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No argument. It isn't strictly about the race of the students, nor is it about actively bigoted white people. It IS about poverty, home life, and other factors. But the next logical questions is: Why are black students more susceptible to poverty, a bad home life, or other factors?Is it actually about race? Or is it about poverty, and home life, and other factors?
The problem is there are MANY factors that contribute to students success, when you try and focus just on ONE ie. Race, then you really aren't trying to help better the situation.....
Whether it is "about race" or not, the outcome is the same. Black students on average do worse than white students. The question CRT answers is "why?" The answer is: black and white cultures exist as they do today in part due to the long legacy of white supremacy and black oppression in America. It doesn't mean that this oppression still exists as it once did. It means that the system evolved under this oppression, and our cultures evolved to exist within the confines of this oppression. Suddenly removing the laws supporting this oppression is about as effective at healing the cultures involved as a parent reconciling with an abused and neglected child later in life and expecting the child's behavior and attitude to suddenly fall in line with all your other children you actually cared for and raised properly. It doesn't work that way. The damage has been done, and suddenly finding Jesus and shaking hands with your abused child as an adult doesn't absolve you of the guilt and responsibility for the part you played in making him who he is today.