@Rachel Forshee Sigh... Straining to be charitable here. [deep breath] If it don't apply, let it fly... ... I would like to hear a deep dive discussion about the good bad and the ugly regarding the hate on Sam Harris propaganda, (which it was because of the bs lies and assumed motive fallacies) vs what he actually got wrong. That said, it's a long talk and no one's responsibility to get into it. Let's just say that I hold grudges against liars, and Sam Harris has yet to be revealed to me as a proven bad actor. Maybe he can just be an example used in her thoughts on deplatforming. That's a big deal right? Self-induced ignorance as a means of protest? I mean, at least be good hecklers to make a point.
@Rachel Forshee I understood all of that. I was responding directly to your passive agressive mention of Sam Harris and trying to grant you charity by it while also explaining why just shitting on Harris and Murray for the (obvious now) criticisms you have for them is not enough to get anywhere productive on that issue. I don't seek permission to like Harris. I like him and I don't always agree with him. Deplatforming is the deeper issue I'm nudging here, because while liberals let themselves get triggered and choose to ignore these topics with a hand wave "They're just racist" simplification of the conversation being had there, those liberals are pushing young naive white men deeper into hate ideologies. Yes, when you use bad arguments and think that's enough, you are responsible for giving not only an attractiveness but strength to the arguments that bring people into hate groups. It's not all liberal's responsibility, ala if it don't apply, let it fly, but for real, Harris has been consistent in clarifying his nuance and people hate on him without giving one consideration to that nuance. Theremintrees makes a statement about this kind of problem, "One form of misrepresentation is exaggeration. If our opponent makes a moderate statement of fact that includes a careful qualification and we ignore that qualification and attribute our opponent with a far more extreme view than they've actually expressed, we haven't addressed what's been said in any valid way.” That's the kind of thing I'm getting at. We have to teach the masses the most fundamental rules of civil discourse and rational thought, because this shit keeps blowing this way and minorities suffer from it the most. They suffer from it the most even when they aren't the most guilty of committing those fallacies. It's mostly enraged white folks getting upset to the point of losing friends like this just because they think it's ok to strawman and assume motives just to save face.
In regards to CRT, I'll say this: do the Germans not teach about the holocaust in their schools? Why don't they say "we don't want kids to be ashamed of being German so we won't teach that part of German history"? Because they recognize that no matter how ugly and disgraceful that part of their history is, it is important to recognize that it happened and teach that it happened so it doesn't happen again. History only repeats itself when we don't learn from its lessons. I don't think there's a question about it, CRT should be taught.
exactly! i was taught very thoroughly about the civil war, the exact number of deaths, casualties, every battle, hell we even watched a gore filled documentary about WAR. And even though engaging in war is something Americans shouldn’t be proud of (since “violence is never the answer) we still learnt about it in 7th grade
I can't stress enough how much I appreciate and admire your comment. THIS! When you've done something (or multiple things-- throughout the course of centuries) heinous, you own up to it and learn how to do better so it doesn't happen again. Plugging your ears yelling "lalala" or deflecting responsibility by saying "you're just attacking me!/you hate me!" isn't gonna help anything.
@@fiery_scream Exactly, they're prioritizing not wanting to feel any guilt about the things they have done (and continue to do)over teaching the heinous things America and white people have done, so it doesn't happen again.
@@Mausefell the sad thing is those disgusting ideologies are getting back into vogue in Germany, particularly in the eastern part (speaking as a Canadian of colour living in Germany as an expat).
I think the reason CRT is seen as controversial is because of the relationship we have with history, there is always a good guy and a bad guy. Everything is black and white, it leaves no room for nuance and that’s an issue because history is built on nuance to ignore that is to completely disregard the past and remove the humanity out of events.
this is definitely true, a lot of things on the left in general get fucked up because decent stand alone ideas get thrown into contexts set up to misunderstand them, i think thats a failure of understanding on the detractors part but another huge factor is that activists circles have their own power politics which drives behaviour and many activists get so caught up in keeping up with their activist friends they sacrifice being understood by normal people. khadija pointed it out themselves when they were open about how white supremacy means "everyone internalises racism" including themselves, many spaces on the left are so caught up in instilling the right atidude in oters tha that rarely gets adressed drectly and more alienating slogans like "all whites are racist get adopted" because they signal that youre uncompramising, which makes you look very cmmited to the cause but kinda hostile outside of radical circles
@The DisaStarWars i dont think thats the point they were making, CRT is a nuanced and varied genre of theory whose writers like many other radical theorists, trust the inteligence of its readers, unfortunately we live in a larger culture which generally discourages this reflectiveness and preconditions people into binary thinking.
@The DisaStarWars I think this comment is actually pro- crt. It's saying that the right believes the only way we can celebrate American heritage and history is if we look at it with a black- and white perspective and just say everything was good, instead of celebrating the good parts of our history while also acknowledging our history of racism.
Amen. There is nuance in every aspect of our life. From our skin tones, our sexuality, our languages, our customs... Life is a gradient. But as you know, many of us are not taught to appreciate the nuance because nuance is more complex.
As a historian, I think often when we think we're "celebrating" history we're often instead "sanitizing" it which is why movements for teaching the history of race in every country in balanced and nuanced way are important. In my opinion critical race theory and anti racism are meant to be active and necessitate engagement/critical thinking rather than passively accepting your pre-existing ideologies.
Yes. I did a couple videos on the Paxton Boys and Augusta Boys of the American colonial frontier -- groups of men who acted outside the law driven by their hatred for American Indians. Several family members saw them and were like, "how much hate mail have you gotten for those?" I'm like... Well, my channel is tiny and they've barely been viewed (lol) but hate mail for what? Telling our actual history? Oh, calamity. *Eyeroll*
yep! why else did Columbus day become less and less celebrated? It's strange to me how ritualistic fourth of July is too. I feel like we blindly celebrate these accomplishments without acknowledging the impacts.
If you are a historian then please know that you have been mislead to believe that this is about whether we should learn all about our history or not. Here is a video I found to be informative - it will make clear what I am saying. ua-cam.com/video/S1bkSc1T6MY/v-deo.html
It's further depressing that children in darker shades are consistently assumed older than they actually are! I can't really fathom that nor know I don't perpetuate that.
As a German, I am confused. How is averting your eyes from the past considered less shamefull? We openly discuss our past, and while that is intense, to me it feels much less shamefull than being to cowardly to even confront it in the first place? How is hiding less shamefull? And how is teaching history accurately even debatable?
I've never really understood it either. I come from a family where there is proof we had slaves and fought for the confederates in the Civil War. I remember a kid in class joking that my southern family (I lived in the Midwest at the time but had a southern accent) probably had slaves. And I said yes they did, and I'm sad and ashamed that my ancestors thought that was OK when I don't. And several white kids tried defending me with "well it was a different time" etc. Doesn't matter the time, it was still wrong and there's no shame in acknowledging family that was wrong then and now. I think white people in America are afraid of conflict in general because of how systemic the racism really is in our country. It's in media, it's in jokes, it's in your family and friends beliefs, it's talked about in plain sight and hushed tones. It's just oppressive and I think a lot of white kids just say nope, doesn't effect me, and deny themselves any responsibility to act for change. Because they really don't know how to change anything or do anything because racism is everywhere. And our education system is really not helping matters at all. I can say with certainty that I learned more about WW2 than the Civil War or honestly any non white movement while in school. Black history month really only focuses on bits of sanitized mlk and Rosa parks and maybe some famous black inventors. And any other race is not mentioned unless they were a important ally or enemy. It's very, very weird and a form of indoctrination in my experience.
Yet german people don't teach about how y'all treated Romani people during the H*loc*ust. 1.5 million Romani people were wiped out by you guys. 70-80% of their population gone. Romani people weren't given reparations like the Jewish people were. The things Romani people went through during this event wasn't even recognized until a few years ago. The people that were most t*sted on as experim*nts were ROMANI CHILDREN. But I don't see Germans teaching about that. Eva Justin a German r*cial sc*entist lured Romani children with candy to study them and then she r*thlessly had them wiped out. She didn't even receive backlash for this. She got her PhD a few years later and peacefully died of old age.
@@user-yc6iw7gm9q As a matter of fact I learned about Sinti and Roma being killed by the nazis in a German school, as well as I learned about people with disabilities, homosexuals and socialists being killed. I didn't learn about Eva Jusin specificially, but I learned about how many people in all fields weren't held accountable for what they did. Judges, policemen, scientists and many others kept their jobs and many politicians in early West Germany also had nazi backgrounds, too, most notably Hans Globke, a lawyer who had written a the most important commentary (a book that explains laws for law students and other lawyers) on nazi race laws in the 30s, and later went on to become Kanzleramtschef (German equivalent to Chief of Staff in the White House) under Konrad Adenauer (first Bundeskanzler). Those things are taught in Germany and the fact that many people here don't know about them is not for a lack of teaching. The reason for this is that many students don't listen to their teacher, I suppose. Also there is an annual rememberence day for the Sinti and Roma victims of Holocaust (or more specifically Porjamos, as the Sinti and Roma genocide is called), on August 2. Every year the Bundespräsident gives a speech on this day to ensure that those atrocities aren't forgotten. Where did you come up with 1.5 million Romani people? According to the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma website, the estimated number of victims is 500.000. Historian's estimates of this number vary between 200.000 and 800.000. zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/en/statement-by-romani-rose-statement-on-the-current-situation-of-the-memorial-to-the-sinti-and-roma-of-europe-murdered-under-national-socialism/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide?wprov=sfla1
@@user-yc6iw7gm9q Sinti and Roma people are on a long laundry list of people, who got persecuted along with political activists and "sexual deviants", they might not be first on the lists frequently repeated in my public education but usually get more attention than sedentary Slavic people.
It feels like a big part of the CRT debate stems from the fact that those who are against it either do not know what it actually means or purposefully misrepresent what it means. Also loving the bodycon dress 😩
The people who are very vocally "against" it don't care what it actually means, and know that the people they're talking to definitely don't know what it means. So they can make it sound like anything they want.
yeah for me the problem is how is that the public school system that has failed so many.Where people graduate without even knowing how to read like fantasia, so how is it we are giving the task of solving racism to public school system. When they cant even stop them from having kids and graduate
You presented this topic very responsibly. Grade school teachers aren't teaching CRT, neither are regular college professors. People won't stop to grasp that the theory is explored in LAW SCHOOL. When contributors say grade school teachers aren't qualified to teach it they mean it LITERALLY - NOT that they haven't found anyone to teach CRT to the 3rd grade yet. Republicans have boldly come out & said (I'm paraphrasing) "we named the theory CRT & hijacked that name as a way to weaponize the it". This non issue has divided & caused so much damage for the purpose of political & racial unrest.
Yo Khadija, let's start a campaign to prevent the Whitewashing of East Asian characters. We black people should give the Asians less reason to hate us and show them that WE are not their enemies. There is an upcoming My Hero Academia Live Action film coming up, as well as a Naruto one. We should speak out against it from our point of view since Asians are so silent. They keep waiting for "White saviours" but how about we give them "black saviours" instead? Cos I sure as hell don't want Tom Holland cast as Deku or Andrew Garfield sayin' "My Name is Naruto Uzumaki!!"
Love this. The part everyone ignores is that this all stemmed from a Republican who lied about money being funneled away from cops, then he lied about cops being taught that they're racist, then he said new textbooks being made that focused on teaching kids to be racist, after which he said that CRT theory was being taught to elementary school kids. Every time it boils down to a GOP lie.
I’ll bet she’s on her way to it!!! Half of the topics she has addressed i honestly never even thought about because of my lifestyle ...But she has definitely opened up my mind to so much and cute and funny while doing so...it’s only a matter of time before this channel blows up
@@KhadijaMbowe i mean lady algorithm got me to watch f.d signifier yesterday and through binging some of his, you came up in one of the comments and how awesome you are and here I am with a new awesome creator to follow!
I love everything about this video except the idea of making the name "Critical Race Theory" more palatable. It's like when white liberals say "Defund the Police will turn people off." it sounds too much to me like "Don't make white folks mad." First of all, we did not make it a thing. The right-wing did. We didn't wake up one day and say "CRITICAL RACE THEORY." Secondly, this argument has been going on since the 1970s. Back then the right was calling it "Black History Studies." Only back then they literally put brothers and sisters in jail over it. It came with a lot of frames and set-ups, but the argument was pretty much the same. Thirdly, let's examine what makes white folk mad. Martin Luther King argued that we have a stake in this country and we deserve to share the same rights as everyone else. (Paraphrasing.) The country said, "HELL NO, N******" Then they assassinated him. Malcolm X said, "Get the hell away from white people and defend yourself when their racist mobs come for you." And the country said "HELL NO, N*****." And had him assassinated. You ever have one of those people in your life who have to debate everything? You know, no matter what it is they have a bug up their butts about it and never let it go. To the point, they bring it up even if you're not talking about it. That's what living amongst white folks is like. So why should it matter if our phrasing makes white folk uncomfortable? Everything we do make white folks uncomfortable no matter how we say it. So might as well say it loud and be black and proud about it anyway. Great video.
I'm white, and this is exquisitely stated. I'm so sick of trying to explain to my white moderate friends and family that progress shouldn't be halted for the feelings of bigots and those trying to move backward. Progress doesn't require consent from those who oppose it. That's the whole fucking point of it. I can't even imagine what black and Indigenous people go through with them. I would like to screenshot your comment (crediting you of course) as a way of explaining this to people if I may. Thank you for letting me give my input as well.
You are absolutely right. Honestly, I think the people who get angry about it would choose to be angry either way -- so speak the truth even if it makes people uncomfortable. I'm grateful to my close friends who have told me uncomfortable things over the years so that I could correct my upbringing in my mind.
I think theres a counterpoint in that "Critical Race Theory" is basically a technical term from the law studies field where the words (especially "critical") likely have precise technical definitions which are not conveying the same meaning to us laymen.
Basically, people who are against CRT taught in school think like this: "My white child is too young to have this kind of conversation, but your black child can experience racism at a very young age, including if the oppression comes from my uneducated child".
@@meggpurpleyou5870 but you benefit from it. You are still benefiting from it and when POC point that out to you, you don’t want to acknowledge. You make it seem like colonization and slavery were a long time ago but guess what - they weren’t. And even if they were, there are always consequences. If you don’t acknowledge that US society (and all the others) is based on the exploitation of POC and don’t want to change that, you are contributing to the problem, you are the problem.
@@temujinbear911 how is it teaching them they permanent victims explain that. Is teaching them how their family tree were victims for 400 years in slavery making them think they are permanent victims? And how was that whole history and tear between two races mended? Oh yeah it wasn't because black kids go to school with white kids and black history is barely touched. Race relations isnt talked about, people are terrified of what will happen if they tell the truth of what really was going n so how can we prevent racism from being normalized when they don't talk about the past when it was normalized, not to glorify it or point fingers but no one is even approaching to understand the roots of what happened
@@user-mw4qi1kx3o No one is hiding the history of american slavery. Most black americans I speak to about slavery, don't even know other ethnicities and cultures have been slaves. They only teach them enough to convince them they are victims. I don't think you want to approach the part of the history, where the african tribes went to war and Enslaved other Africans. Then sold them to Arab slave traders who boated then around the world. %75 of the slaves went to the Middle east where they were castrated. Only %1 went to North America. They are teaching watered down propaganda, with a specific agenda. They treat black americans like children.
whenever I hear the "children are too young to learn this" argument I'm just like... I'm german and if we over here manage to teach our kids about Shoa ("Holocaust") slowly from as early as like 3rd grade (8yo) on, then you can teach your kids about slavery and the genocide of indigenous people and all the other shit your ancestors have done
It makes me sick when people who come from marginalized groups are like "I succeeded, so why can't everyone". People fail to take into consideration that the system is stacked against us and that they are the outliers and exceptions. It's okay to have privilege, but realize that you have it. Yes I graduated high school and am in college, but I feel for so many of my peers who did not make it. I was lucky.
For sure. It's basically helping to further the Bootstrap Myth and is just another way to make people fight each other under capitalism & white supremacy rather than uniting. Like, I'm disabled and I struggle a lot with certain things, but I constantly have people using the success of other disabled individuals as an example that I'm "just not trying hard enough." Every individual is different and faces different barriers. The goal should be to help break those barriers together, rather than pitting individuals against each other as trying hard/not trying hard enough.
I just made a similar comment because I couldn't find one like this! I was beginning to think I was the only one thinking this way. But still doesn't seem like too many agree.😒
For me, it makes a big difference if the person at least tried. If you never try, then the system doesn't even get the chance to screw you over, because you already did. There is a difference between "I'm not going to work for college, because I'm never going to make it anyway" and deserving it, but not getting it because the system is stacked against you. And I know, part of the former is that way because most marginalized groups know how the system is stacked, but the ultimate outcome is sadly a self-fulling prophecy.
Wow this is illuminating. I've been vehemently arguing for teaching CRT at a high school level only to learn that what I have been arguing for......is not CRT. It's just....history that acknowledges the rampant injustices. That shifts away from this fairy tale of a triumphant heroic journey of manifest destiny dipped in freedom and actually addresses history.
Watched it n Paetron but mi can't WAIT to watch it again with y'all cause its like being in a movie theatre but with people that you actually like rather than the middle-aged couple that exhibits too much PDA and the bootlegger filming the screen in the nosebleed seats on a busted iPhone 7.
This video was a great start to your series! Your point about people needing to do their own research is so important! Too often, people watch a news clip or two on a topic and that's where they stop. So many of these topics are very nuanced and even after intense research, things often become even less black and white because the world we live in requires full-spectrum thinking. It's disheartening to think that some people can boil down CRT in the classroom to teaching white kids that they are bad and black kids that they are victims with no agency. Because as someone who sat in an AP U.S. History class where we were taught that the Civil War was fought because of states rights and not slavery, I can attest that being gaslit doesn't feel great either.
As someone who's not American, i find it interesting how there's this debate on crt bcs our history (indian) is just taught to us while subtly implying that these caste, culture and race problems don't really exist anymore which is false lol.
@@nadiaseidu5342 crt is history through a ideological lens aka racializing history saying america is racist and somehow everyone is inherently racist which isnt the definition of racism which is the belief that your own group is superior to all others. your changing manipulating definitions and re writing history for a IDEOLOGY OF RACIAL VICTIMHOOD. teaching whites to hate themselves and blacks to feel like they are worthless and on the bottom. Literally CRT contradicts itself.
I feel like people are focusing too much on the word "race", like you said, and not enough on the words "critical" and "theory". Critical race theory is not a new scientific law or absolute. From my understanding, it's a theory, an idea of how race, racism, implicit bias, and society might work together to effect the past, present, and future of all people within a larger culture (i.e. Canada and the US). I'm pretty close to agreeing that racism may be something we're stuck with, due to the persistence of implicit bias and the fact that the human brain is naturally driven to form these biases, but I also think the idea that we're "stuck with racism", if true, doesn't have to be so depressing. Like any implicit bias or even deep-rooted phobia, implicit racism can be acknowledged and worked on, until that bias becomes a thing of the past (or, at least, significantly recontextualized to something less harmful). I look forward to the day when racism can be addressed as a harmful but natural bias which, instead of being denied and ignored, can be cured with preventative education and/or therapy.
You should really read up on "Critical Theory" - a concept devised by Horkheimer and Adorno. Because the words "critical" and "theory" are much scarier in that combination that the introduction of the word "race" in that context.
Ever since Khadija's last video, I have been trying to find out what CRT is (I am not American) but when i looked it up, PragerU was the first thing that came up 😂 ... it was at that point i decided to just hope and wait for this video to come out.
same… and I had to scroll quite a ways to find the poc weighing on it. very weird how all the top videos are from reactionaries spewing out of their ass about something they know nothing about
When I was in Turkey for a time, I heard that the genocides against the Armenian and Greek populations weren't generally taught in schools. Nationalism and "unity" was far, far more important. Denialist myths were common (basically, the Armenians brought it on themselve and just as many Turks were killed, so what?) Silence on the subject was golden. Tbt, people were generally EMBARRASSED if or when the subject was brought up by a foreigner, like their honour was being defiled, or, there was real danger in speaking out of turn.
I'm so glad to see UA-cam creators tackle this subject, given how flat-out awful mainstream conversations on CRT tend to be. I've studied and taught CRT for twenty years in higher education, and I'm still learning from it as it continues to evolve and change. It is highly self-reflexive, which means it critiques and refines itself constantly. Kimberle Crenshaw's famous concept of intersectionality, for instance, represents both a critique and extension of CRT, which had, up to that point, mostly ignored questions of gender and therefore tended to center Black men as its proper subjects. This tendency makes it that much harder to discuss in a cogent and concise way, so I applaud this video for managing to "translate" it for a broader audience so effectively. I would like to clarify one misconception I've heard repeatedly (not by this video): CRT is NOT just taught in law schools. It has influenced many fields, including Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy, World Languages & Cultures, English, History, Education, and my own fields of Communication and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Like many theories that travel across disciplines, it has both changed and been changed by these fields, and, in my opinion, it represents one of the most important interventions in academic scholarship and teaching in the last forty years or so.
I feel like certain people think learning about racism in history, especially racism that people of their same race may have perpetuated, define’s their character to others in someway. Like, learning about the racism of white people against black people in the 1950’s suddenly means that the white person learning about it in class should be scolded for being that same kind of racist, or that they’re responsible for doing those same things. The problem with that thinking is that it’s defensive, and with that mindset, yes, you are going to feel like the course is going against your race somehow. It’s ridiculous, but it scares people to admit that racism existed, and still does exist in new ways, because they don’t want to be hated for letting it slide, whether they realize it or not? That’s more of an opinion, but that’s the general gist, I think. The way the course is taught is going to be extremely important in that regard, but pretending that this stuff doesn’t exist is only going to keep it going.
@@animal1nstinct394 stupid question that if you actually researched you would know, but if you may ask there's plenty of instances in American history where there are gaps of knowledge that one may not know about until they themselves seek that information out. Like how the term redskin comes from the dutch forcing natives to scalp other natives and wear the scalp themselves in which the blood would drip down on their skin. The term is used to offend Natives yet shows the brutality of the dutch.
It’s also going to make it worse in them in history in regards. In this state of the internet it’s impossible to hide it. And instead of them coming confederate together to help change it they want to keep it the same.
I wish I helped you make this video. CRT has 10 tenets, not 2. What most people are arguing about is not even CRT, its some figment of what they think CRT is. I think an important part of the discussion that is often missed is what a theory is, and what a critical theory is in relation to that. Also, there is a difference between a theory and a framework. CRT is actually more of a framework composed of multiple theories, than a singular theory in and of itself.
CRT didn't used to be much of an issue for voters and taxpayers - both on the left and the right - until a short while ago when it was turned into the new boogeyman. It seems to me that *some people* benefit from us spending so much energy on this instead of using our collective energy to focus on, I don't know, the existential threat of climate change, or making our societies more democratic.
Let's call a spade a spade, conservatives are always bringing "panics".it's always the same slippery slope fallacy to keep things conveniently as they are.
a big issue with CRT for Asian Americans is that it only hurts us in all avenues. Schools like TJ high school of sci and tech have changed the admission from a blind test to one that accounts for "experience", meaning we will get another Harvard/ Yale issues but on a highschool level. Some regions in the State of Washington no longer consider Asians as POC. Are Indians not Brown?
I’m about midway through this video, but I just have to thank you so much for speaking on this topic, Khadija! I was literally at lunch with some family today who really hate CRT and I was struggling to be able to coherently explain the credibility of CRT and such. Seriously perfect timing. Also I love the dress sm!
As a person who doesn’t know how to verbalize their thoughts on topics like this with the people who really need to hear it, I really appreciate that you made this video. Thank you!
I was also tired of all the CRT coverage, but hearing you talk about it is honestly so refreshing. Like instead of just hearing talking points, I actually learned in a fun and chill way- thank you 🥰
This was super interesting and informative! I hadn't heard about interest convergence before, but I think it happens more often than we think. Like during WWII when women were suddenly allowed and pushed to work because the government needed them in the work force. Then they were pushed out of those jobs again after the war. The fact that the government gave them jobs during that period of time doesn't nullify the efforts of feminists before and after the war. (I'm hope I'm making sense.)
I want so bad for CRT to be a thing in Europe too. My historical education was so whitewashed and biaised, unwilling to get uncomfortable with the absolute horror of colonization. It would've taken so much less deconstruction for me to see my country for what it is. (Also im very glad you're using "racialized people" instead of poc i find it more accurate to the process of othering of non white people)
@The DisaStarWars did you seriously tried to pull a "racism towards white people". You can't argue Europe isn't as systematically racist as america. You know where the white americans come from right ? Anyways. Talking about racism isn't "divisive" it's a fucking necessity. We learnt colonization happened, not the atrocities and generational trauma, not in a way that empathizes with the actual victims of it. We're taught it's a thing long in the past, that we recognized it was bad and stopped, and so many pther faose narratives, implying black people keeping bringing it up are playing the victim, we learnt it was purely for monetary purposes. Also you forgot germany, italy, Portugal, and france. Most of Europe at least tried to have colonies. We still have african art in our museums from colonization thqt our governments refuse to give back, the prosperity of europe was built on colonialist exploitation and slave trading in the same way america was built on enslaved labour. You can't deny the way history is taught in Europe is at least as white-centered and yes, whitewashed, as in America. You seem to accept america is systemically racist, and yet refuse to recognize the countless similarities with Europe ? Quite ironic. Racist police brutality is everywhere. The US situation is particularly blatant because of the omnipresence of guns, but in my country there are statistics showing the same overpolicing of black-dominated areas, heavier charges pressed against black suspects, racist drug criminalization, promptness to violence from police officers. If you argue racism in Europe is just multiple individual issues you're just wrong. Again talking about racism is only divisive if you're racist. Anyways i won't reply any further
I mean, of course it would be whitewashed. It’s a white continent. America was a Native American continent, and it later became a very diverse place, so it makes sense to cover all the history that has made us the place we are today.
@@samaspic31 of course european history is going to be “white washed” as Europeans are white people. That’s like complaining that history taught in Nigeria is “black washed”. Every country teaches their own history, so obviously it’s going to cater towards the native population who inhabited the lands.
@@carolin2220 But it shouldn't be whitewashed because if you look at Europe's history they have literally built their countries by exploiting Africans and their resources, people like to forget that before the British set out to colonize, steal resources and wipe out indigenous peoples in other countries, they were dirt poor.
the 'interest converge' theory reminds me of the fact that the reason the usa got a welfare state/social democracy for a few decades after ww2 is that the capitalist knew that if they didn't treat the most of the working class better they would start a socialist revolution. edit: crt getting banned makes me want to learn about it. also, 'pedagogy of the oppressed' was banned in AZ so we should all read it too. hopefully all this redscare bs might make young people more curious instead of less so. great video
Has anyone railing about CRT in schools actually seen a revised curriculum that includes CRT? It would be one thing if someone could point to something in a school curriculum that they did not like, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
@The DisaStarWars CRT does label white people as the oppressor class so that's not coming from no where. The thing is CRT isn't the actual issue, the problem is the lesson plans/books/documents that claim to be based on it and that's what the real fight is about. Take for example the children's book 'Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness' Republicans have gained ground here because they do have real evidence of lesson plans that say a lot of problematic stuff about race.
Dude your UA-cam videos are wholeass academic lectures. Except explained in a super accessible way. It is incredible. I learn so much. I have started taking notes on your videos! And I always read the works cited! It is a whole college level course here and I deeply appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Yes!!!! Yes!! People need to look at things like societal issues on a macro scale oppose to the micro. It's so so easy to fall back to what you're comfortable with; emotionally/mentally, etc and that in itself powers the system because it eliminates the thought process leading to asking the right questions.
I think kids should have critical thinking classes, I know some educators are pushing for philosophy for kids and I find it very important, because today we've realized the bias we have on races, but we probably have a lot of other biases we are currently blind to. Being critical is a posture and it's a state of mind where you refuse the idea of A truth but understand there are multiple truths. I feel like CRT could be and should part of the curriculum, kids are naturally curious and they notice contradictions A LOT, and that's fascinating. Also, when I listened to you, I noticed that its kinda the same with women's right. Woman started to get into the workforce during world war one and that is when women became more aware of the fact that they could do shit too. That some women were even better fit for work than staying at home and men in power realized that we could be more productive if both men and women worked coz more people. (The Saoudi prince is starting to give more rights to women because of that now, since they are starting to see the end of oil). So yes, power is shared when there's a benefit for the person at the top, but when that power is taken, we should be mindful not to reproduce the oppressive dynamics and try to use that power to be aware of them and deconstruct the Dogma (which is capitalism here). Anyway, great video! Thank you for the time and effort you put in each of them.
Millenial auntie, you're living with your folks too? That makes me feel so much better about myself; I've been more or less jobless and been feelibg really down about it. We should start a club or something. It will have cool soundtracks and alcohol.
Know you're far from alone in that. Multigenerational households have become the norm again (and that was pre-Covid). I didn't plan to be living with my parents at 40, but when you're single it often just makes sense. This past year in particular has hit the job market hard. We made a family decision that I would stay home and homeschool my nephew to limit my elderly parent's risk. We're all vaccinated now, which helps, but going to do another year of homeschool. One thing that has helped the down on myself part is finding ways to be useful at home. I'm good at organizing, so that's been a lot of what I brought to the family, but also meal planning. Not trying to make this about me, just saying finding your own way to contribute helps. Best of luck to you.
When you mentioned being a stubborn Taurus, it reminded me that for the first time in my life, I saw part of the constellation Taurus last night. ♉ You know, the arbitrary star patterns in the sky that the Greeks attributed to defining personality depending on the time of year you were born. 😉
Literally! idk if you've ever seen this PJW vid, but it was hilarious. As this guy was saying "nothing is labeled Christmas!" he pans the camera over to a whole section labeled "Christmas". I feel like it's the same thing with CRT. Conservatives be like "CRT is taking over!" and then the cam pans over to a teacher who's like "yeah, we've never given CRT lessons before. :|"
Two minutes in and I'm already teary eyed. This is gonna be good. Painful to be sure but growth often is. Thank you again for your emotional labor. I appreciate you and your work so much.
I didn't realize that the CRT had such a long history in academia. Interest convergence is such a really interesting topic, makes me wonder how many other times the white ruling class has made decisions similar to brown v. board...
Originally I was going to comment about how this video was really thoughtful and helpful in my understanding and framing of CRT and that I was really excited to read into the google drive link but wow, Khadija has such a great singing voice and them singing Young Hearts Run Free had me singing along w/ them. I love that, thank you all so much.
My issue with CRT (from the left) is how it actively avoids issues of class and accepts capital realism. The fact that class is still so taboo, even in social justice spaces, speaks to the power of class in hierarchies. The people at the top care about ownership/power, racism is just one means to achieving that goal.
CRT is a subsect of Critical Theory, which is the theory that the more knowledge one has of the system they live in, the easier it is for them to understand how they are oppressed in that system. I agree we should talk more about class issues, but it wouldnt be talked about under Critical Race Theory, it would be talked about under Critical Theory. Its not necessarily an issue with CRT itself, its an issue with what the left focuses on talking about. That being said, it is really hard for us to focus on class issues currently because the right creates these types of "culture wars" in an attempt to halt progress, so we get locked in having to explain all these terms to people who arent as well versed politically so they dont fall into right wing propaganda.
@@fcrw2120 I fully understand CRT; I have 2 degrees in social sciences, my masters emphasized intersectionality and multiculturalism. Trust me those liberal elites have even more difficulty discussing class. The right just brings up class to discredit racism claims . Establishment liberals aren’t trying to change the actual system, just want things to be more colorful. Social conflict theory/Marxist analysis does a better job encompassing various ways of oppression and very easy to understand. But that’s what makes it powerful and why we aren’t talking about it in the mainstream…
@@allyson87 i know that libs are avoiding class too, they are capitalists, of course they avoid class. Im talking about _lefties_ , as in _socialists_ , when i say that we arent able to talk about class issues because the right keeps creating these fake culture wars, because, yes, the right is the side thats doing that, not libs. Libs just sit back and dont do anything to fix it.
I grew up in a small predominantly white town. I still don’t understand why people can’t see their inherent bias. Ignorance is rampant even within myself. There’s individual responsibility sure, but systemic issues aren’t our fault. Open and honest conversation and education is the key growth in our society
I really hope a lot of right-leaning people come across your videos, because from what I’ve seen, you’re one of the most welcoming video essayists on here. The way you speak while also not being dismissive towards the points you list is a perfect combination. A lot of “left tubers” gravitate more to a style that caters to other likeminded individuals, but you seem to keep in mind that there are potentially going to be people from all kinds of walks of life and that level of understanding and humility (on top of the exceptional level of research you clearly do for every video) is exactly what I think can help reason with people who would otherwise not want to stick around
I'm from Germany and I've never heard of crt before. This was a very informational video, I appreciate your effort to show both sides of an argument and don't just gloss over uncomfortable cons. Thank you for this!
Nuance is the reason there's debate about this this, things are bad or good in most discussions and not nuanced. I agree with you about my friends who are racialized white. I could not be friends with anyone unable to have that conversation and be open about it. If you are afraid of talking about, then I suspect you are actually racist.
Growing up in Germany we were thought about the 1968 movement to restructure their social environments and workplaces with such perspectives... Might need to be repeated in the places it didn't reach
Fun fact: in my school my friends and I also brought up the issue of "why are there no POC teachers in this school and why are all the 'diversity meetings' held by white people?" Despite the fact that your quote was from the 80s we got essentially the same response of "BuT wE cAnT FInD qUalIfiED pOC tO tEaCh heRe :(" So that lil segment kinda hit 😀
Thank you for talking about this and making your dad proud! I had a very sketchy understanding of CRT and now I feel slightly smarter. It seems to me like people are turning this into something that isn't even a thing (a collegiate-level theory being taught to toddlers), and just trying to get people riled up in order to further polarize people (but the republicans would NEVER). I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. Also, I'm living for the outros. I need a full album of all your outros as well as your outfit songs.
I think we should just teach history as it should be taught with honesty and in a neutral perspective allowing students to form their own opinions. At the end of the day I’ve learned to just not care, because no matter what happens it will change in the next few decades or centuries. If there is anything history has taught me is that people change their minds and change ideals fast and often. We think we progress or regress but the future will change your impact whether you like it or not. It’s sad that I’ve become an even stronger pessimist the older I get but hey that’s society’s impact for you. I just hope one day everyone will be taught actual history no matter how gruesome it is, I feel like that would help a lot with critical thinking but what do I know I’m just an aspiring historian in college. Wow sorry for ranting in your comment section! I love your videos!
As a non american, I agree with you. When I first heard about CRT, I found it very weird bc here where I live (Brazil) we learn about the systemic opression of african-brazilians, indiginous genocide, slavery and it's consequences, the forced miscigination that occured here and it's just history, not a theory. If the US did the same probably woudn't have so much drama about it
Same from Germany, we have a lot of "methods over memorizing" in curriculums by now and places where having an "unbiased perspective" is less likely than with prehistory have a selection of biased opinions and ways to contextualise/analyse them.
I live in the states and we learned about slavery, the trail of tears, the japanese internment camps, and other things I don’t remember. That was only in american history, though. In world history I learned of the armenian genocide, the indian caste system, the holocaust, the cultural revolution, and others I don’t recall. Point is, I learned about oppression in history. It seems close-minded and ignorant to put a racial focus on that, since all sorts of people were persecuted for all sorts of things-political beliefs, religious convictions, political beliefs, ect.
I always look forward to and enjoy your videos, but this one so far is my fave. I love how you address how the divide and rule tactic is not only for colonialism but also essentially utilized by those in power to remain in power (e.g posing cultural and racial differences as the causes of conflict when really it’s political elites profiting off of the distractions of the constituency from the inactions of the government). The whole binary of good vs evil is definitely something to be talked about more because it can also bring up how the whole legalization of certain things (drugs, resources,) is really rooted in some countries trying to secure as much economic advantage for themselves (ie weed and cocaine being illegal but tobacco and opioids aren’t)
My grandma always used to tell me about how in the 30s in California, Hispanics or Hispanic-looking people used to get rounded up (regardless of citizenship status) by Immigration and sent to Mexico with only the money and documentation on them. She used to have her birth certificate pinned to the inside her sweater in case she got rounded up because she was dark Portuguese and no Immigration officer would bother knowing the difference. For years I would tell some people this story and no one believed me because "they had never heard about this." Then in a high school Spanish class my teacher played the 1995 movie, "Mi Familia". Sure enough, there's a scene in the '30s where this happens to a character and the journey she had to take to get back to her family in the US. All this to say, I am excited that the oral history of our ancestors might finally have a chance to make it in our schools.
I recently watched T1J's video about Critical race theory and I am so interested to learn about your opinion and how you understand it. I personally didn't know a lot about it just basic stuff and I am always love learning new things.
So basically CRT is just.... teaching fully accurate history and how it actually affects the world today. It's literally just history, all the rest of it is ONLY THERE because of the reality of history. It's so weird that there are people who are so strongly opposed to education. Thank you for explaining this so well! I've learned a lot thanks to your channel, plus you're funny AND a fabulous singer?! A+++
No man...Trust Khadija to do justice on explaining these things, I love this channel and really appreciate the intellectual stimulation which is so refreshing to find on this platform.❤❤❤❤❤
35:35 ". . . Emotions are information, and this is an emotional topic..." 36:30 Thanks for talking about how some days you can feel fatalist and other days feel that spark of hope. 🥰👍
I've done it. I've watched them all. I have reached the current time line and I am living. Also, I'm so glad you've done this video to educate folx. Critical Racist Theory is so important and here we are. ❤️
Seriously this is like chatting to myself, I love all your videos, I learn so much about myself and the world around me. You’re also hella funny, hope you never stop making these videos ❤️
Once again, great video! This makes a me think there really needs to be a course or specialized study around the business of power and self-interest. Neither are fair or pretty or even ugly. They’re tools that can manifest for advantage or disadvantage. I feel like once we understand those concepts better, history as a whole, including CRT, becomes clearer and a bit more honest.
I think it’s so important for education systems to teach history from a realistic perspective, and not just what’s comfortable to hear. The information that’s uncomfortable is what wakes people up and makes us curious to know more and do better! I’m from Australia and when I went through school we learned almost nothing about our First Nations people! I knew they were marginalised but had no idea of how bad things were for BIPOC here and globally until I started doing the research myself with everything that happened last year. I love hearing your perspective. You’re so good at getting your information across clearly. Edit to add: I just noticed from the comments that CRT is for colleges and not schools which I obviously missed in the video but I still think something similar should be added to the school education system
As an outside observer it seems to me that America will never be able to start dealing with institutional racism until they start dealing with institutional classism. The far right American political landscape makes it impossible for poor people to go up and therefore it follows that naturally if a group of people are starting as being over representative in poor populations that's not going to change. If the system stops people going up in general then black people as a group aren't likely to go up until that is fixed. Obviously it's worse for black people in that position than white people but the overall issue of how far right the US political system is will not allow progress until its dismantled and most Americans don't seem to realise the extent to which the American political compass is out of whack with other Western countries. Comparing the political compass of American politicians to European ones is so strange because politicians in america that are considered radically left are often not even left wing politicians and if they are they're centre left at the very most. America needs to sort out its fear of communism first and foremost because that seems to me to be the biggest contributor to continued racial oppression. A lot of critics don't seem to get that the overarching philosophy of CRT I think seems to be less that improvement is impossible but more that its not going to happen without a massive overhaul of the system.
No, the overarching theory is blame. Just like your overarching theory is “institutional racism,” exists as a presupposition. Just like your myopic assertion that “the far right,” makes it “impossible,” for poor people to go up. Do you have any metrics that show this is the “only reason.” Of course not, because society, poverty, race, and class are very complex. Single motherhood as a cause? Nah. Or, perhaps, being told “you are victim,” by groups like CRT give one a idea, “why bother,” Nah, can’t be a cause. Personal choice not to strive? Nah, can’t be a cause. Personal choice to work less and have more personal time? Nah. Can’t be a reason. And all the “poor,” people who DID make it out of poverty, well, let’s forget them in your singular analyses. Personally, I happen to agree the far right are generally nut job evangelicals, but that does not give your absolutely defeatist argument that “the system,” stops people from going up, any credibility. An ideology based on victim creation never ends well for anyone. Victims always cannibalize their own. Cambodia, China, Venezuela, all started with “we’re victims,” let’s tear down the system that makes us victims. Good luck.
@@davidbolen8982 Oop it seems I've angered an American patriot that can't handle the idea that America's obsession with capitalism above all else is crippling them. If all of the problems in America in relation to class are attributable to personal choices as you claim, then how come there is far less inequality and poverty in European countries with centrist politics that allow people to have a career and children without having to sacrifice one for the other? Why in these places where people aren't forced to sacrifice having a social life in exchange for economic success is the general happiness and economy far healthier than in the US? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that a system forcing people to choose between happiness and money is inherently fucked up. People shouldn't have to sacrifice having kids or having time off just to have a decent career, people shouldn't be in crippling debt just to get an education. People shouldn't have to deal with inhumane working laws just because you think allowing someone to have a life and a job at the same time is inherently communist and an attempt to ruin America.
@@davidbolen8982 lmao its so funny that you think I'm a communist just because I advocated for centrist politics and called out the fact that your far right infatuation is based in the red scare. You feel the need to call a right leaning centrist a communist because you've been so indoctrinated by murica's insistence that anything that doesn't improve the choke hold the rich have on the poor must have been thought up by Karl Marx. Because how dare the system allow support for people struggling right?
As an Asian British person I find this very interesting especially since in our schools we werent taught much about the USA but I deffo have memories of learning about slavery but obviously they werent going to make a 10 yr old understand what systemic racism is i truly hope the curriculum has changed since I was in school because I feel like a lot of stuff thats not even CRT related but basic history of racism wasn't even taught properly or if it was it was just brushed over but hey obviously as were in the UK our history is much more important for us to teach than americas.
This video really put things into perspective for me. I am non-black non-American, but I always had this persistent feeling, that the American race issue *as a whole* needs to be understood. We've always been told about it, but what to really think, is confusing. I am really glad to hear a balanced and factually based perspective from a black American (or Canadian, I guess it doesn't really matter). I think you're absolutely right about the stigma around racism *and* race. We should all become comfortable with uncomfortable truths.
A somewhat late comment, and have not finished watching this yet, but I was wondering if someone could hear me out about privilege. That is, I find the use of the term to often be harmful(often. I don't disagree that there is a difference in treatment, I just find that using this as a term might be counterproductive) . Saying something is a privilege -of a larger group-, makes it seem like it is a "privilege" to have the thing (the thing often being the absolute bare minimum imo, being treated as a human being). I think it takes away from the thing itself, and accidentally puts more distance between it. Calling it a privilege makes it seem like something to be taken away to close a gap, rather than elevating everyone to the same standard. I often hear people use it in connotation to things that should just be the standard, rather than the extreme wealth inequality, and I feel like this puts people with less opportunities directly opposite of people with slightly more opportunities, rather than actually solving the problems, thus causing people with slightly more opportunities to feel offended rather than cooperate. I know you can't shelter people, but its easier to explain and get more people to work together if they don't feel like they are being attacked. And divide and conquer, the more we are pitted against eachother ( think also of, the whole "they are taking your jobs" sort of rhetoric that is used to influence people who may not have the capacity to get informed to make decisions (due to their own monetary situations,often), and are influenced/riled further by the people causing the actual problems, with such statements, to believe the other people suffering are causing their suffering. Plus, its unprofitable to give people rights (I hate this, but it is true, when human rights are lower standards, companies move there. They always go to the lowest standards because highest profits. Part of the reason why there is so much hesitation to sign human rights accords, appearantly - there are others, including owning up to things, even though the system isnt perfect-), which means it is "easier" to lower standards for the people who are slightly better, than raise them for the people who are even worse off. So anyways, I was wondering about where other people would draw the line between a privilege and a basic necessity. I know the standards of basic necessity evolve over time,(I was raised by someone who likes socioeconomics, higly recommend the subject, although the writing is often stale), but I don't think they have quite caught up yet. English is not my first language, and I am currently in pain(medicated with painkiller gel, is this a necessity or a privilege? Imo it depends on the person and their circumstances (but how do you define a need? If someone states they never have a need use it, its clear they dont, but everything beyond that?)but these are the sort of things I'mquestioning, and I think it might be cultural). Im not fully informed yet, but id be interested to hear your thoughts.
Just started this one but I have to first give immediate credit where it is due. You. Look. Fantastic. Your hair, your skin your body con dress. Everything! ❤️❤️💃🏾
Interest Convergence kind of reminds me of how strikes work in the sense that a company negotiates with a union specifically because it's in that company's best interests to avoid the loses from a successful strike
I really like your videos, Khadija. as someone who likes history class, I feel like it’s important to not treat everything like “the good” and “the bad”. obviously you explained it better than I did, but I really appreciate what you do haha. please take care of yourself today, you deserve a lot of love :)
It's so scary how South Africa is so similar to USA, now I think I really need to check how involved US is to the South African lives because this is just scary. We were told that Europe is more involved in SA but how do they link directly to USA because we have so many commonalities
Tip of the iceberg, but it would be useful to start deep diving on the topic through this policy, which explained supporting SA and Rhodesia and the last Portuguese colonies under a "better to keep those as counterweight to communists than rock the apartheid/late-colonial boat" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Baby_Option), the Reagan objection to SA sanctions that even some congress Republicans defended is known but takes attention from other stuff, the US definetely had a part in keeping apartheid going (and maybe a bit of a role model for a racially segregated electoral democracy). On the other side, the black civil rights movements in both countries watched and talked to each other and liberal-leaning SA books were known in US milieux ("Cry the Beloved Country" was known adapted as mainstream film as early as 1951). Tip of the iceberg, but hope that helps you to start looking for US-SA links.
@@vitorafmonteiro Thank you, the info you provided me with kinder made something click in my mind and it's confirming some conspiracies that some individuals have been talking about but because the schools provide very basic history, it's our job to go in depth
We are very similar, so similar I feel we are related. We even share similar mindsets about many issues. But yeah, I can make a good guess that the US is involved. So much suffering worldwide is because of the US forcing itself onto other nations. Praying for Afghanistan cause it's so wrong. God help them.
I think SA and USA didn't start that similar to each other but it got VERY similar by the post-WWII period. In SA black people are the indigenous population and a wide majority which has a significant history of black self-ruled political entities and the first black president brought with himself a big increase in black bourgeoisie, and in the USA were mostly descendents of those brought as slaves (until more recent postcolonial black emigrations, including Khadija's own family) and were a wide ethnic group but never a majority aside from some areas and maybe time periods and never had significant power balance in its American history and a black president didn't change significantly black wealh, and all those factor in into how the society organised, but after the immitation of nazi models fell out of fashion among Afrikaner with WWII and the legacy of parliamentarism from British colonisation, a model of segregation that didn't need a full dictatorship was needed, and of course the US was the closest to that, although even then the influence of nazism on the Afrikaner conservative right was never fully shaken off, which is why it was not only a segregated electoral democracy but a dominant party one (which the US never was under legal segregation). Which doesn't mean it isn't one hell of a similarity, all differences considered.
I'm from the US and I'm not aware of any **direct** US influence in South African policies. Then again, as this video points out, history is greatly sanitized in this country so I may not know about it even if there were. That being said, the similarities between the two countries probably just boils down to the pervasiveness of the colonial mindset. You have to remember that Canada, the US, and South Africa were all British colonies and they kept that white supremacist, colonial mindset when they became independent nations. Also, ideologies such as eugenics and racial purity, spread globally so they affected many regions outside of the US.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and research on this topic! I live in Mississippi & have struggled with how to talk about/defend CRT with people that are skeptics, and discovered through your video how uninformed I was in so many aspects! Looking forward to your future videos and learned so much💖
I'm pretty into Marxist derived critical theory for my PhD, and I was expecting the major cons to CRT to be its racial reductionism, and obviously, racial realism edges towards that, but the convergence of interests theory taken as a totalizing narrative is in effect explaining racial progress in relation to market forces and its relationship to geopolitics, effectively reducing racial progress to elite political-economic interests within global capitalism, so its actually much more class reductionist than race reductionist. sure it says "white elite interests" but in the 1960s was that term meaningfully distinct from just "elite interests"?
interest conversion: I recalled the fact that the only reason the government abolished slavery was to prevent the southern states from separating from the united states.
You are amazing! I am using some paraphrasing and citations from you in my higher education research about social justice supporting CRT. I am so grateful for you!!!
I appreciate how you always provide definitions for all the concepts you discuss. It's something I am still learning how to provide because I think people come into these things thinking they know what it means but they actually don't. Its very valuable to have that yardstick early on in the discussion so people can confront their own internalised misconceptions.
Great Video. I also think the fact that CRT recontextualizes race as a social and legal construct where one has to look at it from a historical context to understand where America is now (a result of years of racist social practices, laws and policies which have all now been fundamentally embedded into their structures and systems) So everything from the criminal justice system, education system, labour market, housing market, and healthcare system are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race. Thereby poking holes into the 'American Ideals/values/mythos' of being the land of opportunity, hard work, prosperity and being a post-racial society which makes the majority of the white population uncomfortable leading to CRT becoming a new boogie man for people unwilling to acknowledge America's racist history and how it impacts the present.
CRT has never been a highly politicised theory where I live, so I only heard of it a few months ago, so this was very much necessary for me to understand the basics and theorists of it. I've only really explored it as a part of intersectionality, and certain political discussions and affiliations, such as the 'school-to-prison pipeline', but I really enjoyed this video ("a beginner's beginner guide", love it!). I find it interesting on how my country hasn't discussed this topic(?) more, because we've historically always followed in similar footsteps of the US political, civil justice-activism scene, such as 'The Freedom Riders' and the BLM movements here, in conjunction to those originated in the US. CRT is something I've never heard discussed where I live, in context to the word, that is. Out of-context, its "teachings" are treated as fact, but I think as a society, our mass understandings of our history only scrape the surface, and people of different educational backgrounds learn more than others. On this, our PM didn't even know that slavery occurred in our country, because he lived a privileged childhood of private education, which isn't governed by the DoE, and they therefore don't have to teach our history to the same standards as public education does. I think this is a global issue, when those who decide and govern our laws and country on average are more likely to be from high income, private-schooled families, rather than representing the lives the majority of countries' inhabitants live.
When you talked about the pros of CRT and how it empowers youth to be active in shaping society that really rung true for me for being one of the main reasons so many people are so scared of it. In my community, youth activist who have taught themselves the history of revolutionaries, envisioned a better system, and put that knowledge to work have succeeded in challenging and shifting our community, and people are terrified of them and the change they fight for. Adults, mostly white, in our school district fundamentally don't want a system that empowers youth to envision and enact transformation in our society; they want our schools to replicate the system and set up the youth to uphold the system. They don't want youth to have power. Again, when you tied in voter suppression, that makes so much sense to me in what I'm seeing in my community. The same people fighting against student activists have no interest in weighing the votes; they talk about the "quality of the votes" and claim that there's a "silent majority" that's to scared to speak up because of "cancel culture". Meanwhile, they actively threaten the lives of student activists.
great video that was incredibly well researched, just one heads up though about the video at 42:00. that guy is a far right youtuber who doesn't even have kids in the school of the school board meeting he was attending.
I think, for now, I agree with the general principle of CRT. It wasn't until the Watchmen series came out I learned the true horrors in Tulsa, nor the true history of Juneteenth. If asked my opinion and confronted about it, I'd simply ask, “What's the harm in looking at history from another perspective?”
You might want to add a note at around 19:45 that you meant "race pessimism" instead of "race realism" which is a VERY racist/white supremacist idea!
Oh dang! I was quoting from a paper but perhaps I mis-read my notes (🥸) thank you for correcting me.
Might be afro pessimism?
@Rachel Forshee Sigh... Straining to be charitable here. [deep breath] If it don't apply, let it fly...
... I would like to hear a deep dive discussion about the good bad and the ugly regarding the hate on Sam Harris propaganda, (which it was because of the bs lies and assumed motive fallacies) vs what he actually got wrong.
That said, it's a long talk and no one's responsibility to get into it. Let's just say that I hold grudges against liars, and Sam Harris has yet to be revealed to me as a proven bad actor.
Maybe he can just be an example used in her thoughts on deplatforming. That's a big deal right? Self-induced ignorance as a means of protest? I mean, at least be good hecklers to make a point.
@Rachel Forshee I understood all of that. I was responding directly to your passive agressive mention of Sam Harris and trying to grant you charity by it while also explaining why just shitting on Harris and Murray for the (obvious now) criticisms you have for them is not enough to get anywhere productive on that issue.
I don't seek permission to like Harris. I like him and I don't always agree with him. Deplatforming is the deeper issue I'm nudging here, because while liberals let themselves get triggered and choose to ignore these topics with a hand wave "They're just racist" simplification of the conversation being had there, those liberals are pushing young naive white men deeper into hate ideologies.
Yes, when you use bad arguments and think that's enough, you are responsible for giving not only an attractiveness but strength to the arguments that bring people into hate groups. It's not all liberal's responsibility, ala if it don't apply, let it fly, but for real, Harris has been consistent in clarifying his nuance and people hate on him without giving one consideration to that nuance.
Theremintrees makes a statement about this kind of problem, "One form of misrepresentation is exaggeration. If our opponent makes a moderate statement of fact that includes a careful qualification and we ignore that qualification and attribute our opponent with a far more extreme view than they've actually expressed, we haven't addressed what's been said in any valid way.”
That's the kind of thing I'm getting at. We have to teach the masses the most fundamental rules of civil discourse and rational thought, because this shit keeps blowing this way and minorities suffer from it the most. They suffer from it the most even when they aren't the most guilty of committing those fallacies. It's mostly enraged white folks getting upset to the point of losing friends like this just because they think it's ok to strawman and assume motives just to save face.
@Rachel Forshee Thanks for not reading what I said and being a perfect example of the points I made.
In regards to CRT, I'll say this: do the Germans not teach about the holocaust in their schools? Why don't they say "we don't want kids to be ashamed of being German so we won't teach that part of German history"? Because they recognize that no matter how ugly and disgraceful that part of their history is, it is important to recognize that it happened and teach that it happened so it doesn't happen again. History only repeats itself when we don't learn from its lessons. I don't think there's a question about it, CRT should be taught.
exactly! i was taught very thoroughly about the civil war, the exact number of deaths, casualties, every battle, hell we even watched a gore filled documentary about WAR. And even though engaging in war is something Americans shouldn’t be proud of (since “violence is never the answer) we still learnt about it in 7th grade
I can't stress enough how much I appreciate and admire your comment. THIS!
When you've done something (or multiple things-- throughout the course of centuries) heinous, you own up to it and learn how to do better so it doesn't happen again. Plugging your ears yelling "lalala" or deflecting responsibility by saying "you're just attacking me!/you hate me!" isn't gonna help anything.
@@Mausefell Spot on, couldn't agree more
@@fiery_scream Exactly, they're prioritizing not wanting to feel any guilt about the things they have done (and continue to do)over teaching the heinous things America and white people have done, so it doesn't happen again.
@@Mausefell the sad thing is those disgusting ideologies are getting back into vogue in Germany, particularly in the eastern part (speaking as a Canadian of colour living in Germany as an expat).
I think the reason CRT is seen as controversial is because of the relationship we have with history, there is always a good guy and a bad guy.
Everything is black and white, it leaves no room for nuance and that’s an issue because history is built on nuance to ignore that is to completely disregard the past and remove the humanity out of events.
Imma get more into this next week
this is definitely true, a lot of things on the left in general get fucked up because decent stand alone ideas get thrown into contexts set up to misunderstand them, i think thats a failure of understanding on the detractors part but another huge factor is that activists circles have their own power politics which drives behaviour and many activists get so caught up in keeping up with their activist friends they sacrifice being understood by normal people. khadija pointed it out themselves when they were open about how white supremacy means "everyone internalises racism" including themselves, many spaces on the left are so caught up in instilling the right atidude in oters tha that rarely gets adressed drectly and more alienating slogans like "all whites are racist get adopted" because they signal that youre uncompramising, which makes you look very cmmited to the cause but kinda hostile outside of radical circles
@The DisaStarWars i dont think thats the point they were making, CRT is a nuanced and varied genre of theory whose writers like many other radical theorists, trust the inteligence of its readers, unfortunately we live in a larger culture which generally discourages this reflectiveness and preconditions people into binary thinking.
@The DisaStarWars I think this comment is actually pro- crt. It's saying that the right believes the only way we can celebrate American heritage and history is if we look at it with a black- and white perspective and just say everything was good, instead of celebrating the good parts of our history while also acknowledging our history of racism.
Amen. There is nuance in every aspect of our life. From our skin tones, our sexuality, our languages, our customs... Life is a gradient. But as you know, many of us are not taught to appreciate the nuance because nuance is more complex.
As a historian, I think often when we think we're "celebrating" history we're often instead "sanitizing" it which is why movements for teaching the history of race in every country in balanced and nuanced way are important. In my opinion critical race theory and anti racism are meant to be active and necessitate engagement/critical thinking rather than passively accepting your pre-existing ideologies.
Yes. I did a couple videos on the Paxton Boys and Augusta Boys of the American colonial frontier -- groups of men who acted outside the law driven by their hatred for American Indians. Several family members saw them and were like, "how much hate mail have you gotten for those?" I'm like... Well, my channel is tiny and they've barely been viewed (lol) but hate mail for what? Telling our actual history? Oh, calamity. *Eyeroll*
yep! why else did Columbus day become less and less celebrated? It's strange to me how ritualistic fourth of July is too. I feel like we blindly celebrate these accomplishments without acknowledging the impacts.
@@alexrose20 it's hard to celebrate half truths unless you brainwash yourself...
@@alexrose20 Australia Day is also a good example of this. It’s celebrating genocide.
If you are a historian then please know that you have been mislead to believe that this is about whether we should learn all about our history or not. Here is a video I found to be informative - it will make clear what I am saying. ua-cam.com/video/S1bkSc1T6MY/v-deo.html
Our children are never too young to be treated black but their children are always too young to be taught what that means 😔
💯 This comment is highly underrated!
Right 👏🤦♀️
MMMMHHHH. Yes.Yes.YES.
I've never heard this complex problem explained so good in such a short statement. Thank you!
It's further depressing that children in darker shades are consistently assumed older than they actually are! I can't really fathom that nor know I don't perpetuate that.
As a German, I am confused.
How is averting your eyes from the past considered less shamefull?
We openly discuss our past, and while that is intense, to me it feels much less shamefull than being to cowardly to even confront it in the first place?
How is hiding less shamefull?
And how is teaching history accurately even debatable?
I've never really understood it either. I come from a family where there is proof we had slaves and fought for the confederates in the Civil War. I remember a kid in class joking that my southern family (I lived in the Midwest at the time but had a southern accent) probably had slaves. And I said yes they did, and I'm sad and ashamed that my ancestors thought that was OK when I don't. And several white kids tried defending me with "well it was a different time" etc. Doesn't matter the time, it was still wrong and there's no shame in acknowledging family that was wrong then and now. I think white people in America are afraid of conflict in general because of how systemic the racism really is in our country. It's in media, it's in jokes, it's in your family and friends beliefs, it's talked about in plain sight and hushed tones. It's just oppressive and I think a lot of white kids just say nope, doesn't effect me, and deny themselves any responsibility to act for change. Because they really don't know how to change anything or do anything because racism is everywhere. And our education system is really not helping matters at all. I can say with certainty that I learned more about WW2 than the Civil War or honestly any non white movement while in school. Black history month really only focuses on bits of sanitized mlk and Rosa parks and maybe some famous black inventors. And any other race is not mentioned unless they were a important ally or enemy. It's very, very weird and a form of indoctrination in my experience.
Yet german people don't teach about how y'all treated Romani people during the H*loc*ust. 1.5 million Romani people were wiped out by you guys. 70-80% of their population gone. Romani people weren't given reparations like the Jewish people were. The things Romani people went through during this event wasn't even recognized until a few years ago. The people that were most t*sted on as experim*nts were ROMANI CHILDREN. But I don't see Germans teaching about that. Eva Justin a German r*cial sc*entist lured Romani children with candy to study them and then she r*thlessly had them wiped out. She didn't even receive backlash for this. She got her PhD a few years later and peacefully died of old age.
In a country where history isn't confronted to make people feel better about their race and their country, you can expect any sort of this nonsense.
@@user-yc6iw7gm9q As a matter of fact I learned about Sinti and Roma being killed by the nazis in a German school, as well as I learned about people with disabilities, homosexuals and socialists being killed. I didn't learn about Eva Jusin specificially, but I learned about how many people in all fields weren't held accountable for what they did. Judges, policemen, scientists and many others kept their jobs and many politicians in early West Germany also had nazi backgrounds, too, most notably Hans Globke, a lawyer who had written a the most important commentary (a book that explains laws for law students and other lawyers) on nazi race laws in the 30s, and later went on to become Kanzleramtschef (German equivalent to Chief of Staff in the White House) under Konrad Adenauer (first Bundeskanzler).
Those things are taught in Germany and the fact that many people here don't know about them is not for a lack of teaching. The reason for this is that many students don't listen to their teacher, I suppose.
Also there is an annual rememberence day for the Sinti and Roma victims of Holocaust (or more specifically Porjamos, as the Sinti and Roma genocide is called), on August 2. Every year the Bundespräsident gives a speech on this day to ensure that those atrocities aren't forgotten.
Where did you come up with 1.5 million Romani people?
According to the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma website, the estimated number of victims is 500.000. Historian's estimates of this number vary between 200.000 and 800.000.
zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/en/statement-by-romani-rose-statement-on-the-current-situation-of-the-memorial-to-the-sinti-and-roma-of-europe-murdered-under-national-socialism/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_genocide?wprov=sfla1
@@user-yc6iw7gm9q Sinti and Roma people are on a long laundry list of people, who got persecuted along with political activists and "sexual deviants", they might not be first on the lists frequently repeated in my public education but usually get more attention than sedentary Slavic people.
It feels like a big part of the CRT debate stems from the fact that those who are against it either do not know what it actually means or purposefully misrepresent what it means. Also loving the bodycon dress 😩
I often feel the same way with people who are pro CRT. many people do not understand what CRT is all about on both sides and it shows.
Points for Bjork
The people who are very vocally "against" it don't care what it actually means, and know that the people they're talking to definitely don't know what it means. So they can make it sound like anything they want.
yeah for me the problem is how is that the public school system that has failed so many.Where people graduate without even knowing how to read like fantasia, so how is it we are giving the task of solving racism to public school system. When they cant even stop them from having kids and graduate
No. They no what it is. They just dont agree with it. It's the same with feminism.
You presented this topic very responsibly. Grade school teachers aren't teaching CRT, neither are regular college professors. People won't stop to grasp that the theory is explored in LAW SCHOOL. When contributors say grade school teachers aren't qualified to teach it they mean it LITERALLY - NOT that they haven't found anyone to teach CRT to the 3rd grade yet. Republicans have boldly come out & said (I'm paraphrasing) "we named the theory CRT & hijacked that name as a way to weaponize the it". This non issue has divided & caused so much damage for the purpose of political & racial unrest.
*Law school, sociology grad school, also touched on in sociology undergrad depending on specific classes
I learned about it in undergrad but I was a polisci kid
Fun fact I didn't know what CRT was until the Republicans started complaining about it. The Streisand Effect at its finest.
They're always changing the narrative.
It would make sense to teach it in law schools.
Th trilogy begins...
Can’t wait to see your take on CRT!
Yo Khadija, let's start a campaign to prevent the Whitewashing of East Asian characters. We black people should give the Asians less reason to hate us and show them that WE are not their enemies. There is an upcoming My Hero Academia Live Action film coming up, as well as a Naruto one. We should speak out against it from our point of view since Asians are so silent. They keep waiting for "White saviours" but how about we give them "black saviours" instead? Cos I sure as hell don't want Tom Holland cast as Deku or Andrew Garfield sayin' "My Name is Naruto Uzumaki!!"
Critical Race Trilogy?
Love this.
The part everyone ignores is that this all stemmed from a Republican who lied about money being funneled away from cops, then he lied about cops being taught that they're racist, then he said new textbooks being made that focused on teaching kids to be racist, after which he said that CRT theory was being taught to elementary school kids. Every time it boils down to a GOP lie.
@@kenshix7902 yes. Please
I don't understand why this channel doesn't have millions of subscribers
haha that's very kind of you, I don't think any of us will know how Lady Algorithm chooses to do things
I’ll bet she’s on her way to it!!! Half of the topics she has addressed i honestly never even thought about because of my lifestyle ...But she has definitely opened up my mind to so much and cute and funny while doing so...it’s only a matter of time before this channel blows up
@@KhadijaMbowe i mean lady algorithm got me to watch f.d signifier yesterday and through binging some of his, you came up in one of the comments and how awesome you are and here I am with a new awesome creator to follow!
It will…just give it time ☮️
I love everything about this video except the idea of making the name "Critical Race Theory" more palatable. It's like when white liberals say "Defund the Police will turn people off." it sounds too much to me like "Don't make white folks mad." First of all, we did not make it a thing. The right-wing did. We didn't wake up one day and say "CRITICAL RACE THEORY." Secondly, this argument has been going on since the 1970s. Back then the right was calling it "Black History Studies." Only back then they literally put brothers and sisters in jail over it. It came with a lot of frames and set-ups, but the argument was pretty much the same. Thirdly, let's examine what makes white folk mad. Martin Luther King argued that we have a stake in this country and we deserve to share the same rights as everyone else. (Paraphrasing.) The country said, "HELL NO, N******" Then they assassinated him. Malcolm X said, "Get the hell away from white people and defend yourself when their racist mobs come for you." And the country said "HELL NO, N*****." And had him assassinated. You ever have one of those people in your life who have to debate everything? You know, no matter what it is they have a bug up their butts about it and never let it go. To the point, they bring it up even if you're not talking about it. That's what living amongst white folks is like. So why should it matter if our phrasing makes white folk uncomfortable? Everything we do make white folks uncomfortable no matter how we say it. So might as well say it loud and be black and proud about it anyway. Great video.
I'm white, and this is exquisitely stated. I'm so sick of trying to explain to my white moderate friends and family that progress shouldn't be halted for the feelings of bigots and those trying to move backward. Progress doesn't require consent from those who oppose it. That's the whole fucking point of it. I can't even imagine what black and Indigenous people go through with them.
I would like to screenshot your comment (crediting you of course) as a way of explaining this to people if I may. Thank you for letting me give my input as well.
Abolish the Police
You are absolutely right. Honestly, I think the people who get angry about it would choose to be angry either way -- so speak the truth even if it makes people uncomfortable. I'm grateful to my close friends who have told me uncomfortable things over the years so that I could correct my upbringing in my mind.
SAY THAT!!!!! 🗣🗣🗣
I think theres a counterpoint in that "Critical Race Theory" is basically a technical term from the law studies field where the words (especially "critical") likely have precise technical definitions which are not conveying the same meaning to us laymen.
I feel like CRT should always be taught with a hot fashion dance intro, just to set a chill vibe.
You know, gently bring people in
@@KhadijaMbowe and looking good while doing it!
Basically, people who are against CRT taught in school think like this: "My white child is too young to have this kind of conversation, but your black child can experience racism at a very young age, including if the oppression comes from my uneducated child".
Straw-man.
You sound ignorant. Im black, and i don't want them teaching my children they are permanent victims. You have been brain washed.
@@meggpurpleyou5870 but you benefit from it. You are still benefiting from it and when POC point that out to you, you don’t want to acknowledge. You make it seem like colonization and slavery were a long time ago but guess what - they weren’t. And even if they were, there are always consequences. If you don’t acknowledge that US society (and all the others) is based on the exploitation of POC and don’t want to change that, you are contributing to the problem, you are the problem.
@@temujinbear911 how is it teaching them they permanent victims explain that. Is teaching them how their family tree were victims for 400 years in slavery making them think they are permanent victims? And how was that whole history and tear between two races mended? Oh yeah it wasn't because black kids go to school with white kids and black history is barely touched. Race relations isnt talked about, people are terrified of what will happen if they tell the truth of what really was going n so how can we prevent racism from being normalized when they don't talk about the past when it was normalized, not to glorify it or point fingers but no one is even approaching to understand the roots of what happened
@@user-mw4qi1kx3o No one is hiding the history of american slavery. Most black americans I speak to about slavery, don't even know other ethnicities and cultures have been slaves. They only teach them enough to convince them they are victims. I don't think you want to approach the part of the history, where the african tribes went to war and Enslaved other Africans. Then sold them to Arab slave traders who boated then around the world. %75 of the slaves went to the Middle east where they were castrated. Only %1 went to North America. They are teaching watered down propaganda, with a specific agenda. They treat black americans like children.
whenever I hear the "children are too young to learn this" argument I'm just like... I'm german and if we over here manage to teach our kids about Shoa ("Holocaust") slowly from as early as like 3rd grade (8yo) on, then you can teach your kids about slavery and the genocide of indigenous people and all the other shit your ancestors have done
Love this video
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Hey Kat! Hope all is well!
It makes me sick when people who come from marginalized groups are like "I succeeded, so why can't everyone". People fail to take into consideration that the system is stacked against us and that they are the outliers and exceptions. It's okay to have privilege, but realize that you have it. Yes I graduated high school and am in college, but I feel for so many of my peers who did not make it. I was lucky.
What makes those outliers and exceptions different though? Would you consider yourself one since you're in college?
For sure. It's basically helping to further the Bootstrap Myth and is just another way to make people fight each other under capitalism & white supremacy rather than uniting. Like, I'm disabled and I struggle a lot with certain things, but I constantly have people using the success of other disabled individuals as an example that I'm "just not trying hard enough." Every individual is different and faces different barriers. The goal should be to help break those barriers together, rather than pitting individuals against each other as trying hard/not trying hard enough.
I just made a similar comment because I couldn't find one like this! I was beginning to think I was the only one thinking this way. But still doesn't seem like too many agree.😒
For me, it makes a big difference if the person at least tried. If you never try, then the system doesn't even get the chance to screw you over, because you already did. There is a difference between "I'm not going to work for college, because I'm never going to make it anyway" and deserving it, but not getting it because the system is stacked against you. And I know, part of the former is that way because most marginalized groups know how the system is stacked, but the ultimate outcome is sadly a self-fulling prophecy.
The only person who limits you is yourself
Wow this is illuminating. I've been vehemently arguing for teaching CRT at a high school level only to learn that what I have been arguing for......is not CRT. It's just....history that acknowledges the rampant injustices. That shifts away from this fairy tale of a triumphant heroic journey of manifest destiny dipped in freedom and actually addresses history.
Watched it n Paetron but mi can't WAIT to watch it again with y'all cause its like being in a movie theatre but with people that you actually like rather than the middle-aged couple that exhibits too much PDA and the bootlegger filming the screen in the nosebleed seats on a busted iPhone 7.
Specific, visceral, haunting. It's like I'm a movie theatre again.
Not my YT faves intersecting!
@@kdennis2461 You watch Dija too 😭 I knew you had good taste ❤️🙏🏾
I ate at a restaurant recently where a couple in their 70s were making out hardcore in the corner at 4 pm. It was hype, no complaints.
Oh my God best comment ever 😂
This video was a great start to your series! Your point about people needing to do their own research is so important! Too often, people watch a news clip or two on a topic and that's where they stop. So many of these topics are very nuanced and even after intense research, things often become even less black and white because the world we live in requires full-spectrum thinking. It's disheartening to think that some people can boil down CRT in the classroom to teaching white kids that they are bad and black kids that they are victims with no agency. Because as someone who sat in an AP U.S. History class where we were taught that the Civil War was fought because of states rights and not slavery, I can attest that being gaslit doesn't feel great either.
As someone who's not American, i find it interesting how there's this debate on crt bcs our history (indian) is just taught to us while subtly implying that these caste, culture and race problems don't really exist anymore which is false lol.
Americans ARE taught history. CRT isn't learning history. It's an ideology about things in your life being predetermined BECAUSE of your race
@@animal1nstinct394 define CRT
@@nadiaseidu5342 i already did.
@@nadiaseidu5342 crt is history through a ideological lens aka racializing history saying america is racist and somehow everyone is inherently racist which isnt the definition of racism which is the belief that your own group is superior to all others. your changing manipulating definitions and re writing history for a IDEOLOGY OF RACIAL VICTIMHOOD. teaching whites to hate themselves and blacks to feel like they are worthless and on the bottom. Literally CRT contradicts itself.
I feel like people are focusing too much on the word "race", like you said, and not enough on the words "critical" and "theory". Critical race theory is not a new scientific law or absolute. From my understanding, it's a theory, an idea of how race, racism, implicit bias, and society might work together to effect the past, present, and future of all people within a larger culture (i.e. Canada and the US).
I'm pretty close to agreeing that racism may be something we're stuck with, due to the persistence of implicit bias and the fact that the human brain is naturally driven to form these biases, but I also think the idea that we're "stuck with racism", if true, doesn't have to be so depressing. Like any implicit bias or even deep-rooted phobia, implicit racism can be acknowledged and worked on, until that bias becomes a thing of the past (or, at least, significantly recontextualized to something less harmful).
I look forward to the day when racism can be addressed as a harmful but natural bias which, instead of being denied and ignored, can be cured with preventative education and/or therapy.
You should really read up on "Critical Theory" - a concept devised by Horkheimer and Adorno. Because the words "critical" and "theory" are much scarier in that combination that the introduction of the word "race" in that context.
“Normalize looking over both shoulders before saying the word white” destroyed me
This video was fantastic. Excellent work and great research.
Ever since Khadija's last video, I have been trying to find out what CRT is (I am not American) but when i looked it up, PragerU was the first thing that came up 😂 ... it was at that point i decided to just hope and wait for this video to come out.
That is both hilarious and terrifying 🤣
Oooh beware PragerU!!! Not the most balanced source!
oh I watched that video
same… and I had to scroll quite a ways to find the poc weighing on it. very weird how all the top videos are from reactionaries spewing out of their ass about something they know nothing about
@Zayhe Maria Yusuf: Critical Race Theory, An Introduction, 3rd edition; Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic; 2017 New York University Press
When I was in Turkey for a time, I heard that the genocides against the Armenian and Greek populations weren't generally taught in schools. Nationalism and "unity" was far, far more important. Denialist myths were common (basically, the Armenians brought it on themselve and just as many Turks were killed, so what?) Silence on the subject was golden. Tbt, people were generally EMBARRASSED if or when the subject was brought up by a foreigner, like their honour was being defiled, or, there was real danger in speaking out of turn.
Yo somebody said “Before we get to critical race theory, let’s start with critical thinking first” and I agreeee 💀💀💀💀
I'm so glad to see UA-cam creators tackle this subject, given how flat-out awful mainstream conversations on CRT tend to be. I've studied and taught CRT for twenty years in higher education, and I'm still learning from it as it continues to evolve and change. It is highly self-reflexive, which means it critiques and refines itself constantly. Kimberle Crenshaw's famous concept of intersectionality, for instance, represents both a critique and extension of CRT, which had, up to that point, mostly ignored questions of gender and therefore tended to center Black men as its proper subjects. This tendency makes it that much harder to discuss in a cogent and concise way, so I applaud this video for managing to "translate" it for a broader audience so effectively.
I would like to clarify one misconception I've heard repeatedly (not by this video): CRT is NOT just taught in law schools. It has influenced many fields, including Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy, World Languages & Cultures, English, History, Education, and my own fields of Communication and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Like many theories that travel across disciplines, it has both changed and been changed by these fields, and, in my opinion, it represents one of the most important interventions in academic scholarship and teaching in the last forty years or so.
You are like high quality cliff notes with a ton of intellectual veracity and a good dose of humor.
I feel like certain people think learning about racism in history, especially racism that people of their same race may have perpetuated, define’s their character to others in someway.
Like, learning about the racism of white people against black people in the 1950’s suddenly means that the white person learning about it in class should be scolded for being that same kind of racist, or that they’re responsible for doing those same things. The problem with that thinking is that it’s defensive, and with that mindset, yes, you are going to feel like the course is going against your race somehow. It’s ridiculous, but it scares people to admit that racism existed, and still does exist in new ways, because they don’t want to be hated for letting it slide, whether they realize it or not? That’s more of an opinion, but that’s the general gist, I think.
The way the course is taught is going to be extremely important in that regard, but pretending that this stuff doesn’t exist is only going to keep it going.
Kids DO learn history. History and CRT are two different things
@@animal1nstinct394 they learn watered downed, propagandized, white washed history.
@@AS-wc7hc how is it watered down?
@@animal1nstinct394 stupid question that if you actually researched you would know, but if you may ask there's plenty of instances in American history where there are gaps of knowledge that one may not know about until they themselves seek that information out. Like how the term redskin comes from the dutch forcing natives to scalp other natives and wear the scalp themselves in which the blood would drip down on their skin. The term is used to offend Natives yet shows the brutality of the dutch.
It’s also going to make it worse in them in history in regards. In this state of the internet it’s impossible to hide it. And instead of them coming confederate together to help change it they want to keep it the same.
I wish I helped you make this video. CRT has 10 tenets, not 2. What most people are arguing about is not even CRT, its some figment of what they think CRT is. I think an important part of the discussion that is often missed is what a theory is, and what a critical theory is in relation to that. Also, there is a difference between a theory and a framework. CRT is actually more of a framework composed of multiple theories, than a singular theory in and of itself.
I was kinda looking for a comment like this
CRT didn't used to be much of an issue for voters and taxpayers - both on the left and the right - until a short while ago when it was turned into the new boogeyman. It seems to me that *some people* benefit from us spending so much energy on this instead of using our collective energy to focus on, I don't know, the existential threat of climate change, or making our societies more democratic.
Yes. Divide and conquer.
Let's call a spade a spade, conservatives are always bringing "panics".it's always the same slippery slope fallacy to keep things conveniently as they are.
a big issue with CRT for Asian Americans is that it only hurts us in all avenues. Schools like TJ high school of sci and tech have changed the admission from a blind test to one that accounts for "experience", meaning we will get another Harvard/ Yale issues but on a highschool level. Some regions in the State of Washington no longer consider Asians as POC. Are Indians not Brown?
@@aaronmontgomery2055 You must have figured it's not about the colour of someone's skin but the discrimination related to some ethnical groups.
@@Hachizukatenzo Unless, of course, when dealing with sight-based in-person contact.
I’m about midway through this video, but I just have to thank you so much for speaking on this topic, Khadija! I was literally at lunch with some family today who really hate CRT and I was struggling to be able to coherently explain the credibility of CRT and such. Seriously perfect timing. Also I love the dress sm!
the white guilt is strong with this one
Some youtubers are really out here dropping entire academic research articles in video format, and Khadija is the queen of them all
As a person who doesn’t know how to verbalize their thoughts on topics like this with the people who really need to hear it, I really appreciate that you made this video. Thank you!
I was also tired of all the CRT coverage, but hearing you talk about it is honestly so refreshing. Like instead of just hearing talking points, I actually learned in a fun and chill way- thank you 🥰
This was super interesting and informative! I hadn't heard about interest convergence before, but I think it happens more often than we think. Like during WWII when women were suddenly allowed and pushed to work because the government needed them in the work force. Then they were pushed out of those jobs again after the war. The fact that the government gave them jobs during that period of time doesn't nullify the efforts of feminists before and after the war. (I'm hope I'm making sense.)
I want so bad for CRT to be a thing in Europe too. My historical education was so whitewashed and biaised, unwilling to get uncomfortable with the absolute horror of colonization. It would've taken so much less deconstruction for me to see my country for what it is.
(Also im very glad you're using "racialized people" instead of poc i find it more accurate to the process of othering of non white people)
@The DisaStarWars did you seriously tried to pull a "racism towards white people". You can't argue Europe isn't as systematically racist as america. You know where the white americans come from right ? Anyways. Talking about racism isn't "divisive" it's a fucking necessity. We learnt colonization happened, not the atrocities and generational trauma, not in a way that empathizes with the actual victims of it. We're taught it's a thing long in the past, that we recognized it was bad and stopped, and so many pther faose narratives, implying black people keeping bringing it up are playing the victim, we learnt it was purely for monetary purposes. Also you forgot germany, italy, Portugal, and france. Most of Europe at least tried to have colonies. We still have african art in our museums from colonization thqt our governments refuse to give back, the prosperity of europe was built on colonialist exploitation and slave trading in the same way america was built on enslaved labour. You can't deny the way history is taught in Europe is at least as white-centered and yes, whitewashed, as in America. You seem to accept america is systemically racist, and yet refuse to recognize the countless similarities with Europe ? Quite ironic. Racist police brutality is everywhere. The US situation is particularly blatant because of the omnipresence of guns, but in my country there are statistics showing the same overpolicing of black-dominated areas, heavier charges pressed against black suspects, racist drug criminalization, promptness to violence from police officers. If you argue racism in Europe is just multiple individual issues you're just wrong. Again talking about racism is only divisive if you're racist. Anyways i won't reply any further
I mean, of course it would be whitewashed. It’s a white continent. America was a Native American continent, and it later became a very diverse place, so it makes sense to cover all the history that has made us the place we are today.
@@samaspic31 you sound like you have white people
@@samaspic31 of course european history is going to be “white washed” as Europeans are white people. That’s like complaining that history taught in Nigeria is “black washed”. Every country teaches their own history, so obviously it’s going to cater towards the native population who inhabited the lands.
@@carolin2220 But it shouldn't be whitewashed because if you look at Europe's history they have literally built their countries by exploiting Africans and their resources, people like to forget that before the British set out to colonize, steal resources and wipe out indigenous peoples in other countries, they were dirt poor.
the 'interest converge' theory reminds me of the fact that the reason the usa got a welfare state/social democracy for a few decades after ww2 is that the capitalist knew that if they didn't treat the most of the working class better they would start a socialist revolution.
edit: crt getting banned makes me want to learn about it. also, 'pedagogy of the oppressed' was banned in AZ so we should all read it too. hopefully all this redscare bs might make young people more curious instead of less so.
great video
Has anyone railing about CRT in schools actually seen a revised curriculum that includes CRT? It would be one thing if someone could point to something in a school curriculum that they did not like, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
It's easier just to yell without facts than put in minimal effort to research and think ... CRITICALLY. 😉
@The DisaStarWars CRT does label white people as the oppressor class so that's not coming from no where. The thing is CRT isn't the actual issue, the problem is the lesson plans/books/documents that claim to be based on it and that's what the real fight is about. Take for example the children's book 'Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness' Republicans have gained ground here because they do have real evidence of lesson plans that say a lot of problematic stuff about race.
@@leanna3625 why do you keep copying and pasting the same message with the same two likes in this comment section?
@@jerrymills2168 What? None of my replies to comments are exactly the same.
@@leanna3625 yes they are. ive seen this copied and pasted 3 different times in this comment section.
"you're not responsible for the first thought that pops into your head but you are responsible for the second one and how you respond after that"
Dude your UA-cam videos are wholeass academic lectures. Except explained in a super accessible way. It is incredible. I learn so much. I have started taking notes on your videos! And I always read the works cited! It is a whole college level course here and I deeply appreciate it. Thank you so much.
Yes!!!! Yes!! People need to look at things like societal issues on a macro scale oppose to the micro. It's so so easy to fall back to what you're comfortable with; emotionally/mentally, etc and that in itself powers the system because it eliminates the thought process leading to asking the right questions.
I think kids should have critical thinking classes, I know some educators are pushing for philosophy for kids and I find it very important, because today we've realized the bias we have on races, but we probably have a lot of other biases we are currently blind to. Being critical is a posture and it's a state of mind where you refuse the idea of A truth but understand there are multiple truths. I feel like CRT could be and should part of the curriculum, kids are naturally curious and they notice contradictions A LOT, and that's fascinating.
Also, when I listened to you, I noticed that its kinda the same with women's right. Woman started to get into the workforce during world war one and that is when women became more aware of the fact that they could do shit too. That some women were even better fit for work than staying at home and men in power realized that we could be more productive if both men and women worked coz more people. (The Saoudi prince is starting to give more rights to women because of that now, since they are starting to see the end of oil).
So yes, power is shared when there's a benefit for the person at the top, but when that power is taken, we should be mindful not to reproduce the oppressive dynamics and try to use that power to be aware of them and deconstruct the Dogma (which is capitalism here).
Anyway, great video! Thank you for the time and effort you put in each of them.
History cannot be rewritten, but historiography can and should when it misses some important details!
Millenial auntie, you're living with your folks too? That makes me feel so much better about myself; I've been more or less jobless and been feelibg really down about it. We should start a club or something. It will have cool soundtracks and alcohol.
Know you're far from alone in that. Multigenerational households have become the norm again (and that was pre-Covid). I didn't plan to be living with my parents at 40, but when you're single it often just makes sense. This past year in particular has hit the job market hard. We made a family decision that I would stay home and homeschool my nephew to limit my elderly parent's risk. We're all vaccinated now, which helps, but going to do another year of homeschool.
One thing that has helped the down on myself part is finding ways to be useful at home. I'm good at organizing, so that's been a lot of what I brought to the family, but also meal planning. Not trying to make this about me, just saying finding your own way to contribute helps. Best of luck to you.
When you mentioned being a stubborn Taurus, it reminded me that for the first time in my life, I saw part of the constellation Taurus last night. ♉ You know, the arbitrary star patterns in the sky that the Greeks attributed to defining personality depending on the time of year you were born. 😉
All the CRT in schools panic is like the ‘war on christmas’ panic .. fake problems that aren’t happening!!
Literally! idk if you've ever seen this PJW vid, but it was hilarious. As this guy was saying "nothing is labeled Christmas!" he pans the camera over to a whole section labeled "Christmas".
I feel like it's the same thing with CRT. Conservatives be like "CRT is taking over!" and then the cam pans over to a teacher who's like "yeah, we've never given CRT lessons before. :|"
That Body Cone Dress intro deserves a Grammy! MAGNIFICENT!
Two minutes in and I'm already teary eyed. This is gonna be good. Painful to be sure but growth often is. Thank you again for your emotional labor. I appreciate you and your work so much.
I'm here as a conservative and I appericate your unbiased explanation. ❤
I didn't realize that the CRT had such a long history in academia. Interest convergence is such a really interesting topic, makes me wonder how many other times the white ruling class has made decisions similar to brown v. board...
Imagine being as beautiful, kind, entertaining and intelligent as Khadija 🧡✨
Originally I was going to comment about how this video was really thoughtful and helpful in my understanding and framing of CRT and that I was really excited to read into the google drive link but wow, Khadija has such a great singing voice and them singing Young Hearts Run Free had me singing along w/ them. I love that, thank you all so much.
My issue with CRT (from the left) is how it actively avoids issues of class and accepts capital realism. The fact that class is still so taboo, even in social justice spaces, speaks to the power of class in hierarchies. The people at the top care about ownership/power, racism is just one means to achieving that goal.
CRT is a subsect of Critical Theory, which is the theory that the more knowledge one has of the system they live in, the easier it is for them to understand how they are oppressed in that system. I agree we should talk more about class issues, but it wouldnt be talked about under Critical Race Theory, it would be talked about under Critical Theory. Its not necessarily an issue with CRT itself, its an issue with what the left focuses on talking about. That being said, it is really hard for us to focus on class issues currently because the right creates these types of "culture wars" in an attempt to halt progress, so we get locked in having to explain all these terms to people who arent as well versed politically so they dont fall into right wing propaganda.
@@fcrw2120 I fully understand CRT; I have 2 degrees in social sciences, my masters emphasized intersectionality and multiculturalism. Trust me those liberal elites have even more difficulty discussing class. The right just brings up class to discredit racism claims . Establishment liberals aren’t trying to change the actual system, just want things to be more colorful. Social conflict theory/Marxist analysis does a better job encompassing various ways of oppression and very easy to understand. But that’s what makes it powerful and why we aren’t talking about it in the mainstream…
@@fcrw2120 your comment shows how “both sides” play for the same team to divide and conquer
@@allyson87 i know that libs are avoiding class too, they are capitalists, of course they avoid class. Im talking about _lefties_ , as in _socialists_ , when i say that we arent able to talk about class issues because the right keeps creating these fake culture wars, because, yes, the right is the side thats doing that, not libs. Libs just sit back and dont do anything to fix it.
I know this isn’t related to CRT but Khadija keeps on saying “and Canada” 😂. I think a video on Canadian issue(s) will be interesting.
"race isn't real, but racism is so here we are" best quote
I grew up in a small predominantly white town. I still don’t understand why people can’t see their inherent bias. Ignorance is rampant even within myself. There’s individual responsibility sure, but systemic issues aren’t our fault. Open and honest conversation and education is the key growth in our society
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I really hope a lot of right-leaning people come across your videos, because from what I’ve seen, you’re one of the most welcoming video essayists on here. The way you speak while also not being dismissive towards the points you list is a perfect combination. A lot of “left tubers” gravitate more to a style that caters to other likeminded individuals, but you seem to keep in mind that there are potentially going to be people from all kinds of walks of life and that level of understanding and humility (on top of the exceptional level of research you clearly do for every video) is exactly what I think can help reason with people who would otherwise not want to stick around
I'm from Germany and I've never heard of crt before. This was a very informational video, I appreciate your effort to show both sides of an argument and don't just gloss over uncomfortable cons. Thank you for this!
Nuance is the reason there's debate about this this, things are bad or good in most discussions and not nuanced. I agree with you about my friends who are racialized white. I could not be friends with anyone unable to have that conversation and be open about it. If you are afraid of talking about, then I suspect you are actually racist.
Growing up in Germany we were thought about the 1968 movement to restructure their social environments and workplaces with such perspectives... Might need to be repeated in the places it didn't reach
Fun fact: in my school my friends and I also brought up the issue of "why are there no POC teachers in this school and why are all the 'diversity meetings' held by white people?"
Despite the fact that your quote was from the 80s we got essentially the same response of "BuT wE cAnT FInD qUalIfiED pOC tO tEaCh heRe :("
So that lil segment kinda hit 😀
Thank you for talking about this and making your dad proud! I had a very sketchy understanding of CRT and now I feel slightly smarter. It seems to me like people are turning this into something that isn't even a thing (a collegiate-level theory being taught to toddlers), and just trying to get people riled up in order to further polarize people (but the republicans would NEVER). I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. Also, I'm living for the outros. I need a full album of all your outros as well as your outfit songs.
You should start a podcast!
I think we should just teach history as it should be taught with honesty and in a neutral perspective allowing students to form their own opinions. At the end of the day I’ve learned to just not care, because no matter what happens it will change in the next few decades or centuries. If there is anything history has taught me is that people change their minds and change ideals fast and often. We think we progress or regress but the future will change your impact whether you like it or not. It’s sad that I’ve become an even stronger pessimist the older I get but hey that’s society’s impact for you. I just hope one day everyone will be taught actual history no matter how gruesome it is, I feel like that would help a lot with critical thinking but what do I know I’m just an aspiring historian in college.
Wow sorry for ranting in your comment section! I love your videos!
As a non american, I agree with you. When I first heard about CRT, I found it very weird bc here where I live (Brazil) we learn about the systemic opression of african-brazilians, indiginous genocide, slavery and it's consequences, the forced miscigination that occured here and it's just history, not a theory. If the US did the same probably woudn't have so much drama about it
Same from Germany, we have a lot of "methods over memorizing" in curriculums by now and places where having an "unbiased perspective" is less likely than with prehistory have a selection of biased opinions and ways to contextualise/analyse them.
I live in the states and we learned about slavery, the trail of tears, the japanese internment camps, and other things I don’t remember. That was only in american history, though. In world history I learned of the armenian genocide, the indian caste system, the holocaust, the cultural revolution, and others I don’t recall.
Point is, I learned about oppression in history. It seems close-minded and ignorant to put a racial focus on that, since all sorts of people were persecuted for all sorts of things-political beliefs, religious convictions, political beliefs, ect.
I always look forward to and enjoy your videos, but this one so far is my fave. I love how you address how the divide and rule tactic is not only for colonialism but also essentially utilized by those in power to remain in power (e.g posing cultural and racial differences as the causes of conflict when really it’s political elites profiting off of the distractions of the constituency from the inactions of the government). The whole binary of good vs evil is definitely something to be talked about more because it can also bring up how the whole legalization of certain things (drugs, resources,) is really rooted in some countries trying to secure as much economic advantage for themselves (ie weed and cocaine being illegal but tobacco and opioids aren’t)
YOU MAKE LEARNING FUN. I’m no longer in school but I still like to learn about these topics. This must take a lot of energy. THANK YOU
I sat though every add break for this essay because you deserve the add Rev for all this work
My grandma always used to tell me about how in the 30s in California, Hispanics or Hispanic-looking people used to get rounded up (regardless of citizenship status) by Immigration and sent to Mexico with only the money and documentation on them. She used to have her birth certificate pinned to the inside her sweater in case she got rounded up because she was dark Portuguese and no Immigration officer would bother knowing the difference. For years I would tell some people this story and no one believed me because "they had never heard about this." Then in a high school Spanish class my teacher played the 1995 movie, "Mi Familia". Sure enough, there's a scene in the '30s where this happens to a character and the journey she had to take to get back to her family in the US.
All this to say, I am excited that the oral history of our ancestors might finally have a chance to make it in our schools.
I recently watched T1J's video about Critical race theory and I am so interested to learn about your opinion and how you understand it. I personally didn't know a lot about it just basic stuff and I am always love learning new things.
I love when there are resources to all of the links. Resources are so important for links!
So basically CRT is just.... teaching fully accurate history and how it actually affects the world today. It's literally just history, all the rest of it is ONLY THERE because of the reality of history. It's so weird that there are people who are so strongly opposed to education. Thank you for explaining this so well! I've learned a lot thanks to your channel, plus you're funny AND a fabulous singer?! A+++
No man...Trust Khadija to do justice on explaining these things, I love this channel and really appreciate the intellectual stimulation which is so refreshing to find on this platform.❤❤❤❤❤
when they styling and singing with the voice of an angel
35:35 ". . . Emotions are information, and this is an emotional topic..."
36:30 Thanks for talking about how some days you can feel fatalist and other days feel that spark of hope. 🥰👍
I've done it. I've watched them all. I have reached the current time line and I am living. Also, I'm so glad you've done this video to educate folx. Critical Racist Theory is so important and here we are. ❤️
Seriously this is like chatting to myself, I love all your videos, I learn so much about myself and the world around me. You’re also hella funny, hope you never stop making these videos ❤️
Once again, great video!
This makes a me think there really needs to be a course or specialized study around the business of power and self-interest. Neither are fair or pretty or even ugly. They’re tools that can manifest for advantage or disadvantage. I feel like once we understand those concepts better, history as a whole, including CRT, becomes clearer and a bit more honest.
I think it’s so important for education systems to teach history from a realistic perspective, and not just what’s comfortable to hear. The information that’s uncomfortable is what wakes people up and makes us curious to know more and do better! I’m from Australia and when I went through school we learned almost nothing about our First Nations people! I knew they were marginalised but had no idea of how bad things were for BIPOC here and globally until I started doing the research myself with everything that happened last year. I love hearing your perspective. You’re so good at getting your information across clearly.
Edit to add: I just noticed from the comments that CRT is for colleges and not schools which I obviously missed in the video but I still think something similar should be added to the school education system
As an outside observer it seems to me that America will never be able to start dealing with institutional racism until they start dealing with institutional classism. The far right American political landscape makes it impossible for poor people to go up and therefore it follows that naturally if a group of people are starting as being over representative in poor populations that's not going to change. If the system stops people going up in general then black people as a group aren't likely to go up until that is fixed.
Obviously it's worse for black people in that position than white people but the overall issue of how far right the US political system is will not allow progress until its dismantled and most Americans don't seem to realise the extent to which the American political compass is out of whack with other Western countries. Comparing the political compass of American politicians to European ones is so strange because politicians in america that are considered radically left are often not even left wing politicians and if they are they're centre left at the very most.
America needs to sort out its fear of communism first and foremost because that seems to me to be the biggest contributor to continued racial oppression.
A lot of critics don't seem to get that the overarching philosophy of CRT I think seems to be less that improvement is impossible but more that its not going to happen without a massive overhaul of the system.
No, the overarching theory is blame. Just like your overarching theory is “institutional racism,” exists as a presupposition. Just like your myopic assertion that “the far right,” makes it “impossible,” for poor people to go up. Do you have any metrics that show this is the “only reason.” Of course not, because society, poverty, race, and class are very complex. Single motherhood as a cause? Nah. Or, perhaps, being told “you are victim,” by groups like CRT give one a idea, “why bother,” Nah, can’t be a cause. Personal choice not to strive? Nah, can’t be a cause. Personal choice to work less and have more personal time? Nah. Can’t be a reason. And all the “poor,” people who DID make it out of poverty, well, let’s forget them in your singular analyses. Personally, I happen to agree the far right are generally nut job evangelicals, but that does not give your absolutely defeatist argument that “the system,” stops people from going up, any credibility. An ideology based on victim creation never ends well for anyone. Victims always cannibalize their own. Cambodia, China, Venezuela, all started with “we’re victims,” let’s tear down the system that makes us victims. Good luck.
@@davidbolen8982 Oop it seems I've angered an American patriot that can't handle the idea that America's obsession with capitalism above all else is crippling them.
If all of the problems in America in relation to class are attributable to personal choices as you claim, then how come there is far less inequality and poverty in European countries with centrist politics that allow people to have a career and children without having to sacrifice one for the other? Why in these places where people aren't forced to sacrifice having a social life in exchange for economic success is the general happiness and economy far healthier than in the US? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that a system forcing people to choose between happiness and money is inherently fucked up.
People shouldn't have to sacrifice having kids or having time off just to have a decent career, people shouldn't be in crippling debt just to get an education. People shouldn't have to deal with inhumane working laws just because you think allowing someone to have a life and a job at the same time is inherently communist and an attempt to ruin America.
@@alexjames7144 finally, an admitted communist. Doesn’t that feel better? Now go blame others for your failure.
@@davidbolen8982 lmao its so funny that you think I'm a communist just because I advocated for centrist politics and called out the fact that your far right infatuation is based in the red scare.
You feel the need to call a right leaning centrist a communist because you've been so indoctrinated by murica's insistence that anything that doesn't improve the choke hold the rich have on the poor must have been thought up by Karl Marx. Because how dare the system allow support for people struggling right?
@@alexjames7144 Stop oppressing me or i cry to my HR director and get a safe space cause u huwt my fewwings. Go whine to your mommy.
As an Asian British person I find this very interesting especially since in our schools we werent taught much about the USA but I deffo have memories of learning about slavery but obviously they werent going to make a 10 yr old understand what systemic racism is i truly hope the curriculum has changed since I was in school because I feel like a lot of stuff thats not even CRT related but basic history of racism wasn't even taught properly or if it was it was just brushed over but hey obviously as were in the UK our history is much more important for us to teach than americas.
I remember someone once told me the concept of CRT is in itself "racist" and I didnt even know where to begin with a response.
Learning about murder cases makes me a murderer huh? (Grew up watching ncis and other shows) /s
This video really put things into perspective for me. I am non-black non-American, but I always had this persistent feeling, that the American race issue *as a whole* needs to be understood. We've always been told about it, but what to really think, is confusing. I am really glad to hear a balanced and factually based perspective from a black American (or Canadian, I guess it doesn't really matter). I think you're absolutely right about the stigma around racism *and* race. We should all become comfortable with uncomfortable truths.
A somewhat late comment, and have not finished watching this yet, but I was wondering if someone could hear me out about privilege.
That is, I find the use of the term to often be harmful(often. I don't disagree that there is a difference in treatment, I just find that using this as a term might be counterproductive)
. Saying something is a privilege -of a larger group-, makes it seem like it is a "privilege" to have the thing (the thing often being the absolute bare minimum imo, being treated as a human being).
I think it takes away from the thing itself, and accidentally puts more distance between it. Calling it a privilege makes it seem like something to be taken away to close a gap, rather than elevating everyone to the same standard.
I often hear people use it in connotation to things that should just be the standard, rather than the extreme wealth inequality, and I feel like this puts people with less opportunities directly opposite of people with slightly more opportunities, rather than actually solving the problems, thus causing people with slightly more opportunities to feel offended rather than cooperate. I know you can't shelter people, but its easier to explain and get more people to work together if they don't feel like they are being attacked.
And divide and conquer, the more we are pitted against eachother ( think also of, the whole "they are taking your jobs" sort of rhetoric that is used to influence people who may not have the capacity to get informed to make decisions (due to their own monetary situations,often), and are influenced/riled further by the people causing the actual problems, with such statements, to believe the other people suffering are causing their suffering.
Plus, its unprofitable to give people rights (I hate this, but it is true, when human rights are lower standards, companies move there. They always go to the lowest standards because highest profits. Part of the reason why there is so much hesitation to sign human rights accords, appearantly - there are others, including owning up to things, even though the system isnt perfect-), which means it is "easier" to lower standards for the people who are slightly better, than raise them for the people who are even worse off.
So anyways, I was wondering about where other people would draw the line between a privilege and a basic necessity.
I know the standards of basic necessity evolve over time,(I was raised by someone who likes socioeconomics, higly recommend the subject, although the writing is often stale), but I don't think they have quite caught up yet.
English is not my first language, and I am currently in pain(medicated with painkiller gel, is this a necessity or a privilege? Imo it depends on the person and their circumstances (but how do you define a need? If someone states they never have a need use it, its clear they dont, but everything beyond that?)but these are the sort of things I'mquestioning, and I think it might be cultural). Im not fully informed yet, but id be interested to hear your thoughts.
Just started this one but I have to first give immediate credit where it is due. You. Look. Fantastic. Your hair, your skin your body con dress. Everything! ❤️❤️💃🏾
Thank youuuu
27:00 I can't get over that transition
It's amazing
Thank you for doing this, Khadija. Your channel is educational, entertaining, thoughtful, insightful, and you’ve got a great singing voice. ❤️💖🤎🖤❤️💖
Interest Convergence kind of reminds me of how strikes work in the sense that a company negotiates with a union specifically because it's in that company's best interests to avoid the loses from a successful strike
I really like your videos, Khadija. as someone who likes history class, I feel like it’s important to not treat everything like “the good” and “the bad”. obviously you explained it better than I did, but I really appreciate what you do haha. please take care of yourself today, you deserve a lot of love :)
It's so scary how South Africa is so similar to USA, now I think I really need to check how involved US is to the South African lives because this is just scary. We were told that Europe is more involved in SA but how do they link directly to USA because we have so many commonalities
Tip of the iceberg, but it would be useful to start deep diving on the topic through this policy, which explained supporting SA and Rhodesia and the last Portuguese colonies under a "better to keep those as counterweight to communists than rock the apartheid/late-colonial boat" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Baby_Option), the Reagan objection to SA sanctions that even some congress Republicans defended is known but takes attention from other stuff, the US definetely had a part in keeping apartheid going (and maybe a bit of a role model for a racially segregated electoral democracy). On the other side, the black civil rights movements in both countries watched and talked to each other and liberal-leaning SA books were known in US milieux ("Cry the Beloved Country" was known adapted as mainstream film as early as 1951). Tip of the iceberg, but hope that helps you to start looking for US-SA links.
@@vitorafmonteiro Thank you, the info you provided me with kinder made something click in my mind and it's confirming some conspiracies that some individuals have been talking about but because the schools provide very basic history, it's our job to go in depth
We are very similar, so similar I feel we are related. We even share similar mindsets about many issues. But yeah, I can make a good guess that the US is involved. So much suffering worldwide is because of the US forcing itself onto other nations. Praying for Afghanistan cause it's so wrong. God help them.
I think SA and USA didn't start that similar to each other but it got VERY similar by the post-WWII period. In SA black people are the indigenous population and a wide majority which has a significant history of black self-ruled political entities and the first black president brought with himself a big increase in black bourgeoisie, and in the USA were mostly descendents of those brought as slaves (until more recent postcolonial black emigrations, including Khadija's own family) and were a wide ethnic group but never a majority aside from some areas and maybe time periods and never had significant power balance in its American history and a black president didn't change significantly black wealh, and all those factor in into how the society organised, but after the immitation of nazi models fell out of fashion among Afrikaner with WWII and the legacy of parliamentarism from British colonisation, a model of segregation that didn't need a full dictatorship was needed, and of course the US was the closest to that, although even then the influence of nazism on the Afrikaner conservative right was never fully shaken off, which is why it was not only a segregated electoral democracy but a dominant party one (which the US never was under legal segregation). Which doesn't mean it isn't one hell of a similarity, all differences considered.
I'm from the US and I'm not aware of any **direct** US influence in South African policies. Then again, as this video points out, history is greatly sanitized in this country so I may not know about it even if there were. That being said, the similarities between the two countries probably just boils down to the pervasiveness of the colonial mindset. You have to remember that Canada, the US, and South Africa were all British colonies and they kept that white supremacist, colonial mindset when they became independent nations. Also, ideologies such as eugenics and racial purity, spread globally so they affected many regions outside of the US.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and research on this topic! I live in Mississippi & have struggled with how to talk about/defend CRT with people that are skeptics, and discovered through your video how uninformed I was in so many aspects! Looking forward to your future videos and learned so much💖
I'm pretty into Marxist derived critical theory for my PhD, and I was expecting the major cons to CRT to be its racial reductionism, and obviously, racial realism edges towards that, but the convergence of interests theory taken as a totalizing narrative is in effect explaining racial progress in relation to market forces and its relationship to geopolitics, effectively reducing racial progress to elite political-economic interests within global capitalism, so its actually much more class reductionist than race reductionist. sure it says "white elite interests" but in the 1960s was that term meaningfully distinct from just "elite interests"?
interest conversion: I recalled the fact that the only reason the government abolished slavery was to prevent the southern states from separating from the united states.
You are amazing! I am using some paraphrasing and citations from you in my higher education research about social justice supporting CRT. I am so grateful for you!!!
I appreciate how you always provide definitions for all the concepts you discuss. It's something I am still learning how to provide because I think people come into these things thinking they know what it means but they actually don't. Its very valuable to have that yardstick early on in the discussion so people can confront their own internalised misconceptions.
Great Video.
I also think the fact that CRT recontextualizes race as a social and legal construct where one has to look at it from a historical context to understand where America is now (a result of years of racist social practices, laws and policies which have all now been fundamentally embedded into their structures and systems)
So everything from the criminal justice system, education system, labour market, housing market, and healthcare system are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race.
Thereby poking holes into the 'American Ideals/values/mythos' of being the land of opportunity, hard work, prosperity and being a post-racial society which makes the majority of the white population uncomfortable leading to CRT becoming a new boogie man for people unwilling to acknowledge America's racist history and how it impacts the present.
CRT has never been a highly politicised theory where I live, so I only heard of it a few months ago, so this was very much necessary for me to understand the basics and theorists of it.
I've only really explored it as a part of intersectionality, and certain political discussions and affiliations, such as the 'school-to-prison pipeline', but I really enjoyed this video ("a beginner's beginner guide", love it!).
I find it interesting on how my country hasn't discussed this topic(?) more, because we've historically always followed in similar footsteps of the US political, civil justice-activism scene, such as 'The Freedom Riders' and the BLM movements here, in conjunction to those originated in the US.
CRT is something I've never heard discussed where I live, in context to the word, that is. Out of-context, its "teachings" are treated as fact, but I think as a society, our mass understandings of our history only scrape the surface, and people of different educational backgrounds learn more than others. On this, our PM didn't even know that slavery occurred in our country, because he lived a privileged childhood of private education, which isn't governed by the DoE, and they therefore don't have to teach our history to the same standards as public education does.
I think this is a global issue, when those who decide and govern our laws and country on average are more likely to be from high income, private-schooled families, rather than representing the lives the majority of countries' inhabitants live.
This was so good! 🙌🏻❤️ I can really see all the hard work and thought you put in to this!
When you talked about the pros of CRT and how it empowers youth to be active in shaping society that really rung true for me for being one of the main reasons so many people are so scared of it. In my community, youth activist who have taught themselves the history of revolutionaries, envisioned a better system, and put that knowledge to work have succeeded in challenging and shifting our community, and people are terrified of them and the change they fight for. Adults, mostly white, in our school district fundamentally don't want a system that empowers youth to envision and enact transformation in our society; they want our schools to replicate the system and set up the youth to uphold the system. They don't want youth to have power. Again, when you tied in voter suppression, that makes so much sense to me in what I'm seeing in my community. The same people fighting against student activists have no interest in weighing the votes; they talk about the "quality of the votes" and claim that there's a "silent majority" that's to scared to speak up because of "cancel culture". Meanwhile, they actively threaten the lives of student activists.
great video that was incredibly well researched, just one heads up though about the video at 42:00. that guy is a far right youtuber who doesn't even have kids in the school of the school board meeting he was attending.
I think, for now, I agree with the general principle of CRT. It wasn't until the Watchmen series came out I learned the true horrors in Tulsa, nor the true history of Juneteenth.
If asked my opinion and confronted about it, I'd simply ask, “What's the harm in looking at history from another perspective?”
Highlighting your comment in my 'web clips' notebook lol, cause I vibe with that sort of answer.