When a teacher "explains" that racism is "institutional" and everywhere you look, you are saying to black children that whitey cannot be a friend because he's an enemy.
You're a teacher in a high school classroom talking about the American Century. You cover the mid-century economic boom set off by the end of WWII. You mention the returning GIs and the GI bill which enabled mass education and home ownership and the role that played in the growth of the economy, the development of the suburbs, and the foundation of he middle class. Cool. You also mention that Black GI's didn't get to participate fully in that in part due to systemic racism (as discussed previously on this board), which partially explains why Blacks today are worse off than Whites.
So, how will the Black kid react relative to the White kid sitting next to him. I expect that it would depend on how the White kid reacts. If the White kid says "Aw, shit, that's horrible, shouldn't have happened," you'd get a constructive reaction from the Black kid. If the introduction of the subject causes the White kid to mouth off about how Blacks are just inherently inferior and that's the sole reason the cohort didn't prosper, yeah, he'd be flagging himself as an enemy.
Perhaps the Blacks who oppose "CRT" are anticipating the latter reaction from the White kid at the next desk and don't want to subject their kids to that abuse.
So, you think students shouldn't hear about equity and justice?
In case you didn't notice, both those words appear in the Constitution. |
