This Week’s Update On Critical Race Theory Hysteria

 

Here are new additions to RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT ATTACKS ON “CRITICAL RACE THEORY,” THE 1619 PROJECT & ATTEMPTS TO STOP EDUCATORS FROM TEACHING ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM:

Critical race theory battles are driving frustrated, exhausted educators out of their jobs is from NBC News.

Many Americans embrace falsehoods about critical race theory is from Reuters.

How Will Bans on ‘Divisive’ Classroom Topics Be Enforced? Here’s What 10 States Plan to Do is from Ed Week.

As states place new limits on class discussions of race, research suggests they benefit students is from Chalkbeat.

Bernice King slams GOP: “Beyond insulting” to misuse MLK’s teachings to oppose critical race theory https://t.co/8wBoJTHoHb pic.twitter.com/qqglqdzWZ4

— The Hill (@thehill) July 15, 2021

So what is Critical Race Theory, really? And why is it so important?

Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) sets the record straight on CRT and the right’s disinformation campaign in our latest video. Watch and share: pic.twitter.com/j2Hf4Oz0wb

— African American Policy Forum (@AAPolicyForum) July 14, 2021

“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of a sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.”

– Martin Luther King Jr, 1967 https://t.co/kvNpxyBQe1

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 13, 2021

I talked to Christopher Rufo’s targets: educators. https://t.co/4wAmPhHPPw

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) July 11, 2021

More today via @memangrum https://t.co/SHxbNfg26T pic.twitter.com/3ybW7mz48j

— Matt Barnum (@matt_barnum) July 8, 2021

@antisocialstudiesPART 2 I love my fellow ##tiktokteachers ##history ##teacher ##imsoproudofyou ##herecomestheboy♬ original sound – Anti-Social Studies

The Moral Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is Coming for a North Carolina Teacher of the Year is from Mother Jones.