Ten Questions on Critical Race Theory

May 18, 2021  By Christopher Paslay

 

Recently, during a Fox News interview with Martha MacCallum, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten was asked about Critical Race Theory in K-12 classrooms. Weingarten answered by oversimplifying the historical inaccuracies contained in the New York Times’ 1619 Project, and when pressed on the racially polarizing, anti-American nature of the curriculum, Weingarten abruptly changed the subject to the 2020 election. 

“That’s a dodge,” MacCallum told Weingarten. 

It was a dodge indeed. The divisive tenets at the heart of Critical Race Theory are not the easiest to promote and defend. This doesn’t excuse Weingarten from answering basic questions about the topic, and as a Philadelphia public school teacher and dues-paying member of the AFT, I’d like to know how Weingarten truly feels about the toxic ideologies being pushed on America’s teachers and students.

Here are 10 questions for Weingarten concerning the use of critical race theory in America’s K-12 Classroom:..........

1.  Should we be teaching children that all White people are inherently racist?
2.  Should we be teaching children that America is a systemically racist country based on white supremacy?
   
3.  Should we be teaching children that all racial disparities are the sole result of racism?
   
4. Should we be teaching children that you are either racist or antiracist, and that there is no neutral? 
   
5. Should we be teaching children that White America is inherently anti-Black, and that all Whites suffer from an unconscious bias against people of color?
   
6. Should we be polarizing children into tribal camps based on race, and teaching them to view the world through victim groups?
   
7. Should we be teaching children that things such as linear time, work ethic, individualism, and the scientific method are aspects of White supremacy culture?
8. Should we be teaching children that so-called “whiteness” is problematic, and must be targeted and disrupted?
   
9. Should we be teaching children that being nice, cooperative, and compliant is racist, and that the notion of “hard work” is White cultural appropriation?
10. Should we be teaching children that the most important determinant of success in their lives is skin color, which is the guiding principle at the heart of Critical Race Theory? 
    

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