What Should Children Be Taught About Racism in the United States?
by David Wiley Campt, by Allison Mahaley
11-17-2021
How to have constructive conversations amid anti-CRT mania.
DESPITE THE FACT that critical race theory (CRT) is a complicated academic theory that some scholars use to examine disproportionate outcomes in the criminal justice system, school board meetings across the U.S. have erupted in passionate debates with parents demanding it be banned.
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Ironically, CRT cannot be taught to children because it is not age appropriate for K-12—just as we would not teach advanced nuclear physics to schoolchildren. Yet the strategic placement by far-right activists of a narrative that CRT has crept into K-12 education is causing dramatic outbursts of racial anxiety. All this passion could be rerouted to address an important question that everyone cares about: What should children be taught about race and racism in the United States? This conversation, if done well, could actually move our society toward much-needed racial healing.
Through compassion we can transform the current culture war
by Allison Mahaley and David Campt 12-23-21
America is immersed in a culture war that is a new manifestation of its age-old problem with race. School board meetings across America have devolved into ugly protests about critical race theory. The strategy to rebrand CRT was created, organized and executed intentionally as a political wedge issue. Right-wing operative Christopher Rufo publicly admitted: “We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.”
Read more at The Fulcrum or at The Trib Live
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Compassionate Warrior Bootcamp for White Allies
by David Wiley Campt and Allison Mahaley – June, 2020
Spiritual edition!
This 30-step guide to effect anti-racism work for White allies guides readers through a process of personal reflection activities all the way to productive engagements with others – critical conversations, compassionate interventions, small behaviors that demonstrate openness to change and inclusive mindsets.
A practical tool for allies, featuring reflections and connections to the Unitarian Universalist Principles.