For example, what if a high school history teacher wanted to assign a passage from “American Slavery, American Freedom,” which covers the arrival of African captives to British North America? Or what if they wanted to use an excerpt from “Before the Mayflower”?
Would it be “critical race theory” for a teacher to have students read from David Walker’s “Appeal”? Seriously, what wouldn’t be covered under these bans?
“You can read one paragraph of MLK’s March on Washington speech but you can’t read the rest, or Letter from a Birmingham Jail, or Where Do We Go From Here.”
None of this stuff is actual critical race theory, but it does deal with ideas about racism and the structure of American society that has been deemed “critical race theory” by right-wing propagandists.
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i like how one of the complaints amounts to “the consultants did not come to us personally and get our approval”
my sense is that the neighborhood association likely responsible for these is acting without actually consulting the neighborhood. incidentally, one of the board members helped kill an apartment complex that would have been down the road from his multi-million dollar house.
yep, in actual practice, anything that goes beyond that one sentence in MLK’s march on washington speech will be labeled “critical race theory.” take some students to monticello to have them learn about sally hemings and the enslaved community there? “critical race theory.”
watching HIGH ON THE HOG and learning about this restaurant “hatchet hall” in LA that serves the food of hercules caesar and james hemings and i want to buy a plane ticket and head over there immediately
it is very interesting to think about how enslaved chefs trained in french techniques shaped and influenced cuisine throughout the south and by way of their descendants, the country and the world
the folk civics around the filibuster is very similar to the folk civics around the electoral college in that both are very clearly after the fact justifications for rules that make no sense and have no logical basis nymag.com/intelligencer/…
“the filibuster was created to promote bipartisanship” is as fantastical as “the electoral college was made to protect rural voters”
i actually do blame (anti-new deal partisan) frank capra for 75 percent of filibuster mythology