Democrats need a coherent response to attacks on critical race theory
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Judith Zaffirini, For the Express-News
July 23, 2021
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In attempting to eradicate critical race theory from Texas schools, proponents of Senate Bill 3 risk validating extreme views in the name of not taking sides on controversial subjects. Here, people demonstrate in response to the special session, which includes SB 3.Tamir Kalifa /Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
Esto no es cosa de armas (This is not a matter for weapons).
Those reportedly were the last words uttered by Don Francisco Gutiérrez before he and his son, Manuel Gutiérrez, were shot in 1912 by a rogue Special Texas Ranger on a hot summer morning in Webb County.
At a recent Pennsbury School Board meeting, parents and taxpayers spent 90 minutes arguing that a new racial equity policy and plan should never have been approved.
The 20 who spoke out against the plan, unanimously adopted by the board on May 20, described it as part of an insidious and subversive implementation of critical race theory.
“You may not be calling it ‘critical race theory,’ and are disguising it as social and emotional learning, but we are not fooled,” said school board candidate Jen Spillane, of Yardley.
Debate over critical race theory has been a divisive, and misunderstood, topic at school board meetings throughout Bucks County and nationwide as calls continue for reforms nationwide, pushed to the forefront by the Black Lives Matter movement. Part of those changes have been a demand for better student equity and inclusion in public school policy and curriculum.