Battle over how to teach race and racism in America’s schools

ABC News’ Terry Moran takes an in-depth look at the new anti-racism curriculum in some schools across the country, and the backlash to these changes.

[@AshFarlow]

Teaching racism? Huh? Dont you mean teaching about the history of racism?

[@galanis38]

Teaching about the history of racism is one thing, though even that is a very general and in many ways vague and fluid subject which intersects with many and varied others historically. But it's quite another thing to teach children to self-identify with particular focus on racial terms, to affix concepts of race to them based on their own or others' birth into an either oppressor or oppressed race, and consequently their own or others' "inherited" standing based on such terms. This is a pernicious form of segregation in social terms which does nothing to combat racism and in fact might well serve to enhance it.

[@JayJay-wz5mg]

U seem to miss that these are children being tought at a very young age , without the maturity to fully comprehend and grasp what is being teached to them, hate is being instilled upon them , it's not the intentions of the teacher to instill hate, but when they're not old enough to see the true meaning of what is trying to be taught, hate is not being teached, but the immaturity of the student is not accepting the true teaching

[@QuatMan]

We still have white people dressing up in blackface on Halloween every year and openly wondering why they cant use the Nword. This is not history.

[@AshFarlow]

@@galanis38 exactly

[@marcalvarezps4]

@@QuatMan Nobody should be allowed to used any form of the n-word. It’s racist and hypocritical that black people can call anyone the n-word.

[@sebowisha5979]

Stop with the bs please. Let the kids be kids

[@namis6925]

I mean, many POC kids experience racism, and many use racist jokes to be funny. When it hurts many people, it might as well be taught and shown that it isn't right. This is something schools should do teach and help progress into adulthood not only in the academic area but the moral and social knowledge area.

[@michaeld9682]

@@namis6925 the public education system teachers should stick with the subject matter and get out of the racism business

[@namis6925]

@@michaeld9682 What? Do you think we should just not talk about the civil rights movement either?

[@michaeld9682]

@@namis6925 if a parent wants their child to take a class on it great. Sadly it seems to infect every subject and every class.

[@namis6925]

@@michaeld9682 what do you mean by that infecting every subject and class bit?

[@spzaruba5089]

That's not a school's job. The school is to teach exact facts, NOT political science or political indoctrination. The school district is not welcome in my family unit. You want to be helpful? Teach budget and job skills.

[@julieake3875]

Slavery in America is a fact. So by your logic teach it.

[@spzaruba5089]

@@julieake3875 Of course. But 1619 is political theater, Zin history is political science, and critical race theory is teaching people to be bigoted jerks. None of that is okay. And more than just slavery. Slavery was world wide and practiced in Africa for 10,000 years of recorded history, teach that part too.

[@julieake3875]

@@spzaruba5089 Yes teach all of it!

[@jenniebudget8078]

@@spzaruba5089 what race theory teaching people to be bigoted jerks or they are already bigoted jerks

[@spzaruba5089]

@@jenniebudget8078 Critical race theory is trash supposition based on the premise everything in the US from families, to government, to jobs are built on racism to keep black people oppressed. In the conclusion and outcome statements it dictates 1) blacks must be placed above whites (inherently racist garbage) for fairness, 2) it has zero to do with equality and everything to do with equity, and 3) it uses social bullying and chastisement in labeling other races (like Asian) as white because Asians do not hold blacks above them -flip- which means they are white enabling -flip- which means they're white. CRT is a mix of strawmen and gaslighting built for the morally stilted virtue signalling cult and cancel culture it supports.

[@hikariwhite7587]

Racism should be taught like how Germany teaches the Nazi and the holocaust. Knowing how and why it happened and the effects of it, but also understanding that the people today can make a difference and as they are not the same of those in the past. As racism and hatred comes from simple not understanding.

[@cavebabybeserkers2763]

Nooooo these people today are the living desendence of the same beast as before. Lmfao who th are you talkin too??? Cause i know for a fact you aint talkin to black folks

[@angelemeana3741]

Don't slander ( say bad words) or slander acronyms. It's a sin against God. God loves you and so do I. Give your life to Jesus Christ and repent of all your sins, even the ones you've committed in the past.

[@purplepheasant4776]

The U.S.'s racism and hatred doesn't stem from misunderstanding.

[@purplepheasant4776]

@Loopy I don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you are talking about evil or patriotism, but that is not what I am talking about.

[@purplepheasant4776]

@Loopy The U.S.'s history and world's history of colonialism, which united all continents, taught ppl racism, not a misunderstanding. Since racism and racial hatred has been taught for centuries only similar methodology will remove it. Instilling racism in the world was an excruciating and bloody process, why should racial equality be any different. Who cares if ppl or their kid are "uncomfortable" compared to the suffering and death toll if it stays in place. Ppl need to admit that they are against discussing race because they like how things are. Who cares what rhetorical questions anyone asks themselves when they don't ask the right questions nor give truthful answers. Germany changed it's educational curriculum because they know that they taught racism in the educational system. Only the U.S. seems to be in denial. Have you ever asked how you would feel if you found out that your whole life you have been cheating and what you can do to reverse it?

[@DATAN420]

Critical race theory should not be taught anywhere

[@saorinorimura7272]

Okey, kids are looking at adults. That’s how the evil culture has built. Adults must change first.

[@dwnkaomwn3953]

I got a better idea. Don't teach these kids about race at all. Teach them how to be decent humans to one another.

[@mikebryant5861]

Sounds about white. Brainwash away Heritage

[@selms22]

@@mikebryant5861 you are a pimple on the ass of humanity

[@gabethedizzle]

Cool it with the white supremacy bigot. Decency is a tool of the oppressor

[@dwnkaomwn3953]

@@gabethedizzle What did I say that sounded remotely racist? Y'all are getting triggered for nothing.

[@gdiaz8827]

@@mikebryant5861 no it doesn't dipshit it sounds like treating everyone with respect

[@Mecks089]

What about all the people who are Multi-racial? What if someone has both a white and black parent? Asian & Black Asian and White? Hispanic & White? I'm Hispanic, but I have white skin. Where does your diagnosis of teaching about race go then for me? This feels so messed up to even ask, as I shouldn't even have to.

[@SnarlaRae]

Yes, it seems all the children who are mixed race, which is pretty American, are being devalued and forced to choose a caste system for their family. Making ones value based on skin color, sex, economic status, Legal status is very unamerican. Being American is about being an individual who contributes positivly to society...not being tribal and conforming to a Ruler. Keep your head up, many understand.♥️♥️♥️

[@theknow7557]

If you know who you are this is not a problem. Embrace it all.

[@dannyphil7184]

Ruling someone's live for your on gain is evil, rule your on life, and just because they are different from you doesn't mean there are not human. Holding a race back in life they will come back stronger in the future.by any means necessary, malcolm x.

[@godzillamegatron3590]

That is why you have Hispanic heritage month. The time where school teach about Hispanic contributions to the usa

[@jnetwork3232]

If your white asian they pick white If your black asian they pick black If your white black they pick black If your white Mexican they pick white If your black Mexican they pick black Anything that is mixed with white or black is the lead domination period very sad

[@kc6071]

will teaching racism in school improve minority test scores and increase proficiency in school subjects?

[@RS-ep7pc]

Huh?

[@RS-ep7pc]

@Gavin Jones huh

[@Ricokenyy]

No, i dont think so at all.

[@ca6360]

No its wasting a students time and causing division and tension... Equity? Try holding a bar and uplifting students to reach it...not lowering it. . Are they going to teach Personal Responsibility? Acceptance? Emotional Regulation? Distress tolerance? Mindfulness? Interpersonal skills? Actual effective personal skills for life? Are they going to teach the history of slavery on the barbary coast 1 to 1.5 europeans sold into slavery in africa? It was going on all over? USA stopped alot of it, sex slavery and human trafficking is the real issue...

[@billsimms2511]

No it will only give them an excuse to do poorly

[@livnsouthflorida]

How about we teach them how to love each other, and it starts at home and reinforced at school

[@julieake3875]

How about we just teach the truth be it good bad or ugly. Itsnt the truth supposed to set you free?

[@Mecks089]

Both of your are right and both of you are wrong. Children are put into to schools to gain an education to learn what skills they want to develop to get a job and pursue a career when they grow up. That's the point of an education. Why has everyone forgotten all this?

[@weareparamore1597]

The problem is old folks are the one overtly racist, and they are the one teach you values at home

[@bendover3820]

@James 751 Right! I am envious of anyone that got to choose race @ birth.

[@duvine3882]

Because love is a religious concept.

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[@landscaper4193]

Fighting racism with racism makes total sense 🙄🙄

[@artisanhome8980]

Learning about racism is NOT racist. Do you even know the definition of racism? If I teach students about Martin Luther King, Jr. and why he led the Civil Rights Movement, is that racist? Your feeling uncomfortable about the topic of racism does NOT translate to racism. Racism is systemic oppression. No one is oppressing White kids in school when they learn about MLK, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement and why it was necessary. People who oppose this are acting very childish and immature. Kids are smarter than parents think. White kids can differentiate between themselves and White people in the past who made poor choices. And believe it or not, kids have been learning about this topics from educators who have found ways to bring them up during Black History Month. So parents, get over it. If you don't want your kids to learn about reality, then HOMESCHOOL them. At home, you can have your 24-hr Friends episode.

[@ProkofNY]

@@artisanhome8980 I don’t have a problem with my kids learning about racism or about the history of racism. I have a problem with my kids being taught to use a “critical worldview” or “critical consciousness” that encourages them to see power dynamics and power differentials as the explanation behind everything. I am sorry, this is not only simplistic worldview, it also inadvertently reinforces useless race constructs in every interaction. A framework which allows us to see everyone as an individual and that highlights or common humanity seems like a much better approach to combat racism. Incidentally, this is exactly the worldview that the woke and “anti racist” scholars oppose. One can believe racism is real and push to improve the status quo, while simultaneously not taking things to an extreme where power dynamics/differentials serve as a reference for everything.

[@artisanhome8980]

@@ProkofNY We Black people have wanted to be seen as individuals since forever. For many years, it was African Americans who wanted America to abandon age-old stereotypes that portray African Americans as an inferior group. In fact, wasn't it Martin Luther King, Jr. who said that he had a dream for people to be judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character? These are democratic ideals Black people have been pushing for years in America. Now, all of a sudden, people want to jump on the bandwagon and present a "framework" which allows us to be seen as individuals? Really? The work that needs to be done is within White people. If White people do not want Black people to teach kids to see White people as oppressors, then White people should stop acting like oppressors in the first place. Still today, America's neighborhoods and schools are some of the most segregated communities in America. I was just in a predominately White neighborhood two weeks ago, looking for a nice home. In this neighorhood, on just about everyone's lawn, were "Black Lives Matter" signs. Yet I didn't see a single Black resident in this neighborhood. And if a stare-down could make someone disappear, then I would have disappeared on the spot the way these residents looked at me walking through the neighbhorhood. So please spare me the FAKE and PHONY "individual" talk. In reality, I know that this not what White people really want. White people do not really want a truly equal society, because that would mean a complete dismantling of their exclusive access to the best America has to offer (e.g., the best schools, the best neighborhoods, the best places to work, etc.). The buck usually stops when it comes to their property values and where their kids attend school. That's where they draw the line, and all this "individual" talk immediately ceases. That is why they are so often called FAKE LIBERALS and closet racists.

[@ProkofNY]

@@artisanhome8980 There are two conflicting frameworks that one can use to understand issues of racism. There is an enlightened liberal framework that focuses on the individual and that perfectly aligns with MLK’s message (a message about our common humanity). Then there is a newer framework: that which is used by those with a “critical consciousness or perspective” and which is promoted by current social justice scholars (this framework aligns with CRT as well several other related academic fields). This latest framework emphasizes the existence of power dynamics and differentials as well as the narratives that sustain them. This is why you have scholars such as Robin DiAngelo saying things like “the question is not if racism took place, but how did racism manifest?” (notice that DiAngelo is not Black, and neither are many of these “critical social justice” scholars). You also have Derrick Bell’s thesis stating that “racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of this society” (a thesis which is also one of CRT’s tenets). Incidentally, CRT and critical social justice scholarship are antithetical to MLK’s ideal of judging people based on their character (i.e., seeing everyone as an individual while focusing on our commonalities). As a matter of fact, this rejection of “colorblindness” and enlightened liberalism are also a part of CRT’s tenets. I am not a race realist; I believe race is a useless construct (CRTer’s also believe race is a social construct, btw, so we agree on some aspects). For a person like myself, however, it seems as if to assume that racism is everywhere and inescapable ultimately ends up reinforcing useless race-based categorizations in every interaction. And you know what is the result of all of this? A very cynical and pessimistic worldview. Many people don’t know this-surprisingly-but several CRT proponents are race separatist. This tells me that their worldview does not provide with many solutions, hope and/or a way forward. The frustrating thing for me is that the enlightened liberal framework (the one that best aligns with MLK’s views) does provide us with some hope and solutions. And, while the critical social justice crowd believes that such framework does not emphasize oppression enough, I do feel that enlightened liberalism presents better and more practical tools to confront racism/oppression. To accept that racism is real and that we should strive to address inequalities in our country are ideas that are perfectly compatible with the enlighten liberal worldview. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water just yet!

[@ProkofNY]

@@artisanhome8980 There are two conflicting frameworks that one can use to understand issues of racism. There is an enlightened liberal framework that focuses on the individual and that perfectly aligns with MLK’s message (a message about our common humanity). Then there is a newer framework: that which is used by those with a “critical consciousness or perspective” and which is promoted by current social justice a scholars (this framework aligns with CRT as well several other related academic fields). This latest framework emphasizes the existence of power dynamics and differentials as well as the narratives that sustain them. This is why you have scholars such as Robin DiAngelo saying things like “the question is not if racism took place, but how did racism manifest?” (notice that DiAngelo is not Black, and neither are many of these “critical social justice” scholars). You also have Derrick Bell’s thesis stating that “racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of this society” (a thesis which is also one of CRT’s tenets). Incidentally, CRT and critical social justice scholarship are antithetical to MLK’s ideal of judging people based on their character (i.e., seeing everyone as an individual while focusing on our commonalities). As a matter of fact, this rejection of “colorblindness” and enlightened liberalism are also a part of CRT’s tenets. I am not a race realist; I believe race is a useless construct (CRTer’s also believe race is a social construct, btw, so we agree on some aspects). For a person like myself, it seems as if to assume that racism is everywhere and inescapable ultimately ends up reinforcing useless race-based categorizations in every interaction. And you know what is the result of all of this? A very cynical and pessimistic worldview. Many people don’t know this-surprisingly-but several CRT proponents are race separatist. This tells me that their worldview does not provide with many solutions, hope and/or a way forward. The frustrating thing for me is that the enlightened liberal framework (the one that best aligns with MLK’s views), does provide us with some hope and solutions. And, while the critical social justice crowd believes that such framework does not emphasize oppression enough, I do feel that enlightened liberalism presents us with better and more practical tools to confront racism/oppression. To accept that racism is real and that we should strive to address inequalities in our country are ideas that are perfectly compatible with the enlighten liberal worldview. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water just yet!

[@sergiopabon1387]

Leave it to the parents.

[@jb44421]

Lol, that's useless.

[@mikebryant5861]

Klan agreed

[@sergiopabon1387]

@@jb44421 Do you want your kids to be taught about race from a white lady. She might be bias and minimize the struggles that slaves went through.

[@spzaruba5089]

@@mikebryant5861 My family is not your or the government's place.

[@sergiopabon1387]

Slavery and the civil war should be taught with all information available. It's was a horrible thing. The north because they wanted to take full control of the country. And as a result free the slaves(great move by Lincoln) and the south because of states rights. But we all know it's was the states rights to keep slaves. Seen even I'm bias. But give all the info to the kids. Slavery, states right. What those people belive at that time. Or screw it leave them ignorant about it.

[@timothykramer2551]

If this what happened in my school my kids will be taken out of school so fast

[@jenniebudget8078]

Yea teach them how to be racist at home

[@pairyhussy9678]

@@jenniebudget8078 The racists are the ones who are pushing this CRT nonsense.

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

@@jenniebudget8078 teach kids to treat their neighbors how they want to be treated there problem solved

[@jenniebudget8078]

@@pillage_party_and_papacy haha I wish it was, we wouldn't be talking about it in 2021 😂😆😆.

[@sandratorres1445]

It's not the schools that teach racism they learned it from home and in the streets

[@NokyEffectz]

History class is where they get the idea on who was more superior and who was more lower class. Then they bring it up in our time. The kids aren’t born with this information. If schools didn’t teach it, no kid would see each other differently. Unfortunately the school system is still unaware

[@firepower7654]

@@NokyEffectz So your solution is to not teach history?

[@billsimms2511]

Yes but now the schools will be teaching racism so they will learn it there now 😂😂

[@rodneyadamshortnacy40]

The races are raised different. The numbers reveal this the behavior the grades they have nothing to do with racism it has everything to do with how the kids are raised.

[@tomatoahmed7380]

Teach them necessarily skills like programming, harvesting crops, electricity instead of bullshit

[@michaeld9682]

Bingo

[@fisher-zc2pf]

They teach that too have you ever been to school kid

[@michaeld9682]

@@fisher-zc2pf less and less

[@simplyj522]

Oh so they can learn about Christopher Columbus who was a murderous rapist but not Martin Luther king you a joke

[@mfpresident8150]

Lol a head full of unripened tomato I guess

[@SwSw-yq3ll]

How about focus on teaching reading & math, science. Leave CRT out!! Stop damaging our young kids with hate. We're all equal in this country. Coming from a third world country America is the best country in the world!!!

[@julieake3875]

Its the truth! You can teach your own children lies if thats the kid of person you are.

[@kyledenson1287]

@@julieake3875 your probably a white supremacist liberal forcing your whiteness on us

[@jenniebudget8078]

So when I was in middle school and those kids was racist and mean. You saying school taught them that or when one my friend who was 12 told me her parents don't like black people school taught her that. All the racism cops, judge, prosecutors, judges and so on school taught them that correct?

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

@@jenniebudget8078 jeez when did you go to school?

[@SupermanHopkins]

"... describes himself as half Mexican, half Native American and half Jewish ..." Sounds like his kids aren't the only ones who need to be in school. 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@jeesusmeesuss5247]

Let's take that class, & substitute basic economics. Problem solved. Fire every teacher too dumb to make the switch.

[@alondathomas293]

Jeesus: Hey idiot----both economics & history are taught in both high school and college. So your little comments about firing the teachers is pretty stupid, since there's a teacher for each subject.

[@weareparamore1597]

Even national heroes in my country has dark side, and teacher taught us all of it..

[@bruhjr6754]

@KD GAMER no

[@TomYearg]

Ask your teacher to teach you proper grammar as well.

[@theknow7557]

@@TomYearg Pretty weak!

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

Of course they did, it’s called being imperfection, guess what our descendants will find fault with us as well. Because guess what we’re imperfect. It is literally impossible to be perfect

[@mirzapa]

What battle? Straight forward. Teach about about our country’s imperfections and our constant battle to make our Union better and better. Don’t gloss over slavery, Native American genocide, Civil War, Jim Crow, Segregation. But also about us giving a HUGE middle finger to King George, saving the world from fascism, putting a man on the moon, etc.

[@booklover6403]

True that brother or sister my ancestor are original Ohio settlers back then when a colony became a state they choose to or not to have slavery Ohio choose to say no slavery and the first to chose so personally I think there many reason Ohio chose Germans Irish settlers who knew what it was like to be treated like a slave and wanted the new country to be better fear that would cause land prices clime and cause a few very rich people to own all the land like back Ireland Ohio to also a major hub for the underground there a mansion in southern Ohio that they think was built to be a stop on the underground rail road the top floor is one room with windows on all sides to see what is going on around the house but don’t learn that in school my parents had to tell me that when they’d take us to historical site on the weekend growing up

[@simplyj522]

That’s erasing history my people were seen as 3/5 of a man and you want that to be erased we were brought here on slave ships tortured by white people and then when we were free had to go through segregation but it’s ok to learn about Christopher Columbus who genocied a whole race? You ideology makes no sense they should be learning these lesson so they want repeat them.

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@@booklover6403 I agree full heartily with this comment post. Also we should gloss over settler murderers either. Tell every part of history.

[@kingwoods4906]

If history is not taught it is bound to repeat itself if forgotten

[@alfredcrawford2307]

It is repeating because this is implementing systemic racism again

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

Except they aren’t teaching history and when you quote objective history the response is usually “I was never good at history” or “History was never my thing” but I’ll keep preaching that everyone who wasn’t from Europe, the Middle East, or Central Asia was always happy and had sunshine and rainbows everywhere because “there weren’t any written works documenting the time.”

[@paulabhatt1769]

PLEASE DONT ERASE HISTORY LEARN FROM IT 💪💪💪💪

[@Yesmypfpismeirl]

And don’t change it to your own “proper” version.

[@ascension6142]

Those stats are crazy considering most Hispanic children’s parents don’t speak English .

[@adhdartist1994]

Hopefully they will teach how just as racist other countries have been and are. In Latin America racism is quite normal and accepted. I have experienced more racism in Guatemala and Mexico than in the United states and I'm latino. I think we all need common sense

[@Gootroop]

Equality good, equity VERY bad.

[@jasonborchers6869]

The word equity actually means equality for everyone look it up.

[@Gootroop]

@@jasonborchers6869 Oh, I see you were too stupid to understand which equality I was referring to. Equity is equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. This equity movement is immoral and doesn’t align with much of America.

[@timeless9634]

I remember back in high school, those kid treated me different than other people because of my skin color, thanks to the history teacher talk about race.

[@Getchrochet2016]

More propaganda

[@SnarlaRae]

Why is anyone teaching racism? Teaching race is weird also I thought teaching cultures and tradtions from around the world is much more useful and interesting.

[@jenniebudget8078]

Race is a part of someone culture 😆😆. Then why when I apply for anything I have to state what race I am

[@SnarlaRae]

@@jenniebudget8078 Cuz Government hands out $$$ based on % of whatever catagory The GOVERNMENT PUTS CITIZENS IN.

[@jenniebudget8078]

@@SnarlaRae huh we talking about jobs application, anything or even medical forms. I don't understand what handout have to do with that. I ask that at the DMV, getting a loan and so on..

[@SnarlaRae]

@@jenniebudget8078 This is how government keeps things Equitable....Businesses must maintain records of hiring practices. Government agencies get more $$$ for the more minorities it serves. The largest Corporations who supply the most jobs with the worst pay are given tax credits for minority hiring. See Government has made race a thing....Unless one spends time studying how business and government worx hand in hand you think your free. State and Federal tax dollars are handed out based on race. My point was, learning about others cultures from around the world in school was fun and encouraged. Sharing our differences was celebrated not feared. And we were taught about slavery segregation etc. How it sucked how the country strived since to over come that era. The negative attention on someone based on things they can not control is a weird and limiting way to perceive the world. WTF would anyone want to be around someone xactly like them? Sounds Dull.

[@jenniebudget8078]

@@SnarlaRae that's makes sense. I am not from here. I always taught it was weird question.

[@YAMAMOTOTAKAHA]

That go's for you to orange man. "Welcome to wendys what can I get you"

[@donnalittle8049]

If your child teacher teaches this remove them from class...Teach racism but you don't mind marrying white or having their kids is that racism???

[@joescambait]

Kids don't see color, Adults do

[@oranjmusemeyer968]

That is very true!

[@adaminfinity1733]

Yeah the world sees color, what's wrong with pointing that out?

[@joescambait]

@@adaminfinity1733 there is nothing wrong with pointing it out, It's how you point it out

[@andreabrown4541]

Nope. By age 5, children already have very ingrained biases against black people even when they are exposed to multicultural environments. Some have those biases even when they have a "black" friend.

[@joescambait]

@@andreabrown4541 i have 3 grandchildren boys age 6, 9, 11, and they don't think about color or creed because we have tought them everyone is different in their own way and that is what makes us so great as humans. They recognize differences but they don't think anyone is better or worse than anyone else. I think the word you used was "some" and that is correct but I don't think it's the majority. Thanks for the input

[@alx1707]

Why tho? Just why

[@julieake3875]

Its the truth of American history is why.

[@jenniebudget8078]

Because culture awareness is essential part of being apart of society. Any society. People wouldn't learn about other culture before traveling if it's wasn't important 😂😂

[@tjohanson4596]

It is impossible to accurately teach children history if schools are not willing to discuss race and racism - there is no good reason why we shouldn't and no good reason why we can't explain these concepts to students at a level appropriate for their age.

[@michaeld9682]

Crt is despicable. So is Scott ziegler of lauden County

[@ca6360]

Why are all these people in academia who make bank on this dividing us?

[@evelyn4120]

How to teach ABOUT racism : “DONT EVER BE RACIST OK?!” And go into depth

[@Bobo-uh1bx]

My biracial children knew little of racism until some ignorant (vice principal) person started to spew about it in their grammar school. Now; it’s all they focus on. It’s ridiculous. I lived through the tail end of true racism and injustice, no one can talk it through like I can. We aren’t moving forward we are moving backward.

[@tainozoku]

Let the kids be kids stop with this racial bs. LGTBQ that goes for yall too let the kids enjoy life.

[@jenniebudget8078]

Understand people where they come from and who they are as people that's when we can understand each other truly and respect each other. I took so many class on culture awareness throughout my college years and learn so much about different culture and their history. I believe that's will help me be a better forensic psychologist

[@tainozoku]

@@jenniebudget8078 😑

[@TheYogimind]

Where did this plan to teach this in schools originate? How is it being implemented? Is there a part of the government sending the curriculum to the schools or school boards? I’m not in the loop. Being a non racist country we should be able to squash this easily.

[@hammockcamping2500]

What is your evidence that IQ is not the cause of racial disparity in America?

[@GraphicsMJ]

Why dont we teach the truth! The Bible say it all. This is just a way to miss guide our kids teach your own kids the truth. Dont depend on the government to teach your kids. That is the problem we let them teach our kids and this ia what we have.

[@mirzapa]

The Bible is a work of fiction. Relax.

[@selms22]

@@mirzapa Bible predicted you would say that

[@Jimmithy77]

Wokenesse is just a step backwards just got to get through this craziness and get back to judging people of there character not there skin color.

[@odora_allan]

I know it is not the best solution But I feel like in this scenario we have to listen to the kids Listen to them clearly I think it can help the adults make better decisions for the kids

[@thisguy4505]

Ah, like during the cultural revolution in China, where they ended up killing all of the professors? Good idea.

[@odora_allan]

Not direct orders like soldiers am talking about gathering as much information before making a decision especially for those it affects the most

[@Superduper666]

How about not teach it in schools? How about teaching math, English, etc? Treat everyone the same and stop talking race.

[@brianwalsh9595]

I am mostly white, I feel no guilt.

[@iamlegallyhype]

Racism shouldn’t be political. I’m frustrated that we keep ignoring racism

[@snoopylyn9065]

How could you teach them since the adults are the racist too even teachers and cops 🙄

[@weareparamore1597]

Yup, caught in video and zoom meetings multiple times

[@FireOccator]

Why would you teach racism to children?

[@hammockcamping2500]

A “coconut” or an “Oreo” is someone who is Black or brown on the outside and “white on the inside”. Other food-based insults with the same meaning include “Bounty”, “choc ice” and “banana”. These terms are levelled at people of colour who don’t act, speak or dress in a way that’s considered “authentic” to their race. They might seem harmless, unlike the N-word or P-word which are well-established as racial slurs, but they’re reductive, demeaning and they propagate the idea that there’s only one correct way to be a person of colour.

[@candaceh4236]

YOU ALL LITERALLY STARTED RACISM and are now mad?????? Get out all the way out of her.

[@HH-pk2wh]

Keep your children out of public schools.

[@jenniebudget8078]

Also off social media, away from friends and the public 😂😂😂

[@elgordo2162]

Say what you will about the Woke education. Patriotic focus isn't exactly a finer alternative. Stop treating historical figures as Gods. Teach them for who they are AND what they did. If you don't have an ounce of shame for the history of your country, you don't know it.

[@timothykramer2551]

If this wasn't my kids college I'm paying your wages son you will not be teaching my kid to anything about this this is up to the parents not you

[@GeorgeDaniels-me7ru]

Don't forget to teach how tolerant America is compared to the rest of the world.

[@MarylandBelair]

Don't separate kids by colour. Let everyone be green Like smart light green kids and other dark green kids.

[@HH-pk2wh]

God Bless Donald Trump 🙏

[@kamialexis4831]

Well... tell the truth 🙃

[@kamialexis4831]

@Super Cooper yah ik. One can only hope

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

But they don’t want to because then we have to talk the actual documented cases of both sides slaughtering each other

[@kimallred7696]

What are we "teaching" the millions of mixed American children in school

[@Pbmarron]

I'm a newly minted English teacher and I'm trying to figure out how to broach issues affected by race and racism to my students. I teach in a conservative rural school where the parents and administration are highly opposed to exposing students to materials and content featuring people of color. It gets really ugly. I want to give my students a well rounded ELA education, but I feel hamstrung at times because education has been politicized so much.

[@cn7187]

I think if you want to teach about race or racism in class, you have to understand what the meaning of racism is really about. You also need to understand what YOUR job is as a teacher or educator. Teacher have often overstep their boundaries when it come to children, teaching them things behind parents back without their consent. Would you like it if someone else did that to your children. These are things you have to think about The word has been diluted so much that it lost so much meaning because of MSM. Do you believe parents have a say in the education being taught to their children? I think there is a teacher or school board saying parents have NO right to what is being teach in school. If you really believe that white people are the only racist then that is a problem. White shaming kids making them feel that they have to apologize for being white. Or telling them who to hate or who they SHOULD like. You may not like Trump, which is fine. But will you teach the children to hate Trump because you hate Trump or their innocents of not knowing what is hate. Or will you treat them differently or shame them if they were to like Trump (which can happen). This is what many parents are discussing , that's why I seen a lot of parents speaking up to the school board lately.

[@blaketrent8548]

@@cn7187 Yeah, but there are parents that believe all sorts of things. You'll be dismissive, but should be not talk about the earth being round to children of flat earth parents? I teach, and there are parents that have specifically asked to move their child out of a class that was majority minority because they didn't want their white child "mixed in with the wrong crowd." That exact conversation has happened more than once in my career. I don't insert ideology, just the idea that there are people out there that will have disdain for you because of how you look. There isn't anything you can do about that, but you can judge those around you by their actions and act accordingly.

[@Jahmaicher]

How has not teaching racism helped so far? Not teaching it doesn't mean it doesn't exist or students don't experience it. The people who are against this are mostly those whose lives have never been impacted by racism. How it is that is ok to highlight problems and find solutions in other areas of the classroom but issue of racism is suppose to be muted? It is only through education that we can remove can ignorance and hate; not through brushing it aside or pretending it is not a reality.

[@soofascinating]

once kid reach 18-21 consciousness they'll know what's happening.

[@oatandhoney5338]

Ain't there any place for history in American schools????

[@jqsoutdooradventures6951]

It's pretty simple..home schooling

[@yededebdonkorotube2227]

oh that will definitely improve things💩

[@nap163020]

"be fully human in what they do" - if that isn't the vaguest definition I've ever heard! 🙄

[@Quizoid]

Did I just watch relatively balanced reporting on a divisive issue? Weird.

[@terrenceallen323]

Apparently... It's suppose to be taught that Slavery was totally legal back in the day as the law hasn't always existed publicly.

[@joedirt2862]

Equity is the problem

[@upsty6499]

The wealthy elite parents prolly need this not the rest of America

[@theknow7557]

In the corporate world it's call diversity training. So it can be presented at work and not in school? No one is making anyone a racist for teaching about one another. This creates harmony. These people are afraid of the truth.

[@JonLa89]

Critical Race theory is going to screw these kids up and it's being reinforced by ads on the channels they watch.

[@zippydoo9533]

It is true that schools now have courses on teaching kids how to be racist.

[@billsimms2511]

Half of Our kids arent reading at their grade level so let’s teach them that everything is racist and that they don’t have a chance to succeed in such an oppressive society .. sounds like a good idea 😂😂😂

[@Zamiiz]

It really is a big problem.. I didn’t even know what Juneteenth was until last year, and I’m so embarrassed how the hell I never learned that.

[@theknow7557]

Depends on where you live. It's not well known. Should be though! More of the dark side of America.

[@slo-poke1044]

1:13 That's the problem . Equity is divisive.

[@funkydanieluk]

The title of this video says the quiet part out loud.

[@artisanhome8980]

When America integrated the schools, America forgot to INTEGRATE THE CURRICULUM.

[@thomasrobinson182]

View everything through a lens of race and racism is everywhere. How about we strive for fairness and equality, not equity. You shouldn't have to dumb down education to make numbers look good. You don't want a brain surgeon with a trade school degree.

[@nickcristea6133]

This does nothing except make racism more alive. This is evil. May god bless the next generation

[@taishitamaki6931]

How do i dislike this more than once

[@pokemonmaster2151]

I can agree with Pastor Thomas. My younger brother had good grades and he still wasn't able to go to a better school. I wanted my little brother to have a better education, but the program rejected him all because of his skin tone but also because our parents don't speak English fluently. As an older sister, I wanted better for him and its worst when you live in the South. Bilut overall, I hope for better when it comes to education in the future. One can only hope

[@Yesmypfpismeirl]

I’m so sorry! Its so unfair. I really hope your brother gets to go to a better school where he’ll get to learn and get a better education.

[@misterbean2410]

No way

[@ishamiah1619]

We never learned about #GeorgeWashingtonCarver

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

I did. Quite a lot actually, when did you go to school?

[@ishamiah1619]

@@pillage_party_and_papacy lucky you I graduated in 2015

[@pillage_party_and_papacy]

@@ishamiah1619 I guess that'll do it?

[@theknow7557]

In order to feel better about ones self is to know where you come from. Then to teach about good things about ones self and likeness. Self esteem is then created. Knowledge is powerful. If you're not getting the essentials, growth is almost impossible. And we talk about why kids fail in school. So why not talk and teach about the most important thing about all of us. Race! You can't ignore it!

[@afgone]

So how does it help them to constantly say to them "You will never be as successful as a white person?" This is just trying to stoke division. Do you want segregation back?

[@theknow7557]

@@afgone Segregation never left. You want to continue the lies?

[@afgone]

​@@theknow7557 Then how how could America have elected a black president if there is still segregation? CRT wants segregation - this is part of the basic tenets of the ideology. Here are some quotes from Critical Race Theory: The Key Writing That Formed the Movement “The first is to understand the regime of white supremacy and its subordination of people of color, which has been created and maintained in America, and in particular to examine the relationship that the social structure and professed ideals such as “the rule of law” and “equal protection.” The second is a desire to not merely understand the vexed bond between law and racial power - but to change it.” “This mainstream civil rights discourse on “race relations” was constructed this way partly as a defense against the more radical ideologies of racial liberation presented by the Black nationalists and Black Consciousness movements of the ‘60s and the early ‘70s. In the construction of “racism” as an irrational and backwards bias of believing that someone’s race is important, the American cultural mainstream neatly linked the Black left to the white racist right according to this quickly concealed consensus, because race consciousness characterized both white supremacists and black nationalists both as racist.” “With its explicit embrace of racial consciousness, Critical Race Theory aims to reexamine the terms by which race and racism have been negotiated in American consciousness, and to recover and revitalize the radical tradition of race consciousness among African-Americans and other peoples of color. A tradition that was discarded when integration, assimilation, and the idea of “colorblindness” became the official norms of the racial enlightenment.” CRT is racism. Plain and simple.

[@snakehead324]

This is such a waste of time and money…

[@shane1489]

Seems like in the home as a family would be the best way to handle and teach about racism but thats not enough when there’s power and money at stake.

[@djpomare]

35th generation Deb Haaland would think it's a joke that 6th and 7th generation are talking about history.

[@jacknotreallyjackstrawfrom7109]

tomorrow in school in china ,kids are being taught lessons that will help them achieve something in this world, while our kids can barely read . but the good news is they will no their place in this country, either victim or evil so we got that going for us

[@seanpupillo7823]

@Paul MR1 That's pretty racist.

[@Yesmypfpismeirl]

@Paul MR1 where’s the source? Proof? From what I’ve seen and heard. China’s education system is so many times less corrupt then the American one.

[@jenniebudget8078]

Well we live in melting pot which means culture awareness is essential part of being apart society. There not a job you can do well here if don't fully understand everyone culture. Example I am a caregiver I once had a client get mad at me because I touch her hair because in her culture is direspecful. Understand someone background help you understand them. Sympathesism with their struggle and that's what makes us humans

[@seanpupillo7823]

@@jenniebudget8078 Sure, but cultural awareness is one thing. Critical theory is quite another. That's why theres a debate. It's not a question of sympathy, its a question of ideology.

[@seanpupillo7823]

@@jenniebudget8078 The solution that is being proposed in many instances is not cultural awareness or exposure to history, but rather an indoctrination of contemporary narratives.

[@hammockcamping2500]

There is no such thing as an even playing field. I will give my children every opportunity and edge that I can. This is not for the purpose of pushing minorities to the bottom of the hierarchy, but if that is the end result, so be it.

[@Hurts.your.feelings]

These days “oppressed” people are low income families, skin color is not involved. It’s honestly hilarious how everyone plays a victim just becuase of the stories they hear not actuality of there lives. Slavery was across the world not secluded to the u.s in fact before the the Portuguese, the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, and the Danish enslaved Africans, The Africans and Persians enslaved Europeans in the Ottoman Empire. Look I grew up on section 8 in the projects the fact of my life was I seen school as good source of food not an education, and here I see PRIVILEGED KIDS who grew up in the sub urbs going to nice universities screaming about oppression when they’ve never struggled in there lives oh my bad your RIGHT they have the same memories of there ancestors 100 years ago

[@SamSung-nf6tr]

I am so sick & tired of hearing about race. Most of our ancestors were slaves at one time of another. Teach class privilege not white privilege. Black kids dont do as well because .... you tell me. Same books. Why?

[@Edwinoo]

It's funny how adult issues have to be brought into kid issues

[@762l61]

Let are children learn the truth this is the only way we can learn also grow in this country

[@ConvictedFelon2024]

The Founders were products of their time. Yeah most of them owned slaves, but many (like Thomas Jefferson in his home state of Virginia) realized its injustice and even started writing the laws that would abolish it. Thomas Paine wrote a whole paper condemning the practice of slavery. It _was_ controversial, even almost 250 years ago in early America. Just teach the history and move on. This shouldn't even be a debate 🤦‍♂️

[@rickmorgan8895]

Oh trust me it's happening my 5 year old came home and said to me why are white people so mean to black people I said who said this she said my teacher said that...... before this we never brought up race at all everyone was the same.... now that's all she talks about oh the BLACK KID OH THE WHITE KID 🙄 LIKE where did my innocent lil girl go 🥺

[@artisanhome8980]

No one ever suggested during social studies, African-American experiences should dominate instruction. Black parents are just asking for their children's experiences to be INCLUDED. For years, people who've determined what American students learn and how they learn have been White curriculum writers and specialists. Now that the vast majority of students in today's classrooms are students of color, children and parents of color desire instructional materials that truly reflect and represent the students who are in today's multi-cultural classrooms. Content and instruction should be CULTURALLY RELEVANT to the students in the classroom. Textbooks should include INTERNATIONAL topics. Being a Mixed-Race student should not be a concern then, if students are learning about the experiences of a variety of races from their diverse perspectives. It is also important to know that Black/African people existed centuries BEFORE racism and slavery. Why not talk about the history of African people that reaches far beyond slavery? African Americans have also accomplished a lot since slavery. Why not teach children about these accomplishments? For example, inform kids about the women in the film Hidden Figures? All instruction related to African Americans does NOT have to be limited to topics about racism and oppression. But teaching kids about the postive accomplishments of African Americans is very important so that children of all races, including African-American children, do not become adults who think "Black people are good for nothing". I can't tell you how many people I've encountered on the Internet who actually think Black people had done nothing at all to do with the advancement of American civilization. Grown adults are actually walking around in America thinking Black people were "just slaves". America's public school instruction, which has been based on white supremacy, is largely responsible for this. Black students have sat in their classes and received instruction based on white supremacy for years. Think about that. Can you imagine what that experience must have been like for them? Imagine a Black child sitting through instruction that tells them White people single-handedly "built this nation", as if their ancestors had nothing to do with it? Also think about the American Native children. Do you really think American Native children want to hear about how their ancestors happily sat at a table eating turkey with the same people who slaughtered their family members for land and resources? JUST STOP LYING TO KIDS. That's all parents are asking schools to do. STOP LYING in these textbooks that tell students nothing but lie after lie after lie. Stop selectively omitting information to make certain people look so innocent when they are not. This "ideal representation" of America needs to be addressed.

[@theresajoseph1767]

Thats not it Trump, black people don't want to learn about our past nooooo more!

[@foxybill1836]

What is race? People's have nationality, why is it not taught? There were no ancient people's called white or black or race. That way of teaching about Nation storys is now obsolete! Now reality equality, identities clarified!

[@faithingod5533]

anti-racism... any smooth brain that uses that phrase should be mocked for the fool they are.