Critical Race Theory and Black History

There is an argument being made, particularly in the Deep South, that our schools’ curricula should not include what academics sometimes call “critical race theory,” i.e., the set of facts surrounding black history in the United States.  That means the telling of how the economy of the South was largely built on the backs of centuries of black slavery, but it also encompasses Jim Crow laws and the more subtle forms of exclusion of blacks from white society to persist to this day.

The author of the meme here seems to be suggesting that those opposing teaching these truths intend to prevent any progress for black people in American society, and, perhaps, would like to see various forms of regression into our terrible past.

I can’t offer any other interpretation.