The main creator of the 1619 Project seemed to be unbothered by white privilege exercises for schoolchildren.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, who co-created the New York Times project that helped send the United States into a debate over critical race theory, agreed with a co-host Tuesday on The View that such practices were conducted in “good faith.”
There has been an “over-correction” regarding “some practices in schools where kids are asked to, like, rate their privilege or their whiteness. In Greenwich, a white bias survey was handed to a seventh-grade English class,” co-host Sara Haines said. “I feel like there’s a good-faith conversation to be had here about how we’re teaching race, but people aren’t having it because I think it’s uncomfortable.”
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Teachers are “struggling” with ways to teach about racism and slavery, Hannah-Jones said, adding that for every teacher conducting a white privilege exercise, there might be an untold report of a teacher “doing a mock slave auction in their classroom.”
“I think, in many ways, teachers need to be better equipped to teach about and talk about this,” she said. “I think you’re right — these are good-faith efforts to really deal with the structural inequality — to explain to students, how does a black man get killed on national television by a police officer, to explain to children, ‘How do we have an insurrection on our Capitol?'”
She added: “They haven’t been taught this history well themselves, and they’re not grappling with it well. So, I think we should give some grace to educators, that they’re trying to do the right thing, and equip them. And you can’t equip educators to talk about this history if you’re banning the ability for them to talk about this history.”
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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 people and nonwhite people. Critics claim it relegates all white people to the role of oppressors and all people of color to that of victims.
It has been the topic of many school board meetings nationwide, especially Loudoun County, Virginia, amid parents who want a say in how their children are taught about racial topics.
