Sanford: Proposal puts state’s human rights enforcement in jeopardy
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
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Tennessee’s assault on civil and human rights just keeps waltzing along. In fact, the steps are getting bigger and bolder.
How else to describe the Republican-controlled Legislature’s dogged effort to get rid of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, thereby abandoning any pretense that it cares whether discrimination flourishes in our state or not?
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