People are conflating Critical Race Theory with History. Y’all really protesting the teaching of HISTORY in schools. And just because that history makes some uncomfortable, that doesn’t make it any less true.
This is why it’s not enough to tell people to vote. People did vote. These voter suppression laws are in response to people organizing and voting. Our democracy is on the cusp and we cannot treat this as politics as usual.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates gives this week's essay, a guest lecture on the 1619 Project backlash and White America's obsession with myth-making. #CrossConnection