Critical race theory (6 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Frankly, I'm completely ignorant when it comes to the Critical Race Theory curriculum. What is it, where does it come from, and is it legitimate? Has anyone here read it and maybe give a quick summary?

If this has been covered in another thread, then I missed it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's state superintendent of schools said Wednesday that he believes a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies violates the state's law against teaching divisive racial concepts, explaining that is why he won’t recommend it become an approved state course.

Until now, Richard Woods, the state's elected Republican superintendent, hadn't explained why he was blocking approval of the course. Some districts have said they will teach it anyway, but others have canceled their plans.

"After reviewing the content, it was clear that parts of the coursework did violate the law," Woods said after 10 days of only expressing vague concerns.

Georgia’s 2022 ban on teaching divisive racial concepts in schools, based on a now-repealed executive order from President Donald Trump, prohibits claims that the U.S. is “fundamentally or systematically racist." It mandates that no student “should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of his or her race.” So far, 18 states have passed such bans.

The Advanced Placement course drew national scrutiny in 2023 when Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would ban the course in his state. In June, South Carolina officials also refused to approve the course. South Carolina said individual districts could still offer it.

The College Board is a nonprofit testing entity that offers Advanced Placement courses across the academic spectrum. Students who score well on an exam can usually earn college credit. Spokesperson Holly Stepp said the African American Studies class is “a dynamic and robust course that is rooted in academic scholarship," and denied that it seeks to indoctrinate students.

“AP students are expected to analyze different perspectives from their own, and no points on an AP Exam are awarded for agreement with a viewpoint,” Stepp said.

Woods' claim contradicts a specific exemption in Georgia law for Advanced Placement and other high-level college courses. State Rep. Will Wade, a Dawsonville Republican and former school board member who wrote the law, pointed to the carve-out allowing such concepts to be taught in AP courses in a text message.

More confoundingly, Woods has been saying that districts could teach the AP material and get state money by listing it as an introductory African American studies course approved by the state in 2020. Woods took that position after earlier saying districts would have to teach the course using only local tax money.

But Wednesday, Woods said teaching the AP material using the introductory course could expose a district to legal challenges under Georgia's law. Thus, Woods may be imperiling districts legally by denying the AP course, while he could protect them legally by approving it.

“It makes no sense,” said state Sen Nikki Merritt, a Democrat from Grayson and critic of Woods.............

Georgia superintendent says Black studies course breaks law against divisive racial teachings

Georgia’s state superintendent of schools says he believes a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies violates the state’s law against teaching divisive racial concepts.

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[SamAndreas]

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's state superintendent of schools said Wednesday that he believes a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies violates the state's law against teaching divisive racial concepts, explaining that is why he won’t recommend it become an approved state course.

Until now, Richard Woods, the state's elected Republican superintendent, hadn't explained why he was blocking approval of the course. Some districts have said they will teach it anyway, but others have canceled their plans.

"After reviewing the content, it was clear that parts of the coursework did violate the law," Woods said after 10 days of only expressing vague concerns.

Georgia’s 2022 ban on teaching divisive racial concepts in schools, based on a now-repealed executive order from President Donald Trump, prohibits claims that the U.S. is “fundamentally or systematically racist." It mandates that no student “should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of his or her race.” So far, 18 states have passed such bans.

The Advanced Placement course drew national scrutiny in 2023 when Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would ban the course in his state. In June, South Carolina officials also refused to approve the course. South Carolina said individual districts could still offer it.

The College Board is a nonprofit testing entity that offers Advanced Placement courses across the academic spectrum. Students who score well on an exam can usually earn college credit. Spokesperson Holly Stepp said the African American Studies class is “a dynamic and robust course that is rooted in academic scholarship," and denied that it seeks to indoctrinate students.

“AP students are expected to analyze different perspectives from their own, and no points on an AP Exam are awarded for agreement with a viewpoint,” Stepp said.

Woods' claim contradicts a specific exemption in Georgia law for Advanced Placement and other high-level college courses. State Rep. Will Wade, a Dawsonville Republican and former school board member who wrote the law, pointed to the carve-out allowing such concepts to be taught in AP courses in a text message.

More confoundingly, Woods has been saying that districts could teach the AP material and get state money by listing it as an introductory African American studies course approved by the state in 2020. Woods took that position after earlier saying districts would have to teach the course using only local tax money.

But Wednesday, Woods said teaching the AP material using the introductory course could expose a district to legal challenges under Georgia's law. Thus, Woods may be imperiling districts legally by denying the AP course, while he could protect them legally by approving it.

“It makes no sense,” said state Sen Nikki Merritt, a Democrat from Grayson and critic of Woods.............

Georgia superintendent says Black studies course breaks law against divisive racial teachings

Georgia’s state superintendent of schools says he believes a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies violates the state’s law against teaching divisive racial concepts.

apnews.com

I would suggest they firewood.

 

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — For Johnny Hernandez Jr., vice chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in Southern California, it was difficult as a kid growing up around San Bernardino to hear two different accounts of the histories of Indigenous peoples in the state.

One account came from his elders and was based on their lived experiences, and another came from his teachers at school and glossed over decades of mistreatment Native American people faced.

“You have your family, but then you have the people you’re supposed to respect — teachers and the administration,” he said. “As a kid — I’ll speak for myself — it is confusing to … know who’s telling the truth.”

Now a bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday requires public schools teaching elementary, middle or high school students about Spanish colonization and the California gold rush to include instruction on the mistreatment and contributions of Native Americans during during those periods.

The state Department of Education must consult with tribes when it updates its history and social studies curriculum framework after Jan. 1, 2025, under the law…….

New law requires California schools to teach about historical mistreatment of Native Americans

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — For Johnny Hernandez Jr., vice chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in Southern California, it was difficult as a kid growing up around San Bernardino to hear two different accounts of the histories of Indigenous peoples in the state.

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David R. Williams and Rachel Hardeman are population health researchers at different universities with one thing in common: Both have been added to a right-wing “watch list” for teaching about and researching the ways racism affects health.


At the American Academy of Dermatology, some members proposed “sunsetting all diversity, equity and inclusion programs,” arguing DEI has evolved into a political movement filled with perceived antisemitism that labels people as oppressed or oppressor — a proposal that failed at the annual meeting in March.


And grant-making organizations that awarded millions of dollars to investigate racism as a threat to public health are now asking some researchers to stop using the word “racism.”


A growing number of U.S. institutes created to explore the nexus between racism and health — and the researchers who preside over them — are finding themselves under attack, their missions and funding in peril barely four years after the nation had what many called its “racial reckoning.”

Other efforts to address systemic racism and inequality — in education and corporate America — have encountered resistance, but the stakes are especially stark with health care because centuries of inequities yield life-or-death consequences.


“It’s very taxing. This anti-DEI movement creates a climate of fear,” said Chandra L. Ford, a professor at Emory University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health.

In her case, Ford said she was told by a funder who gave her money to study racism “not to use that terminology after the project was underway, after the funder signed on to it, after the proposal was approved and after the project is already ongoing.”


While declining to identify the organization, Ford said this was its rationale: The political winds are shifting, and this work is now high-risk…….

And in August, Do No Harm and a Wisconsin law firm filed a complaint against the Cleveland Clinic with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, saying two efforts — the Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center — illegally discriminate on the basis of race.

In a statement, the hospital system said its mission is to “care for life, research for health and educate those we serve … regardless of race, ethnicity, or other characteristics,” adding that the stroke program is “open to all patients” but the men’s health center “has not been in place for several years.”


Do No Harm, which was co-founded by Stanley Goldfarb, a nephrologist who is the former associate dean of curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, rejects the notion that systemic racism plays a role in health disparities, pointing instead to underlying medical conditions and a lack of access to prenatal care in the case of maternal health.

“Focusing on color-blind science in research and treatment of all patients must be the priority if we want better health outcomes and a strong relationship of trust in the medical community,” Goldfarb, who serves as chairman of Do No Harm, said in a statement……..

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[bird]

David R. Williams and Rachel Hardeman are population health researchers at different universities with one thing in common: Both have been added to a right-wing “watch list” for teaching about and researching the ways racism affects health.


At the American Academy of Dermatology, some members proposed “sunsetting all diversity, equity and inclusion programs,” arguing DEI has evolved into a political movement filled with perceived antisemitism that labels people as oppressed or oppressor — a proposal that failed at the annual meeting in March.


And grant-making organizations that awarded millions of dollars to investigate racism as a threat to public health are now asking some researchers to stop using the word “racism.”


A growing number of U.S. institutes created to explore the nexus between racism and health — and the researchers who preside over them — are finding themselves under attack, their missions and funding in peril barely four years after the nation had what many called its “racial reckoning.”

Other efforts to address systemic racism and inequality — in education and corporate America — have encountered resistance, but the stakes are especially stark with health care because centuries of inequities yield life-or-death consequences.


“It’s very taxing. This anti-DEI movement creates a climate of fear,” said Chandra L. Ford, a professor at Emory University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health.

In her case, Ford said she was told by a funder who gave her money to study racism “not to use that terminology after the project was underway, after the funder signed on to it, after the proposal was approved and after the project is already ongoing.”


While declining to identify the organization, Ford said this was its rationale: The political winds are shifting, and this work is now high-risk…….

And in August, Do No Harm and a Wisconsin law firm filed a complaint against the Cleveland Clinic with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, saying two efforts — the Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center — illegally discriminate on the basis of race.

In a statement, the hospital system said its mission is to “care for life, research for health and educate those we serve … regardless of race, ethnicity, or other characteristics,” adding that the stroke program is “open to all patients” but the men’s health center “has not been in place for several years.”


Do No Harm, which was co-founded by Stanley Goldfarb, a nephrologist who is the former associate dean of curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, rejects the notion that systemic racism plays a role in health disparities, pointing instead to underlying medical conditions and a lack of access to prenatal care in the case of maternal health.

“Focusing on color-blind science in research and treatment of all patients must be the priority if we want better health outcomes and a strong relationship of trust in the medical community,” Goldfarb, who serves as chairman of Do No Harm, said in a statement……..

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Gotta disagree with Dr. Goldfarb. Groups that share possible genetic conditions due to tendency to procreation within the group can possibly manifest issues. Iirc, Jewish people have a genetic possibility for developing leukemia. Beyond that, how many studies regarding medicines/treatments are done on Blacks, Indigenous peoples, Asian peoples or people of Spanish/Latin American descent? Do all peoples metabolize medicines in the same manner?

Color blindness is not the same as ignoring color and what genetic reinforcement happens within groups due to tribalistic tendencies. The only way to achieve actual color blindness is the complete and total inter-marriage/procreation between all groups. That isn’t going to happen. Testing medicines and therapies on groups is important. The ignoring of testing on all groups especially when done by a White hierarchy including White male is not color blindness. It is systemic racism.

Re: genetics I will provide an example. The genetic clotting issue called Factor 5 Leiden showed up in myself and my 3 siblings, 2 brothers and a sister. It also showed up in the 5 girls who are our cousins and are children of my mother’s sister. It has not shown up in the children of my mother’s brothers. Genetics play a huge role in the workings of the body. Unfortunately, due to the Western social construct called race we have seen genetics used as a weapon against those who are not white by white powerholders. The same applies to women.

I realize the potential for reactionary forces based upon fear to use genetics as a weapon. That being said ignoring genetics can be potentially harmful. Of course social forces must be taken into account as well. Fear of the medical community due to experimentation upon Blacks is completely understandable. It is and likely will continue to be a problem as long as reactionary forces attempt to hold power.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Gotta disagree with Dr. Goldfarb. Groups that share possible genetic conditions due to tendency to procreation within the group can possibly manifest issues. Iirc, Jewish people have a genetic possibility for developing leukemia. Beyond that, how many studies regarding medicines/treatments are done on Blacks, Indigenous peoples, Asian peoples or people of Spanish/Latin American descent? Do all peoples metabolize medicines in the same manner?

Color blindness is not the same as ignoring color and what genetic reinforcement happens within groups due to tribalistic tendencies. The only way to achieve actual color blindness is the complete and total inter-marriage/procreation between all groups. That isn’t going to happen. Testing medicines and therapies on groups is important. The ignoring of testing on all groups especially when done by a White hierarchy including White male is not color blindness. It is systemic racism.

Re: genetics I will provide an example. The genetic clotting issue called Factor 5 Leiden showed up in myself and my 3 siblings, 2 brothers and a sister. It also showed up in the 5 girls who are our cousins and are children of my mother’s sister. It has not shown up in the children of my mother’s brothers. Genetics play a huge role in the workings of the body. Unfortunately, due to the Western social construct called race we have seen genetics used as a weapon against those who are not white by white powerholders. The same applies to women.

I realize the potential for reactionary forces based upon fear to use genetics as a weapon. That being said ignoring genetics can be potentially harmful. Of course social forces must be taken into account as well. Fear of the medical community due to experimentation upon Blacks is completely understandable. It is and likely will continue to be a problem as long as reactionary forces attempt to hold power.

People metabolize everything differently, including medicine. Even genetic relatives metabolize some things differently. It's really important for everyone to try to get their doctor to order a Comprehensive Pharmacogenomics Panel if they are taking prescription medications. In 5 to 10 years it will be a standard test that doctors order for all patients.

 

[bird]

People metabolize everything differently, including medicine. Even genetic relatives metabolize some things differently. It's really important for everyone to try to get their doctor to order a Comprehensive Pharmacogenomics Panel if they are taking prescription medications. In 5 to 10 years it will be a standard test that doctors order for all patients.

Thanks for the information. I did not know that there had been testing done for a while. On a side but related note when I had a blood clot last Christmas I was told during a follow up that the hospital did a genetics test related to the clotting cascade. I found out that I have the mutation in Factor 2 as well as Factor 5 Leiden.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

I'm sure this has made this thread before, i saw it pop up and there is just so much truth to it.

 

[DaveXA]

I'm sure this has made this thread before, i saw it pop up and there is just so much truth to it.

Something something forgetting history and repeating it...yeah.