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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   "CRT" is a university level subject.  It takes as a basic premise that race,   
   and   
   hence racism, are social constructions, and that the law and other social   
   institutions are intricately tied to race.  It then examines the law and social   
   institutions to see exactly where and how race and racism are involved.  It is   
   the *findings* of "CRT," not "CRT" itself, that can and should be taught in   
   K-12.   
      
   White Americans delude themselves into believing that the law and the   
   Constitution are race neutral.  They are not.  Using the methodology of "CRT"   
   is   
   what allows us to see, for example, that the electoral college, rather than   
   being a dry creation of dispassionate "founders," in fact has slavery and   
   racism   
   in its basic structure.   
      
   Another more mundane example is the routing of interstate and major state   
   highways in urban areas.  White Americans think that the routes are selected on   
   purely technical merit.  They aren't.  The routes always go through minority   
   neighborhoods, by intent.  This is the kind of finding that "CRT" reveals.   
      
   Another is housing patterns.  White Americans think that concentrations of   
   white   
   and non-white neighborhoods are "natural," and that all mortgage applicants are   
   evaluated equally:  income, credit history, level of indebtedness, etc.  That's   
   not the case.  In the 1930s, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)   
   *officially* drew red lines around urban minority neighborhoods and refused to   
   insure loans in them.  It also subsidized builders who were developing huge   
   subdivisions for whites only.   
      
   "CRT" isn't directly involved in bringing historical omissions like the Tulsa   
   Race Massacre to the forefront of public thinking, but the type inquiry that   
   comes out of "CRT" leads to that kind of discovery.  The history that white   
   Americans typically learn simply omits Tulsa and other racist horrors.  They   
   learn a whitewashed history.   
      
   "CRT" does not say "whites are racist."  It says "whites are largely unaware of   
   just how deeply woven racism is into the fabric of society and the law."  It   
   aims to illustrate exactly how pervasive institutional or systemic racism is,   
   in   
   order to be able to eliminate it.   
      
   So no, "CRT" is not being taught in K-12 schools.  *Findings* based on the   
   methods of "CRT" can and should be taught in K-12.  It is these findings that   
   Republiscums/QAnon are trying to suppress, wrongly.   
      
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