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Keisha King, a Florida mother, blasted the critical race theory as racist and claimed it would destroy the country at a state Board of Education meeting on Thursday

Black Florida mom warns school board that critical race theory entrenches racist idea that ‘whites are better than blacks’

  • Keisha King claimed critical race theory promotes racism and will destroy the country at a Florida state Board of Education meeting on Thursday
  • King, a black woman, said it is racist to consider her or her children ‘oppressed’ due to the color of their skin and disputed that it teaches ‘racial sensitivity’
  • She said she had seen teachers teach the theory and separate students based on their race
  • She also claimed that it would make America revert to its racist past 
  • King spoke as a mother representing Moms for Liberty, a national group that promotes ‘parental rights at all levels of government’
  • The state Board of Education voted unanimously on Thursday to ban teaching the theory following speeches from King and supporters of the theory
  • Florida is now the sixth state to ban critical race theory in schools 

Melissa Koenig – Daily Mail June 12, 2021

A black Florida mother blasted critical race theory as racist, dangerous and claimed it will destroy America at a state Board of Education meeting.

Speaking at the meeting Thursday, Keisha King said: ‘Just coming off of May 31, marking the 100 years [since] the Tulsa riots, it is sad that we are even contemplating something like critical race theory, where children will be separated by their skin color and deemed permanently ‘oppressors’ or ‘oppressed’ in 2021.’

‘That is not teaching the truth,’ said  King, who has a child in the Duvall County school district, ‘unless you believe that whites are better than blacks.”

King told of her outrage at seeing teachers in the Duvall County school district, in northeastern Florida, teach critical race theory and even separate students by their race. Duvall County confirmed it was invoking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s ban on CRT later the same evening.

King also disputed claims that critical race theory is ‘racial sensitivity or simply teaching unfavorable American history or teaching Jim Crow history.’

‘CRT is deeper and more dangerous than that,’ King said. ‘CRT and its outworking today is a teaching that there’s a hierarchy in society where white male, heterosexual, able-bodied people are deemed the oppressors and anyone else outside of that status is oppressed.’

‘That’s why we see corporations like Coca-Cola asking their employees to be less white, which is ridiculous,’ King said, representing Moms for Liberty, a national group that promotes ‘parental rights at all levels of government,’ according to its website.

‘I don’t know about you, but telling my child, or any child, that they are in a permanent oppressed status in America because they are black is racist,’ King said, ‘and saying that white people are automatically above me, my children, or any child is racist as well.

‘This is not something we can stand for in our country.’

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