Education
What Is Wrong With Acknowledging America’s Past?
Education in America has been increasingly more inclusive for years, why is this a problem?
I’m not all that interested in the debate surrounding Critical Race Theory (CRT). Like so many issues right now, there are competing choirs on the public square singing their versions of what CRT is or is not. Some say CRT is a graduate-level theory and it isn’t actually taught in schools.
And there are those, such as this conservative journalist, who falls in the camp that insists CRT is being taught in schools. She ups the ante by pointing to the Virginia Governor’s race saying that Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost in large part because he lied about CRT.
The smoking gun? She came across a Virginia Department of Education memo from 2019, that said: “We know that our students continue to be inundated with racist images linked to Virginia’s history of civil rights oppression.” Further, the memo listed Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me as a resource which she calls a CRT manifesto.
But I wonder, did she actually read Between the World and Me?
I ask because I’ve heard and seen some clips of Coates and I don’t agree with him all the time. I also have no problem…
