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Who’s teaching our children and grandchildren

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 1958415)

A Lesson on Critical Race Theory

Looks very complicated. Teachers should be able to decide which students could handle this. Beltway bigwigs should not determine it. Leave it to the educators.

This country better wake up and take a long and detailed look at the people who have been teaching our children.

Schools should teach our children how to think for themselves but I doubt someone that's in fifth grade will understand what's propaganda and what's not. Critical race theory is pretty much like religion and should be left out of school if you want to teach your children that everyone hates you do it at home .

Learn to love all people and this will go away. If your future depends on guns, remember the Alamo, where slave supporters lost or what about the confederacy attacking the United States of America.

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Originally Posted by JerryLBell (Post 1958374)

From what I've read, critical race theory is really two ideas.

The first is that the very idea of race is not based on biology or science of any kind. There's nothing about the physiology of humans that neatly divides humanity into categories like "white", "black", "Asian", etc. The attempts to divide people into these categories were done societally, not scientifically.

The second idea is that American history shows us that governments put in place in the Americas by European settlers were and continue to be racist in nature. To steal land away from the indigenous people, governments put into place laws that made those peoples have fewer or any rights and encouraged the suppression of those peoples. Prior to the industrial revolution, manual labor was vital and slave labor was cheaper than paid labor, so laws were put into place to allow kidnapping, torturing and enslaving peoples from other countries, especially Africa. Laws were put into place over time to exclude Asians. During World War II, people of Japanese heritage were robbed of their properties and imprisoned while people of German heritage were not. Even after the emancipation of enslaved people in America, voting rights were suppressed and continue to be so to this day.

But that's just my opinion.

That is not critical race theory.Critical race theory is an academic concept that believes it may be embedded in our legal system and government policies. It is actually way above academics for K - 10th grades. Like the original poster said, it is a concept being used to divide our country. One should read: What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?

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Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 1958448)

"Critical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s and built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism. Relegated for many years to universities and obscure academic journals, it has increasingly become the default ideology in our public institutions over the past decade. It has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher training programs and corporate human resources departments in the form of diversity training programs, human resources modules, public policy frameworks and school curricula.

Its supporters deploy a series of euphemisms to describe critical race theory, including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion” and “culturally responsive teaching.”
Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that “neo-Marxism” would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds nonthreatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Indeed, critical race theorists explicitly reject equality — the principle proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, defended in the Civil War and codified into law with the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. To them, equality represents “mere nondiscrimination” and provides “camouflage” for white supremacy, patriarchy and oppression.

In contrast to equality, equity as defined and promoted by critical race theorists is little more than reformulated Marxism. In the name of equity, UCLA law professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth and redistributing them along racial lines.

Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal Department of Antiracism. This department would be independent of (i.e., unaccountable to) the elected branches of government and would have the power to nullify, veto or abolish any law at any level of government and curtail the speech of political leaders and others deemed insufficiently “antiracist.”

One practical result of the creation of such a department would be the overthrow of capitalism, since, according to Kendi, “in order to truly be antiracist, you also have to truly be anticapitalist.”

In other words, identity is the means; Marxism is the end."

From: What critical race theory is really about

Exactly!

IMO, our schools have set aside very little time for teaching the basics that these children need in everyday life, let alone have enough time for teaching liberal "theory" of casting blame on our past. Let's not mix up actual history with Social Studies or Civics. Even as old as we are, most of us were taught about the slavery and the Civil war. In Civics class we were taught about equal rights.
That said, this is not about teaching, it's about indoctrination. CRT is not about teaching history, but teaching these kids about what some believe is "systemic racism" which is not even accurate. It is teaching these children that if they are "white" then they come from a history of "white supremacists." It is teaching Equity instead of Equality. This is ALL wrong. Anyone believing the garbage that CRT is a good thing for children, must not have children or had children themselves. I am not suggesting that there is no longer racism in our country, but I am suggesting that we have come a very long way and now some folks are using politics AND racism to further an Anti-American ideology. Americans are good people. We have been the standard for ALL other countries. No one is suggesting that America never had it's blemishes or that Americans walk on water. BUT, we are the of the best in the world and anyone that refutes that has never lived and traveled outside of our country to see proof.
CRT is very dangerous to our children. Not what it is being said it is, but what it really is. A black child should not be told that it is a victim of today's white supremacy and can never expect to do better on their own. They should not be taught that this country owes them a debt, but an equal chance based on ability. A white child should not be told that they will always owe someone else a debt because history says they are always going to be racists because their ancestors were racists.
Teach history by time line and leave ideology and theory to higher institutions.
Anyone that is taught about the CIVIL war and events leading up to it, knows that there was a slavery problem. Want to talk about equal rights, then bring Civics back into the classroom and teach it along with other countries' constitutions. But also teach the kids about how our gov is run.
CRT is political, not science. If you can't see that, then it's too late for you because you have already been indoctrinated by a warped liberal/marxist agenda. Next thing you will be teaching the kids is that communism is the American way.

It’s all about power and how to achieve it.

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Originally Posted by bay kid (Post 1958355)

curious why this is being pushed in our schools? This seems like it is designed to divide our country.

bingo!!!!!!!! Go to the head of the class

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Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 1958355)

Curious why this is being pushed in our schools? This seems like it is designed to divide our country.

Absolutely!

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 1958415)

A Lesson on Critical Race Theory

Looks very complicated. Teachers should be able to decide which students could handle this. Beltway bigwigs should not determine it. Leave it to the educators.

Wrong wrong wrong. The last people I want deciding what is taught to the youth is the liberal left teaching profession. I respect good teachers and what they do but for some reason it seems the majority are behind the liberal left Marxist platform, especially the college professors. If this wasn't the case States wouldn't have to outlaw CRT teaching, the teachers would stand up and refuse to teach it

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 1958415)

A Lesson on Critical Race Theory

Looks very complicated. Teachers should be able to decide which students could handle this. Beltway bigwigs should not determine it. Leave it to the educators.

I think teachers should stick to teaching the subjects that they were hired to teach and not be teaching political talking points.

Bingo! It’s designed to divide the country! That’s the purpose!

Do some research on the concept. It is complicated and has been around since the 1970's. The only "people" trying to "divide" us are the Noise cable media networks who misrepresent it.