Black History Month exposes the fallacy of White ‘discomfort’

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This year, Black History Month commemorations will unfold alongside efforts in numerous states to ban the teaching of its content. Efforts that purport to bar the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” have evolved into a full-scale assault, with Republican lawmakers unleashing attacks on Black History under the guise of protecting White children from “discomfort.”

Republican lawmakers in multiple states and counties have effectively set out to cancel histories that White parents may find uncomfortable and in the process are seeking to cancel Black History Month and discussion of other uncomfortable histories, including the Holocaust and murderous campaigns unleashed against indigenous peoples as a result of settler colonialism.

Black history offers the nation an unvarnished origin story – one that transcends the mythology of America’s founding and conveys the lived realities of native peoples and Black Americans and their centrality to the United States we live in today.

Sharing these stories with school children in an age-appropriate manner is not something we should fear. But the erroneous narrative that teaching Black history provokes anxiety, discomfort, guilt or anger for White children has insidious roots. Let us not forget that the classrooms of White children have been a battleground before, and that the cry of parental rights and choice were the order of the day back then as well.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/opin...omfort-critical-race-theory-joseph/index.html

 

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Efforts to cancel Black history because it’s too uncomfortable also reflect mainstream media narratives centering the anger and indignation of White parents regarding the teaching of Black history in public education. This has largely erased the perspective of Black parents. As one Black mother of three from Charlottesville, Virginia, told the Washington Post, “They say, ‘Our children are too young to hear about racism.’ Who is ‘our’ children? I don’t remember a day of my life when I wasn’t taught about racism, or learning about it through just existing. Our children, meaning Black children, have had to be taught different ways to stay safe to maneuver through the world.”

This effort to block the teaching of histories that make White parents and children uncomfortable is the logical outcome of the manufactured controversy over Critical Race Theory, a theoretical concept taught in law schools that researches the persistence of structural racism in the law and legal policies. In essence, these latest efforts by Virginia and Florida – not to mention those enacted by Mississippi and Tennessee show that what’s afoot here is adult politics, not kids’ educations.

 

[David Jeffrey Spetch]

This year, Black History Month commemorations will unfold alongside efforts in numerous states to ban the teaching of its content. Efforts that purport to bar the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” have evolved into a full-scale assault, with Republican lawmakers unleashing attacks on Black History under the guise of protecting White children from “discomfort.”

Republican lawmakers in multiple states and counties have effectively set out to cancel histories that White parents may find uncomfortable and in the process are seeking to cancel Black History Month and discussion of other uncomfortable histories, including the Holocaust and murderous campaigns unleashed against indigenous peoples as a result of settler colonialism.

Black history offers the nation an unvarnished origin story – one that transcends the mythology of America’s founding and conveys the lived realities of native peoples and Black Americans and their centrality to the United States we live in today.

Sharing these stories with school children in an age-appropriate manner is not something we should fear. But the erroneous narrative that teaching Black history provokes anxiety, discomfort, guilt or anger for White children has insidious roots. Let us not forget that the classrooms of White children have been a battleground before, and that the cry of parental rights and choice were the order of the day back then as well.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/opin...omfort-critical-race-theory-joseph/index.html

So you are calling critical race "theory" black history. Black history month is racist against anyone not black.

 

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So you are calling critical race "theory" black history. Black history month is racist against anyone not black.

Nope that is what the right wing is calling anything to do with Black history