Condolezza Rice is playing the “in the middle” card. Frankly, she’s used the network to push the right wing lie about CRT, and tried to play sympathetic to those misguided blacks who believe teachers are actually teaching blacks to hate whites, through CRT. No one seems to be talking to the teachers, the ones that are…

This idea that we wouldn’t want to hurt kids feelings with the truth reminds me of the self esteem education fad of the 80's and 90's. Certainly building up self worth in a child is important to success, however this fad took it to an extreme. The idea was that positivity should be unconditional and the child shielded…

Psssst!

Well said!!

White feelings have ALWAYS mattered more than black lives in America.

Condoleezza* Rice, Ph.D, professor, diplomat, etc., conveniently leaves out that she was born into some privilege (though that’s never been enough to completely shield Black folks). She further ignores that being born in 1954 meant she benefited from the arduous, unabated labor of African-Americans of all…

And you notice how the people who don’t want kids to feel bad about the racism of their ancestors are the same people who keep bringing up “black crime” for some reason.

Rice is the worst kind of abuser; she uses her own trauma as a bludgeon to silence others and play eternal victim. She goes on about how she saw the Birmingham bombings but then proceeded to support those that aim to strip BIPOC of their rights, make LGBTQ people illegal, set the planet on fire, take away reproductive…

Condi should try driving a beat up Honda Civic around her nice neighborhood and maybe she’ll remember that the history of America is the history of racism.

“If you teach white kids about racism it will make them feel bad”

It’s called compassion and empathy.  Do you feel anything when you read about historical atrocities?  Or even contemporary ones?

What’s that phrase Republicans like to use constantly? Oh yeah, “fuck your feelings.” Schools exist to teach things to kids, not to shelter their feelings from facts. If the history of racism makes white kids feel bad, or the history of sexism makes the boys feel bad, or the history of various sexual phobias makes the…

I’m White, and OF COURSE we should feel bad about racism!! What the fuck? Maybe everybody should get some ice cream or a puppy after they’re told about the KKK. Jesus...

How can you move on from something that’s never been discussed?

It’s got nothing to do with kids feeling bad. This is another conservative lie. The truth is they don’t want anything to change. Or they want it to go backwards. None of that can happen if kids are being taught why we don’t want to GO backwards.

Considering Rice made her career by sucking up to the wrong people, it’s no wonder she wants people to “move on” because she’d then have to confront her own guilt

Teach hate, OK!!

As Richard Rothstein says in the Color of Law.

Who’s out here teaching little white kids that they should feel bad for being white? If teaching them basic American history makes them feel ashamed for what white people did that’s on white people.

“ I would like Black kids to be completely empowered; to know that 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.”