Alabama doesn’t want to teach its children that they are responsible for the sins of others in the past or that meritocracy is racist or sexist. For MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight Wednesday guest host Ali Velshi, not only does this mean teaching the history of segregation just became more difficult, but those in favor of such a law might as well be George Wallace himself.
Velshi began by playing a clip of Samford University student Akeem Tims opposing the law, “History shall not and will not repeat. The time has come for a new wave of activists and empowered individuals to speak up and spread justice and equity in every way possible.”
Instead of pointing out that Tims’s claims of what would happen under the bill were completely illogical and false, Velshi indulged him, “The bill he referenced was a new Alabama Senate bill restricting…
