DeSantis on Critical Race Theory

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Basically, DeSantis wants to use $116 million in coronavirus funds for promoting his brand of a right wing civics agenda on grades K-12 in our public schools.

What is Critical Race Theory? :

Critical race theory is a practice. It's an approach to grappling with a history of White supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it," said Kimberlé Crenshaw, a founding critical race theorist and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia universities.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/us/critical-race-theory-explainer-trnd/index.html

DeSantis: “Critical Race Theory is basically teaching people to hate our country, hate each other. It’s divisive and it’s basically an identity politics version of Marxism,”...
He said schools have become “indoctrination factories” and academics “engage in politicized academic fads with courses that reflect ideology not facts.”

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/414375-ron-desantis-critical-marx

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[rzemanfl]

1. Fuck you DeSatan. n/t

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2. DeSantis just wants revisionist rightwing re-education camps.

[RKP5637]

3. DeSantis, is pretty much a GOP thug akin to Trump. Mini-Trump, DeSantis! n/t

[ShazamIam]

4. Critical Race Theory is the identity banner of the white supremacists. And there is a book, that ...

documents how race/religion/culture discrimination was codified into laws all across our nation.

I recommend it to anyone who has a good friend or family member who denies how entrenched racism is in U.S. law.

The book is well documented and sources the laws that specifically excluded individuals based on race in particular.

Book name: The Color Of Law, A forgotten history of how our government segregated America.
Author: Richard Rothstein.
Liveright Publishing Corp, Div. of W. W. Norton & Company
Publish date: 2018
It makes me so sad and angry I have go keep putting it down, then wait a while before I can continue.

It is a book to gift to deniers.

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5. Thank you. And only anyone I know would appreciate it. And I'm happy to say that. nt

[ShazamIam]

10. I think you are saying no one close to you is engaged in denial, I agree it is happy worthy.

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6. A while ago my daughter gave me The New Jim Crow

I didn't read it. She said it's the same stuff we've always known, but I'd like it when I read it. Just looking at the cover I know it's going reinforce beliefs. How do they compare?

[ShazamIam]

8. I haven't read that yet, probably won't it is hard enough to read the law book, even

as I have known of the past, I am one of those constant readers and love reading U.S. History. I have managed to stay positive even knowing about the horror stories like, slavery, the removal of the Native Americans from the S.E., the West's treatment of Asian immigrant workers, etc.
Staying positive was possible, because until the Republcans camp to power with Nixon we were moving strongly in a more human direction.

I have found it hard to keep that positive belief, especially since the 80s and the awful impact of the economic war against the U.S. working and middle class, with that special focus on the phony Drug War, War on Crime, that wrecked so many lives with mass incarceration, while so obviously used to target only the poorest and minority populations.

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11. Welcome to DU!

This is the right place for you. All identities sympathetic with yours too. Take a look around.

[ShazamIam]

12. Thank you kindly, though I don't feel like a stranger, I have been reading here for a few years.

You are confirming my expectations about signing in.

[gopiscrap]

15. welcome to DU

[MichaelSoE]

7. He might as well get Flat Earth science to boot ...

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9. Cherry picking at it's finest

I met a few over the years on league nights. Interesting group of believers, most I met talked openly and we could look at and understand some absurd theory. A month, a year later it was always something else. What kept them together was the league. *them being the people known to me. I've got no idea what anyone's doing or where anyone is, and my averages were about average so my advice isn't too good.

[Dreampuff]

13. He is an evil and demonic man.

Does he plan on dusting off the revision of History the Confederate Daughters of America wrote back in the late 1800 and early 1900? They started teaching it in Georgia and then throughout a lot of the South and it went for many decades. I know people who learned that sort of History and what you learned as a child is not easily taken away from you when you get old. He wants to taint a few more Generations.

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14. There are answers

I don't know the answers though. From the outside looking in it looks like this to me.
People and groups and governments all have a purpose and societies flutter like flocks of birds. We've got to go in the right direction. The shape of the flock didn't change but a single bird doesn't change its direction.