, principal of Colleyville Heritage High School. Whitfield was accused of promoting CRT. The charge is so preposterous the school board claims he is being disciplined for ‘insubordination’. His crime was defending himself when the board would not.

Colleyville Heritage is located just a few miles from Carroll High School in Southlake. The two stories reflect a similar reality. Buoyed by the hysteria created over Critical Race Theory, white parents are pressuring school officials to pretend it’s 1951.

The advent of Donald Trump didn’t create the racial resentment on display in predominantly white Texas School districts, but his unrestrained bigotry has allowed it to bubble to the surface. This situation will get worse before it gets better.

• Ezekiel was weird, but he wasn’t wrong
• For David Black, Freedom Isn’t Enough
• For David Black Freedom Isn’t Enough
• The war on Woke
• White Privilege? Who, Me?

When Jon Gruden’s racist, homophobic and misogynistic emails came to light he was forced to step down as coach of the Oakland Raiders.  I wonder, if you put Gruden’s fate to a referendum, would he stay or go?

It is virtually certain that white males would give Gruden a big thumbs up.  White women would be split.  People of color  regardless of gender, would want him gone.

I can make this bold assertion because I read a lot of polling data.  After a while, you can pretty much guess how public opinion breaks down.  It is depressingly predictable.

The big change in American society isn’t that public opinion has changed that much.  But, as the nation becomes more racially diverse, white attitudes are no longer protected from scrutiny and dissent.

The big exception is LGBTQ rights.  Here, there has been a major shift toward the affirmative.  Still, you can’t understand the fury in MAGALAND unless you understand how unacceptable this shift remains in the minds of MAGA folk.

Racial resentment and opposition to gay rights virtually define conservative politics. This fact makes moderate Republicans extremely uncomfortable. Many no longer want to be associated with the red team.

But where can they go? They are beginning to realize that Jon Gruden’s emails mirror majority opinion in the GOP.

Did Donald Trump create this reality? No, but he has both revealed and exacerbated the phenomenon. Trump is successful because he shamelessly parrots the dark side of American public opinion. He has degraded his follower; and they may well have degraded him.

• Ezekiel was weird, but he wasn’t wrong
• For David Black, Freedom Isn’t Enough
• For David Black Freedom Isn’t Enough
• The war on Woke
• White Privilege? Who, Me?

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