Hello people!!! **People...People...People** (echoes against the cavernous empty walls of the metaphorical room that is full of the zero readers of this drivel)
According to the lather, rinse, repeat cycle the United States is currently stuck in, (as much as Phil Connors was stuck waking up to Sonny and Cher singing, "put your little hand in mine," over and over and over again) it is time for us to once again be polarized by something, have little desire to converse with people whose thoughts and opinions are different from our own, and assume we know everything about something we, in fact, know very little about. The topic de jour, as so often happens, manifests itself in a catch-all phrase that those who decide to take sides and vitriolically debate don't even know the proper definition of the term. Right now, you could probably make the case that this is happening about a myriad of topics as both sides struggle for the, "heart of the nation."
The one that comes to mind most often for me and I have found fascinating to currently track is critical race theory. According to Wikipedia, the bearer of all truth, critical race theory:
"is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States that seeks to critically examine U.S. law as it intersects with issues of race in the U.S. and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice. CRT examines social, cultural, and legal issues primarily as they relate to race and racism in the United States."
If critical race theory was limited to just that pursuit, I would say it sounds pretty reasonable. I have unfortunately been unable to track down a copy, whether digital or physical, of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, so I haven't been able to do my own grassroots research into the topic. This has made me hesitant to form any opinions, as I still don't know exactly what CRT is comprised of or what exactly has so many people up in arms about it percolating into public schools.
