Modern versions of CRT conflict with the Civil Rights Movement for these reasons:
A) CRT and antiracism are obsessed with dividing people into “colors” and treating them differently on the basis of “color.”
B) The Platform of CRT and antiracism have no meaningful mechanism for improving the lives of the poor minority populations they pretend to serve.
C) CRT and antiracism excel at denying data relating to their mission (including police statistics and economic facts, such as the fact that 60% of Americans who identify as “black” are middle class or above).
D) CRT and antiracism advocates do not extol the teachings of Martin Luther King. In fact, King’s teachings are barely mentioned in training materials.
There are other difference too, but this is a sampling based upon some of the articles I’ve written recently.
Increasing numbers of people are starting to understand that CRT and “antiracism” conflict with the traditional Civil Rights Movement. In reaction, apologists for CRT and “anti-racism” are taking the position that CRT and “antiracism” are not being taught in schools. I see this as motivated reasoning based on the fact that most of these people (the ones I know) are only exposed to left-leaning legacy media that refuses to cover the fact that obsessions with skin “color” and other divisive poisons are increasingly being taught in K-12 and colleges. Left-leaning media admits of only a few outliers and deny that CRT or antiracism is a significant problem in the U.S. I disagree, based on these news reports:
The recent case of Dana stangel-Plowe, former teacher at a school in Englewood.
The recent case of Paul Rossi.
The observations of Andrew Gutmann, a former parent at Brearly School.
Christopher Rufo’s reports based upon leaked training materials at numerous schools.
Chloe Valdary teaches a good-hearted program to diminish bigotry she compares to the CRT programs of which she is knowledgable.
Numerous reports by Parents Defending Education.
Numerous reports of attempted cancellation based on CRT here.
Reports at businesses by Counterweight.
Many more reports here, by Princetonians for Free Speech.
I have also been personally contacted by approximately a dozen people who work in academia who are afraid to speech honestly on issues because CRT permeates the campus
More reports here (Stanford) and here (Rutgers).
John McWhorter’s receipt of numerous complaints (see the comments) here.
Another recent resource is Christopher Rufo’s “Critical Race Theory Briefing Book.”
There are numerous other reports, more of them surfacing every week. I will update this list periodically in the comments.
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education.
https://fairforall.substack.com/p/cultural-literacy-or-cultural-destruction
Centennial Colorado Public Schools. Segregated Playground Sessions.
More . . .
Real Clear Investigations has published “No Critical Race Theory in Schools? Here’s the Abundant Evidence Saying Otherwise.” Here is an excerpt:
Portland’s Grant High School: https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1476009158897897472
Documents here: https://pdfhost.io/v/~BjWPxlFF_Race_Forward_December_2021
National Association of Independent School’s (NAIS) 2021 People of Color Conference.
Posted by Paul Rossi on GETTR.
https://gettr.com/post/pnaiuy8caf
New Version of CRT is SEL. Indoctrination disguised as therapy. In the meantime, students are being deprived of high quality instruction in the basic subjects such as math and reading skills. National Review reports:
“Nova High School in Seattle describes its pedagogical approach as “decentering whiteness, patriarchy, [and] hetero- and cis-normativity.” 80 percent of its students identify as “LGBTQ+, non-binary, and transgender.” The school does not issue grades.” https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1526321366521237504
“Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.
School board members discussed the plan called “Transformative Education Professional Development & Grading” at a meeting on May 26, presented by Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Laurie Fiorenza.
In an effort to equalize test scores among racial groups, OPRF will order its teachers to exclude from their grading assessments variables it says disproportionally hurt the grades of black students. They can no longer be docked for missing class, misbehaving in school or failing to turn in their assignments, according to the plan.”
https://westcooknews.com/stories/626581140-oprf-to-implement-race-based-grading-system-in-2022-23-school-year#.YpZPwcms9K5.twitter
Excerpt from “UPenn Med School Leaders Turn on Former Dean over ‘Racist’ Affirmative-Action Criticism“: