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‘Critical race theory’ becomes a flashpoint in US public schools
Jun 11, 2021 1 min, 17 secs
As Americans face a racial reckoning, a fierce political debate is emerging over how race is discussed in schools.

As part of a backlash against campaigns to emphasize racism’s historical and ongoing effect on inequality in American life, Republican lawmakers across the United States are moving to restrict how race is discussed in public schools.

Florida’s Republican governor, Ron Desantis, who signed a bill this week banning the teaching of critical race theory in public schools, said the new law would protect children from being taught that they are defined and restricted by race.

“I think it’ll cause people to think of themselves more as a member of a particular race based on skin color, rather than based on the content of their character and based on their hard work and what they’re trying to accomplish in life.”.

Critical Race Theory teaches kids to hate our country and to hate each other.

The new laws raise alarming questions about academic freedom and the power of state governments to restrict having difficult – but important – conversations around race, said Adrienne Dixson, a professor at the University of Illinois who specializes in the intersection of race and education.

Jonathan Butcher, an education policy scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, argues that critical race theory would perpetuate discriminatory attitudes instead of reducing them.

Dixson, however, said that critical race theory merely explores a truthful part of American life that has long existed.

“This isn’t history that critical race theory or people of color are making up.

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