Another school board meeting turning into
a battle that got heated in a hurry.
We need to protect our teachers from
being forced to teach this garbage.
It's called critical race
theory. It's something governor.
Brian Kemp is criticizing
calling it dangerous ideology. School boards
in Georgia and
across the country getting an earful
from angry parents concerned with
the possibility of their children,
taught CRT or critical race theory.
And for creating DI or diversity
equity and inclusion programs,
you cannot teach. Have a love bar.
Glasgow appealed to the
Cherokee County School Board
this past May.
And I will be the first to admit
I'm not an expert in critical
race theory, but it concerns me.
Coley is Bart's wife.
I just don't think it has a place in school.
I really don't.
I think it breeds resentment
in my opinion, and she wasn't
happy with the school
district hiring a diversity,
equity and inclusion administrator
to go ahead and hire this person
and not disclose it to the public.
Confident in their beliefs,
but willing to learn more.
And over the next few weeks.
They've agreed to meet four
leading experts there,
asking the question they conduct the
interviews and then tell us what they learn.
But first, it's time to get
the node the glass goes.
We met them at their home and Canton,
GA Andy how's it going?
Oh good, how are you doing so?
Nice to meet you?
Yeah Bart is a local attorney.
Kolea dental hygienist married
33 years with two children,
conservative evangelical Christians
and owners of a small farm.
They were eager to show us around.
Well, there's three goats
right there. It's Donatello,
Michelangelo and Raphael. Whoa,
I'm picking up a goat. Billy
Goat wants to get to be
about 6-7 eight months old.
They start really smelling.
It's their Cologne for the ladies.
Oh, they also taught me
to never pick up that pig.
You picking up and he will
squeal like you're killing it.
You are not kidding.
After getting schooled on
the farm, it's now time to get
back to this subject at hand.
While the glass goes in.
So many Cherokee County
parents attended that school board meeting.
Where did you first think when
I called you? I thought, wow,
this is going to be a minefield.
You know you're talking
about critical race theory.
You could end up being called
a racist or called,
you know, a Neanderthal.
I thought this is a hot potato.
You both seem very confident in how you feel.
Do you think that you could have an open
heart and open mind and to learning more?
I hope that I always have the
ability to process new information
and change opinions that need to be
changed because of new information.
It's now time to put that objectivity
to the test and they're headed to
Emory University to meet their
first expert Doctor, Carol Anderson.
Doctor Anderson is a professor and
chair of African American Studies.
At Emory and author of more
than a half a dozen books,
including White Rage,
a New York Times bestseller.
Nice meeting you nice meeting
you the glasgows wastes no time
getting down to business. How
would you define critical race
theory to just like a layman?
Just somebody like us. Critical
race theory is a legal theory developed
out of Harvard Law and what it looks at.
It looks at the ways that the law
creates race and then the way that the
law sustains inequality via racism.
For instance during slavery.
It was the way that the law began to
identify who was enslaved and who could
be free and who could be a citizen.
And it did that by identifying
racial characteristics in the
1740 ***** Act of South Carolina,
where it says that the enslaved
African descendants people will
always be enslaved for now.
And for those not yet born,
and so it was the way that
the law began to to create.
This stratification and that's
how the law begins to create race.
Doctor Anderson then
explained to the Glasgows that critical race
theory is not taught in public schools.
It's limited to mostly law schools.
Still, Coley is concerned.
I mean, it's almost like a
nationwide critical waste.
Theories coming to our elementary
school. And So what is
that that is panic? That is
fear that. Is inaccurate, would
you say, then that the theory is such
the legal theory is not something that
should be taught in schools that theory,
but the things that should be
taught to help us reconcile and to
understand our past and to learn
from it should be taught in schools.
Am I making sense? Don't make
me come over there and hug you.
So yes, the debates really are about the
histories that are taught in our schools.
There's this fear that talking
about teaching, slavery,
teaching the removal of an indigenous people,
that what that will do is that it
will make our students feel ashamed.
It will make our students feel embarrassed.
Because when we're teaching that we're
also teaching about the strength of the
American people to fight for democracy,
it's time to say goodbye to
Doctor Anderson. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing with us
and check in with the Glasgow.
What was your takeaway?
She stressed that CRT is more in a
college law type of teaching and training.
I've never heard that before,
but have what they learned
swayed their original opinions.
The glass goes want more perspectives
before revealing their answer
up. Next the glass goes.
Meet a school administrator with the job.
They did not want in their
own district and they get a
lesson in implicit bias. Just
being aware doesn't do it. You have
to also be sort of like concern.