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That individuals should be adversely treated based on such characteristics. mcdaniel says critical-race theory is the belief that american society is inherently racist, and it has no place in mississippi's public schools, including universities and community colleges. >> systematic racism should not be taught to our children. >> reporter: last month on the senate floor, mcdaniel and his co-author argued for the legislation. and watched as black lawmakers walked out in protest before the vote. it passed 32-2 and now goes to the house chamber. >> if you will look at the plain language, and again...

Her from taking the elective, worried that as only one of a handful of white students enrolled, she would be made to feel guilty about being white. >> has this made you feel white guilt? >> no, not at all. >> what has it made you feel? >> empowered to change the republican party. >> reporter: it's the reason the 27-year-old wrote this letter to the mississippi house education committee asking republicans to reconsider their legislation. the class she says takes a critical view of decisions of ci civil rights advocates who were mostly black. to date, this has been the most impactful and enlight...

The house chamber. >> if you look at the plain language and again i have to go back to that -- it clearly states that we won't allow people to be taught they are inferior. we won't allow classrooms to teach the superiority of the a race or whatever the case may be. >> i thought the class would be like criticizing white people but we didn't even mention white people. >> reporter: republican law student brittany murphy believes senator mcdaniel and his colleagues may not understand what they are talking about. admittedly, she says she didn't either, until this semester when the second-year law s...

Public schools including universities. last month on the senate floor, mcdaniel and his co--author argued for the legislation and watched as others walked out in protest. it passed 32-2 and now goes to the house chamber. >> if you look at the plain language, it clearly states that we won't allow people to be taught they're inferior, we won't allow our classrooms to teach the superiority of a race or whatever the case may be. >> i thought the whole class would be criticizing white people but we didn't really mention white people. >> reporter: she believes senator mcdaniel and his colleagues may...

The country. cnn's adrienne broaddus has more on this. >> i've seen more tears shed on this unit and of my own ever, and i've been here for 26 years. >> reporter: she and her nurses on the covid wing at rush university medical center live with pandemic trauma. >> my coworkers and i have been through something and there's things that only we know about. it would be hard to explain everything to my family that i need to. >> the ptsd, that's the other thing we're not talking about. there's a huge amount of ptsd. >> reporter: since the pandemic started, more than 3,800 people have been sent to the...