... Loudoun County school board hearing where many came to voice opposition to critical race theory:

[demmiblue]

The scene tonight at a raucous Loudoun County school board hearing where many came to voice opposition to critical race theory. The meeting was stopped when the crowd wouldn’t quiet down and two were arrested.

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[rgbecker]

1. Loudoun County: NW of D.C. 7% African American.

Are we at just the beginning of the insurrection?

[FSogol]

7. And yet it's voted blue the last few elections. 19% Asian.

Wealthy county with a lot of tech workers.

[lagomorph777]

21. Not what I am used to seeing in this county.

Shameful.

[Ohioboy]

2. How much do you want to bet

these people have no idea what CRT is other than what they've been told by right-wing media? The main message of right-wing media is that CRT is a plot by the far left liberals to teach children to hate America.

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[Caliman73]

18. That would be a sucker's bet.

Critical Race Theory is BARELY taught in undergraduate University courses let alone K-12. It was around since the 1970's, right around the time I was born.

I took Honors and Advanced Placement Classes in high school in the late 80's and early 90's. I took sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology classes in undergraduate at UCLA. I was active in the protests for the Chicano Studies program at the school, and I did not really get any formal introduction to Critical Race Theory until I was in Graduate School in 2011.

CRT is NOT taught in elementary, middle, or high school. It isn't taught in undergraduate programs.

This is an ENTIRELY contrived outrage. This is astro-turf, like the Tea Party. Funded entirely by Heritage Foundation and other right wing organizations. They know that stoking racial animosity and grievance is always effective.

[peggysue2]

20. Also, I read that Fox News had several dissenting parents on recently

Only to find out that these concerned parents were right-wing political operatives. Of course, the audience was not informed of that rather important detail.

This is another hyped-up issue that the Republicans have decided to run while stoking racial resentment, fear and a generous dose of loathing among their supporters.

Plus, I've read that CRT is generally taught at the graduate level, not primary/secondary schools. What parents' concern appear to be is the teaching of history, the way it happened, not the white-washed version they're steeped in.

On a side note, I read an article this morning in the New Yorker on the increased popularity of homeschooling among African American families. One of the interesting (historical) tidbits spoke to how the evangelicals spearheaded the homeschool movement back in the early 90s. Most of the earliest homeschool textbooks were written from a 'Christian' perspective. Within the perspective, the 8th grade reader (now in its 3rd edition) argued that slavery allowed Black people to find Jesus.

Okay then.

Another 11th grade textbook (now in its 4th edition) United States History: Heritage of Freedom claimed that the Ku Klux Klan only occasionally resorted to violence. The Orlando Sentinel in a 2018 investigation, found that this same publisher Abeka was still publishing textbooks teaching:

"The slave who knew Christ had more freedom than the free person who did not know the Savior."

Begins to explain some of the distorted 'perspectives' out there. How many children have been served up disinformation since starting school?

From the sounds of it many of the participants in the January 6th insurrection.

One of the defense lawyers is requiring her clients to read a number of historical narratives and watch video on slavery, the Holocaust, the Tulsa Massacre, Wounded Knee, etc.

One woman, a 53-year old, was mystified. She claimed no knowledge of these historical markers, wondered why they hadn't been taught in school.

Maybe 'perspective' had a role.

(sigh)

[SheilaAnn]

3. I feel sorry for the kids being raised by these ignorant animals. n/t

[Probatim]

4. Don't feel too bad, they'll be raising their own ignorant animals soon enough...

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Apparently this is happening across the country. Idiots protesting

CRT in elementary schools (where it doesn't exist) showed up at both Normal and Bloomington, IL board meetings last week.

[Wounded Bear]

6. And it's 1, 2, 3 what are we fighting for?

Don't ask me I don't give a damn.
Just listen to the old flim flam.

[uponit7771]

11. +1, I think I remember this song from Ken Burns Vietnam

[Wounded Bear]

16. Country Joe & the Fish at Woodstock...

I modified it a bit, but the sense behind it is similar.

[Comfortably_Numb]

8. Republikkkans have such nice people in their party.

[Caliman73]

19. Unfortunately, some of those people might be Democrats and independents too.

Of course the vast majority of those causing problems are conservatives/Republicans, but we cannot be blind to the fact that some within our own midst harbor racial anxiety and are prone to falling for racially motivated propaganda.

[luv2fly]

9. How do I unsee that second picture?

It almost ought to be rated not safe for work.

[Nexus2]

12. And whatever their freaking over, assuming they know, probably has nothing to with actual CRT

1st clue Critical Race theory is taught at the college level and usually in law school.

[Solly Mack]

13. Idiots gone wild over something they don't understand because someone told them it was life or death

As an aside...

I laugh - hard - when I see a sign that reads "Education not indoctrination" from these folks.

As if the whitewashed, feel-good, and bullshit "Lost Cause" history they were taught was anything other than indoctrination.

George Washington cut down that cherry tree and you ain't telling my child anything different!

God created America for white Americans, so the Indians happily stood aside and let us take our rightful place! And you ain't telling my child anything different!

But they were savages, so they forced us to defend ourselves! And you ain't telling my children any different!

Slaves were happy! And you ain't telling my child anything different!

Slaves loved their masters so much they didn't want to be free! And you ain't telling my children any different!

Why are they always making it about race? Us white folks never make anything about race!

[Hoyt]

14. Christ. Hope some of those people get a good look at themselves. Probably won't matter, but . . . .

[Merlot]

15. Pictures look like a zombie movie.

[Ohioboy]

17. Yes, they do look like scenes from a zombie movie