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CRT is the removal of the lens that sugar coated our country and which to

This day is the reason diversity and equitable outcomes are not where they should be—as evidence by things you have said but also looking at why so many Fortune 500 CEOs are white males and this obviously extends further down to other companies and organizations. They realize they have benefitted from that. They realize their peers, coworkers and friend groups are mostly white people too. They don’t like that being called out. This is no fault of their own but it makes them uncomfortable. Instead of addressing it. They want to hide it. Move beyond it and say we live in a post racial society so no need. It’s wrong.

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Posted: 11/04/2021 at 4:06PM

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Teacher posts video pushing back on notion that CRT is not taught in -- JMHoo 11/04/2021 2:33PM

This is hilarious... -- HokieDan95 11/04/2021 3:38PM

Me thinks thou doth protest too much ** -- Plano Hoo 11/04/2021 5:13PM

Which is worse, CRT of Sharia Law?... asking for a friend ** -- Plano Hoo 11/04/2021 3:35PM

Maybe it's all under the "secular humanism" umbrella. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 11/04/2021 3:36PM

Loudoun County Public Schools paid $34,167 to "The Equity Collaborative". -- CDCHoo 11/04/2021 3:35PM

This is standard for any organization and has been for decades. I know for -- HooAskedYou 11/04/2021 3:42PM

Let's assume you are correct. What would be so devastating if -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 3:39PM

Some of it is controversial. Tuck linked an interesting piece a few -- Capital City Hoo 11/04/2021 4:12PM

Fine. But it isn't and hasn't been taught. The GOP deliberatly misled -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 4:15PM

Haha - i just answered your qeustion. CRT became a proxy -- Capital City Hoo 11/04/2021 4:21PM

I agree with your first paragraph, but your 2nd seems to say to not -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 4:34PM

All I said that the Ds should read the room. they clearly hadn't ** -- Capital City Hoo 11/04/2021 5:12PM

Don’t fall for this garbage. This is all diversity, equity and inclusion -- HooAskedYou 11/04/2021 3:44PM

DIversity is just code for nonwhite, why not just say nonwhite? WHo gets -- Hooooooooooooooo 11/04/2021 5:06PM

I'm just trying to understand what about CRT terrifies them so much. ** -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 3:52PM

That's like asking them why they're SO FUCKING MAD about people moving to -- WahooRQ 11/04/2021 4:49PM

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Must resist snowflake joke... I'm seriously trying to get -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 3:58PM

CRT is the removal of the lens that sugar coated our country and which to -- HooAskedYou 11/04/2021 4:06PM

Pushing artificial diversity, whoever gets to decide what that is, is not -- Hooooooooooooooo 11/04/2021 5:09PM

What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? ** -- WahooRQ 11/04/2021 5:17PM

It means that any business, institution, et. al. can decide what constitute -- Hooooooooooooooo 11/05/2021 08:38AM

He’s just finding a new way to cry about “reverse racism” -- FTJ Mackey 11/04/2021 6:12PM

No, I'm saying that defining diversity only by skin color is weak and -- Hooooooooooooooo 11/05/2021 12:05PM

Your conclusion is my assumption too. However, I would like to -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 4:13PM

Orwellian lies ** -- HokieDan95 11/04/2021 3:23PM

Another educator speaks out (and gets support from others) -- JMHoo 11/04/2021 2:54PM

"Are students reading X... No." But yes, teachers are aware of -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 2:50PM

I don't know anyone who doesn't think blacks have gotten a raw deal. -- HAZER 11/04/2021 3:48PM

I disagree with you about the slavery and racism. The US is most definitely -- Seattle .Hoo 11/04/2021 4:20PM

We could have a good debate. -- HAZER 11/04/2021 4:30PM

That's fair. Little kids wouldn't get the nuance. It's enough for me that -- Seattle .Hoo 11/04/2021 4:41PM

You'd get no argument from me. -- HAZER 11/04/2021 4:55PM

He was right though. I wouldn't want some of those dipstick parents -- Seattle .Hoo 11/04/2021 5:00PM

A lot of truth. We'll see how this chapter unfolds. ** -- HAZER 11/04/2021 5:03PM

How is CRT specifically "preposterous"? I didn't even know what it -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 3:57PM

I didn't say CRT is preposterous. -- HAZER 11/04/2021 4:02PM

That is not CRT per Wikipedia. I don't know how -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 4:11PM

Oh, I would say that's because that's not what you hear on the street. -- HAZER 11/04/2021 4:22PM

Yeah. If what they said on the street is true, then I'd be against -- HoosWillWin 11/04/2021 4:38PM

Well, that's politics. -- HAZER 11/04/2021 5:02PM

Good conversation between you two, also between you and Seattle. -- southdenverhoo 11/04/2021 5:51PM

Well, you know I like ball busting but this is more fun, to me. ** -- HAZER 11/04/2021 6:05PM

Well said ** -- 111Balz 11/04/2021 3:32PM

Expected response: " Can he provide concrete proof of this behavior?" ** -- Hoogle.com 11/04/2021 2:42PM

It's anecdotal! Only found in Law school! Twitchy is the source! JM is old! ** -- Hoodafan 11/04/2021 3:12PM