'It’s only a matter of time before the bullies return to their old, favorite target, race, but for the moment, they’ve found a new, smaller, more vulnerable someone to abuse,' columnist WarOnDumb writes. 'LGBTQ is target No. 1.'
Kyle Whitmire’s newsletter, “Alabamafication” examines the outsized influence of this very strange state, taking aim at corruption, cruelty, incompetence and hypocrisy while also seeking out those righteous folks making their state and country better places for all.One day in 2022, Alabama Republican lawmakers were on the warpath against critical race theory.It had seemed the 2022 regular session would end with a brutal fight in the Alabama House over the anti-CRT bill.
When those bills reached the House floor, the vote still split along party lines, but this time it was the only openly gay state lawmaker, Rep. Neil Rafferty, D-Birmingham, who pleaded with his colleagues. Other Democrats were conspicuously quiet. So they picked a new target. Like schoolyard bullies, they sought out someone smaller to pick on, preferably someone who didn’t have 27 percent of Alabama voters behind them.
The only thing there is, the Archives didn’t use state money. The Food for Thought series is funded by grants from the Alabama Humanities Alliance, which got that money from federal funds, not state tax dollars. Kiel and Stadthagen would have known had they simply asked, but learning facts before jumping to conclusions is not the objective here.
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