January 24, 2022 ☼ youngkin ☼ virginia ☼ crt
Source: The Washington Post (Link)
Source: The Washington Post
But Youngkin’s first week in office showed him to be a Trumpian culture-warrior. He immediately issued an executive order banning the teaching of critical race theory or any “inherently divisive concepts” in Virginia schools. Because critical race theory is not actually being taught at K-12 public schools in the commonwealth, the order could only be an attempt to ban the accurate teaching of African American history, which necessarily covers slavery, Jim Crow repression, lynchings, “massive resistance” to school desegregation, systematic discrimination and persistent disparities.
If you teach Black history without bringing up any “divisive concepts,” you’re not teaching it at all.