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Heritage Explains

How Woke is Your Child's School?

Heritage Explains

Heritage Podcast Network

Education

4.7847 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On a special episode of “Heritage Explains," The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman walks us through how the left is attempting to teach your children to see everything through the prism of racism and critical race theory.


Read Stepman's op-ed about Loudoun County.



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0:00.0

From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Doug Blair, and this is a special episode of Heritage Explains.

0:15.5

On this final episode of our education special series, we discussed the left's attempt to teach your children

0:20.8

that everything that you are and will be is boiled down to your race. If you've been listening

0:26.1

to our podcast regularly, critical race theory should sound familiar. It's the idea that all interactions in society, both big and small, are rooted in racism.

0:42.3

Heritage Explains was recently joined by Heritage Visiting scholar Christopher Rufo to discuss how critical

0:47.2

race theory has infested government, corporate boardrooms, and of course, the school system.

0:52.1

Here's what Rufo had to say.

0:56.7

Public schools are now teaching students, you know, as young as second and third grade,

1:01.8

that whiteness is synonymous with evil,

1:05.6

that the police systematically hunt down and murder black men deliberately.

1:12.5

And all these other kind of highly charged political kind of convictions that they're teaching as if they're kind of uncontested fact.

1:27.0

This is obviously concerning.

1:29.4

But what happens when these ideas show up at your kids' school?

1:33.5

How would you feel if your school district was hiring consultants to implement critical race theory in your child's curriculum?

1:50.0

Ebermack's. Ibrahimax Kendi is one of those consultants. Here he is on CBS News.

1:52.0

It is critical for white people, for people in general, to stop denying their racist ideas,

2:01.6

to stop denying the ways in which policies have benefited them,

2:06.6

to stop denying their racism, and to realize

2:09.6

that actually the heartbeat of racism itself is denial,

2:12.6

and the sound of that heartbeat is, I'm not racist.

2:19.9

On this episode, we talk with Jarrett Stettman.

2:22.6

He recently wrote an article about the woke policies one school board tried to push on teachers and students

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