But schools should present it as an interesting theory - one that might offer an interesting way of conceptualizing how race and discrimination has played out in the US.
The problems have arisen with the way this has been taught.
As I've written before, I took a semester of this in graduate school and for many years thought it had some benefit. However, the central theme of the class required all white people to write that they were racist. It also asked for intimate information about how you were raised, your sexuality, your families social status and religious (or non-religious) beliefs.
If you didn't, you didn't get a good grade. Period. For a long time, I thought that was a helpful exercise. These days, I'm not sure.
Whatever I do or don't believe about CRT - I don't believe it belongs in the work place (no, I don't think employees should sit in a circle and talk about being racist - if they are white - and not - if they are of color). Work is work. Don't discriminate (if you do- be warned/fired). In fact, I think companies should look for more empirical measures to ensure that we are more inclusive (we can track those things very well, if we want to. We need to want to).
But separate white parents of students from parents of color? Make a statement of your 'inherent racism' (write it yourself and have it placed in your employee file? Like at Evergreen College). I don't support that.
Likewise, some of the ways this is introduced in the schools - I don't support. There already are several lawsuits popping up. One by a mother of a student who didn't want to talk about his race, or announce a belief about his so-called gender, or religion.
Why should children HAVE to do that at school?
From the lawsuit: Defendants compelled Plaintiff William Clark to make professions about his racial, sexual, gender, and religious identities in verbal class exercises and in graded, written homework assignments
https://www.scribd.com/document/489011066/Schoolhouserights-org-Nevada-Complaint#from_embed
FWIW, the plaintiff's mother is black (his deceased father was white).
I don't support banning a theory, of course. That's illiberal.
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