Donnie Myers inlaw Eric Mackey defies Will Ainsworth and Bama GOP Trump Base on PBS Newshour RE CRT

   Last night Feb 16 on PBS Newshour the Alabama St School Superintendent Eric Mackey was in the Judge Frank Johnson and Lincoln tradition of the Republican Party as he defied Mike Hubbard and Will Ainsworth, the Eagle Forum of Tim Tebows Mother and the entire GOP establishment in the State including Bama Legend Richard Shelby hand picked successor Katie Britt for US Senate as he stood tall for telling the Truth about American History, "especially" as he said in the State of Alabama.

    I am very proud of my neighbor of 30 odd years in Bama 7 miles east up on Lookout Mtn, Sand Rock where to my knowledge there has been only one black person graduate in the last fifty years.

    Still Eric--and you can google and interpret for yourself--said Bama will tell the truth about History, particularly Black history--during Black History month even in the face of the weaponization of Critical Race Theory.

    Donnie Myers a person of influence in nearby Collinsville, a retired assistant to the school supe of Dekalb County schools and Baptist Deacon was less informed, less on any side of history in Feb 2002 when progressive Baptists came to town to challenge a small congregation of many educators to take a stand against Baptist fundamentalism as it came down to state Conventions. But here twenty years later with Trump and Rick Burgess and Will Ainsworth knocking on the back door of the integrity of state schools, Eric in diplomatic language took a stand.

    On the same day Kyle Whitmire at al.com had the second part of two part series on Racial Reckoning in bama with a focus on the legacy of Senator Bankhead's daughter as mid century archivist for the state, using the platform for the worst kind of racism buttressed by the Daughters of the Confederacy to teach a Gone With the Wind version of Slavery, Reconstruction for all kinds of implications for the burgeoning Civil Rights era.

    Without naming the woman, Furman grad Ed Bridges, a recent thirty year successor archivist for the state, sums up the DAC and network of distorting groups including the Eagle Forum of Tim Tebows Momma which Will Ainsworth's momma shows every sign of Calvinist imperialism and supremacy, in a couple sentences in his Section of the Bicentennial History of Bama.

    At my invitation and the backing of the Collinsville Historical Association, Ed Bridges spoke at the Cricket Theatre in Collinsville in the fall of 2019.

     Donnie Myers was not present but Thomas Barksdale was and a good showing from mommas alma mater. Principal Bradley Crawford a history major at Mackey's JSU, now principal was there.

    His good friend Jason Barnett, former asst principal at Collinsville and School supe for the County, now at Marshall County, home of Ainsworth and his Momma, has a copy of my Furman friend Sam Hodges for the Love of Alabama.

    I hope Collinsville High School has two copies and students who read it, and Eric Mackey carries a copy with him wherever he goes to carry the message on his new stand for integrity in the Bama School System.

    My Grandfather James Columbus Jordan, born 1881, ran for school supe of Dekalb County in the second decade of the 20th century, a hundred years ago as a Lincoln Republican and was soundly defeated.

    Today I feel some vindication.