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Honestly with Bari Weiss

Rufo v. French: Should Schools Ban Critical Race Theory?

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

All of a sudden, the phrase "Critical Race Theory" seems like it's everywhere. If you are confused by the phrase, or wonder how everyone seems to have an opinion about it, you aren't alone. Despite what some in the mainstream media insist, you do not need a PhD or a law degree to understand this subject. Today, we clear up what it means. We explain why parents across the country are showing up at school board meetings to voice their opposition to it. And we host a debate between Chris Rufo and David French about what the government ought to do about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly.

0:43.0

Hello my name is Linda Busham and I want to thank the governing school board for letting me speak today.

0:49.0

My name's Egan Rice. I've got two children here in the California School District.

0:53.0

My name is Kiecha King. I'm a mom of two, one who's in the Duval County Public School System.

0:57.0

Over the past month or so, I'm the mother of a high school senior.

1:00.0

Parents around the country have been showing up at school board meetings and

1:04.3

speaking out against what they are calling critical race theory.

1:07.2

Critical race theory is teaching that white people are bad. That's not true. That would

1:11.9

teach my daughter that her mother is evil.

1:14.0

Just coming off of May 31st marking the 100 years of the Tolza riots,

1:18.0

it is sad that we are even contemplating something like critical race theory

1:22.0

where children will be

1:23.0

separated by their skin color and deemed permanently oppressors or

1:26.8

oppressed in 2021. That is not teaching the truth unless you believe that

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