Apartheid? Really?
Jim Kyle hits the rhetoric pretty hard:
The Senate gave final legislative approval Monday to the bill letting the Memphis suburbs hold referendums this year on creating municipal school districts, despite charges that it's "part of a growing trend ... of apartheid in Shelby County."
The bill now goes to Gov. Bill Haslam, who said earlier that he wanted the panel planning the merger of Memphis and Shelby County schools to complete its work before the suburbs decide on new municipal school systems.
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- COOKE, ETHEN LANYARD TRUSTEE; COOKE, ETHEN LEWIS ESTATE
- JACOBS, JESSICA ALEXANDRA; JACOBS, ERIKA BESS
I am not that familiar with
I am not that familiar with the situation in shelby county but Kyle's comments make sense. It has long been a Republican strategy to divide, to resegregate without calling it segregation and then try to instill fears in the minds of white voters.