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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The most common way CRT is showing up in K-12 is the teaching of anti-racism which is more often than not, racism. And the most common way anti-racism it taught it with books like Stamped by Kendi. Kendi advocates for discrimination against whites and attempts to indoctrinate kids with this belief in his book. His coauthor admitted this in an interview with Trevor Noah last year.[/quote]

I feel like this line of argument confuses a lot of things, and they are worth untangling.

Stamped from the Beginning and the YA version Stamped are not inherently anti-racist books. They are history books, written from the perspective of significant figures in American history who were either BIPOC or whose actions had an impact on the history of racism, civil rights, etc. If you think about historical events, they were going to be experienced differently depending on where you "sit" in society. So encouraging kids to look at historical figures outside Washington, Jefferson, etc. has the potential to make history more interesting and to give a fuller perspective.

But people drag a bunch of other stuff from Dr. Kendi into the discussion that have nothing to do with Stamped, like his autobiography where he talks about his journey from trying to conform to white norms, to embracing Black nationalism as an undergraduate, to moving away from Black nationalism as he realized that it was not productive. It's a book written for adults, about his journey.

THEN, you have random stuff he says on Twitter.

But if you focus on what Virginia schools actually teach from Dr. Kendi, there's nothing there that folks should object to. It's just another way of looking at history but with different historical figures at the center. [/quote]

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