Critical Race Theory

JeBurkhardt

tempo_n_groove said:

JeBurkhardt said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

I think you are right. Growing up, you were taught about the Civil war, segregation laws and the Civil rights movement, but not a whole lot more than that. I was never taught about the Tulsa massacre, redlining of neighborhoods to assure keeping black people out of certain areas, the US interstate system annexing areas of towns that were primarily black neighborhoods to build the highways. There are too many to mention. All of them shaped the living experience of black citizens, with little to none of them designed to be truly beneficial to them.

I had NEVER heard of the Tulsa genocide/massacre until this year.  Years of listening to NPR, PBS documentaries and never recalled it until this year.

If it wasn't for CRT, would I have learned about it this year?  I actually heard about it's 100yr aniv on NPR.

NPR is also where I learned about how the the construction of the interstate highways affected black communities. 

tempo_n_groove

JeBurkhardt said:

tempo_n_groove said:

JeBurkhardt said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

I think you are right. Growing up, you were taught about the Civil war, segregation laws and the Civil rights movement, but not a whole lot more than that. I was never taught about the Tulsa massacre, redlining of neighborhoods to assure keeping black people out of certain areas, the US interstate system annexing areas of towns that were primarily black neighborhoods to build the highways. There are too many to mention. All of them shaped the living experience of black citizens, with little to none of them designed to be truly beneficial to them.

I had NEVER heard of the Tulsa genocide/massacre until this year.  Years of listening to NPR, PBS documentaries and never recalled it until this year.

If it wasn't for CRT, would I have learned about it this year?  I actually heard about it's 100yr aniv on NPR.

NPR is also where I learned about how the the construction of the interstate highways affected black communities. 

That is very interesting.  Did they mention Huey Long at all?  He actually went after big time politicians so he could build the roads and schools in Louisiana and am wondering if African Americans bore any brunt of that?

oftenreading

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

Yes, I think the average "person" would be surprised how much race weighs in everything.

Really? You believe the "average" Black person or Hispanic person "would be surprised" by how much race weighs in everything? Wow

I changed the wording to remove color from the equation and then it came right back in your response.

I was curious if you removed it would it even be recognized and you proved that for me.  That's all.

Because color matters, duh. You still didn't answer the question.

I said average person.  Your question makes it sound like a black or Hispanic person isn't an average person.  Is that what you're getting at?  They aren't average people?

You’re missing the point. When we are talking about the impact of race and racist treatment, it’s nonsensical to complain about specifying someone’s race or colour. 

tempo_n_groove

HughFreakingDillon said:

I think it's naïve to believe that the average "person" would be surprised by how much race weighs in everything. I'd wager nearly all non-whites know that reality day in and day out. 

Race and racist are two different things.

I am asking a question out loud and if it is race that weighs in or is it racism?

This would be a better conversation in person, it would flow better.

HughFreakingDillon

tempo_n_groove said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I think it's naïve to believe that the average "person" would be surprised by how much race weighs in everything. I'd wager nearly all non-whites know that reality day in and day out. 

Race and racist are two different things.

I am asking a question out loud and if it is race that weighs in or is it racism?

This would be a better conversation in person, it would flow better.

i gotta be honest, i'm not even sure which hairs you're splitting here. 

tempo_n_groove

HughFreakingDillon said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I think it's naïve to believe that the average "person" would be surprised by how much race weighs in everything. I'd wager nearly all non-whites know that reality day in and day out. 

Race and racist are two different things.

I am asking a question out loud and if it is race that weighs in or is it racism?

This would be a better conversation in person, it would flow better.

i gotta be honest, i'm not even sure which hairs you're splitting here. 

I had a response written out and it will just get more convoluted.

At the end of the day I would like to see race brought up and not have racism follow it.  I don't think that it is ever possible.

JeBurkhardt

tempo_n_groove said:

JeBurkhardt said:

tempo_n_groove said:

JeBurkhardt said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

I think you are right. Growing up, you were taught about the Civil war, segregation laws and the Civil rights movement, but not a whole lot more than that. I was never taught about the Tulsa massacre, redlining of neighborhoods to assure keeping black people out of certain areas, the US interstate system annexing areas of towns that were primarily black neighborhoods to build the highways. There are too many to mention. All of them shaped the living experience of black citizens, with little to none of them designed to be truly beneficial to them.

I had NEVER heard of the Tulsa genocide/massacre until this year.  Years of listening to NPR, PBS documentaries and never recalled it until this year.

If it wasn't for CRT, would I have learned about it this year?  I actually heard about it's 100yr aniv on NPR.

NPR is also where I learned about how the the construction of the interstate highways affected black communities. 

That is very interesting.  Did they mention Huey Long at all?  He actually went after big time politicians so he could build the roads and schools in Louisiana and am wondering if African Americans bore any brunt of that?

I don't recall Louisiana specifically. The author of the book who was discussing it spoke mostly in terms of common overall effects in the interview. I imagine he got more detailed and had specific situations in the book. 

tempo_n_groove

JeBurkhardt said:

tempo_n_groove said:

JeBurkhardt said:

tempo_n_groove said:

JeBurkhardt said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

I think you are right. Growing up, you were taught about the Civil war, segregation laws and the Civil rights movement, but not a whole lot more than that. I was never taught about the Tulsa massacre, redlining of neighborhoods to assure keeping black people out of certain areas, the US interstate system annexing areas of towns that were primarily black neighborhoods to build the highways. There are too many to mention. All of them shaped the living experience of black citizens, with little to none of them designed to be truly beneficial to them.

I had NEVER heard of the Tulsa genocide/massacre until this year.  Years of listening to NPR, PBS documentaries and never recalled it until this year.

If it wasn't for CRT, would I have learned about it this year?  I actually heard about it's 100yr aniv on NPR.

NPR is also where I learned about how the the construction of the interstate highways affected black communities. 

That is very interesting.  Did they mention Huey Long at all?  He actually went after big time politicians so he could build the roads and schools in Louisiana and am wondering if African Americans bore any brunt of that?

I don't recall Louisiana specifically. The author of the book who was discussing it spoke mostly in terms of common overall effects in the interview. I imagine he got more detailed and had specific situations in the book. 

Reason I asked was because of the 9th ward.  I am going to google it now anyways.

Thanks

Halifax2TheMax

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

Yes, I think the average "person" would be surprised how much race weighs in everything.

Really? You believe the "average" Black person or Hispanic person "would be surprised" by how much race weighs in everything? Wow

I changed the wording to remove color from the equation and then it came right back in your response.

I was curious if you removed it would it even be recognized and you proved that for me.  That's all.

Because color matters, duh. You still didn't answer the question.

I said average person.  Your question makes it sound like a black or Hispanic person isn't an average person.  Is that what you're getting at?  They aren't average people?

The average person includes all people of all races, yes? I would expect that the average that "would be surprised that race weighing into everything", amongst the average Black or Hispanic person would be substantially higher than both the "average person (all races)" and particularly among average Whites. Is that a surprise to you?

Of course their/there/they're are "average" people of all races. Like HFD asked, "what hairs are you splitting?" To your last question, no, there are a % who are way above average, as with all races. And unfortunately, there's a larger percentage who fall below average, in almost any method/category of measurement.

mickeyrat

HC Richardson and her historian colleague Joanne Freeman discuss CRT on their new podcast Now and Then

http://apple.co/3zsMs69

link provided by her and found elsewhere as well.

Merkin Baller

JeBurkhardt said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

I think you are right. Growing up, you were taught about the Civil war, segregation laws and the Civil rights movement, but not a whole lot more than that. I was never taught about the Tulsa massacre, redlining of neighborhoods to assure keeping black people out of certain areas, the US interstate system annexing areas of towns that were primarily black neighborhoods to build the highways. There are too many to mention. All of them shaped the living experience of black citizens, with little to none of them designed to be truly beneficial to them.

Same, and conservatives want to keep it this way. 

They need a safe space away from the reality of our country's history. 

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

HC Richardson and her historian colleague Joanne Freeman discuss CRT on their new podcast Now and Then

http://apple.co/3zsMs69

link provided by her and found elsewhere as well.

You are 100% ok with it?  Nothing you would change?

mickeyrat

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

HC Richardson and her historian colleague Joanne Freeman discuss CRT on their new podcast Now and Then

http://apple.co/3zsMs69

link provided by her and found elsewhere as well.

You are 100% ok with it?  Nothing you would change?

not having said one word about this at all personally, I fail to see how you come to that conclusion.

I posted a link to a podcast by a pair if historians and gave no comment.

Frankly on a topic such as this I would prefer to learn more before offering any commentary specfically on the theory itself.

I will offer high criticism to gop controlled legislatures for their kneejerk legislation surrounding the theory

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

HC Richardson and her historian colleague Joanne Freeman discuss CRT on their new podcast Now and Then

http://apple.co/3zsMs69

link provided by her and found elsewhere as well.

You are 100% ok with it?  Nothing you would change?

not having said one word about this at all personally, I fail to see how you come to that conclusion.

I posted a link to a podcast by a pair if historians and gave no comment.

Frankly on a topic such as this I would prefer to learn more before offering any commentary specfically on the theory itself.

I will offer high criticism to gop controlled legislatures for their kneejerk legislation surrounding the theory

I asked a question.  Figured you posted it because you listened to it.

People post articles then get lambasted for them sometimes. You usually post good things with reason which is exactly why I asked.

Halifax2TheMax

Fox News trying to claim that Tom Hanks was ‘canceled’ is proof of its utter desperation

You may have a hard time understanding how Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head and Tom Hanks are connected, but that probably just means you haven’t been watching nearly enough Fox News recently.

The cable network, which suffered a shaky existential moment after Donald Trump lost his reelection bid, has recovered its purpose — and its ratings.

These days, Fox is all-in on culture wars and outrage-stoking.

The latest is a ridiculous fuss that began with a recent guest essay by Tom Hanks in the New York Times, in which the actor reflected on how he was not taught about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, in which hundreds of Black people were killed by a White mob.

That essay prompted NPR’s Eric Deggans to write a response last weekend headlined “Tom Hanks Is a Non-Racist. It’s Time for Him To Be Anti-Racist.”

Deggans praised Hanks, using words like “wise” and “wonderful.” He began: “First I must note how much I love Tom Hanks as a performer, Hollywood citizen and all-around stand-up guy.” And he went on, in a measured way, to urge that Hanks should now go further: “After many years of speaking out about race and media in America, I know the toughest thing for some white Americans — especially those who consider themselves advocates against racism — is to admit how they were personally and specifically connected to the elevation of white culture over other cultures.”

Always poised for an unnecessary fight, Fox News went to town on this, claiming that simply by virtue of receiving a mild critique from another writer, Hanks had now been unjustly “canceled.” It’s the scare word getting applied to almost anything these days, meant to evoke a beatdown from some unforgiving woke mob. The estate of Dr. Seuss decides to stop publishing several obscure books because of racist imagery? Cancel culture! Hasbro considers marketing its plastic toys in a more gender-neutral way? Cancel culture!

So you can imagine what glee Fox commentators took in this perceived rebuke of an Oscar winner. “Cancel Culture Comes for Tom Hanks,” warned an on-air teaser.

“Being white in America apparently has a lot of pitfalls,” commiserated anchor Bill Hemmer. And contributor Joe Concha of the Hill chimed in about “perpetual protesters” for whom, “no matter what Tom Hanks does, it will never be enough.”

Deggans pushed back: “Fox News associating my column with cancel culture is disingenuous and inaccurate. And now I have a new deluge of Fox fans who haven’t read my column objecting to something I haven’t said.”

But so it goes. Accuracy is not really the point here. Nor is anything that can even loosely be called “news.”

Last fall, shortly after the election, as Fox teetered slightly — briefly losing audience share to Newsmax and One America to its right, and to CNN and MSNBC to its left — I had the quixotic notion of suggesting something that the network might do.

With the cable network’s great hero, Donald Trump, moving off center stage, I thought perhaps Fox might want to pursue more hard-edged reporting about serious subjects. Beef up the news report; tone down the rhetoric.

If they did it from a conservative perspective, fine. But they could at least make their programming about the news, not hyperpartisan commentary.

From November: Fox News needs to reinvent itself for the post-Trump era. Here’s one radical idea.

It was probably always a pipe dream. But now it’s clear: Fox has gone entirely the other way.

The news programming at 7 and 11 p.m. has been replaced with opinion shows. Donna Brazile, a former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, left Fox News for ABC. Juan Williams, a solitary moderate-to-liberal voice on the afternoon talk show “The Five” has moved out of that slot. And partisan voices like Greg Gutfeld and Dan Bongino have been elevated.

“Instead of trying to broaden their audience, Fox News is narrowing it and digging in,” Susan Estrich, the attorney who represented Fox co-founder Roger Ailes when he left the network in 2016 after settling a major sexual harassment suit by Gretchen Carlson, told the New York Times last month.

Take the network’s nearly constant harping against the supposed dangers of teaching American schoolchildren about systemic racism, which is now nightly telegraphed using the faculty-lounge jargon of “critical race theory.”

The clear purpose — the only purpose — is to stoke outrage and division among viewers who may think they’re getting meaningful news content.

When Fox’s biggest star, Tucker Carlson, riled up his audience over CRT supposedly being taught in a suburban Maine school district, it added to a near panic already underway, reported NBC News. Jeff Porter, a schools superintendent, described intense turmoil after a national conservative group started a campaign to prove that his district was teaching CRT. Billboard-sized lawn signs, hate mail, efforts to get school board members to resign — it all added up to a school system “almost held hostage” by the battle, Porter said.

Fox has mentioned critical race theory almost 1,300 times in the past few months, according to a new study from Media Matters, the progressive media-watchdog organization.

But this is only the latest example of what Fox is up to. Back in April, Carlson was urging his viewers to call the police or child protective services to report child abuse if they saw children wearing masks.

From a ratings perspective, it’s working. After that shaky moment, Fox again rules the cable-news roost.

But, as always with the way Fox spreads its toxic ugliness, there is a real downside — if not to its bottom line, then to the way Americans function, or don’t function, as citizens.

READ MORE by Margaret Sullivan:

Fox News trying to claim that Tom Hanks was ‘canceled’ is proof of its utter desperation - The Washington Post

mickeyrat

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

HC Richardson and her historian colleague Joanne Freeman discuss CRT on their new podcast Now and Then

http://apple.co/3zsMs69

link provided by her and found elsewhere as well.

You are 100% ok with it?  Nothing you would change?

not having said one word about this at all personally, I fail to see how you come to that conclusion.

I posted a link to a podcast by a pair if historians and gave no comment.

Frankly on a topic such as this I would prefer to learn more before offering any commentary specfically on the theory itself.

I will offer high criticism to gop controlled legislatures for their kneejerk legislation surrounding the theory

I asked a question.  Figured you posted it because you listened to it.

People post articles then get lambasted for them sometimes. You usually post good things with reason which is exactly why I asked.

to ask Are you ok with it is far different than You are ok with it?.

the former suggests an open mind. the latter seeking confirmation of a preconceived conclusion.

as you stated elsewhere, words matter. but so does the order of words.

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

HC Richardson and her historian colleague Joanne Freeman discuss CRT on their new podcast Now and Then

http://apple.co/3zsMs69

link provided by her and found elsewhere as well.

You are 100% ok with it?  Nothing you would change?

not having said one word about this at all personally, I fail to see how you come to that conclusion.

I posted a link to a podcast by a pair if historians and gave no comment.

Frankly on a topic such as this I would prefer to learn more before offering any commentary specfically on the theory itself.

I will offer high criticism to gop controlled legislatures for their kneejerk legislation surrounding the theory

I asked a question.  Figured you posted it because you listened to it.

People post articles then get lambasted for them sometimes. You usually post good things with reason which is exactly why I asked.

to ask Are you ok with it is far different than You are ok with it?.

the former suggests an open mind. the latter seeking confirmation of a preconceived conclusion.

as you stated elsewhere, words matter. but so does the order of words.

"words matter" was a dig somewhere else and it was meant as a joke obviously...
As for the second part, no.  That's reading wayyyy too far into it.  You were looking to find something that wasn't there.  

I explained myself very well the second time after you came to a conclusion that was wrong and you doubled down on it.

I really don't get some of you sometimes...

FiveBelow

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

Yes, I think the average "person" would be surprised how much race weighs in everything.

Really? You believe the "average" Black person or Hispanic person "would be surprised" by how much race weighs in everything? Wow

I changed the wording to remove color from the equation and then it came right back in your response.

I was curious if you removed it would it even be recognized and you proved that for me.  That's all.

Because color matters, duh. You still didn't answer the question.

I said average person.  Your question makes it sound like a black or Hispanic person isn't an average person.  Is that what you're getting at?  They aren't average people?

The average person includes all people of all races, yes? I would expect that the average that "would be surprised that race weighing into everything", amongst the average Black or Hispanic person would be substantially higher than both the "average person (all races)" and particularly among average Whites. Is that a surprise to you?

Of course their are "average" people of all races. Like HFD asked, "what hairs are you splitting?" To your last question, no, there are a % who are way above average, as with all races. And unfortunately, there's a larger percentage who fall below average, in almost any method/category of measurement.

Halifax2TheMax

FiveBelow said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

oftenreading said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about this from the AMT?

What? Teaching about racism? I put institutional racism deniers right up there with holocaust deniers. How about you?

Couldn't agree with you more.  I do not agree that race should be pointed out in everything though.

I think the average white person in North America would be surprised how much race weighs in to pretty much everything, in some way. 

Yes, I think the average "person" would be surprised how much race weighs in everything.

Really? You believe the "average" Black person or Hispanic person "would be surprised" by how much race weighs in everything? Wow

I changed the wording to remove color from the equation and then it came right back in your response.

I was curious if you removed it would it even be recognized and you proved that for me.  That's all.

Because color matters, duh. You still didn't answer the question.

I said average person.  Your question makes it sound like a black or Hispanic person isn't an average person.  Is that what you're getting at?  They aren't average people?

The average person includes all people of all races, yes? I would expect that the average that "would be surprised that race weighing into everything", amongst the average Black or Hispanic person would be substantially higher than both the "average person (all races)" and particularly among average Whites. Is that a surprise to you?

Of course their are "average" people of all races. Like HFD asked, "what hairs are you splitting?" To your last question, no, there are a % who are way above average, as with all races. And unfortunately, there's a larger percentage who fall below average, in almost any method/category of measurement.

Is that a meme or a GIF? Strong work regardless.

Halifax2TheMax

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It’s hard to know what’s worse—brainwashing kids or lying about it. Parents worried their kids are being indoctrinated with critical race theory can’t get straight answers. Local school boards and principals lie to them, claiming children are merely being taught to be “critical thinkers.” On Saturday June 12, 2021, the truth came out. Teachers unions and activists held rallies in 22 cities to support critical race theory. What they said was eye-popping. They unabashedly declared that their goal is indoctrinating students in far-left causes. The Zinn Education Project, which organized Saturday’s events, produces race-centric material for junior high and high schools across the country. Lesson plans are offered free for teachers to download. Parents wondering where the critical race theory their children are getting comes from can go to the website. They’ll be shocked. Marxist historian Howard Zinn’s views on teaching social studies Zinn was founded by the late Howard Zinn, a Marxist historian who said that teaching social studies wasn’t about dates and events. It was to make students want to change the world, overthrowing the status quo. A Zinn lesson called “Students Design a Reparations Bill” explains that students will be asked to improve on the “flimsy” reparations bills currently in Congress. Critical thinking isn’t encouraged. This isn’t a debate about whether there should be reparations. This is one-sided indoctrination. “As racial justice activists, student are all on the ‘same side,’ in this role play,” says the Zinn website. Other extreme left groups supplying social studies materials for schools include the Southern Poverty Law Center and Black Lives Matter at School. SPLC tells educators to stand their ground against parents “and vigorously resist efforts to maintain the status quo.” No wonder parents are getting the run around. It’s not just white families protesting Keisha King, a black mother from Duval County, Florida, warned the Florida Board of Education that telling a child he’s the victim of oppression is “the essence of holding a child back.” Michael Rivera, a Virginian, explains that he “married a wonderful woman who happens to be white. My son is white.” He objects that “according to critical race theory, my son should have white guilt and white privilege.” More than 500 people have signed a petition demanding a curriculum that allows students to learn “without the titles of racist and victim” in Guilford, Connecticut, a small town outside of New Haven. Yet the Guilford school superintendent insists schools aren’t teaching critical race theory. Does he think parents are lying about the homework in their kids’ backpacks? In Greenwich, Connecticut, parents went to the microphone at a May 20 school board meeting, parents to quote materials their children had brought home, including a “white bias” survey for seventh graders. The school board members and school superintendent sat silently. Last week, the superintendent sent out an email to parents explaining that Greenwich wants students to be “critical thinkers” but deftly denying that critical race theory is part of the curriculum. That may be technically true. Critical race theory originated in law schools. But what’s being taught in elementary and secondary schools across the country is a simplified version. Sapient parents can fight back by replacing their local school board officials Since school administrators will lie and obfuscate to push ahead with critical race theory, parents have only one choice. They have to organize and run candidates to replace the local school boards. School board elections are usually quiet, because unions and other insiders like it that way. Now’s the time for parents to grab control. Twenty states with Republican legislative majorities are trying to ban critical race theory. They’re not calling for whitewashing American history, as some activists claim, but they require diversity of viewpoints and prohibit lessons that would shame students for their “privilege.” Even so, state bans are not ideal. They may run afoul of the First Amendment. And it’s hard to know what’s going on in each school. That’s what local school boards are for. Even in blue states, Republican candidates who challenge local school boards will make inroads and gain converts to the GOP. This is a winning issue. Parents—whether independents, Democrats, Republicans or black, white, Hispanic and Asian—want their children to be educated—not indoctrinated. This article content courtesy of the Epoch Times “Opinion: The Leftists Writing Your Child’s Social Studies Lessons” by Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York.