K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teachers Union Boss Says Conservatives Don’t Want Black Kids To Know How To Read.

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union claimed during a radio interview that aired Sunday that conservatives don’t want black children to learn how to read.

Stacy Davis Gates made an appearance on WBBM 780 AM to defend the union’s contract demands. Gates claimed that conservatives who expressed criticism of the demands “don’t even want black children to be able to read.”

“Remember, these same conservatives are the conservatives who probably would have been championing black codes, you know, during reconstruction or thereafter,” she said. “So, forgive me again if conservatives pushing back on educating immigrant children, black children, children who live in poverty, doesn’t make my anxiety go up. That’s what they’re supposed to say. That is literally a part of the oath that they take to be right wing.”

Setting aside that I missed that moment when I was handed my VRWC decoder ring ages ago, where is Gates finding all of these “conservatives” in Chicago, whose last Republican mayor left office in 1931?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A reader messages: “Someone needs to tell her whose idea Jim Crow was. #dontknowmuchabouthistory,” Well, to be fair, she’s a teacher.