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John Oliver, on Last Week Tonight, discussed Critical Race Theory. "John Oliver explains what critical race theory is, what it isn’t, and why we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U
I was impressed with his closer, as follows:
I'm not saying the discussions on race will always be comfortable for everyone in a classroom, but think about it like this: when was learning and growing as a person ever really comfortable? The thing to do here isn't to run from those discussions or pass laws banning them, it is to learn how to have them better. Because for generation after generation we've told school kids fairy tales about race in this country, and maybe it's time we stopped doing that. Because all it's done so far is get us to the point that we're at right now, with full grown adults insisting America can't be racist because we elected Obama twice. That racism will just go away if we just don't mention it. And that Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech wasn't an aspiration that we have yet to fulfill, but some kind of magic spell that ended prejudice then and there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U
I was impressed with his closer, as follows:
I'm not saying the discussions on race will always be comfortable for everyone in a classroom, but think about it like this: when was learning and growing as a person ever really comfortable? The thing to do here isn't to run from those discussions or pass laws banning them, it is to learn how to have them better. Because for generation after generation we've told school kids fairy tales about race in this country, and maybe it's time we stopped doing that. Because all it's done so far is get us to the point that we're at right now, with full grown adults insisting America can't be racist because we elected Obama twice. That racism will just go away if we just don't mention it. And that Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech wasn't an aspiration that we have yet to fulfill, but some kind of magic spell that ended prejudice then and there.
