Red states are pushing to ban critical race theory from schools

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Republican lawmakers in several states are pushing to ban critical race theory from being taught in schools.  But few seem to understand the actual point of the decades-old curriculum...

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00:00Just because I do not want critical race theory taught to my children in school

00:06does not mean that I'm a racist, damn it.

00:10Roughly a dozen Republican states have passed or introduced vague legislation that prohibits

00:14critical race theory or divisive concepts, whatever that means.

00:17There's no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory. Teaching kids to

00:25hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.

00:44Critical race theory espouses that America is an irredeemably racist society in its origins

00:56and in its present condition. That Americans should be balkanized into identity groups

01:01according to race, sex, ethnicity, and other distinguishing characteristics.

01:13Critical race theory just says let's pay attention to what has happened in this country

01:20and how what has happened in this country is continuing to create differential outcomes

01:26so we can become that country that we say we are.

01:29So all over the country beginning early last June, school curricula have changed

01:34completely and become explicitly political and openly racist.

01:45So critical race theory has been around for a while,

01:49since about the 60s and more in that specific language, and it comes out of legal studies.

01:55We're divvying up our entire country by race and teaching our children

01:59that America is evil. It's happening right now.

02:04I don't think we would think we believe that educating the youth and next and leaders of

02:16the future leaders of the country on systemic racism is indoctrination. That's actually

02:21responsible. Hate and division is being taught by evil parents and evil teachers and we need

02:29to stop that. And every educator should be able to have in-depth conversations with their

02:35students about race issues in America because race will not go away. Black Americans fighting

02:40for justice will not go away. We will continue to have this conversation and it brings value

02:46to our education system for our teachers to be able to talk about that.

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