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Little Rock, 1957
This week on CounterSpin: You’ve almost certainly seen the documentary photographs; they’re emblematic: African Americans trying to walk to school or sit at a drugstore soda fountain, while white people yell and spit and scream at them. Should no one see those pictures or learn those stories—because some of them have skin the same color as those doing the screaming and the spitting? The most recent attack on anti-racist education is labeled as protective, as avoiding “division,” and as a specific assessment of critical race theory. To the extent that corporate media have bought into that labeling, they’ve misinformed the public—not just about critical race theory, but about a campaign whose own architects say is about disinforming, confusing and inflaming people into resisting any actual effort to understand or respond to persistent racial inequity. Luke Charles Harris is co-founder and deputy director of the African American Policy Forum. He joins us to talk about what’s at issue.
(image: EFF)
Also on the show: Democracy & technology and digital rights groups around the world signed on to a letter in support of encryption: the ability of journalists, human rights defenders and everyone else to have private communication—to talk to one another without being spied on by governments, including their own. You’d think it’d be a big deal, but judging by US corporate media, it’s evidently a yawn. We talk about what’s going on and why it matters with Cindy Cohn, executive director at Electronic Frontier Foundation.
In my opinion, “critical race theory” is a term that should be reserved for academic discussions. As it stands, Republican operatives have weaponized it.
The term “critical race theory” is too vague and too easily distorted for public consumption. A term like “Inclusion theory” would fit the current zeitgeist better. It leads to framing questions like “why exclusion is immoral” and “why inclusion is moral and fits the Judeo-Christian-Muslim ethic.”
How about simply, “History,” as seen by everybody OTHER than rich, ofay bigots?
https://truthout.org/articles/glen-fords-journalism-fought-for-black-liberation-and-against-imperialism/
The Goverment/corptocracy has stollen our right to privacy. Our personhood is invaded every time we move out side our home, turn on a television, buy a product or a service, call someone, visit someone, eat somewhere. Whatever we do, wherever we go, and with whom, the government/corptocracy knows about it. We have no privacy.