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Professor @ColumbiaLaw and @UCLA_law; Executive Director @AAPolicyForum; Host @IMKC_podcast; Views expressed here are my own!

Mar 1, 2022, 6 tweets

Kudos to @LastWeekTonight for getting to the nitty gritty of how this panic over CRT is an old trick out of a very old racist playbook.

Here’s the gist of it (1/5):

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And for all those who don’t get what CRT is--or attack it bc of claims that it labels all white people racist--the fact that CRT focuses on institutions & laws rather than prejudice & individuals has been a contradiction in plain sight. (4/5)

Countering the coordinated lying at the heart of the anti-CRT campaign and connecting the dots between the assault on democracy, antiracism and Black history is what we’re about.

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