Commentary
Prominent defenders of critical race theory (CRT) frequently struggle to understand why well-meaning parents might not want this ideology taught in schools.
In an interview with Time magazine, for instance, Harvard University researcher Donald Yacovone (author of “Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity“) said of the backlash against CRT, “One of the major reactions is this resistance to the teaching of the past. … Slavery is real. Racial domination is real. But they’re doing their best to deny it, to affirm the innocence of whiteness.” He seems to think that folks who reject CRT just don’t want the next generation to learn about things like slavery and Jim Crow….