Thread by @Darlene_McD

What is at issue here is that @VoteTrevorLee isn't just a random Twitter personality. He's a state representative who's district is in a county (Davis) that's home to a school district that's been found by the Department of Justice to have committed serious and widespread #utpol

https://twitter.com/VoteTrevorLee/status/1637896364255510531

racial harassment of Black and Asian-American students. The investigation revealed persistent failures to respond to reports of race-based harassment of Black and Asian-American students by district staff and other students between 2015-2019, and
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continues to be plagued by reports of racism. Trevor's district includes Layton, which places that district 16th on this list for percentage of population who are Black and is adjacent to Hill Air Force Base. The installation of the air force base drew Black people to northern

Davis County to be near the base, making it the third area (behind Salt Lake and Weber County) with a higher Black population. Layton elected its first African American, Bettina Smith-Edmondson to the Layton City Council in 2022. During public comments for audacy.com/podcasts/first…

#HB427, that @GovCox recently signed into law, I said - too passionately for the committee chair, that racism is taught. It isn't that these children are coming to school and being taught these things, they are bringing it to school with them. Trevor Lee demonstrates how this

happens. He's state representative for an area (Davis County) with the third highest black population in Utah. That population is small (2.2%), but its a significant portion for the state. The northern chapter of the NAACP is under the exceptional leadership of Ms. Betty Sawyer.

Rather than setting up a meeting with her and Councilwoman Smith-Edmondson to get clarity on things he clearly does not understand, he takes to social media to post things like this 👇🏾.

1. Black Lives Matter never meant, Only.
2. Black Lives Matter is a statement that became

a movement.
3. Black Lives Matter is a decentralized network of people and organizations with no formal hierarchy.
4. Everyone that says, wears a t-shirt, carries a sign, owns a banner that says, 'Black Lives Matter' do not attend or belong to a local Black Lives Matter chapter.

Since the past legislative session, I've been told to reach out to meet with Reps like Trevor Lee, John Johnson, Tim Jimenez, Mike Kennedy and Katy Hall. All of these State Representatives and Senators sponsored anti-DEI or race-related bills. At the same time, none of #utleg

them made an effort to reach out to constituents of color who would be most harmed by the legislation they sought to pass. Many heard one-sided stories, such as that of a little white girl reduced to tears for being made to feel that she was racist - without a clear understanding

of what exactly happened. While there was no interest in the little black boys and girls who goes home crying everyday after being called the n-word, subjected to KKK robes and blackface at Halloween, or bullied on a school bus. All of them misinterpreted - or least the ones who

cared to interpret at all, Dr. King's 'I Have a Dream,' speech. Trevor is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I encourage him to pick up a copy of 'My Lord, He Calls Me: Stories of Faith by Black American Latter-Day Saints'.
deseretbook.com/p/my-lord-he-c…

He should then meet with some of the book's authors and editors @burchforutah @SemaHadithiUtah @SISTASinZION . I say 'should,' but what a person should do and what a person wants to do are two different things. In order for a person to want to do something, they must first care.

whose not who's (ugh)🤦🏾‍♀️hate that.