{"id":15860,"date":"2021-01-30T16:17:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=15860"},"modified":"2021-01-30T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:17:32","slug":"second-ever-statewide-afam-official-in-nc-declares-no-systemic-racism-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=15860","title":{"rendered":"Second Ever Statewide AfAm Official in NC Declares No Systemic Racism in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/pulse.ncpolicywatch.org\/2021\/01\/28\/lt-gov-mark-robinson-says-theres-no-systemic-racism-in-america-during-clash-with-democrats-over-new-social-studies-standards\/#sthash.e3lbrRWk.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">The Progressive Pulse<\/a>: &#8220;Republican&nbsp;appointees&nbsp;to the State Board of Education&nbsp;(SBE)&nbsp;fired a volley of criticism at&nbsp;the state\u2019s new social studies standards&nbsp;Wednesday,&nbsp;charging that the language in the revision is \u201cdivisive\u201d and \u201cpolitically charged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lt. Gov. Mark&nbsp;Robinson&nbsp;led the&nbsp;attack,&nbsp;doubling&nbsp;down on&nbsp;complaints he made earlier this month&nbsp;about the new standards, which the state board&nbsp;could approve&nbsp;next&nbsp;week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI do not like the tone of these standards, what\u2019s written in them,\u201d Robinson said during a special board meeting Wednesday. \u201cI think they\u2019re politically charged. I think they\u2019re divisive, and I&nbsp;think&nbsp;that they, quite frankly, smack of a lot of leftist dogma.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Guilford County Republican who was elected&nbsp;the&nbsp;state\u2019s first Black lieutenant governor&nbsp;in November, Robinson demanded that the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) rewrite the standards or continue&nbsp;to use the current ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Racism is a thing of the past,&nbsp;he&nbsp;argued, citing the election of Barack Obama&nbsp;to president in 2008, then again in 2012, and his own election in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe system of government that we have in this nation is not systemically racist,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cIn fact, it is not racist at all.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Pulse: &#8220;Republican&nbsp;appointees&nbsp;to the State Board of Education&nbsp;(SBE)&nbsp;fired a volley of criticism at&nbsp;the state\u2019s new social studies standards&nbsp;Wednesday,&nbsp;charging that the language in the revision is \u201cdivisive\u201d and \u201cpolitically charged.\u201d Lt. Gov. Mark&nbsp;Robinson&nbsp;led the&nbsp;attack,&nbsp;doubling&nbsp;down on&nbsp;complaints he made earlier this month&nbsp;about the new standards, which the state board&nbsp;could approve&nbsp;next&nbsp;week. \u201cI do not like the tone of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15879,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions\/15879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}