Disputing Racism’s Reach, Republicans Rattle American Schools

The New York Times (NYT) (06/01/2021)
  • Across the US, Republican-led state legislatures are passing bills banning public schools from teaching about systemic racism.
  • The bills specifically target “critical race theory”, a graduate-school framework examining the modern inequalities deriving from Jim Crow segregation and slavery.
  • In Ohio, Republicans introduced a bill banning curriculum teaching that any individual is “inherently racist” or “bears responsibility” for past racism.
  • In North Carolina, legislators passed a bill limiting teaching that America was “created by members of a particular race or sex to oppress”.