This episode focuses on the most talked about subject in today's society, preferably in the political realm...CRITICAL RACE THEORY. This week's guest is Dr. Marco Robinson, Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice, speaks about the origin of this subject, how it's been hijacked, how racist politicians are using scare tactics to convince and confuse people that this is about white kids hating themselves, and what we as the black community can do more of when it comes to learning our history. For those who are still confused on the matter, CRT is merely the acknowledgement of racial disparities that currently exist due to the systemic and institutional barriers that were established in this country during slavery, carried on during Jim Crow, and even exist in today's time.
Fair Fight initiative, an organization that advocates for equality states that "fundamentally, CRT is an approach to holistically studying U.S. policies and institutions, with a wide focus encompassing such subjects as criminal legal, employment, housing, health care, and education, among others. In plain terms, CRT suggests that racism is part of a broader pattern in America. At the highest level, CRT posits that racism is implicitly woven into our laws, including the nature of policing and law enforcement in our communities. Drilling down to everyday life, this systemic racism impacts everything from hiring practices to home loans".
Dr. Robinson spoke about how most of us don't learn most of what CRT is about until undergraduate or mostly in graduate school. For the last 2 years, politicians have been pushing the agenda of removing black history (American history) from school districts on a secondary level when kids today already are not being taught things about black history outside of Dr. King, Rosa Parks, and the civil rights movement but have made conscious decisions to remove anything that consist of the origin of slavery, how this country was really founded, and even go so far as to say racism is in the past, as if it doesn't still exist.
The right wing media and politicians have made ridiculous claims that black people are trying to teach white kids to hate themselves and where they come. Dr. Robinson discussed how this subject matter is an on-going topic with a means to get to some type of resolution; where America, who claims to be the greatest country in the world without any definitive proof of it, needs to be held accountable for not living up to its own principles but it's going to take the entire black community get them to legislate laws that will allow our history in this country to be taught to all kids of all ages to prevent what has racially oppressed and marginalized us from continuing on. This is the first of many discussions on this matter and we will continue to provide the adequate information that lawmakers need to know to dismantle the racial barriers that have existed for far too long.