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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am okay with my DC learning about anything. Saying that, as far as [b]I understand it, CRT is about tearing down the current system as it is deemed racist [/b]- this is total BS and I am absolutely not okay with that. Do I think kids should be aware of systematic racism - absolutely, it exist and it should be dealt with!But do we have to tear the entire system to fix it - i don’t think so, that is inviting chaos an anarchy![/quote]

Clearly,  you don't understand CRT at all.  What does "tearing down the current system" even mean?  If you think that institutional racism is inextricably linked to the American legal and political system, then I don't think you've understood the genius of American government.  Our system is meant to evolve, and we've evolved a LOT.  We need to continue to evolve by teaching the reality of our history and the centrality of race to much of that history (redlining, federal government support and expansion of segregation, restrictive housing covenants, sundown towns, racial terrorism in the south from Reconstruction through the lat 1960s, the absolutely shameful role of the one-party southern Democratic party system, voting tests, anti-miscenenation laws, forced sterilization of poor, mostly black people from the 1920s through the 1970s, etc.).

It's not directly related to CRT, but if you have any doubts about how far we've come, I urge you to read things like the publications of the UVA [i]President’s Commissions on Slavery and on the University in the Age of Segregation[/i] (e.g. https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-and-history-race-eugenics-racial-integrity-act-health-disparities).  The university is confronting and bringing to light an incredibly painful, frankly shameful history of support for eugenics and white supremacy.  This is not to "tear down the system" but rather to understand what happened and how we can improve.  That's the exercise that we as a nation are going through, and trying to suppress the truth of this history -- at the GOP is currently doing to gain political advantage -- helps no one.

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