Behar at one point quips that parents who want a voice in educating their children had better start home-schooling. Rice has a response to that, too, and it’s well worth noting from this longtime academic and educator.
Hot Air "A rational discussion on a hot-button topic on … The View? Indeed, and that’s what makes this leftover from yesterday a compelling must-watch in its entirety. Don’t stop at the slices of this debate on critical-race theory, because those don’t fairly capture the dissent to Condoleezza Rice’s point — and the rational exchanges those prompt.
"Well, mostly rational, but at least civil. Be sure to catch Rice’s final exchange with Joy Behar, who tosses out a non-sequitur about the Holocaust being taught in Germany. “We teach every child about slavery,” an exasperated Rice responds:
The most remarkable aspect of this segment is its civility. It’s clear that no one gets moved off their positions in this debate, but they allow Rice time to make her points repeatedly. As Yahoo News notes, social media response was a lot less gracious, where people accused Rice of advocating that white children get “shielded” from history. That’s nonsense, of course; what Rice advocated was teaching history in context, and not burdening white children with 300-plus years of collective guilt for something that they had no part in imposing.
Condi Rice gets it right on The View
Also, telling young whites they are the problem is a dishonest version of history. As I recall, it was Africans who captured the men who were sold to the Europeans as slaves. Furthermore, it was whites who wrote the documents that outlawed slavery.
Notice in the Yahoo article the word "Black" is capitalized; the word "white" is not.
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