Outnumbered – Wednesday, December 29
On today’s episode, Brian Brenberg is ‘Outnumbered’ as President Biden’s poll numbers falls below VP Kamala Harris’. Plus, public health officials face criticism over their response to protests during the pandemic.
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to discuss the subject of critical race theory in schools.
Critical race theory (CRT) became a serious political topic in 2021 as parents continue to appear at school board meetings to criticize its teaching to their children. Throughout the country, several states have since taken steps to remove CRT or CRT-adjacent topics in classrooms.
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Host Chuck Todd opened the segment appearing to criticize these laws, suggesting that they would prevent teachers in Oklahoma from teaching “why” the Tulsa Massacre occurred.
New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb agreed with that sentiment.
“It’s only because of the diligent work of historians that we even know that the public even has access to this information, much less that there was an epidemic of tides of these kinds of racial violence in the period following World War I into the 1920s. This wasn’t an uncommon phenomenon. We don’t know that and we don’t teach that and we don’t talk about that. And so what the practical effect of these laws is that people will not be able to understand and will not be able to appreciate exactly how these problems arose and therefore will be poorly equipped to confront them or prevent them from rising again in the future,” Cobb explained.
Donalds argued against this assumption, saying that while he agrees that history should be taught, the concerning issue is a racial lens being introduced to children.
“The number one thing we all agree on is that history should be taught. Objective history should be taught at all times,” Donalds said.
“The issue with…
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