Tom Ritchford
1 min readNov 28, 2021

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Almost never? Never, ever!

No one has exhibited even one high school that taught critical race theory as such to its students.

I'm really, really tired of aggressive but fragile white people (yes, l am a person of pallor myself) who flip out if non-white people are even mentioned in history.

And thanks to these white people's ancestors, it's impossible to mention people of color without mentioning centuries of genocide, oppression and exploitation, a state which continues to the present day.

Thanks for a very strong article!

(Ah, I hate to mention it, but "dumb" means "someone who is unable to speak", and is considered something of an ableist slur when used to mean stupid, because being dumb doesn't mean you are stupid. Yes, I've used that way myself for decades, but I'm trying to stop.

(When I first came to NYC in the 1980s, someone talked to me about someone "jewing him down". I must have looked a bit shocked so he added, "This is a different meaning of the word "jew", it has nothing to do with the religion.")

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