Reporter puts Republican lawmaker on the spot over bill banning teaching much of U.S. history
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If watching laws supposedly passed to ban critical race theory (CRT) from public K-12 schools used to try to ban children’s books about Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges doesn’t convince you that the whole CRT panic is really about preserving whiteReporter puts Republican lawmaker on the spot over bill banning teaching much of U.S. history
If watching laws supposedly passed to ban critical race theory (CRT) from public K-12 schools used to try to ban children’s books about Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges doesn’t convince you that the whole CRT panic is really about preserving white supremacy, check out what happens when the sponsor of an anti-CRT bill gets asked about actual slavery. In a clear response to The 1619 Project, a New Hampshire bill would prohibit “teaching that the United States was founded on racism.” New Hampshire state Rep. Erica Layton abused the truth and the discipline of history in her answer to a question about the Three-fifths Compromise, which simultaneously denied enslaved people full humanity and gave slave states additional representation in Congress by counting enslaved people as partial humans for political purposes. They had no rights—certainly not to liberty or the pursuit of happiness, and indeed not to life—but their existence in bondage gave their captors and tormentors added political power if they were counted. That’s not the way Layton told it, though. Read more
