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What's Really Behind the GOP's War on Critical Race Theory

It's not just about shutting Black people down. It's about protecting whiteness.

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Samantha Grasso
Jun 02, 2021
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Between bills targeting trans children, curbing voting rights, and criminalizing abortion, state-level Republicans are having the time of their lives. And somehow, on top of that heaping pile of bigotry, their plans to further marginalize people already on the margins has only gotten more senselessly cruel, with state legislatures jum…

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