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The importance of critical race theory: what's so bad about equity?

Photo Credit: Erin Schaff/ The New York Times It's been just a little over six months since the storming of the U.S. Capitol and unsurprisingly, GOP officials have showed their opposition to critical race theory. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida  tweeted that critical race theory "teaches kids to hate our country and to hate each other."  The Florida State Board of Education unanimously passed an amendment banning the teaching of CRT. It took me a while to wrap my head around this because arguments like the ones DeSantis make are absolutely unreasonable and given without context. To ban CRT, appears to be an attempt to erase the history of our past and to deny systemic racism.  CRT is a lens to analyze how racism shaped our world. How is that such a bad thing? How much more narrow-minded can people be? One of my biggest concerns as a college student who is fascinated by this lens perspective are, how will these bans impact the next generation? Will children turn into narrow-