Los Angeles Times Opinion
Abcarian: Republicans are passing laws to suppress the truth about slavery's enduring legacy
Robin Abcarian
Wed, May 26, 2021, 5:00 AM·5 min read
https://news.yahoo.com/abcarian-republic...OUfZgqHiu3c70PO


What is so terrifying to Republicans about the reassessment of American history known as critical race theory? Once an obscure academic theory, it has now taken its place alongside face masks and cancel culture as the bugaboo of conservatives who would rather do anything other than fix our broken immigration system, crumbling infrastructure and inadequate healthcare.

Pioneered in the 1970s and ’80s, and refined as the decades have passed, the theory posits that racial inequality is a baked-in feature of American institutions, which benefits what author Isabelle Wilkerson calls “the dominant caste,” i.e. white people.

Republicans, most of them white, are outraged at the suggestion.

“There’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory,” said Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who like many in his party, is vying to become the successor to Donald Trump. “Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.”

And the critics are not just talking. Last week, 20 Republican state attorneys general (representing seven of the 11 Confederate states)-- excerpt, rest at link above --

This is breathtaking in the level of mendacity and derangement.