(Leisburg) “Are you ready to regain control of your schools? On stage, Republican activist Barry Menders denounces anti-racism school programs, which, according to him, teach white children to see themselves as “oppressors.”
“Yes! Weekend Unanimous Answers Gathered this weekend in front of the administration’s seat of Washington’s affluent suburb of Loud Town County, the United States was rocked by the last war of the ongoing cultural war.
After their attack on abortion or transgender people, conservatives have gone to war in recent months against “critical race theory,” which they say enters public schools across the country.
The term defines a line of thought that appeared in American law schools in the late 1970s, and it analyzes racism as a system, not at the level of individual prejudices with its laws and logics of power.
Critics use it as a c-by phrase that encompasses all the authors’ efforts to further address dark chapters in American history, including slavery and segregation, and to deal with racist stereotypes.
Elizabeth Perrin, the mother of a family in Loud Town County, believes that children from the age of 7 should “analyze everything by the prism of skin color, not personality” and “be ashamed”. Be white ”,“ see themselves as oppressors in the face of the oppressed ”.
“Revolution”
His speech echoes that of former Republican President Donald Trump, who, in the fall, cut the training classes proposed by his predecessor Barack Obama to teach federal officials about diversity.
“We teach people that this country is horrible, that we are racist, that we teach them to hate the country,” he said, adding that “there is a serious revolution going on in the military, schools, and so on. “.
Since then, at least sixteen Republicans, including the less populous Texas and Florida, have enacted or enforced laws that prevent public schools from teaching “critical racism” or losing their grants.
Although they are vague, these texts “make professors very nervous,” said Torinda Carter Andrews, head of the Department of Educational Science at Michigan State University.
“They wonder how they can talk about the racial question,” he said, while it naturally “infiltrated” schools in the wake of the large protests that killed African-American George Floyd on his knees. A white policeman in May 2020, he explains.
In the wake of this anti-racist uprising, school officials have set up training classes and are beginning to think about new programs that are “embarrassing” some parents, these African-American judges.
“Shame”
“My children are always talking about racism,” confirms a white forty-something who passed by the AFP in Lisburg, who, like most of the protesters, did not want to be named. “It’s always ‘You racists!’
“There is racism, but it exists between all races,” continues this mother of two teenagers, who, above all, does not want to “isolate” a particular group, for fear that it will intensify divisions in the country.
“White supremacy is real,” Liz Carroll replied, an anti-government activist who wrote the formula in a sign on Saturday.
This white mother says she is ashamed of the neighbors’ attitude of disrupting every meeting of school officials, multiplying petitions, demonstrations, interviews in the conservative media and legal complaints to advance their cause.
Elsewhere, the weather is tense.
Last week, students at a high school on New York’s Upstate Long Island were blown the whistle for asking if there were more teachers of color in project books, among other things. A teacher at a private school in New Jersey has accused his school of “pushing students into a privileged or victimized position.”
“Most opponents of critical racism have never read this,” said Jameel Donor, a professor of education in Virginia, who said the debate was all political: “Republicans need this intimidation to mobilize their base.”
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