{"id":906502,"date":"2021-10-21T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=906502"},"modified":"2021-10-21T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:57:22","slug":"condoleezza-rice-denounces-critical-race-theory-curriculums-being-taught-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/condoleezza-rice-denounces-critical-race-theory-curriculums-being-taught-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Condoleezza Rice Denounces Critical Race Theory Curriculums Being Taught in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcondoleezza-rice-denounces-critical-race-theory-curriculums-being-taught-in-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=906502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a curriculum that incorporates critical race theory\u2019s (CRT) ideas should not be taught to schoolchildren, because it sends the wrong message to young children\u2014that one race is less than the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if I could take a moment to talk about the whole issue of critical race theory and what is and is not being taught,\u201d Rice said during an interview on \u201cThe View\u201d Wednesday. \u201cOne of the worries that I have about the way that we\u2019re talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past\u2014I don\u2019t think that\u2019s very productive\u2014or black people have to feel disempowered by race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of \u201cThe View\u201d hosts, Sunny Hostin, countered Rice\u2019s comment by saying that those who oppose CRT don\u2019t want real history being taught in schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople want to hide history \u2026 that is exactly what we are seeing is this rollback of history. Parents don\u2019t want children to hear about the real history,\u201d said Hostin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3873427\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/24\/GettyImages-1233450533-1200x735.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"735\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3873427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233450533-600x368-1.jpg\" alt=\"US-EDUCATION-RACISM-POLITICS\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People talk before the start of a rally against critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools, at the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, Va., on June 12, 2021. (Andrew Cballlero-Reynolds\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Opponents of CRT say they want all of the history of the United States taught including the history of slavery and segregation, but they do not want the divisive concepts like systemic racism, white supremacy, and sexually explicit education being taught to their children.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are opposed to CRT also say the teaching materials being used in schools are rooted in the Marxist theory of class struggle, but with a particular focus on race. Proponents of CRT see racism in every aspect of the American public and private life and seek to dismantle American institutions\u2014such as the Constitution and legal system\u2014which they claim to be inherently and irredeemably racist.<\/p>\n<p>While schools have for years been quietly infusing CRT into their curriculums, it wasn\u2019t until last year, when lockdowns were enacted in response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\">CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a> pandemic, that parents were able to see what their children were being taught. Since then, parents have been increasingly stepping forward to oppose CRT due to its racially divisive and anti-American concepts.<\/p>\n<p>In the last year, parents across the nation have been voicing their opposition to this type of curriculum during school board meetings. Rice also stressed that parents should have a say in what is taught to their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents ought to be involved in their children\u2019s education. Their children are in school seven hours, that\u2019s a very formative period. \u2026 they\u2019re actually homeschooling them in increasing numbers, and I think that\u2019s a signal,\u201d said Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Rice said that she lived through the injustices of the segregated South but her parents taught her that she could overcome her circumstances and that she was not a victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t go to a movie theater or to a restaurant with my parents. I went to segregated schools, but we moved to Denver. My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice, but they also told me, \u2018that\u2019s somebody else\u2019s problem, not yours.\u2019 You\u2019re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be, and that\u2019s the message that I think we ought to be sending the kids,\u201d said Rice.<\/p>\n<p>She said the way race is being taught in schools disempowers black children and vilifies white children.<\/p>\n<p>Asra Nomani of Virginia, the VP of strategy and investigation with Parents Defending Education gave examples of how CRT vilifies white students. She cited a book called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Not-My-Idea-Whiteness-Ordinary\/dp\/1948340003\">\u201cNot My Idea\u201d<\/a> during a recent interview with NTD TV\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/the-nation-speaks\">The Nation Speaks<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a book that has been read to children in elementary schools from Philadelphia to Texas. And one of the really critical ideas here is this one, that whiteness is a bad idea, and the picture then is of the devil, and what has happened then is that white people have signed a contract with the devil that ends up with stolen land, stolen riches, and special favors.\u201d Nomani said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3822520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/05\/19\/asra_nomani-1200x618.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"618\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3822520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/asra_nomani-600x309-1.jpg\" alt=\"asra nomani portrait\" width=\"600\" height=\"309\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A file photo of Asra Nomani. (Andrew Propp\/Washingtonian Magazine)<\/figure>\n<p>Rice said she is opposed to teaching children that white students are bad, as Nomani pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like black kids to be completely empowered to know that they are beautiful in their blackness, but in order to do that, I don\u2019t have to make white kids feel bad for being white. So somehow, this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction,\u201d said Rice. \u201cIt goes back to how we teach the history. We teach the good and we teach the bad of history. But what we don\u2019t do is make seven- and ten-year-olds feel that they are somehow bad people because of the color of their skin. We\u2019ve been through that and we don\u2019t need to do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up while the South was racially segregated. She was the first female black secretary of state and the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WEB_MasoomaZia1.jpg\" alt=\"Masooma Haq\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Masooma Haq<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a curriculum that incorporates critical race theory\u2019s (CRT) ideas should not be taught to schoolchildren, because it sends the wrong message to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}