Courier Mischaracterized CRT Forum
The Courier’s July 1 report of the Truth in Education CRT Forum [“Session to Critique Guilford Race Education Draws Supporters, Protesters”] didn’t characterize the meeting well. The forum covered the dangers of implementing the premise of Critical Race Theory (CRT), a theory that I believe provides the assumption that White people will always be oppressors and Black people will always be oppressed.
This caste-system style thinking is disturbing, and that’s just one of many disturbing tenets of CRT (or anti-racism, culturally diverse teaching, or many of the other names being used to confuse the issue). I don’t think it’s difficult to understand why many parents don’t want schools accepting this theory as if it were truth.
History should include factual accounts, good and bad, of past events; slavery and racism occurred and should be taught. On this, both sides seem to be arguing toward the same end. While teaching about slavery in history class, I’d imagine the Civil War would come up. Has any mention been made of the statue in the middle of our green with the names of men from this area who fought and died in the Civil War to end slavery?
Also disturbing was the Courier’s dismissal of the execution of several police officers, mentioned during Mike Breen’s presentation of the history of CRT, as those who died decades ago. Although it’s not important to the Courier, I’m sure it is to the officers’ families in the area who might have read this cold dismissal of these horrible murders.
The Courier also failed to correctly print the former Guilford student’s name and contorted more than one speaker’s message.
The meeting was recorded and will be broadcast on GCTV soon, so there’s the opportunity for readers to come to their own conclusion. It’s well worth the time.
Kathleen Joyce
Guilford