Do you know what Critical Race Theory is and what it’s not?
CRT was once known as a legal framework but has now been weaponized by people on the right (republicans).
Republicans who are motivated by their own racial bigotry and their own miseducation, and who are targeting any citizen who’s standing up to racism, people who are trying to educate others about the ravages of systemic racism.
In the early 1970s critical race theory began as a legal framework developed by a small group of scholars and professors just trying to examine the impact of systemic racism only in the legal field. And after all, only the decade before had the federal government finally begun to dismantle the 80-year system of legalized racial segregation and discrimination that we call Jim Crow.
And that 80 years of legalized racial segregation discrimination is systemic racism.
So these scholars wanted to examine the impact of systemic racism. And over the next several decades, critical race theory began to be used as a framework to examine scholarship in other fields, in government, education, and politics.
So critical race theory is not something that most Americans heard about until late 2020. Critical Race Theory is not history. It’s a framework to examine systemic racism.
It is not being taught in any public schools in the United States.
And what’s more insidious, more dangerous, and more offensive is that no politician has provided a shred of evidence that it is being taught. But it’s not stopping them from using critical race theory to conflate it with other well-intentioned and important initiatives like equity and restorative practice.
Stand up to the false claims about Critical Race Theory. You have to insist that our students learn all of American history.