The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supports critical race theory, just not the version “woke white folks” are pushing.
Dr. Alveda King believes human beings share 99.5% of the same DNA, and that is what students around the country should hear throughout their education, she said Monday.
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“The critical race theory we’re fixated on now is an academic discipline that has been prevalent in American universities since the 1970s. At its core is the belief that racism underlies everything — our legal system, education, banking, housing, even language,” King wrote in a Fox News opinion article.
Critical race theory and other closely related ideologies hold that the United States is inherently racist and that skin color is used to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between white and nonwhite people. Critics claim it delegates all white people to the role of oppressors and all people of color to victims.
The only reason people are discussing legislation against it is because of recent events, King said.
“Out of this unrest and amid calls for defunding the police came a renewed focus on how to teach children not only about the events they were seeing on their streets and screens, but about slavery and racism,” she added.
“The mobs on the street, many of them woke White folks, demanded a new look at civil rights heroes like Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln,” King wrote. “More insidiously, they would stand for nothing less than the total erasure of the contributions of our nation’s founders if they had been slave owners — which most of them were.”
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The push to change education has been met with backlash, and over two dozen states have introduced bills to curtail the teaching of critical race theory.
“But these laws are not the answer, nor is teaching white students that they are privileged and black students that they are disadvantaged,” King said. “The answer is found where it always is, in the truth.”
America will never erase slavery from its past, but there is no reason to live with it in the present, according to King.
“We are more alike than we are different,” she said. “We are one blood. We are one human race.”
