Jackson Free Press Plays a Round of "Let's See if We Can Tie Initiative 42 to Racism"

In a Jackson Free Press article written by RL Nave, (On Education, Privilege and Empowerment) , he accounts some of the racial  trials and tribulations of  Payton Head, student body president at the University of Missouri.

  He begins:

• Sept. 11, a pickup truck full of white guys screamed the word n*gger at him. "I really just want to know why my simple existence is such a threat to society,"

I am not condoning the way the word was used or even suggesting that it was right, but, really, if someone calls you a name then you are a threat simply by "existing?" Anyway, that's where it begins and it kind of goes on from there following that similar narrative. 

It ends this way:

• Mississippians have been fighting unique battles over education for a long time. The jury's out on whether the charter-school experiment will work, whether Jackson's public schools can right the ship, whether Initiative 42 will pass or end up being litigated for years. Regardless, this is an opportunity to think really hard about the kinds of people we ultimately want our schools to produce and how they will represent us and harness the agency we empower them with on college campuses, in the workplace and as adults in their communities.

Either it was the only way Nave could get a story about a friend of his from Missouri to be relevant to Mississippi, or it's a heck of along stretch to get anti-initiative 42 tied to being racist. 

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WHO SHOULD DECIDE WHAT'S BEST FOR THEIR CHILDREN??