OpEd: 'If merely thinking about the construct of race is so dangerous, the practice of enforcing political and systemic divisions based on that same construct is even more dangerous.' - meelanash on why students need critical race theory ⤵️
who inhabited this land before him . Where’s the outrage about the ways those false teachings hurt nonwhite kids? Nonetheless, here we are. All of us — Black, white, Asian, Indigenous — descendants and inhabitants of a country whose history is deeply rooted in the practice of enforcing this construct of race.
The U.S. that we live in today, with all its flaws and beauty, wouldn’t be what it is without race. James Baldwin, writer and activist, once, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” After all, how much can you truly love your country if in the telling of its story, you insist on leaving out the parts that truly define it? To love a fictional iteration of your country is no patriotism at all.
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