Mike Luckovich for January 26, 2023

This excellent cartoon is a play on the famous image of little Ruby Bridges being escorted by federal officers in 1960 to integrate the kindergarten at her local school in New Orleans. Ruby Bridges was all of five years old, but courageously walked with her head held high while “grown-ups” were screaming obscenities and throwing rocks. Ruby Bridges is still alive and has been a life-long champion for equal rights.

The people who screamed obscenities and threw rocks at little Ruby Bridges in New Orleans and the Arkansas Nine trying to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School don’t want their grandchildren to be taught that they screamed obscenities and threw rocks at little Ruby Bridges and the Arkansas Nine.

Hint: if studying history never makes you feel uncomfortable, what you are “studying” is not history.

Further to the south and east, and some 60+ years later, the ugly hatred surfaces again in Florida.

Florida state law (39.0016) requires that all children must have access to a free public education.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=1000-1099/1003/1003.html

This is further spelled out in educational code of rules #6A-6.03028

https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=6A-6.03028&Section=0

But there remain those like Ron DeSatan who want to violate their state laws mandating a free public education, to require educational malpractice in deliberately concealing, distorting and intentionally misrepresenting accurate historic facts that make them feel uncomfortable, as the teaching of accurate history should.

Hiding facts does not make them disappear. America’s future in that idiot’s hands will not end well if he becomes president.

They dont understand the word “elective”

Are they really that illiterate?

Most progressives will not grasp the concept that African-American history is taught in Florida. History, not the made up 1619 project distortion of CRT that is written to create divisiveness, hatred and discrimination.

USA. A country without history.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana (1863–1953), American philosopher

There are some parts of American history that should never be repeated. We need to remember them!

Just what we needed, in this day of hate and bigotry, another torch caring flag waving racist insane governor Deinsanetis! Hell bent on turning back the clock too the horse and buggy days of old, and establish his own little country of florida and he as the dictator.

That’s because she’s not an insecure, butt-hurt, whiny, misogynistic white man who believes in a failed white-washed version of American history. She should be governor, not DeSatan.

The coming generations will judge ours harshly

DeathSatan is a moral coward. Actually, he has no morals nor scruples.

I prefer ‘DiStupid’. As a transplanted Floridian, I’m right at home here in Texas with Gov Abbsurd. The only state where the Attorney General has to hide on the floorboard of her pickup as his wife spirits him away from his home (He’s dodging process servers).

Those who suppress history are determined to repeat it.

Republicans, led in Florida by ultra white nationalist DeSantis, demand by law any and all historical references must be made through the lens of white nationalism. Maintaining white power, especially in the south, is at the forefront of the Republican agenda.

Brilliant cartoon

I want schools to prepare the kiddies for real life and leave the Woke nonsense too their parents. I see history as history with black history interwoven. To me stuff like calling for reparations or gender affirmation is not appropriate unless it is an elective class.

I’m confused. Wasn’t there support for the removal of Confederate Civil War(Slavery) memorials? How do we open the discussion that support of “Rebellion in support of slavery” is wrong if we erase all evidence that there even was a rebellion?How is DeSantis’s stance different? DeSantis is wrong. Historical events are neutral. Our interpretation of those events and the motives leading to them are arguable. And it is that disagreement that leads to learning.

Churchill famously said (to Stalin), “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

What we see in this image is a truthful child attended by a bodyguard of liars.

Trump actually got something right: DeSantimonious.

DeSantis hopes to become president on his racism, anti gay, and anti covid policies. Republicans are lying murderous bullies.

DeSatan should be federally charge with obstruction to a fair and equal education of our youth.

Did DeathSatan get his white robes and hood back from the cleaners yet??

But then, how could he run for president so he could do this to all of America?

Traitor Republicans want to reverse all of the gains the American people struggled for decades to get.

“You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear / You’ve got to be taught from year to year / It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear / You’ve got to be carefully taught. / You’ve got to be taught to be afraid / Of people whose eyes are oddly made / And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade / You’ve got to be carefully taught. / You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late / Before you are six or seven or eight / To hate all the people your relatives hate /You’ve got to be carefully taught.” From Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific – 1949.

The saddest, truest cartoon today.

The shades of Racism.

Are teachers allowed to acknowledge there are Black students in the room, or are they to be ignored too.

This deserves a Pulitzer if there truly is a God

Governor De Santis announced this morning that Florida will bypass the month of February, so that nobody will have to be exposed to Black History Month. January 31 will be followed immediately by March 1.

I think this cartoon is based on a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover, but I don’t have time to look it up.

Great comic. If one doesn’t understand it, one proves how important learning ALL of our history, good and bad and horrible is. Knowing and acknowledging is the first step in healing and changing.

Remember: The people who yelled threats and racial epithets at a six-year-old girl for going to school were PROUD of themselves for doing that. They were showing off for their neighbors. They thought they were being COURAGEOUS.

And it isn’t ancient history. It’s within my lifetime. Ruby Bridges is still alive.

The “Cheerleaders” who did that to a little girl had kids and taught them. And THEY had kids.

And those grandkids don’t want today’s generation to know about it.

Nor do the students who were taking it as an elective—i.e. choosing to take it.

Those that can’t learn from history, must have GQP governors.

George Wallace DeRacist. He wants to stand in front of every school house door in Florida. Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. DeRacist favorite line from the late Gov. Wallace.

Most of the responses to this cartoon demonstrate the true state of education in our nation. The objection is to the queer theory, intersectionality, and CRT trash that has nothing to do with actual history of black americans. Most respondents will respond as if they get their information from those who tell them what to think, and don’t do research for themselves. But that is typical of Luckovich fans, vomiting their spoon-fed pablum.

This is why Mike wins awards. Excellent cartoon.

Sweet.

If teaching history makes kids ‘uncomfortable’, then you can’t teach art, science, literature, math, sports…..

Don’ worry yer pretty li’l head missy, the GazpachO Police ’ll hannel this . . .

There are actual photographs of federal marshals escorting Ruby Bridges, but Mike Luckovich’s image above is derived from the famous Norman Rockwell painting, “The Problem We All Live With”. You can see examples of both here:https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/visual-arts/norman-rockwell—the-problem-we-all-live-with/

The GOP: Chickenshits deathly afraid of knowledge.

I love Morgan Freeman’s take on Black History Month.

We do not need history month for any melanin concentration.