This one is an opinion piece about why he feels everyone is wrong about CRT.
There's a lot of misinformation about Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project and schools teaching kids that white people are evil.
www.theroot.com
"It doesn’t.
This assumption is driven by a misrepresentation of one of the foundational principles of CRT–that racism is “ordinary.” [...]
So Critical Race Theory does not teach that America is a racist country.
America teaches us that America is a racist country."
He says the assumption is wrong, yet then says that CRT teaches they are perpetual victims lol
This part is also a gem showing how political this is.
When a racist employer doesn’t want to hire Black people, all of the white job candidates benefit. When majority-white school districts receive $23 billion more in funding than nonwhite school districts, all of the white children get better schools. This is why white workers and white parents don’t work as hard (if at all) to challenge structural racism. Why would they dismantle a system that benefits them?
1.The wage gap is mostly explained by the white-black IQ gap and other nondiscriminatory factors, some of which could intersect somewhat with IQ, including educational pipeline (e.g. blacks going to university for less marketable degrees). Similar reason why Jews/Asians earn more on average, yet nobody wants to discuss those differences. It's ironic that the end game here for this guy is to explicitly give job preferences to black people.
More African-Americans are earning college degrees than ever before. But a new study shows they're over-represented in majors that lead to low-paying jobs.
www.pbs.org
2.$23 billion dollars is a trivial difference when yearly K-12 spending is like $700 billion for the year that his figure is from. He conveniently omits that since the 1970's, spending per pupil has gone up like 3X with little to show for, with some states spending much more than others (e.g. NY $20K vs. Utah at less than half -- yet they would still bitch that it wasn't enough for black people there). They might want to look in the mirror to see who is privileging some at the expense of others.
"We believe schools have plenty of money, but they're just using it wrong by allowing administrators to make over $300,000 to oversee one or two schools," she said. "If they continue to get this money, they will keep doing this and it will increase the pension obligation. It's a budget breaker. The State of Illinois' back is almost broken with the burden of this type of practice, and it's getting worse as these new figures show.
"It's a ratcheting system where everyone says, `Look at New Trier, look at DuPage.' They keep comparing themselves to each other and ratcheting up their salaries."