Rick Jackson forgot “TV commercial Rick Jackson” | Revisiting a thorny (Mary) Rose

Chapin (SC) HS AP language arts teacher Mary Rose Wood, using a previously banned Ta-Nehisi Coates book in her classroom.

Friend of the show, columnist ⁠Jay Bookman reminds us (and Rick Jackson) of the “Rick Jackson” Rick recalls himself being as a child: impoverished and in need⁠. As Bookman opines, it’s as if Jackson forgot that child version of himself on route to crafting the sort of policies he’d put in place if he were to become Georgia’s next governor.

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Revisiting a conversation I had with Mary Rose Wood, a brave “bad ass” (her brother’s term) who’s a high school teacher in Chapin, SC. There she was smeared on school board candidates’ campaign mailer as “communist.” All because she had her AP language arts students read a ⁠Ta-Nehisi Coates⁠ book.

The south gonna “south,” right?

Anyhow, we discussed her story, brush with fame (and fear) in that small SC town.