Thread by @KevinMKruse

The Arkansas state senate has a resolution for Black History Month and it's basically a D'Souza rant framed as a series of "WHEREAS" clauses.

arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocum…

I'm not going to fact-check every line, but this gives you a taste of its accuracy and intent.

So, uh, JFK was not president in 1960.

And JFK signed EO 11063 barring discrimination in federal housing projects in November 1962, six months *before* the Birmingham protests.

The next paragraph:

Um, no, LBJ did not vote against the CRA of 1964 as a senator. What?

He voted against civil rights laws a decade earlier, but voted for the CRA of 1957 & 1960 and *strengthened* the CRA of 1964 & pushed for it.

But Dirksen gets *all* credit for passing it!

I bet you're wondering -- do they push that stupid "Republicans voted in a higher percentage for the civil rights act?"

Yep!

About that:

https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1022886358459854848

Anyway, best of luck to the Arkansas state senate on its resolution to rename Black History Month as Actually, Republicans are the Party That Helped Black History Month, No, Please Don't Look at Anything After 1964, Please, Stop

Wait a second -- as folks noted in the replies here, this looks a lot like a similar measure introduced in the South Dakota House.

Compare and contrast:

mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/…

Who exactly is writing these (poorly) and spreading them around?