Opinion: Governor silent about law banning classroom discussion of race
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law on May 24, 2021 a bill banning the teaching of critical race theory and the history of racism in America in state public schools. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is professor emeritus of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis and political commentator for WATN-TV ABC24 News. Contact him at o.sanford@memphis.edu. Follow him on Twitter @otissanford.
Gov. Bill Lee signed the bill May 24 without comment. Because what could he really say that makes sense? His first and apparently only attempt to explain the rationale for the law would have been fine for a White Citizens Council meeting in the 1960s.
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