What the CRT hysterics are essentially saying — literally without knowing what Critical Race Theory is — is that teachers must not ask whether we have arrived, via slavery and its aftermath, at an unequal society. And even if we have, it’s only fair that we freeze it there.
Apparently these people want teachers to teach that the founders of this country were racial innocents, who despite all but seven of them owning slaves had a secret, hundred-year plan to end the practice that enriched them and their families even after their deaths, using a WAR.
They want storytime not history; despite the fact that thanks to Confederate socialites, American students since the civil war were taught a “lost cause” perversion of history that excused the insurrection, buried the truth about massacres and left people ignorant about our past.
And they are now willing to use REALLY BIG GOVERNMENT to dictate to teachers what to teach; to enforce North Korea-style “Patriotic History” — in public schools paid for by taxpayers, including taxpayers of color — that muffles the past to shore up white Americans’ “nationalism.”
So what’s next? Do we go back to fighting about whether teachers are allowed to discuss evolution? What if a teacher has a discussion about the George Floyd protests BLM or 1/6? Will they be fired? Are they serious about forcing teachers to be body cammed? What country is this???
Someone on this platform called this bizarre CRT gambit the “1984 Project.” That’s not a bad description. Turn on your body cams, teachers. Patriotic History only. No discussion of things that make conservatives unhappy. We have always been at war with East Anglia.
And one last time for those in the back: CRT is only taught in law schools. Zero K-12 have such a curriculum nor have they ever. The 1619 Project is NOT critical race theory. It’s historical journalism & a book. Don’t be taken in by very much planned, demographic panic branding.
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