Looking at what @GovernorVA deems appropriate in response to the CRT Craze:
- Removing MLK from the elementary curriculum
- Removing reference to Doug Wilder the first Black Governor, WHO IS STILL ALIVE
- Removing reference to John Mercer Langston, first Black VA Congressman 🧵 - Removing all technical edits from the 2020 African American History commission
- Refer to the Indigenous people of Virginia as America's First Immigrants (incredibly insulting and untrue)
- Complex concepts like The Code of Hammurabi are required content for 1st grade

This tells us what we already knew. Most Republicans don’t want just want any regressive, homophobic, right wing zealot. They want the RIGHT regressive, homophobic, right wing zealot.

Liz Cheney and the Lincoln Project are not your friends.

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1592333575030214656

I’d like to thank all those who helped me get here today.

Over the past few years, it was increasingly difficult to celebrate the 4th of July. Patriotism, the Flag, and what it means to “be an American” were very much co-opted by white nationalists, groups of people who used greed, hate, racism, and bigotry to define what that means. The majority of people would disagree with them but it still doesn’t make it any easier to determine someone’s intentions these days when they wave the Flag.

I still find myself having trouble finding what this day truly means or if it is really worth celebrating.