I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory

[sealybobo]

Here's a tip: Don't call it CRT. Call it AMERICAN HISTORY.
That will trigger racists a bunch less

Diversity and bias awareness

Even that is liable to trigger the bastards.
They are looking to whitewash black history entirely.

It wouldn’t bother them if racism was just history. Unfortunately it’s the present too.

 

[sealybobo]

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory
Jeffery Dingler

I heard about the Ku Klux Klan for the first time when I was 14, in school. The way I remember it, my eight grade teacher informed us during an English class that the KKK wasn't so bad at first, that it started out as a vigilante force for defenseless Southerners who were being preyed upon by Yankees and free Black Americans during Reconstruction. Of course, this isn't true; the Klan was always about racial oppression and white terrorism. That's not how we learned it in rural Alabama public school.

Incredibly, this wasn't the only false or outright racist thing I heard from educators in the six years I spent in middle school and high school there, from 1999-2005. I was also taught that there wasn't a "Civil War" but a "War of Northern Aggression," which was waged not to abolish slavery but to "end state's rights."

From all these alternate facts and twisted narratives, I did learn something true: that history is fungible and can be shaped to suit any region's needs. And it's this truth—along with a correct understanding of American history—that many across the nation are trying to ban from schools, stubbornly resisting hard truths about race and American history. The culture war over critical race theory—a loose academic framework that exposes systemic racism—has many white folks in an uproar over the thought of their kids learning that the United States is, and has been, a racist society.

That's what critical race theory is: another take on American history that focuses on what this country has always sought to bury: the systemic racial hierarchy that helped build it.

And that's what many oppose. Republicans in more than two dozen states have recently been proposing bills that limit educational discussions on race and racism in the U.S.—potentially stifling that conversation in schools before it's even begun.

As someone who was born and raised in the Deep South, I could not disagree more with these attempts to stifle an accounting of America's racist past and even present. To people like me who attended small public schools in rural or remote areas, classes that delve into CRT would be instrumental in countering what feels like an overwhelming culture of deliberate ignorance toward our own history.

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory | Opinion

This guy doesn't believe that teaching these subjects will make whites hate being white. Of course we'll get the he's filled with white guilt bs coming the USMB racists.

"This guy doesn't believe"....

I don't give a flying fuck what some nobody believes or doesn't believe, on the say-so of the forum's foremost racist peice of shit.

I’m starting to wonder if guys like IM2 are doing more harm than good to his people. Clearly he has victim mentality not owner mentality.

 

[occupied]

I went to school in Alabama as well but it was during desegregation. I heard about the KKK from a very early age because my older male relatives were in it. I lived in an all white sundown town for a long time and the local school unofficially allowed the KKK to recruit there and the "cool kids" had KKK T-shirts they sometimes wore. They were once classified as a non-profit charity and used to stand at intersections collecting donations like the volunteer fire department.

Funny that you would say sundown town.. I hadn't heard that in a long time.

The sign that said: "N----- don't let the sun set on your back." was taken down in the mid sixties but the black people who lived in the valley knew it was still there in the minds of the people who lived on the mountain. Never once saw a black person in that town except for a single old lady in the nursing home. Everyone in town knew her name and considered themselves quite progressive for allowing her to stay.

I never saw a sign like that and I am familiar with Cullman County.

I'm not old enough to remember the sign but it was certainly there once. Local residents had pictures of it and still felt betrayed by having to take it down. Cullman was at one time one of the most inhospitable places in America for black people who didn't belong there. The ones who did live there "knew their place". The entire area north of Birmingham, especially the mountaintops, was hardcore Klan country. Still is.

 

[Oddball]

Diversity has destroyed this country. We should be teaching our kids why diversity sucks.

Nothing wrong with real diversity, as a matter of commingling cultures as an act of volition.

What the cultural Marxists mean by "diversity" is the intellectual rot which claims that all cultures have equal validity.....That the looter is a moral peer to the industrialist entrepreneur.

 

[Wyatt earp]

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory
Jeffery Dingler

I heard about the Ku Klux Klan for the first time when I was 14, in school. The way I remember it, my eight grade teacher informed us during an English class that the KKK wasn't so bad at first, that it started out as a vigilante force for defenseless Southerners who were being preyed upon by Yankees and free Black Americans during Reconstruction. Of course, this isn't true; the Klan was always about racial oppression and white terrorism. That's not how we learned it in rural Alabama public school.

Incredibly, this wasn't the only false or outright racist thing I heard from educators in the six years I spent in middle school and high school there, from 1999-2005. I was also taught that there wasn't a "Civil War" but a "War of Northern Aggression," which was waged not to abolish slavery but to "end state's rights."

From all these alternate facts and twisted narratives, I did learn something true: that history is fungible and can be shaped to suit any region's needs. And it's this truth—along with a correct understanding of American history—that many across the nation are trying to ban from schools, stubbornly resisting hard truths about race and American history. The culture war over critical race theory—a loose academic framework that exposes systemic racism—has many white folks in an uproar over the thought of their kids learning that the United States is, and has been, a racist society.

That's what critical race theory is: another take on American history that focuses on what this country has always sought to bury: the systemic racial hierarchy that helped build it.

And that's what many oppose. Republicans in more than two dozen states have recently been proposing bills that limit educational discussions on race and racism in the U.S.—potentially stifling that conversation in schools before it's even begun.

As someone who was born and raised in the Deep South, I could not disagree more with these attempts to stifle an accounting of America's racist past and even present. To people like me who attended small public schools in rural or remote areas, classes that delve into CRT would be instrumental in countering what feels like an overwhelming culture of deliberate ignorance toward our own history.

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory | Opinion

This guy doesn't believe that teaching these subjects will make whites hate being white. Of course we'll get the he's filled with white guilt bs coming the USMB racists.

"This guy doesn't believe"....

I don't give a flying fuck what some nobody believes or doesn't believe, on the say-so of the forum's foremost racist peice of shit.

I’m starting to wonder if guys like IM2 are doing more harm than good to his people. Clearly he has victim mentality not owner mentality.

IM douche bag is not an American?

 

[Oddball]

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory
Jeffery Dingler

I heard about the Ku Klux Klan for the first time when I was 14, in school. The way I remember it, my eight grade teacher informed us during an English class that the KKK wasn't so bad at first, that it started out as a vigilante force for defenseless Southerners who were being preyed upon by Yankees and free Black Americans during Reconstruction. Of course, this isn't true; the Klan was always about racial oppression and white terrorism. That's not how we learned it in rural Alabama public school.

Incredibly, this wasn't the only false or outright racist thing I heard from educators in the six years I spent in middle school and high school there, from 1999-2005. I was also taught that there wasn't a "Civil War" but a "War of Northern Aggression," which was waged not to abolish slavery but to "end state's rights."

From all these alternate facts and twisted narratives, I did learn something true: that history is fungible and can be shaped to suit any region's needs. And it's this truth—along with a correct understanding of American history—that many across the nation are trying to ban from schools, stubbornly resisting hard truths about race and American history. The culture war over critical race theory—a loose academic framework that exposes systemic racism—has many white folks in an uproar over the thought of their kids learning that the United States is, and has been, a racist society.

That's what critical race theory is: another take on American history that focuses on what this country has always sought to bury: the systemic racial hierarchy that helped build it.

And that's what many oppose. Republicans in more than two dozen states have recently been proposing bills that limit educational discussions on race and racism in the U.S.—potentially stifling that conversation in schools before it's even begun.

As someone who was born and raised in the Deep South, I could not disagree more with these attempts to stifle an accounting of America's racist past and even present. To people like me who attended small public schools in rural or remote areas, classes that delve into CRT would be instrumental in countering what feels like an overwhelming culture of deliberate ignorance toward our own history.

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory | Opinion

This guy doesn't believe that teaching these subjects will make whites hate being white. Of course we'll get the he's filled with white guilt bs coming the USMB racists.

"This guy doesn't believe"....

I don't give a flying fuck what some nobody believes or doesn't believe, on the say-so of the forum's foremost racist peice of shit.

I’m starting to wonder if guys like IM2 are doing more harm than good to his people. Clearly he has victim mentality not owner mentality.

That is easily the most cogent and insightful thing you've ever posted.

 

[Sunni Man]

I'm white and the only thing diversity has done for me is provide a larger selection of ethnic restaurants to dine at. ...

 

[Oddball]

Here's a tip: Don't call it CRT. Call it AMERICAN HISTORY.
That will trigger racists a bunch less

Diversity and bias awareness

Even that is liable to trigger the bastards.
They are looking to whitewash black history entirely.

It wouldn’t bother them if racism was just history. Unfortunately it’s the present too.

Right....It's racist to not want your kiddos to be taught to hate themselves.

 

[Oddball]

I'm white and the only thing diversity has done for me is provide a larger selection of ethnic restaurants to eat at. ...

That's real diversity.

 

[surada]

I went to school in Alabama as well but it was during desegregation. I heard about the KKK from a very early age because my older male relatives were in it. I lived in an all white sundown town for a long time and the local school unofficially allowed the KKK to recruit there and the "cool kids" had KKK T-shirts they sometimes wore. They were once classified as a non-profit charity and used to stand at intersections collecting donations like the volunteer fire department.

Funny that you would say sundown town.. I hadn't heard that in a long time.

The sign that said: "N----- don't let the sun set on your back." was taken down in the mid sixties but the black people who lived in the valley knew it was still there in the minds of the people who lived on the mountain. Never once saw a black person in that town except for a single old lady in the nursing home. Everyone in town knew her name and considered themselves quite progressive for allowing her to stay.

I never saw a sign like that and I am familiar with Cullman County.

I'm not old enough to remember the sign but it was certainly there once. Local residents had pictures of it and still felt betrayed by having to take it down. Cullman was at one time one of the most inhospitable places in America for black people who didn't belong there. The ones who did live there "knew their place". The entire area north of Birmingham, especially the mountaintops, was hardcore Klan country. Still is.

I had no idea.

 

[Desperado]

They were once classified as a non-profit charity and used to stand at intersections collecting donations like the volunteer fire department.

he did the same thing in parts of south Florida

 

[Uncensored2008]

The sign that said: "N----- don't let the sun set on your back." was taken down in the mid sixties but the black people who lived in the valley knew it was still there in the minds of the people who lived on the mountain. Never once saw a black person in that town except for a single old lady in the nursing home. Everyone in town knew her name and considered themselves quite progressive for allowing her to stay.

Horrible.

The sign in Compton "Honkey don't let the sun set on your back." is stronger than ever - promoted by Nazis like you.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Here's a tip: Don't call it CRT. Call it AMERICAN HISTORY.
That will trigger racists a bunch less

Call it by it's proper name "Mein Kampf." (Updated with Whites playing the role of Der Juden.)

 

[BS Filter]

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory
Jeffery Dingler

I heard about the Ku Klux Klan for the first time when I was 14, in school. The way I remember it, my eight grade teacher informed us during an English class that the KKK wasn't so bad at first, that it started out as a vigilante force for defenseless Southerners who were being preyed upon by Yankees and free Black Americans during Reconstruction. Of course, this isn't true; the Klan was always about racial oppression and white terrorism. That's not how we learned it in rural Alabama public school.

Incredibly, this wasn't the only false or outright racist thing I heard from educators in the six years I spent in middle school and high school there, from 1999-2005. I was also taught that there wasn't a "Civil War" but a "War of Northern Aggression," which was waged not to abolish slavery but to "end state's rights."

From all these alternate facts and twisted narratives, I did learn something true: that history is fungible and can be shaped to suit any region's needs. And it's this truth—along with a correct understanding of American history—that many across the nation are trying to ban from schools, stubbornly resisting hard truths about race and American history. The culture war over critical race theory—a loose academic framework that exposes systemic racism—has many white folks in an uproar over the thought of their kids learning that the United States is, and has been, a racist society.

That's what critical race theory is: another take on American history that focuses on what this country has always sought to bury: the systemic racial hierarchy that helped build it.

And that's what many oppose. Republicans in more than two dozen states have recently been proposing bills that limit educational discussions on race and racism in the U.S.—potentially stifling that conversation in schools before it's even begun.

As someone who was born and raised in the Deep South, I could not disagree more with these attempts to stifle an accounting of America's racist past and even present. To people like me who attended small public schools in rural or remote areas, classes that delve into CRT would be instrumental in countering what feels like an overwhelming culture of deliberate ignorance toward our own history.

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory | Opinion

This guy doesn't believe that teaching these subjects will make whites hate being white. Of course we'll get the he's filled with white guilt bs coming the USMB racists.

We should teach children about diversity and bias. Funny republicans are uncomfortable with these subjects.

I don't mind teaching the truth as long as you teach ALL the truth. The problem is you only want to teach what helps the leftist agenda. That's the problem.

 

[Oddball]

I'm white and the only thing diversity has done for me is provide a larger selection of ethnic restaurants to eat at. ...

That's real diversity.

I'm serious dude....That's the kind of actual diversity that made Murica, Murica.....The mixing and assimilation of the best of all different cultures, through free association and exchange.

 

[Flash]

I'm white and the only thing diversity has done for me is provide a larger selection of ethnic restaurants to dine at. ...

Diversity has given me the need to carry a Sig 365XL almost every place I go.

 

[IM2]

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory
Jeffery Dingler

I heard about the Ku Klux Klan for the first time when I was 14, in school. The way I remember it, my eight grade teacher informed us during an English class that the KKK wasn't so bad at first, that it started out as a vigilante force for defenseless Southerners who were being preyed upon by Yankees and free Black Americans during Reconstruction. Of course, this isn't true; the Klan was always about racial oppression and white terrorism. That's not how we learned it in rural Alabama public school.

Incredibly, this wasn't the only false or outright racist thing I heard from educators in the six years I spent in middle school and high school there, from 1999-2005. I was also taught that there wasn't a "Civil War" but a "War of Northern Aggression," which was waged not to abolish slavery but to "end state's rights."

From all these alternate facts and twisted narratives, I did learn something true: that history is fungible and can be shaped to suit any region's needs. And it's this truth—along with a correct understanding of American history—that many across the nation are trying to ban from schools, stubbornly resisting hard truths about race and American history. The culture war over critical race theory—a loose academic framework that exposes systemic racism—has many white folks in an uproar over the thought of their kids learning that the United States is, and has been, a racist society.

That's what critical race theory is: another take on American history that focuses on what this country has always sought to bury: the systemic racial hierarchy that helped build it.

And that's what many oppose. Republicans in more than two dozen states have recently been proposing bills that limit educational discussions on race and racism in the U.S.—potentially stifling that conversation in schools before it's even begun.

As someone who was born and raised in the Deep South, I could not disagree more with these attempts to stifle an accounting of America's racist past and even present. To people like me who attended small public schools in rural or remote areas, classes that delve into CRT would be instrumental in countering what feels like an overwhelming culture of deliberate ignorance toward our own history.

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory | Opinion

This guy doesn't believe that teaching these subjects will make whites hate being white. Of course we'll get the he's filled with white guilt bs coming the USMB racists.

American Blacks grew up in a White-built country. There may have been Blacks doing some of the heavy lifting, but the architects of American society were White. To CRT, that means institutionalized racism, even though at that time, Asians, Arabs and Blacks WERE inferior to Whites in every way you could mention. Africa is STILL a mess, and nobody's moving to Asia, they're all coming here.

Blacks built this country. STFU. Africa was just fine until whites colonozed it. Whites still live in Africa now. The same thing with Asia. So stop lying to yourself.

 

[IM2]

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory
Jeffery Dingler

I heard about the Ku Klux Klan for the first time when I was 14, in school. The way I remember it, my eight grade teacher informed us during an English class that the KKK wasn't so bad at first, that it started out as a vigilante force for defenseless Southerners who were being preyed upon by Yankees and free Black Americans during Reconstruction. Of course, this isn't true; the Klan was always about racial oppression and white terrorism. That's not how we learned it in rural Alabama public school.

Incredibly, this wasn't the only false or outright racist thing I heard from educators in the six years I spent in middle school and high school there, from 1999-2005. I was also taught that there wasn't a "Civil War" but a "War of Northern Aggression," which was waged not to abolish slavery but to "end state's rights."

From all these alternate facts and twisted narratives, I did learn something true: that history is fungible and can be shaped to suit any region's needs. And it's this truth—along with a correct understanding of American history—that many across the nation are trying to ban from schools, stubbornly resisting hard truths about race and American history. The culture war over critical race theory—a loose academic framework that exposes systemic racism—has many white folks in an uproar over the thought of their kids learning that the United States is, and has been, a racist society.

That's what critical race theory is: another take on American history that focuses on what this country has always sought to bury: the systemic racial hierarchy that helped build it.

And that's what many oppose. Republicans in more than two dozen states have recently been proposing bills that limit educational discussions on race and racism in the U.S.—potentially stifling that conversation in schools before it's even begun.

As someone who was born and raised in the Deep South, I could not disagree more with these attempts to stifle an accounting of America's racist past and even present. To people like me who attended small public schools in rural or remote areas, classes that delve into CRT would be instrumental in countering what feels like an overwhelming culture of deliberate ignorance toward our own history.

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory | Opinion

This guy doesn't believe that teaching these subjects will make whites hate being white. Of course we'll get the he's filled with white guilt bs coming the USMB racists.

We should teach children about diversity and bias. Funny republicans are uncomfortable with these subjects.

I don't mind teaching the truth as long as you teach ALL the truth. The problem is you only want to teach what helps the leftist agenda. That's the problem.

If we teach the 1619 Project we are teaching the whole truth. Right now we're being fed the right wing agenda.

 

[BS Filter]

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory
Jeffery Dingler

I heard about the Ku Klux Klan for the first time when I was 14, in school. The way I remember it, my eight grade teacher informed us during an English class that the KKK wasn't so bad at first, that it started out as a vigilante force for defenseless Southerners who were being preyed upon by Yankees and free Black Americans during Reconstruction. Of course, this isn't true; the Klan was always about racial oppression and white terrorism. That's not how we learned it in rural Alabama public school.

Incredibly, this wasn't the only false or outright racist thing I heard from educators in the six years I spent in middle school and high school there, from 1999-2005. I was also taught that there wasn't a "Civil War" but a "War of Northern Aggression," which was waged not to abolish slavery but to "end state's rights."

From all these alternate facts and twisted narratives, I did learn something true: that history is fungible and can be shaped to suit any region's needs. And it's this truth—along with a correct understanding of American history—that many across the nation are trying to ban from schools, stubbornly resisting hard truths about race and American history. The culture war over critical race theory—a loose academic framework that exposes systemic racism—has many white folks in an uproar over the thought of their kids learning that the United States is, and has been, a racist society.

That's what critical race theory is: another take on American history that focuses on what this country has always sought to bury: the systemic racial hierarchy that helped build it.

And that's what many oppose. Republicans in more than two dozen states have recently been proposing bills that limit educational discussions on race and racism in the U.S.—potentially stifling that conversation in schools before it's even begun.

As someone who was born and raised in the Deep South, I could not disagree more with these attempts to stifle an accounting of America's racist past and even present. To people like me who attended small public schools in rural or remote areas, classes that delve into CRT would be instrumental in countering what feels like an overwhelming culture of deliberate ignorance toward our own history.

I Went to School in Alabama. We Desperately Needed Critical Race Theory | Opinion

This guy doesn't believe that teaching these subjects will make whites hate being white. Of course we'll get the he's filled with white guilt bs coming the USMB racists.

We should teach children about diversity and bias. Funny republicans are uncomfortable with these subjects.

I don't mind teaching the truth as long as you teach ALL the truth. The problem is you only want to teach what helps the leftist agenda. That's the problem.

If we teach the 1619 Project we are teaching the whole truth. Right now we're being fed the right wing agenda.

The truth is thousands of White Americans fought and gave their lives to end slavery and you race hustlers can't admit that. That's the problem.

 

[occupied]

The sign that said: "N----- don't let the sun set on your back." was taken down in the mid sixties but the black people who lived in the valley knew it was still there in the minds of the people who lived on the mountain. Never once saw a black person in that town except for a single old lady in the nursing home. Everyone in town knew her name and considered themselves quite progressive for allowing her to stay.

Horrible.

The sign in Compton "Honkey don't let the sun set on your back." is stronger than ever - promoted by Nazis like you.

Pretty sure you are just making that up. That's alright, it's not like you would ever go there anyway.