This Sunday, schools, America, and race.

We should be teaching American pride not to hate our country and to hate each other.

The battle over education and critical race theory, CRT, in schools.

Our painful past, right, that's part of who we are and what's made us who we are as a country, even though it's sometimes difficult.

Eight states passing laws banning the teaching of CRT.

If we were to tell a little white children that they are inherently oppressors, that's not good if we tell little children of color that they are inherently victims.

Neither one of those is good.

The battle, pitting parents.

The light is shining. All of you must go, and we will take back our schools.

Against school board members.

You know, I'm a public official, so I guess I'm open, open prey.

What do you think this debate about critical race theory is really about?

Control.

Control over what can and cannot be taught.

It's even become a political weapon.

Virginia parents have a right to make decisions on their children's education.

That's the Virginia I grew up in.

Terry McCallif wants to change them.

This morning, we'll look at the fight over how children should learn about America's

troubled racial history, how the CRT debate has divided one community, and I'll talk to author

Nicole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on the 1619 project about slavery

and race in America. Welcome to Sunday, and a special edition of Meet the Press.

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