Dr. Sowell was a contemporary of Professor Bell, who created Critical Race Theory. He had quite a lot to say about it over his lifetime. https://www.c-span.org/person/?thomassowell
The key words to watch for in children's classrooms are equity and justice. Just as racism has been redefined where someone has to be 'anti racist', not just not racist, equity isn't equality and in fact CRT considers the concept of equality racist. Justice is justice based on racial criteria.
And, yes, it's in K-12 classrooms. After all, CRT professors have been teaching the teachers for decades now. The reason it came to people's attention seemingly suddenly is because parents had to start helping their children with coursework at home. Those of us who listened to Dr. Sowell those many moons ago knew all the fancy words and platitudes all mean the same thing.
Sorry but the Critical Race Theory you are familiar with from the 1990's is no longer a theory but an orthodoxy preached in my grandkids schools. It is a variant....(get it. ha a virus that has mutated)
I know what I'm speaking about because one of my grandkids comes to my house for distance learning and we lived through January, February and June. That is the Martin Luther King Month, the Feb black history month, and the ever present Gay Month of June.
My granddaughter is 9 and in the 3rd grade. She has 3 biracial siblings and a white brother. Her step dad is black and her mom is white. They (we) live in an upscale burb district which is vastly majority white and the largest minority is Asian and and tiny pop. of black.
To start off MLK month she had to circle what color she was. Ok. Except there was no white. It was varying degrees of blackness which is not exactly a family past time. Some of the kids are lighter or darker than the others.
I could take pages to explain how destructive and divisive this is to families not to mention how much the race activists are making bank (I have traced the activist non profits down) but it is for real and the definition of CRT has expanded or change from the way you are using it. The 1990's definition doesn't hold. Like all language these days their definition are fluid unfortunately for me.
The only thing the right has now is anger and hate. Which is why right wing media spends 95% of its time telling them who exactly they should be hating now and why. Doesn't matter if its a lie, they will believe it.
Dr. Sowell was a contemporary of Professor Bell, who created Critical Race Theory. He had quite a lot to say about it over his lifetime. https://www.c-span.org/person/?thomassowell
The key words to watch for in children's classrooms are equity and justice. Just as racism has been redefined where someone has to be 'anti racist', not just not racist, equity isn't equality and in fact CRT considers the concept of equality racist. Justice is justice based on racial criteria.
And, yes, it's in K-12 classrooms. After all, CRT professors have been teaching the teachers for decades now. The reason it came to people's attention seemingly suddenly is because parents had to start helping their children with coursework at home. Those of us who listened to Dr. Sowell those many moons ago knew all the fancy words and platitudes all mean the same thing.
https://equitablemath.org/
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-announces-actions-advance-equity-education
https://www.waterford.org/education/equity-vs-equality-in-education/
Or, formerly known as "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
Sorry but the Critical Race Theory you are familiar with from the 1990's is no longer a theory but an orthodoxy preached in my grandkids schools. It is a variant....(get it. ha a virus that has mutated)
I know what I'm speaking about because one of my grandkids comes to my house for distance learning and we lived through January, February and June. That is the Martin Luther King Month, the Feb black history month, and the ever present Gay Month of June.
My granddaughter is 9 and in the 3rd grade. She has 3 biracial siblings and a white brother. Her step dad is black and her mom is white. They (we) live in an upscale burb district which is vastly majority white and the largest minority is Asian and and tiny pop. of black.
To start off MLK month she had to circle what color she was. Ok. Except there was no white. It was varying degrees of blackness which is not exactly a family past time. Some of the kids are lighter or darker than the others.
I could take pages to explain how destructive and divisive this is to families not to mention how much the race activists are making bank (I have traced the activist non profits down) but it is for real and the definition of CRT has expanded or change from the way you are using it. The 1990's definition doesn't hold. Like all language these days their definition are fluid unfortunately for me.
JCoS Chairman Mark Milley: https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1407771536971292672
The only thing the right has now is anger and hate. Which is why right wing media spends 95% of its time telling them who exactly they should be hating now and why. Doesn't matter if its a lie, they will believe it.