WATCH: Black lawmakers stage walkout

Andria Derio sits in the gallery before the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban teaching critical race theory in schools. She is opposed to teaching CRT in school, and wears a sign stating she will remove her children from the district should it not pass. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Several Black Mississippi state senators on Friday walked out en masse as their fellow legislatures banned the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms.

Local news station WLBT reports that the Black Mississippi lawmakers decided to walk out after decrying the bill as totally unnecessary given that there is no evidence that critical race theory is being taught in any Mississippi public schools.