POC testifies

She's a minority voice and she deserves to be heard.

A pillar of CRT as taught in schools is that white people are all oppressors and that minority race people are all oppressed. But CRT policy and ideology are opposed by persons of color as well as white people. Why is that? It's because nobody really wants their child to feel hopeless. 

This articulate mom (and attorney) testifies that she is opposed to "ethnic studies" as defined in a proposed Minnesota bill. She says everything that sounds good is not necessarily good, that we in the U.S. got rid of the old race-based system - and it's not 1930 anymore.

She doesn't like her kids being told that there's no use in trying to succeed, that black boys would probably not even live until retirement because of racism. Of course she doesn't like that. Black kids - all kids - need a sense of agency, not hopelessness.

"I can see why you white proponents of this bill might support it. It's not your kids being told that they can't succeed, and you get to shed some of your white guilt in the process."