LA Voice: “All this is to say while that the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission got a lot of media coverage because of the legal battle and the eventual release of its records, Louisiana once had its own State Sovereignty Commission, formed four years after and modeled on Mississippi’s commission but which received far less notoriety.
The Louisiana commission and its companion Joint Legislative Committee on Segregation published an inflammatory BROCHURE titled “Don’t be Brainwashed! We Don’t Have To Integrate Our Schools!” The word “Brainwashed” ran diagonally down the front of the brochure….
And now Garofalo comes along to advocate censorship, for lack of a better description. He would control public school teachers, limiting what they can teach about the warts and blemishes that accompany all those good things about this nation. The attempted genocide waged against the only true natives of this land, one man’s owning another individual (yes, I know there were black slave-owners as well, so what’s your point? Slavery is slavery), the counting a black person as three-fifths a citizen for the purposes of the U.S. Census, the denial of the right to vote for women until well into the 20th century, and a grossly unequal system of justice for the haves and have-nots, be they black, brown or poor whites.
Not satisfied to limit his suffocating policies to elementary and high schools, he also is conducting a frontal assault against colleges and universities who have the temerity to address the problems of racism that have been brought to the surface by an orange-haired, spray-tanned TV reality show personality.
Garofalo said in February he was concerned that conservative positions are getting short shrift on college campuses, being relegated, as it were, to a metaphoric back seat to white guilt trips because of a planned panel discussion at LSU on “white rage” against blacks.
That was before his more recent tirade against teaching about the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the civil rights struggle, and the treatment of Native Americans in the name of Manifest Destiny.
Sometimes the willingness to look back can give us the ability to look forward. Perhaps someday, the history hysteria of Garofalo, et al, will look as foolish and ill-advised as the monumental idiocy of the Mississippi and Louisiana sovereignty commissions.”