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Black Americans have been systematically subjected to overt and hidden racism and racial agendas since they arrived on this continent in 1619. Those who deny it are likely hidden racists or overt racists themselves as they simply see what happened as "history" and not a big deal. I offer a passage I came across today doing a family tree. It is from a newspaper in Bluefield WV in 1911, a Union state I would point out and 50 years after the South formed a new country to protect slavery as the most import right of their states.

A bill has been drafted to separate white and colored races on railroads, preferably in separate cars but if needed in separate areas of single cars.

"The separate accommodations.. the demand for it being practically unanimous among the white people. Many of the better class of colored people also favor the law as they realize that it means better accommodations for their people than can be given under existing conditions and also that whatever is a tendency to lessen the friction between the two races is greatly to the benefit of the colored people. Of course there are some colored people who opposed to the measure but they would equally be opposed to separate schools and we all know that this is not the sentiment of the better colored people. Properly looked at the law cannot be considered in any sense as an effort to discriminate against the negro"

This is the real American history. This is what white people did and still do to convince themselves that they are being more than fair to those negro people who at least the better negroes see as the best way forward. Why everyone knows a negro wouldn't want to be in a white school, and there is going to be friction if the races don't stay separated. Tell me Fox people, can you hear the 1911 version of Hannity making this speech?

Critical race theory would teach this material, and yes it might lead some bright students to see the parallels between the kind of mental gymnastics that Senator French used and that used now. Certainly can't present that sort of material or it might open some eyes to the reality of the ugly ugly history of racism that neither ended with the Civil War nor the election of 2008.