Free speech is our founders’ best gift to Americans. One local citizen, a car dealer school board member, recently used his free speech to decorate his business lawn with anti-DEI and anti-CRT slogans. I defend his right to his speech, but I question his judgment.
MAGA pushes a myth that “DEI hires” are unqualified and is “reverse racism or sexism.” Persons chosen in any employment can turn out to be unqualified, including white, straight men, a group who still maintains a dominant edge in positions of power and wealth.
CRT is a college course taught in college, not K-12. If a teacher includes a lesson on the Trail of Tears — an event that began in 1830, where the American government relocated southeastern American Indians to Oklahoma via a cruel death march — it’s not teaching CRT but h