Thank you Ruben for this writing, which speaks to our minds, our hearts, and our spirits. What I would add, what I've learned from Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw's podcast, is that the anti-CRT movement is a backlash to the racial reckoning of the summer of 2020, and that backlashes to periods of anti-racist action typically last a good deal longer than the periods of progress that preceded them: Reconstruction/Redemption and Jim Crow, Civil Rights/Mass Incarceration....
In other words, the anti-CRT movement is a grave threat, and must be countered with sustained anti-racist organizing.
Great post! Only a couple of years ago I think one would have thought of ‘avoiding discomfort’ in schools as a left-coded phenomenon with all the ‘safe spaces on campus’ talk. Now you have Republican legislatures literally banning ideas from the classroom. They really co-opted the whole snowflake thing!
Thank you Ruben for this writing, which speaks to our minds, our hearts, and our spirits. What I would add, what I've learned from Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw's podcast, is that the anti-CRT movement is a backlash to the racial reckoning of the summer of 2020, and that backlashes to periods of anti-racist action typically last a good deal longer than the periods of progress that preceded them: Reconstruction/Redemption and Jim Crow, Civil Rights/Mass Incarceration....
In other words, the anti-CRT movement is a grave threat, and must be countered with sustained anti-racist organizing.
Great post! Only a couple of years ago I think one would have thought of ‘avoiding discomfort’ in schools as a left-coded phenomenon with all the ‘safe spaces on campus’ talk. Now you have Republican legislatures literally banning ideas from the classroom. They really co-opted the whole snowflake thing!