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Parents Are Pushing Back Against Critical Race Theory
The Epoch Times ^ | 10 Jun, 2021 | Charlotte Allen

Posted on 06/10/2021 6:11:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Critical race theory (CRT)—the idea that systemic racism permeates American life and American institutions despite all our civil-rights advances—has moved from the academic journals where it began life three decades ago into public-school classrooms and business training programs.

Schoolchildren and corporate employees alike sit through sessions in which they learn that racism is America’s defining feature and that our nation’s “true founding” occurred when a slave ship bearing a cargo of black Africans docked at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619.

And while there may be little that employees can do when their bosses sponsor “diversity” consultants who tell them that white people sail through life on a sea of “unearned privilege,” or that white oppression is the source of most social problems, there’s one group that has been resisting vociferously: parents.

Angry at what looks to them like Marxist indoctrination of their children (with racial antagonism standing in for Karl Marx’s class antagonism), parents are the grassroots force behind bills in about 15 states (signed into law in about four of them) that forbid teaching, for example, that any individual can be “inherently” or “unconsciously” racist or sexist just because of that individual’s race or sex, or that it’s racist to value such character traits as self-discipline and hard work.

On May 14, several Republican members of Congress introduced a bill that would ban the teaching of CRT in federal institutions. But the most intense battles against CRT are being fought at the local level, in the races for local school boards that set education policy in public schools. Those battles have been taking place not just in such conservative and Republican-voting strongholds as Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, but in localities in true-blue New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; indoctrination


1 posted on 06/10/2021 6:11:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Wake me when it has some effect.


2 posted on 06/10/2021 6:13:10 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MtnClimber

Marxist division by pushing a theory of race struggle because their class struggle division did not work in the USA.


3 posted on 06/10/2021 6:14:16 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Do not just forbid the teaching of Critical Race Theory, fire those who are promoting it!


4 posted on 06/10/2021 6:17:05 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: MtnClimber
CRT is not a local problem. It is the result of the Department of Education. They pay schools that follow their guidelines. That Department has no justification in a Constitution that limited Federal power but has long since had Its boundaries 'redefined'. CRT is a symptom of a much greater issue , the Centralization of Federal power.

The Founders knew this would happen and put in Article V as a remedy. What they did not count on was the irrational fear of change that set in and continued to grow the longer the cure sat unused.

So here we are , only 2 flaky RAT Senator votes away from a total Communist take over and fools still soil themselves over the only thing that can save us.

5 posted on 06/10/2021 6:30:16 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left Is not screaming , you are doing it wrong..)
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To: Petrosius
That will be a lot of board of education members, principals, etc.

I'll be attending my local BoE meeting to discuss this very topic.

The problem is I've discovered, is I'm about five years too late in the battle. It's already baked into the schools. It's just not under the name CRT.

The new name is Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DEI). Note they didn't call it Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DIE).

I may be late to the battle but not joining does nothing.

6 posted on 06/10/2021 6:32:49 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MtnClimber

Get rid of this RACIST SHIT!


7 posted on 06/10/2021 6:39:32 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: Nateman

and there you have it...


8 posted on 06/10/2021 6:56:31 PM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: ealgeone

DIE was always my suggestion and the first thing I thought of when I heard about it.


9 posted on 06/10/2021 7:34:19 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: ealgeone

Good luck and Godspeed


10 posted on 06/10/2021 7:35:56 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: DIRTYSECRET

11 posted on 06/10/2021 8:05:14 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: sauropod

It fits because we will DIE if it’s allowed.


12 posted on 06/10/2021 8:06:18 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Petrosius

“ Do not just forbid the teaching of Critical Race Theory, fire those who are promoting it!”

You misspelled incarcerate.


13 posted on 06/10/2021 8:24:16 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: ealgeone

Thank you.


14 posted on 06/10/2021 8:29:36 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: MtnClimber

The uprising is beginning.


15 posted on 06/10/2021 10:53:30 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: Petrosius
"Do not just forbid the teaching of Critical Race Theory, fire those who are promoting it!"

Yup. Replace everyone.

Better yet, get you kids out of public schools.

16 posted on 06/11/2021 6:06:18 AM PDT by blam
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