{"id":996467,"date":"2021-11-10T22:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T03:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=996467"},"modified":"2021-11-10T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T03:45:00","slug":"crt-co-founder-children-should-learn-u-s-ground-is-soaked-in-blood-of-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crt-co-founder-children-should-learn-u-s-ground-is-soaked-in-blood-of-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"CRT Co-Founder: Children Should Learn U.S. Ground Is \u2018Soaked in Blood of Theft\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fcrt-co-founder-children-should-learn-u-s-ground-is-soaked-in-blood-of-theft%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=996467&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 class=\"subheading\"><span>Professor Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, a co-founder of critical race theory (CRT), explained the importance of \u201clooking at history to understand our present\u201d while calling for youth to \u201cunderstand the ground upon which we stand is ground that\u2019s soaked in blood of theft.\u201d She warned of the outcome if the \u201cother side gets its way,\u201d declaring \u201cthe road to authoritarianism will be paved through white supremacy.<\/span>\u201d<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Crenshaw made her comments while appearing on British-American TV anchor Mehdi Hasan\u2019s eponymous Sunday night <\/span><span>MSNBC<\/span><span> program, <em>The Mehdi Hasan Show<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6738461538462\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;One can understand why <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@billmaher<\/a> actually thinks that stuff because he probably never learned what the truth is.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>CRT co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandylocks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sandylocks<\/a> tells me that banning history is &#8220;the road to authoritarianism&#8221; and &#8220;will be paved through white supremacy.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J0k4tZ5MWb\">pic.twitter.com\/J0k4tZ5MWb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan\/status\/1457530086698139653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Hasan&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/the-mehdi-hasan-show.simplecast.com\/episodes\/the-mehdi-hasan-show-november-7-2021?t=6m38s\"><span>attributed<\/span><\/a><span> Republican Glenn Youngkin\u2019s recent \u201cupset\u201d victory in the Virginia governor race to the latter highlighting CRT \u2014 which the MSNBC host described as an \u201cacademic legal theory,\u201d which is neither \u201ccritical\u201d nor \u201ctheory\u201d and which <\/span><span>many \u201chaters\u201d admit they do not fully grasp.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Youngkin] went all in on CRT which is nothing if not a buzzword for all the racist words you are not allowed to say and for all the history you\u2019re not allowed to teach about America\u2019s past,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd <\/span><span>surely the issue motivated parents. But as a wedge issue, it really motivated white voters.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cAccording to the exit polls: among voters who said, \u2018parents should have a lot to say in what schools teach\u2019 \u2026 Youngkin got 90 percent of the white vote and only 19 percent of the black vote,\u201d Hasan added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Crenshaw, who is also <\/span><span>executive <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.columbia.edu\/faculty\/kimberle-w-crenshaw\"><span>director<\/span><\/a><span> for the African American Policy Forum and helped form CRT in the 1980s, described the concept as \u201ca way of looking at the world that we have inherited after a legacy of segregation, of slavery, of Manifest Destiny, [and] of genocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-mehdi-hasan-show.simplecast.com\/episodes\/the-mehdi-hasan-show-november-7-2021?t=8m10s\"><span>Calling<\/span><\/a><span> it a link between \u201ccontemporary issues around racial inequality\u201d and the \u201claws and policies that produce those very inequalities,\u201d Crenshaw said, \u201cit\u2019s basically looking at the grounds upon which we stand, excavating those aspects of our history that have produced many of the problems that we still deal with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As an example, she cited current differences between black and white wealth being attributed to \u201chow the suburbs were built and [how] they excluded African-Americans.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo it\u2019s basically just looking at history to understand our present, that\u2019s it,\u201d she added, \u201cbut that\u2019s not why they\u2019re against it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Hasan then sought to clarify that CRT does not teach that white children are \u201coppressors,\u201d made to \u201cfeel guilty\u201d or \u201cevil\u201d for their white skin, and black children are \u201cvictims\u201d \u2014 \u201cas Republicans and even some self-proclaimed liberals like [HBO <em>Real Time<\/em> host] Bill Maher claim\u201d it does.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response, Crenshaw referred to such depictions as old and false arguments, though she avoids explaining how.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18578458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"45\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/wi\/ap\/02\/critical-race-theory-explainer-feb-2019-file-photo-kimberle-crenshaw-participates-reconstruction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18578458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/critical-race-theory-explainer-feb-2019-file-photo-kimberle-crenshaw-participates-reconstruction-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"653\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Feb. 2, 2019, file photo, Kimberle Crenshaw participates in the \u2018Reconstruction: America After Civil War\u2019 panel during the PBS presentation at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, Calif. Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, a social justice think tank based in New York City, was one of the early proponents of critical race theory. Initially, she says, it was \u201csimply about telling a more complete story of who we are.\u201d (Photo by Willy Sanjuan\/Invision\/AP, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThe oldest page in the book pushing back against racial integration has been to frame it as an attack on white people,\u201d she said. \u201cCivil rights laws were framed as discrimination against white people, integration of schools was framed as an attack on children, [and] reconstruction was framed as an attack on white women.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThese arguments are the oldest ones in the book,\u201d she added. \u201cThe only thing that is shocking about it, honestly, is that it is so easy to repeat them, it\u2019s so easy to rehearse them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That is why, according to Crenshaw, Bill Maher \u201cactually repeats that stuff \u2014 because he probably never learned what the truth is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Crenshaw also warned of the threat of authoritarianism in the event that \u201cthe story\u201d is banned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf the other side gets its way, which is to completely ban conversations, books, [and] histories that tell the story, then a whole \u2018nother generation will believe these lies and will not be able to understand that the true threat that we face right now is the threat of authoritarianism,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s what this is about: the road to authoritarianism will be paved through white supremacy,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Calling responding to right-wing attacks on CRT education as a \u201ccatch 22,\u201d she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/the-mehdi-hasan-show.simplecast.com\/episodes\/the-mehdi-hasan-show-november-7-2021?t=11m16s\"><span>clarified<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201cno students in K-12 are being taught the Dred Scott case that said black people can never be Americans but what is taught is the history of slavery, a little bit of it; what is taught is the Trail of Tears, a little bit of it,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo the point is that there are moments where our young people should learn our history. They should understand the ground upon which we stand is ground that\u2019s soaked in blood of theft,\u201d she added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-mehdi-hasan-show.simplecast.com\/episodes\/the-mehdi-hasan-show-november-7-2021?t=13m5s\"><span>Claiming<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cracial appeals work in this country because there is still a lot of racism or at least racial resentment in America today,\u201d Hasan followed up by saying that many, including Democrats, are \u201cuncomfortable about suggesting a lot of white voters are susceptible to racist dog-whistles\u201d and choose to hide behind euphemisms instead.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response, Crenshaw claimed that was \u201c<\/span><span>precisely what critical race theory has been about all these years.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMany have been focused on how the inability to talk about race, the inability to see how it\u2019s structured in our society, the inability to think about racism as anything other than moral turpitude or a psychological problem, has made it impossible for the media and others to identify racial projects when they\u2019re happening,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat is not an approach to deal with racism \u2014 we saw that on January 6 with the confederate flag marching right back into the capital,\u201d she added. \u201cSo if we don\u2019t have the ability to address racism, we won\u2019t be able to save our democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hasan&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/the-mehdi-hasan-show.simplecast.com\/episodes\/the-mehdi-hasan-show-november-7-2021?t=14m36s\"><span>concluded<\/span><\/a><span> by claiming the \u201cbooks they are always offended by or consider explicit \u2026 it always seems to be books from black authors or about black historical themes,\u201d to which Crenshaw agreed, saying that books about social injustices \u201ccause discomfort\u201d and therefore are not welcome to be taught \u201cso nobody has to find the actual definition of critical race theory to know what this is about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is what\u2019s motivating the racial justice movements, so don\u2019t let them take away what we want to pass on to the next generation: the ability to read our history and to know where the fight has to be,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The battle over CRT in schools has resulted in nationwide tension in recent months.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17048030\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233450533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17048030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233450533.jpg\" alt=\"People talk before the start of a rally against &quot;critical race theory&quot; (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. - &quot;Are you ready to take back our schools?&quot; Republican activist Patti Menders shouted at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as &quot;oppressors.&quot; &quot;Yes!&quot;, answered in unison the hundreds of demonstrators gathered this weekend near Washington to fight against &quot;critical race theory,&quot; the latest battleground of America&#039;s ongoing culture wars. The term &quot;critical race theory&quot; defines a strand of thought that appeared in American law schools in the late 1970s and which looks at racism as a system, enabled by laws and institutions, rather than at the level of individual prejudices. But critics use it as a catch-all phrase that attacks teachers&#039; efforts to confront dark episodes in American history, including slavery and segregation, as well as to tackle racist stereotypes. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People talk before the start of a rally against \u201ccritical race theory\u201d (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The theory, which is promoted by many on the left, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/13\/pollak-critical-race-theory-explained\/\"><span>claims<\/span><\/a><span> that American institutions \u2014 the government, economy, and culture \u2014 are based on racial hierarchy and aim at maintaining the dominance of white people, and even that which appears race-neutral is, on closer inspection, rooted in racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a result, it urges reform in virtually all of the country\u2019s institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The theory\u2019s architects have argued that the U.S. was founded on theft of land and labor, with federal law maintaining the unequal treatment of citizens by their race.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CRT advocates have also expressed the belief that race is culturally invented, not biological.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, a Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) educator and administrator in the largest school district in Indiana <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/11\/05\/indiana-stem-admin-when-we-tell-you-crt-isnt-taught-in-our-schools-were-lying\/\"><span>addressed<\/span><\/a><span> parents in a video in which he asserted when school officials say they are not teaching CRT, \u201cwe\u2019re lying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In June, a former Democrat congressional candidate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/23\/black-democrat-denounces-crt-says-party-working-overtime-to-keep-race-ideology-alive\/\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> on Americans to listen to black parents who oppose CRT \u201cindoctrination\u201d in schools, while calling on black Americans to reject the Democrat Party\u2019s race narrative and, instead, realize \u201cthat their skin color is not a barrier to their progress,\u201d adding that Democrats use race to galvanize black electorate support though many black Americans actually \u201chave conservative ideals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, a co-founder of critical race theory (CRT), explained the importance of \u201clooking at history to understand our present\u201d while calling for youth to \u201cunderstand the ground upon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"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-996467","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\/996467","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\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996467\/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=996467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}