Another state is taking up the fight against Critical Race Theory, this time being the state of Georgia. The main operative part of HB 888 reads as follows:
(b) No state agency, local board of education, or public elementary or secondary school administrator, teacher, or other personnel shall compel any individual to affirm, adopt, adhere to, profess, or promote concepts in violation of Title IV and Title VI of the federal
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972, Code Section 20-2-131, and Code Section 20-2-315, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) That individuals of any race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin are inherently superior or inferior;
(2) That individuals should be adversely or advantageously treated on the basis of their race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin;
(3) That individuals, by virtue of their race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin bear collective guilt and are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin;
(4) That governing systems or programs which were designed to identify, select, or promote participants on the basis of merit or work ethic are discriminatory or were created by members of a particular race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin to oppress members of another race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin;
(5) That any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin;
(6) That an individual’s moral character is necessarily determined by the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin; and
(7) That the United States is a systemically racist country.
The full bill, as of the writing of this article, can be read below:
