Today in things that are well…weird, we have Kentucky State Rep. Jennifer Decker, who has, rather shockingly, I might add, claimed that her father, a white man born in the 1930s, was a slave. Decker, 68, announced this while speechifying on February 1 during an NAACP meeting where the topic was a state education bill that she’s sponsoring that would ban DEI initiatives, The Courier-Journal reports. This was a pretty bold move on her part because as she made the comment, she was also trying to dismiss the intentions behind diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

The Independent reports the bill would defund any training or scholarships associated with DEI initiatives. Because I’d never heard of this term before, I looked up these initiatives to see what they are. According to TechTarget, DEI is described as a series of concepts that encourage people to look outside the proverbial box:

“Diversity, equity and inclusion is a term used to describe policies and programs that promote the representation and participation of different groups of individuals. DEI encompasses people of different ages, races, ethnicities, abilities, disabilities, genders, religions, cultures and sexual orientations. It also covers people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and expertise.”

So it kind of sounds like Decker is an idiot. But she’s a Republican after all, so that’s probably true.

Even so, while obviously trying to take away initiatives that help people of color, she told people at the meeting:

“My father was a slave, just to a white man and he was white.”

She was responding to a person who asked her a question about her family’s role in the slave trade, The Daily Beast reports.

Quite obviously this fool opened herself up to outrage and ridicule with her attempted rewrite of the past smack in the middle of Black History Month. Of course, she would be stupid no matter what month she said it in but, wow. Decker deserves all the criticism and mockery that’ she’s getting. Even worse, she’s trying to dismantle the very programs geared at helping people of color. She was of course saying her dad worked his way up to becoming successful and while that’s a lovely story, the reality of this for people of color is little more than a fairy tale.

Decker, who lives near Lexington, told people that her father was born on a dirt farm, nearly 70 years after slavery was abolished. She mentioned her paternal grandmother was the illegitimate child “of a very prominent person who then was kind enough to allow them to work for him as slaves.”

And by the way, here is her father:

Cue folks on social media to lambaste her nonsense.

“Too many of our Republican legislators like to say outrageous bigoted things for attention then refuse to own it when called on it,” Kentucky education advocate Rob Mattheu posted on X. “Jennifer Decker is a truly abhorrent and stupid person.”

Too many of our Republican legislators like to say outrageous bigoted things for attention then refuse to own it when called on it.

Jennifer Decker is a truly abhorrent and stupid person. https://t.co/TCJvOy9mIx

— Rob Mattheu 🧑🏻‍💻 (@LouSchoolBeat) February 13, 2024

“A white slave in the mid-20th century? Talk about recreating history!” wrote University of Louisville Pan-African Studies Professor Dr. Ricky L. Jones. “Maybe this makes sense in the alternate supremacist reality that is Kentucky, but nowhere else. Jennifer Decker and her Republican friends lie about and distort everything else, why not this?”

A white slave in the mid-20th century? Talk about recreating history! 🤦🏾‍♂️ Maybe this makes sense in the alternate supremacist reality that is Kentucky, but nowhere else. Jennifer Decker and her Republican friends lie about and distort everything else, why not this? 🤷🏽‍♂️ @Joe_Gerth https://t.co/wjACKC8BRY

— Ricky L. Jones (@DrRickyLJones) February 13, 2024

“I’m embarrassed for her & KY. She is an elected official. She should feel embarrassed,” poet and activist Hannah Drake posted. “During [Black History Month] she wants us to know her father was a slave. Help me somebody.”

White Kentucky politician who opposes DEI tells NAACP: My father was a slave

I’m embarrassed for her & KY. She is an elected official. She should feel embarrassed. During BHM she wants us to know her father was a slave. Help me somebody. https://t.co/HERIWWd6kK

— Hannah Drake (@HannahDrake628) February 13, 2024

Decker tried to claim that because her dad was born poor and his family worked as farm hands on someone else’s property this means they were slaves. No, I’m not making that up. Somehow she forgets that slaves were never paid for their labor and they were kidnapped from their own homes — thousands of miles away in Africa. She finally admitted her family wasn’t kidnapped, but wow.

Jeesh what a loon.

And when Kentucky House Bill 9 was introduced in January, Decker said diversity initiatives made secondary education “divided, more expensive, and less tolerant,” reported Louisville Public Media.

So Kentuckians are stuck with this loon and Mitch McConnell.

Sad.

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