![]() ![]() Many of them got a closer look as their kids did their school work at home during the pandemic. Mothers and fathers have seen the lessons their kids are bringing home in their backpacks. In Illinois, Ty Smith said: ‘How do I have two medical degrees if I’m sitting here oppressed… How’d I get where I am right now if some white man kept me down?’ĭefenders of CRT in schools, who say it is all a myth anyway, are essentially telling parents not to believe their own eyes and ears. ![]() ‘Telling my child or any child that they are in a permanent oppressed status in America because they are black is racist’, said Keisha King in Duval County, Florida. And some of the most impressive objections to the simplistic nostrums of CRT have come from black parents. Many are indeed conservatives, but there are also many traditional liberals, as well as ‘normie’ parents who aren’t especially political. The videos themselves show that the parents come from a range of backgrounds and perspectives. ‘Actually, it does’, she said.īut these attempts to wave away the protests as illegitimate are unconvincing. MSNBC host Joy Reid played a clip on her show of one tearful parent in Missouri, who exclaimed: ‘Just because I do not want critical race theory taught to my children in school does not mean I’m a racist, damn it!’ Reid laughed. The parents have been presented as a minority of aggrieved white Trumpists, whose objections are simply evidence of their bigotry. Commentators claim CRT isn’t even in schools, and that the parental pushback is just an ‘ astro-turf’ movement ginned up by Fox News. Parents have been presented as uninformed rubes who don’t know what they’re talking about. Media commentary on the parents’ protests has been dismissive and condescending. ![]()
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