“As the pages that follow confirm, race may not be a reality, but racial thinking is, and, as such, warrants closer examination.”
Source: Shakespeare and the Jews
“a lot of words here... that I don't understand.”
“In reference to book banning, literature is how kids learn the perspectives of others. Essentially, it's how they are able to view the world. How do we expect them to build a better world if we take away their tools?”
“If we opt to mute the voices of the present and those who lived long ago, then the residue of the past is bound to be inherited by our future.”
“America cannot mend if its wounds are constantly covered.”
Source: Song of Redemption: A southern historical saga inspired by true events
“CRT is not up for debate. Critical reading and critical thinking about American history leads directly to "critical race theory." Only this is a misnomer, it's not "theory"; it's facts. It should be called "critical race analysis.”
“America cannot mend if its wounds are constantly covered and not treated.”
Source: Song of Redemption: A southern historical saga inspired by true events
“Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada.”
Source: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
“Telling people that they are racist—on the basis of immutable characteristics, using incomprehensible definitions that they may not know or understand—then claiming they are “fragile” and in denial when they try to defend themselves, or accusing them of “gaslighting” when they don’t agree with you, is a punitive way of treating people, whatever their colour.”
Source: Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
“There is also a risk that repeatedly telling people they are victims may lead them to develop a sense of “learned helplessness” and a belief that they have no control over their lives, leaving them vulnerable to depression. Yet, CRT would accuse anyone from a minority group who expressed such contrary views of having “internalised oppression” or of “acting white”.”
Source: Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice