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From the September/October 2021 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.
Were making book lists and info graphics and putting black tiles on their instagrams. so a year removed from that, you have republicans, i think, concerned about democratic shifts and some white americans that is being raised by realtime events that are making them think differently and more critically, dare i say, about american history. critical race theory is simply saying we should consider that racism is a systemic problem. it's embedded in all of our systems and in the ways we live american life. that is not racist. that's not as racist as someone in a sheet, and frankly, i'm offended at...
>> you know, this is history that we have seen repeated over and over again when there becomes a movement to try to stop and quell movements towards freedom. that's what's been happening with the black lives matter movement, with the statements about race and people trying to understand the systematic and structural barriers. and the backlash has been pretty vicious. this whole notion of trying to put things under the umbrella of critical race theory when that's not even what's being taught. it's basic american history. for us to not want our students to understand their own history is a trage...