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I ask because the first context in which I ever heard of the theory was about a bunch of parents freaking out and starting fights at school board meetings. Next was the passage of laws to forbid teaching it at all because it makes people feel bad allegedly about the things that members of their race have done throughout history which it turn makes them feel bad about themselves?
I tried looking into things further however what I was reading didn't really make sense in context of the hysteria. Just like the Tusla Race Riot/Massacre was not taught in school, neither did I find out who the Tuskegee Airmen were until I was in college and I had an actual family who was one, presumably because they were not referred to by that moniker back them. But both things are factual American history, even though they are black history.
Doesn't an attempt to whitewash history prevent the wounds from healing? Are is that part of the plan?
I tried looking into things further however what I was reading didn't really make sense in context of the hysteria. Just like the Tusla Race Riot/Massacre was not taught in school, neither did I find out who the Tuskegee Airmen were until I was in college and I had an actual family who was one, presumably because they were not referred to by that moniker back them. But both things are factual American history, even though they are black history.
Doesn't an attempt to whitewash history prevent the wounds from healing? Are is that part of the plan?
Is “critical race theory” a way of understanding how American racism has shaped public policy, or a divisive discourse that pits people of color against white people? Liberals and conservatives are in sharp disagreement.The topic has exploded in the public arena this spring—especially in K-12, where numerous state legislatures are debating bills seeking to ban its use in the classroom.In truth, the divides are not nearly as neat as they may seem. The events of the last decade have increased public awareness about things like housing segregation, the impacts of criminal justice policy in the 1990s, and the legacy of enslavement on Black Americans. But there is much less consensus on what the government’s role should be in righting these past wrongs. Add children and schooling into the mix and the debate becomes especially volatile.School boards, superintendents, even principals and teachers are already facing questions about critical race theory, and there are significant disagreements even among experts about its precise definition as well as how its tenets should inform K-12 policy and practice. This explainer is meant only as a starting point to help educators grasp core aspects of the current debate.
Just what is critical race theory anyway? Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.The basic tenets of critical race theory, or CRT, emerged out of a framework for legal analysis in the late 1970s and early 1980s created by legal scholars Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, among others.A good example is when, in the 1930s, government officials literally drew lines around areas deemed poor financial risks, often explicitly due to the racial composition of inhabitants. Banks subsequently refused to offer mortgages to Black people in those areas.
Today, those same patterns of discrimination live on through facially race-blind policies, like single-family zoning that prevents the building of affordable housing in advantaged, majority-white neighborhoods and, thus, stymies racial desegregation efforts.
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