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Intersectionality Matters!

Part 2: United States of Amnesia: The Real Histories of CRT - Weaponizing (White) Parents' Rights

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7814 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In part 2 of this series, host Kimberlé Crenshaw, refutes the myth that book and curricula bans seek to restore “parental choice” over what kids are exposed to, linking attacks on school lessons about race, gender and more to a broader attack against public education and democracy itself. Join as she traces the history of today's prominent, pro-censorship parent groups throughout American history, back to the Daughters of the Confederacy.  Featuring: - Karen Cox, professor of History at UNC-Charlotte - David Yacovone, lifetime associate at Harvard University’s Hutchin’s Centre for African and African American Research, and author of author of Teaching White Supremacy This is an Intersectionality Matters! podcast, produced by the African American Policy Forum. Hosted and co-written by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) Sr Producer and co-writer Nicole Edwards Associate Producers Madison Belo and Sana Hashmi Mixing by Reza Daya with support from Sean Dunnam Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram , or via aapf.org

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0:00.0

The great they who want to keep our children miseducated, undocumented, imprisoned, and despised is anxious.

0:10.6

The assault on affirmative action, the banning of our books, comes exactly because our power is growing.

0:19.4

To tell the real story of critical race theory and to understand how the anti-CRT movement

0:25.5

threatens our democracy, there's poetry to starting in the Carolinas.

0:32.2

North Carolina is the home of the 1898 Wilmington coup.

0:37.4

That year, white nationalists forced a biracial government with black is the home of the 1898 Wilmington coup.

0:37.5

That year, white nationalists forced a biracial government

0:41.2

with black and white elected officials

0:43.0

who were working together out of office.

0:46.2

And it was done with brutal violence.

0:49.1

There was a much smaller coup in South Carolina's Berkeley County,

0:53.3

but don't let the size of the operation stop you from

0:56.3

connecting the dots. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Berkeley County Board of

1:02.0

Education meeting. On November 15, 2022, there was a Berkeley County District School Board meeting.

1:09.0

In the video from the live stream, you can see there's a full

1:11.9

house. Folks are seated several rows deep, facing a big curved wooden desk at the front of the

1:18.6

room. The odd person has their cell phone in the air filming. Behind the desk sit nine board members.

1:27.1

Six of those board members are new, and this is their

1:30.5

first board meeting as official Berkeley County School Board members. Aside from being new,

1:37.5

they have something else in common. The endorsement of a parent group that has chapters popping up

1:43.2

all over the country since their founding

1:45.5

in 2021. The parent group is called Moms for Liberty. A lot of people showed up that night to speak to

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