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What Is The Problem With Teaching The Actual History of the US?
The big talk these days is about “Critical Race Theory” which is, in its essence, the teaching of what happened in United States history and including Black, Chinese, Latinx, and other non-White people and their contributions. The problem with these ‘contributions’ is that they were often involuntary (Blacks) and were almost always accompanied by racism and prejudice.
This seems to have caused a complete breakdown among many people. Somehow they believe that admitting that there is a history of the US that doesn’t run along the lines of “A bunch of really great White guys founded this country and did a whole lot of nice things for 250 years until we got to 2021 – the end. Oh, by the way, along this path of our great country Black people joined us and helped us fix up all this open land that was just waiting for us to use” will cripple our country. The United States has many ugly issues in our history that need to be addressed and children need to know what they were. We must face up to the real events that actually occurred. There is nothing shameful in admitting the truth.
I do understand why many people in prominent positions do not want Critical Race Theory taught – it disturbs them exclusively. Just to be clear, these people in ‘prominent positions’ are not Black, Asian, or Latinx. When the people who are most offended by even a discussion of including changes to the way US history is taught on any level of education speak I do not see even a hint of brown skin. I should just stop being coy about what I am writing: this is a White Person problem. Critical Race Theory bothers only white people which makes them unhappy; something like the way that non-White people have felt for the last 200 years when learning US history.
Do you think that the actual issue may be that some people may feel that this exposure of real events may lead to some White people having to do something no one has ever asked them to do in the past – apologize? Make a statement that they do not want to be forced to do – accept the past and resolve to do better moving forward?
I think that reading this essay has shown people where I stand on this topic. My only real concern is how much time can be allotted to teaching US history in a school day when there is so much to be taught. I can only hope that some areas of US history which were significant when I was growing up can be condensed to make room for these new perspectives that really do need to be addressed when children are taught.
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