history, of telling our next generation what has happened and how we got to where we are.īut just maybe there has been some movement. So, it seems that we’re not even making the slam dunks of U.S. In fact, nearly half of the 1,700 students surveyed picked the answer “to protest taxes on imported goods.” I saw one study that said most high school students don’t even know that slavery was the root cause of the Civil War. Still, there needs to be a reality check as to where we are and how we got here. However, a collection of leading scholars criticized the work, saying there was a “displacement of historical understanding by ideology.” In 2019, The New York Times published The 1619 Project, which according to the newspaper was an attempt to “reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.” Obviously, there’s a lot to unpack and not every sixth-grade social studies teacher or high school history teacher is up to the task or is equal in their abilities to tell a fair and proper narrative of history or race relations. So it really shouldn’t be so terrible that teachers delve into the subject. The reality is that race is indeed embedded in some way in just about every aspect of life - work, worship, politics, the legal system, who we hang with. Reading that, even I felt a bit micro-aggressed, although my white privilege quickly shook it off.īut let’s not kid ourselves. White people make my blood boil.” Khilanani went on to say she has had fantasies about shooting down white people and then walking away with a “bounce in my step.” “We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero to accept responsibility,” she said. She told the online audience that discussing race with white people is useless. Aruna Khilanani, a shrink who in April addressed the impressionable minds at the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center. True, there can be instances where the woke academia-intelligencia industrial complex can be insufferable, as evidenced by Dr. ![]() But you can never underestimate the desire of those in political circles to attack a problem that doesn’t exist, especially if it will buy them support - or at least get the mob to look the other way. They voted 11-2 to say schools ought not teach kids that anyone is “inherently racist, sexist or oppressive,” is responsible for past acts by folks who looked like them, and that no one “should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.”Īs it turns out, it doesn’t seem like there was any overt effort by many school districts (or even any) to go all CRT. This month, the state school board fended off the looming threat of critical race theory. ![]() To them, the program was nothing but a Trojan horse to sneak in racial scapegoating and resentment. The school district tried to push back, saying it was simply hiring an administrator to oversee “social and emotion learning” and “diversity, equity and inclusion.”Ĭherokee’s school superintendent, Brian Hightower, told a crowd in a meeting that students needed “social and emotional learning” because of increasing rates of depression and suicide. ![]() Next thing you know, the kids won’t just be carrying their books home from school, they’ll also be lugging their newly created white guilt. The specter of critical race theory landed hard last month in Cherokee County, where a roomful of angry (mostly white) folks came to express their abject horror at their kids being indoctrinated with this “extreme and dangerous ideology.” Their fear is that teachers will be heaping psychological baggage on their young charges, painting white people as exploiters, colonizers and all around meanies. Governor Shotgun, who is better than me at gauging this emotion, last month jumped into the newest cause and urged the state’s Board of Education to take “immediate steps to ensure that critical race theory and its dangerous ideology do not take root in our state standards and curriculum.”
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