Posted By Tim Hains
On Date October 21, 2021
On Date October 21, 2021
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared on Wednesday’s episode of "The View," where one topic that came up was teaching "Critical Race Theory" in schools.
"I’m not certain 7-year-olds need to learn it," she said.
"The way we’re talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past," Rice said.
"I’m not certain 7-year-olds need to learn it," she said.
"The way we’re talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past," Rice said.
"I don’t think that’s very productive or Black people feel disempowered by race. I would like Black kids to be completely empowered to know they are beautiful in their Blackness, but in order to do that, I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white. So, somehow this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction."
"In order for Black kids — who quite frankly, for a long time the way they were portrayed, the way their history was portrayed, [were as] second-class citizenship, but I don’t have to make white children feel bad about being white in order to overcome the fact that Black children were treated badly," she said.
"I grew up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I couldn’t go to a movie theater or to a restaurant with my parents," Rice explained. "I went to segregated schools until we moved to Denver. My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice but they also told me, ‘that’s somebody else’s problem, not yours. You’re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be.’ And that’s the message that I think we ought to be sending to kids."
"People are being taught the true history," Rice said. "It goes back to how we teach the history. We teach the good and we teach the bad of history. But what we don’t do is make 7- and 10-year-olds feel that they are somehow bad people because of the color of their skin. We’ve been through that and we don’t need to do that again.
"In order for Black kids — who quite frankly, for a long time the way they were portrayed, the way their history was portrayed, [were as] second-class citizenship, but I don’t have to make white children feel bad about being white in order to overcome the fact that Black children were treated badly," she said.
"I grew up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I couldn’t go to a movie theater or to a restaurant with my parents," Rice explained. "I went to segregated schools until we moved to Denver. My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice but they also told me, ‘that’s somebody else’s problem, not yours. You’re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be.’ And that’s the message that I think we ought to be sending to kids."
"People are being taught the true history," Rice said. "It goes back to how we teach the history. We teach the good and we teach the bad of history. But what we don’t do is make 7- and 10-year-olds feel that they are somehow bad people because of the color of their skin. We’ve been through that and we don’t need to do that again.
Do you think CRT is just a history lesson?