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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I'm totally fine with it. I guess I really don't get the uproar? I'm not saying that to be obtuse, I truly don't understand why it's so controversial to teach kids about redlining, racial covenants, three strikes you're out, etc. I learned about redlining and disproportionality in high school (in not particularly liberal part of Wisconsin, mind you) in the late 90s, it's not that new. Somehow we all survived.[/quote]

Yep.

Dems/Libs/Progressives are just terrible with communication and Republicans seized on how scary “CRT” sounds like a disease and I really can’t fathom what they think it is.  It’s just American history.   We have things we should be proud of (founding of country based on religious freedoms! Opportunities for immigrants and refugees!) and things we should know and learn from (taking land from native Americans caused harm and suffering; much of our country’s wealth was bc we used free slave labor) so we can be better people in the future. What’s more American than that?  I was raised by parents who were socially conscious and taught me basically the themes of CRT without label long it as such and I was/am:

1) not traumatized or harmed 
2) did/do not feel shame or guilt bc I am white 
3) did/do not love America any less and feel fortunate and proud to be American 
4) excited for our multiethnic  future

What does concern me?  The fact that there is a recent poll out showing Donald Trump is up 14% over Biden in Michigan, there is a Republican Representative who created and circulated a cartoon killing another Representative and his party did not throw him out but merely slapped him on wrist, and that Gerrymandering and the Electoral college has made it pretty likely Republicans will gain control of House in a clear circumvention of the will of the majority.

And to continue my rant, the NYT piece on why Blue States are to Blame also resonates.  The NIMBY Dems also need to recognize their role.

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