“If you just found yourself there wondering that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments are, that alone might be a good sign that we don’t talk about this stuff in schools enough,” Oliver added. He played a segment from a CNN interview by scholar and law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw highlighting that supporters of critical race theory “believe in the Thirteenth and the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth amendment, we believe in the promises of equality, and we know we can’t get there if we can’t confront and talk honestly about inequality”. He cited an Education Week article explaining that “the core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.” Oliver defined critical race theory as “a body of legal scholarship that began in the 1970s that attempted to understand why racism and inequality persisted after the civil rights movement”. “Multiple states have passed laws outlawing the teaching of it and Republicans are likely to make it a major focus of the midterms,” he noted.
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