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A Key Founder of Critical Race Theory Discusses the Right-Wing Panic Over It
Proponents and opponents of critical race theory demonstrate as the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board in Yorba Linda, California, discusses a proposed resolution to ban it from being taught in schools, on November 16, 2021.
By
C.J. Polychroniou,
Truthout
Published
December 11, 2021
Critical race theory (CRT) has become a new bogeyman in conservative circles in the United States. Right-wing groups are applying the term indiscriminately, using it inaccurately as a catch-all buzzword to stand in for everything they oppose, including any discussion of systemic racism in the classroom.
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For a better understanding of what CRT is and what it is not, Truthout reached out to one of the key founders of CRT, Richard Delgado, the John J. Sparkman Chair of Law at the University of Alabama. Professor Delgado the author of 30 books and one of the most-cited legal scholars on race and the law in the country has become a target of numerous threats by racist and neo-fascist elements since the recent right-wing campaign against CRT began.
C.J. Polychroniou: Professor Delgado, I would like to ask you to describe to us where CRT comes from, and then to discuss in some detail what CRT is and what it is not.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-key-founder-of-critical-race-theory-discusses-the-right-wing-panic-over-it/
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A Key Founder of Critical Race Theory Discusses the Right-Wing Panic Over It (Original Post)
BeckyDem
Dec 2021
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SledDriver
(2,059 posts)1. "critical-of-racists theory"
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,837 posts)2. Let's just call it what it is.
HISTORY.
As in democrats want to teach HISTORY; republicans want to teach
white supremacy.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)3. Precisely.
Thank you.