here's my late response. Honestly, until a few months I had never, ever heard of CRT. Ever. When it started getting mentioned I looked it up. It is largely an upper level academic exercise that posits there exists systemic racism in the United States and proposes ways to look at that problem to resolve it.

This is a position that I agree with! I think the United States has absolutely been a racist country from its founding. You can't possibly look at the existence of slavery and the 3/5 rule and think otherwise! After slavery was ended by a bloody war and the 13th amendment, Jim Crow and the 13th amendment itself became the basis for prolonged and fundamental second-class citizenship for people of color, particularly black people. This has led to profound disparity in economic and social opportunities for people of color that haunts us through to today. Because, the US is at its core, racist.

Now, the fact is that the ASPIRATIONS of freedom, articulated by all of our founding documents, are for equal justice under the law. Further, we aspire to equal opportunity under the law. We don't always succeed, but as a rule we still try. THAT is what make the United States great. We aren't bound by culture or national origin or family history or religion, but rather by a shared vision for freedom. In order for that freedom to fully bloom, we have to continue to try to remove the barriers of our systemic racism. Just like with an addiction, you can't solve a problem unless you admit that you have one.

What does that mean for education? Not much for little kids actually. They don't get the nuance. You have to teach them basic concepts to get them to treat each other with respect. For older kids, they can get the concepts. I don't have kids in school anymore, but I recall my son in middle school having a section of class about comparative religion. Did it hurt him to think that not everybody believes the same things? Absolutely not! It opened his understanding of other cultures. He also didn't learn a whitewashed version of American history. Again, he heard absolutely nothing about CRT and why would he have? That's college level concept.

This is where I have a problem with the "no CRT" people. I'll bet you not a damned one of them can articulate their concerns or even what it is. Like secular humanism it is a buzzword or a catchall used by cynical politicos to get votes from uneducated white people. It worked in Virginia! Now, let's see Youngkin govern from it.