The practice referred to as "Critical Race Theory" is not about teaching an honest history of America.
If a genuinely honest history of America were taught, Republicans and conservatives would, for the most part, scream bloody murder.
And so would Democrats and progressives.
All history, as it is written, and taught, is done so through a mental filter held by the writer and teacher.
The great historian EH Carr, in his small and highly-recommended volume, What Is History, gave a good example of why 'objective' just-the-facts history is impossible:
Everyone knows -- or everyone with a half-decent education -- knows, that Caesar crossed the Rubicon. This fact has even been turned into a saying, someone who has made an irreversible, important decision, has "crossed the Rubicon". It's a historical fact. But ... why was this particular crossing by this particular man, considered important? After all, many other people crossed the Rubicon, and Caesar crossed many other rivers. (And he crossed the Rubicon as well, although without an accompanying army, which was the point.
Doing this, for generals, was a no-no in ancient Rome, since having thousands of soldiers in the capitol meant that the Senate could be intimidated. ) So this crossing by this man was considered important, and was chosen out of thousands of other crossings by others, to receive our attention.
Similarly, if you want to teach the unvarnished truth about America, or any other country, you will have to include lots of unpleasant facts.
We're a nasty species, just intelligent chimpanzees (and probably more like Pan Troglydytes than Pan Bonobo).
People on the Right will want to teach a history that focusses on America's achievements, and not on her failures. With respect to the Black population, they cannot ignore Jim Crow in the South, lynchings, police shootings, but they will want to put them in context: the great progress that has been made in implementing civil rights, the achievements of great Americans like Thomas Sowell, the late Walter Williams, and many other Black conservatives; and the fact that America twice elected a Black President; and, on the other hand, they will not neglect the astonishingly high Black crime rate, welfare dependency, poor educational achievements -- and the very difficult situation that police have to work in, when they are in Black areas.
When looking abroad, they will point to the near-universal failure of any government run by Blacks -- the horrible lynchings and inter-tribal slaughters in Africa, for example, and the plunge into economic failure after the whites relinquished their rule.
People on the Left will want to do just the opposite. They will take the approach of the late Howard Zinn's Peoples History of the United States, and emphasize all the bad parts. With regard to race -- and this is what Critical Race Theory is all about -- they will claim that any problems Black people have, are caused, directly or indirectly, by white racism, including that good-for-everything excuse, 'the legacy of slavery'.
They will call on Walter Rodney's How Europe Undeveloped Africa, to explain why Black self-rule has been such a disaster. They will want whites to feel personally guilty, to acknowledge their 'White privilege'. They certainly will not want their students leaving the classroom thinking that America is, all things considered and especially in comparison to other countries, a great nation and worthy of their love. Just the opposite.
For liberals, a real American patriot is the Soviet spy Ethyl Rosenberg, who helped Stalin get the atom bomb.
So what we are seeing is, basically, is the newest generation coming into power, a generation that despises its own working class, whom they consider to be their social inferiors, and sneers at things like saluting the flag. It's America in decline.
Patriots need to start thinking about what to do in this situation, which will not stand still, but will get worse.
In the meantime, of course, take every advantage to slow things down a bit. (In particular, do what you can to encourage liberals to push hard for teaching Critical Race Theory in the schools, and, of course, for de-funding the police and de-criminalize shoplifting. The popular reaction, expressed electorally, will buy us some much-needed time.)
But we're not in a situation now, where a Ronald Reagan will come along, and put America back on course. Our country has cancer, not pneumonia.