Democrats should call these CRT bans what they are — racist attempts to erase the history of Black achievement, DeanObeidallah writes.
will allow teachers to note that slavery was “wrong” but not allow them to “take sides” and say “that one race purposefully did it.”
Yes, the GOP wants to teach slavery in a racially neutral way. Can you say “whitewashing”? Probably not if you are a teacher in one of the 14 states with a CRT ban; you may be fired.The true goal of these laws — as we have seen since they were enacted — is to erase the history of Black Americans because it causes some subset of white people to feel “discomfort." That’s why those Tennessee moms want to ban lessons about Bridges and King in.
Apparently “white fragility,” to borrow author Robin DiAngelo's phrase, is at an all-time high. It is animating the right’s desperate attempts to preserve white supremacy through coordinated efforts to suppress the vote and through CRT bans. The goal of these laws is to erase the history of Black Americans because it causes some subset of white people to feel "discomfort."
There’s no silver bullet in how to counter the GOP’s dishonest CRT rhetoric, but one helpful example can be found in the effective framing being used to counter the GOP-championed bill in Florida that could result in
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