Posted on 01/18/2022 2:47:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Critical Race Theory (CRT), a relatively young legal theory that has been circulating in legal academic circles since the 1980s, suddenly burst on the scene of public consciousness in the past year. It continues to be a topic of controversy due to its being advocated for inclusion in K-12 instruction. As with other subjects that become political footballs, CRT elicits very strong views -- especially among those with minimal understanding of the theory. Unless a person has taken the time to earnestly read source materials from CRT’s original authors, it is all too easy to fall into one camp or the other -- while still remaining in the dark about its meaning.
Here I would like to provide some insights about CRT and encourage reading original source materials by authors such as Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado. A great start would be Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement by Crenshaw, et al. What you will find is that CRT writings are not light reading by any means, but scholarly and heavily academic, as the expected audience is other legal scholars and academics. Yet grappling with these works is a necessary investment if you truly want to have an informed perspective regarding CRT. You will likely come away with a conclusion that what has been labeled and promoted as “CRT” in K-12 education has virtually nothing to do with the theory as put forward in the key writings of its authors.
Last year we heard the continual refrain, even from the highest levels of government, that CRT is needed for K-12 students because it teaches about slavery and racism in our history.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Wrong for anybody, period.
Balderdash. CRT is purely racist - It teaches that everyone must be categorized based only on skin color. Little more than that is all that needs to be taught to children.
It's impossible to teach everything to everyone. Even within a single language, that hasn't been possible for many millennia. All that most children need to know and understand is that CRT is racist and damages the very people it is supposed to help. Also, it's basis, the Marxist CT, is a failed theory of government that has NEVER been successful in the dozens of times it's been tried, and also resulted in the murders of scores of MILLIONS of its subjects.
Effectively teaching that is all that's necessary. Anything more than that is simply a waste of children's time.
It’s infected the DHHS here in NC with these mandatory courses:
What does Bias look like.
What’s the difference between Bias and Instinct.
Overcome your unconscious Bias.
“CRT is not light reading by any means”
Well, this is the preferred escape strategy - define CRT in such a way as to exclude the anti-white hatred surging through our schools with the explicit purpose of hurting white children, especially the little ones.
This is why I keep urging caution about political work to “ban CRT”. Banning “CRT” is trivial. I expect that to be done by next Fall.
But if you don’t ban anti-white hatred - and name it - NOT “CRT”, not “racism”, or any other scare word. Call it by its right name.
And not only should anti-white hatred in schools be banned, reparative therapy is called for. AFFIRM whiteness. Don’t “break glass and pull alarm” when some put-upon child stickers up the place with “It’s OK to be white”. Make it clear that the school and the government AGREES that “it’s OK to be white”, and that anyone who disagrees can leave.
A lot of schools say the don’t teach Critical Race Theory and they are right because it goes under many other names it’s a snow job the give the parents.
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