Parents Who Don't Want Critical Race Theory Taught in Schools Are Racists

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MSNBC host Joy Reid said parents who don't want critical race theory (CRT) taught in schools are in fact racist themselves, while live on the air Tuesday evening during her weeknight show The ReidOut. Reid discussed the growing movement in the U.S. to reframe how American history is taught and said that "some parents opposed to CRT aren't too pleased," before playing a video clip of an emotional mother expressing her opposition. "Just because I do not want critical race theory taught to my children in school does not mean I am a racist damnit," the unnamed mother said tearfully in front of a room with others and was met with clapping. Reid laughed at the mother's statement and said, "Actually, it does." "It's just another example of Republicans turning kids into a wedge issue just like their politically motivated attacks on transgender youth who just want to play sports," Reid added. Before playing the clip of the upset mother, Reid praised the New York Times 1619 Project that she said "traces the consequences of slavery from its inception centuries ago to its modern day implications for black Americans."

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