Opinion: Michigan Legislature's proposed Critical Race Theory law is outright censorship - Yahoo News

Here at home and across the world, our shared body politic is increasingly polarized and divisive, leaving little room for truth and honesty. In the Michigan Legislature, this rings especially true as Republicans once again are trying to alter the state of facts by working to pass legislation banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory — an academic concept in higher education, specifically within the discipline of Civil Rights Law that’s more than 40 years old — or else school districts will have to face their funding being withheld.

Aside from this legislation being a solution in search of a problem, it’s outright censorship and a violation of free speech. Moreover, it’s wildly offensive and demeaning to Black Americans, whose ancestors were brought to this land, bound and enslaved, and made to build a nation that saw them as less than human. This history is among the foundations of the American story, whether folks want to accept that or not.

That in the year 2021 we are still celebrating the first Black person doing this, that, or the other should, on its own, be indicative of the systemic racism that is enmeshed in every part of American life.

But if you want more examples, we can even borrow from everyday vocabulary — “the peanut gallery” is a phrase for the seats Black people were once only permitted to use in theaters; “grandfathered in” can be traced back to when Black people were still not allowed to vote because their grandfathers were not landowners; “master bedroom” is where the slave master slept; “sold down the river” is how slaves were transported.

The list goes on. These phrases are exactly what they intend to be: divisive statements showcasing the superiority or preference of one group of people over another.

source: https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/opinion-michigan-legislatures-proposed-critical-121217668.html

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