{"id":88409,"date":"2024-09-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88409"},"modified":"2024-09-30T06:44:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:44:12","slug":"tim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88409","title":{"rendered":"Tim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Walz takes us back to the glory days of &#8220;Separate but Equal&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1839283782207107462\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But <em>of course <\/em>there&#8217;s a reason for this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libraries have got to be woke, you see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Nicole Cooke, a professor of library and information science at the University of South Carolina, is booked as a keynote speaker for the event, according to an agenda obtained by the DCNF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooke has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sc.edu\/uofsc\/posts\/2021\/01\/social_justice_award_winners.php#.YAi2ky1h3df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argued<\/a>&nbsp;that it is \u201ctantamount to malpractice\u201d to allow students to enter the workforce without first being educated on diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice. In 2017, she received a grant to study \u201cracial microaggressions in libraries,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ischool.illinois.edu\/news-events\/news\/2017\/07\/cooke-receives-funding-ala-diversity-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The professor has a long history of giving presentations on the importance of racial justice and diversity when managing libraries, <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryphd.weebly.com\/presentations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a>\u00a0to her personal website. In 2020, she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/padlet.com\/nicolethelibrarian\/anti-racism-resources-for-all-ages-nbasekqoazt336co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created<\/a>\u00a0an \u201canti-racism resources for all ages\u201d project which includes a number of materials intended to introduce children to the topic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the goals is to make libraries &#8220;more inclusive&#8221;.  One would think inviting all those bigoted (checks notes) librarians would be pretty vital, if that&#8217;s the goal.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz takes us back to the glory days of &#8220;Separate but Equal&#8221;: But of course there&#8217;s a reason for this: Libraries have got to be woke, you see: One of the goals is to make libraries &#8220;more inclusive&#8221;. One would think inviting all those bigoted (checks notes) librarians would be pretty vital, if that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,426,18],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-88409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-pc","tag-walz-for-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88410,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88409\/revisions\/88410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}