Quote from: Jell 0 Biafra on November 04, 2021, 01:21:50 AM
Critical Race Theory, as an academic discipline, focuses on how racism endures in society regardless of whether people personally embrace racist attitudes. As such, it is the opposite of making people feel guilty because of slavery.
As an example of critical race theory in action take the question of why a lower percentage of black people own their own homes today in the US?
This is, in large part, because of decisions made by banks, and municipalities about who would get loans and who could live where. Certain districts on Long Island, for example, had written into their regulations, that blacks couldn't own homes there, and we're talking mid-twentieth century here. That's changed of course, but what it meant was that white families have hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity that black families were never allowed to amass. So black families, on average, have less wealth, because of institutionalized racist policies.
Such policies have the effect that black families are at a disadvantage with respect to white families in terms of wealth. Given how schools work in the US, that means that kids in poor areas (disproportionately black) attend schools with significantly less resources, and thus significantly worse outcomes.
All this happens whether or not white people have racist thoughts "in their hearts".
This is all common sense to anyone with a modicum of common sense and knowledge of US history. So, why is everyone up in arms about Critical Race Theory?
Here's why:
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1371540368714428416?lang=en
Republican strategists have seized on this as a culture war issue, and are attempting to make every attempt to discuss race and justice seem like an attempt to make white people feel guilty.
Yes, some activists might be trying to do make white people feel guilty, but that is decidedly not what critical race theory is about.
If CRT is to become a staple piece in the education program, should the democratic party / education officials need to do a better job in communicating with parents about CRT, objectives, and teaching style to shut this down as an issue. As I've said previously, I'm a left of center democrat, but I've no idea if and how CRT is incorporated into the education system.
For example;
What is an academic discipline?
Should critical race theory be a policy within a schools academic program, or a subset of the academic program?
Is it ok to set different scoring scales for different ethnic groupings in standardized testing due to the american education system was set up to enforce "white supremacy" (De Blasio NYC specialist high school program)
Should it be taught in a civics class or history class or should it have its own stand alone class?
Should it be taught along with other social constructs; eg Marxism, socialism, capitalism, fascism, colonialism CRT etc
How it's taught; is it ok to separate white and non white kids into separate classes to teach the subject, are there guidelines in place to not assert white guilt onto young children
Why are the democrats not doing a better job of explaining CRT if it is so important to their program.
And until they do, parents have a 100% right to challenge the school boards until they get clarity what is going on.