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In December, Indonesian authorities gave the green light to accept a boat of about 120 fleeing Rohingya Muslims into the country. The move comes after the group was stranded in the ocean for days right near the coast of Indonesias northernmost province of Aceh. Conditions onboard the boat were reportedly so abysmal to the point that, according to the Indonesian official Armed Wijaya, the Indonesian government felt prompted to take action.

The Indonesian government has decided, in the name of humanity, to accommodate the Rohingya refugees currently adrift at sea, Wijaya said in a statement. The decision was made after considering the emergency conditions the refugees are experiencing onboard the boat.Despite the empathetic response from Indonesia, its government was initially adamant about accepting the Rohingya Muslims. Local officials told Agence France Presse (AFP) that Indonesian fishermen first encountered the refugees about 70 nautical miles off Indonesian shores a couple of days before. However, when alerted about the issue, military officials told Al Jazeera that they could not simply bring them [the Rohingyans] in as refugees due to the fact that they were not Indonesian citizens.

The controversial decision sparked an international backlash, as it was clear that the Indonesian government fully intended to send the Rohingyans back to sea despite their dire need of help. The Rohingya ethnic group is a vulnerable, stateless group of people that should be given protection, the Civil Society Coalition, a coalition of nine Indonesian human rights groups, said in a statement to Al Jazeera. As a country that upholds human rights and a member of the UN Human Rights Council, Indonesia should set an example for other countries.

The Rohingya people are an ethnic Muslim minority group originally hailing from Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country. The difference in religions, as well as culture and language, has always made the group victim to government discrimination since the 1970s. As the Council of Foreign Relations puts it, Myanmar has institutionalized discrimination through legislation, effectively restricting all aspects of life from denying citizenship to even restricting how many children Rohingyans can have. Since then, the government-sponsored oppression has only increased.

In 2017, the group garnered international attention after the Myanmar military began attempting an ethnic cleansing on the group in response to attacks from a terrorist organization. Rohingyan villages were burned and government forces accused of mass rape, murder, and destruction. According to the CFR, a UN fact panel released a report detailing Myanmars genocidal intent to wipe out the group. The persecution has prompted a mass migration of Rohingyan Muslims to the neighboring countries of Bangladesh, Malaysia, India, Thailand, and Indonesia. While major powers such as the United States have sanctioned military officials and sent aid and support to the Rohingyans, the governments of the previously mentioned countries have been extremely wary of accepting them as refugees and have even sent groups back to Myanmar.

Many human rights groups and international organizations are hoping that Indonesias actions can influence the rest to welcome more refugees into their country. Some have already applauded its acceptance of the group. We are extremely grateful to the Indonesian government it is a decision that we have not seen other governments take with regard to other boats, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative Ann Maymann told Al Jazeera. It is an example for other countries to follow, both in the Asia Pacific region and also in other parts of the world where boats are being pushed back. The UNHCR has already expressed its intention to assist the host country with the arrival and processing of the refugees. Indonesias actions have certainly been a positive win for refugee rights however, it remains to be a breakthrough case within the recently turbulent history of the Rohingyans.

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Breaking Ground: Indonesia Welcomes A Group of Rohingyan Muslims Stranded At Sea Despite Initial Rejection - The Organization for World Peace

Since his in Nairobi in 1999, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan has endured almost 23 years of imprisonment. For much of that time he has been confined on Imrali island, in the Sea of Marmara, without any contact with family or friends.

His jailers hoped that by slamming shut the prison doors, the world would forget about Ocalans existence. But for millions of Kurds and their supporters around the world, Ocalan is a living symbol of resistance to .

According to the Turkish government, Ocalan is a terrorist. The Australian government agrees, .

The listing was originally made in 2005 by the John Howard Coalition government after a visit by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the autocratic Turkish leader. It has been periodically renewed since then, including by Labor governments. The listing was made for purely opportunistic political reasons. Government justifications simply do not add up.

The PKK is not and never was a threat to the security of Australia, nor that of any other outside of the Turkish state. Several European courts, , have ruled that the PKK cannot be treated as a terrorist organisation. Instead, it is a party to an armed conflict with the Turkish state.

Under Ocalans leadership, the PKK launched an armed struggle against the Turkish state in 1984. It has since declared several unilateral ceasefires and, in 2013, Ocalan was permitted to join peace talks. He continues to advocate for a peaceful solution to an intractable conflict.

Originally formed as an orthodox Marxist-Leninist party with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state, the PKK has since taken a different approach under Ocalans intellectual guidance. Ocalan argues that given the ethnic plurality of Turkey and the Middle East, the solution to the century-long oppression of the Kurds and other non-Turkish populations lies in what he calls autonomy with full rights for all peoples.

This shift did not, however, cause the Turkish government to back away from its determination to maintain Turkey as the ethnically pure political-cultural organism envisaged by Kemal Ataturk at the time of the inception of Turkish Republic in 1923. Ever since, the Kurdish people have endured cultural and, at times, physical genocide.

In recent times, the Erdogan government has stepped up repression both and the boundaries of the Turkish state. Thousands of Kurds have been arrested and many killed, especially members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party. Cities in heavily Kurdish areas have been bombed.

The Turkish military has also invaded and occupied the mainly Kurdish regions of Rojava in northeast Syria, ethically cleansing towns and cities and collaborating with Islamist terrorists, including ISIS. The Kurdish-speaking Yazidis over the border in Iraq have also been targeted by Turkish troops.

Yet world governments and much of the media continue to avert their eyes from Turkeys war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Kurds have a well known saying that they have no friends but the mountains. But they do have many friends around the world, including in , , and other : people who have seen the injustice heaped on the Kurdish people and are determined to help end it.

Key to fighting such oppression is to demand governments take the PKK off the terror list and call for the immediate release of Ocalan, so that he can lead the struggle for peace with justice for the Kurdish people in Turkey and neighbouring states.

Prison has not broken Ocalan, nor stopped his brain from working. In his prison cell, he has written a stream of original books and articles dealing with many aspects of Kurdish freedom and broader human emancipation.

Central to this is his insistence that a society can never be free without womens liberation. His watchword is that you must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.

[John Tully is a historian and activist with Australians For Kurdistan.]

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A German nongovernmental organization in special consultative status with the United Nations called for member states to stop cooperating with the Turkish intelligence agency over threats to exiled critics.

The Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft fr bedrohte Vlker, STP), a Gttingen-based NGO, submitted a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) In Geneva highlighting the role of the Turkish intelligence agency (Milli stihbarat Tekilat. MIT) in systematic attacks, threats and intimidation of Turkish opposition members in exile.

In a statement circulated for the 48th regular session of the UNHRC, held between September 13 and October 11, 2021, the German NGO asked the UN to call on member states to prevent any cooperation with MIT to exchange information because such action would lead to violence, kidnapping or persecution of critics, opponents and dissidents who live in exile.

Time and again, anti-government Turkish journalists, writers, activists and politicians have been threatened and attacked. Recently, the German government confirmed the existence of so-called death lists, on which up to 55 Turkish exiles are said to be named, the statement said.

The advocacy group noted that Turkey plays a leading role in transnational oppression while many European Union and NATO governments continue to support to Turkey and remain silent on the Turkish governments actions against exiles.

The statement gave a detailed account of attacks and threats against Turkish journalists in Germany, listing the cases of journalists Engin Enes Sag, Fatih Akalan, Cevheri Gven, Erk Acarer, Gkhan Yavuzel and Celal Balang, who were subjected to violence or threats over their critical coverage of Turkey.

Society for Threatened Peoples submitted a statement to the UN Human Rights Council on threats against exiled critics of Turkey:

The German NGO recalled in its statement the kidnappings MIT perpetrated in Kosovo and Kyrgyzstan and said those who were forcibly taken to Turkey faced torture and ill-treatment.

It also pointed out the denial of consular services to critics by Turkish missions abroad, saying that such practices have negative repercussions for regime opponents and their family members.

The witch-hunt against exiles of Turkish origin continues unabated worldwide. Those who have been targeted by the TR security authorities no longer receive any consular services at Turkish consulates general and embassies. This also applies to their spouses and, oftentimes, their children. Anyone who dares to go to the Turkish missions abroad will have his or her passport taken away, the STP said.

This denial of any consular services has fatal consequences for those affected: Those who cannot show a valid passport will not have their visas extended in the respective host countries. As a consequence, they face deportation, it added.

The German NGO asked the UN to reprimand Turkey for its persecution of exiles; call on member states to grant asylum status unproblematically to exiles of Turkish origin given the denial of consular services; call on member states to prevent any cooperation with the Turkish secret service to exchange information; condemn attacks on exiles by Turkish nationalists; and call on member states to intensify their protection of exiles.

The Glen movement, a group that is opposed to the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoan, and the Kurdish political movement have been receiving the brunt of the crackdown in recent years. The witch-hunt is not just confined to Turkey, since the Erdoan government has escalated the campaign in foreign countries, with MIT kidnapping and forcibly returning critics, in particular members of the Glen movement.

The kidnappings of critics abroad has long been on the agenda of UN special committees. In May 2020, UN rapporteurs Luciano Hazan, chair-rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; Felipe Gonzlez Morales, special rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants; Fionnuala N Aolin, special rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism; and Nils Melzer, special rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment sent a joint letter to the Turkish government to express their concern about the systematic practice of state-sponsored extraterritorial abductions and forcible return of Turkish nationals from multiple States to Turkey.

The rapporteurs also requested information on the role of Turkeys intelligence agency and other institutions in those kidnapping operations. The Government of Turkey, in coordination with other States, is reported to have forcibly transferred over 100 Turkish nationals to Turkey, of which 40 individuals have been subjected to enforced disappearance, mostly abducted off the streets or from their homes all over the world, and in multiple instances along with their children, the letter said.

Turkish embassies were also used venues to plot the kidnappings in coordination with MIT agents, according to multiple reports published in recent years.

For instance, Turkeys Pristina embassy, according to local sources in Kosovo, was key to the logistics and planning of an abduction and served as the detention venue for the abduction operation. The Turkish nationals Cihan zkan, Kahraman Demirez, Hasan Hseyin Gnakan, Mustafa Erdem, Yusuf Karabina and Osman Karakaya were kept for a time at the embassy chancery or the residence of then-Turkish Ambassador Kvlcm Kl on March 29, 2018. It was alleged that MT was instructed to kidnap five Turks but that zkan was added to the list in Pristina by Ambassador Kl. The Cumhuriyet daily reported that pictures were taken on the Turkish Embassy premises in Pristina by the state-run Anadolu news agency after their arrest.

The former Turkish ambassador in Pristina was rewarded for her services in Kosovo by President Erdoan, who appointed her director-general for the Council of Europe and Human Rights at the foreign ministry.

The joint UN letter also revealed how the Turkish Embassy in Phnom Penh attempted to deceive Cambodian authorities in order to request the extradition of Mexican citizen Osman Karaca, who is of Turkish origin. According to the UN document, the Turkish diplomatic mission reported to the Cambodian police that Karaca was holding a fraudulent Mexican passport, after which the authorities arrested Karaca. The Turkish Embassy then demanded his deportation to Turkey due to the lack of an international travel document. It is also alleged that the Turkish authorities have bribed local officials to secure their cooperation in illegal actions to arbitrarily arrest him, the letter said.

To secure his release from detention and ward off an attempt at an illegal extradition, the Mexican Embassy in Hanoi, accredited to Cambodia, had conveyed a note verbale to prove Karacas Mexican citizenship and attached a copy of his passport in its communication to Cambodian authorities.

However, Karaca was detained based on the embassys fabricated argument. The Turkish Embassy then pursued a smear tactic against Karaca and demanded his deportation due to the lack of an international travel document. Since Aydan nl, the Turkish ambassador in Phnom Penh, was well aware of Karacas status and the political nature of the demand, she didnt hesitate to violate both international conventions and the regulations of the receiving state by submitting falsified arguments to Cambodian police in order to win the praise of President Erdoan.

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Parents of men killed by Tajikistan forces have called on the international community to step in and urgently protect ethnic groups being targeted by the Tajik regime.

In a rare interview, families from the Pamiri ethnic minority have demanded that soldiers who killed their sons be brought to justice and urged the UN to prevent a new phase of conflict in Tajikistan, a landlocked country in central Asia.

The president of 28 years, Emomali Rahmon, is seen by the Pamiri people as wanting control of the autonomous province of Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO).

We want justice and the truth about why our childrens blood was spilt, said Pevistamo Aqdodovna Abdulmuminova, 65. Her son, Gulbiddin Ziyobekov, 29, was killed on 25 November last year by Tajik security forces during an operation in the village of Tavdem, in GBAO province.

The Tajik authorities said Ziyobekov, who was the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly harassing a Tajik prosecutor, resisted arrest and was killed in a shootout. But witness accounts and mobile phone footage, published weeks after, appear to show him being arbitrarily executed.

After the incident, relatives and neighbours took the body to the central square of Khorog, the capital of GBAO, where there was a spontaneous demonstration of several thousand people. During the protest, two more men, Gulnazar Murodbekov and Tutisho Amirshoev, were killed and 17 others injured when government forces reportedly opened fire on the protesters.

The situation is becoming unbearable, said Abdulmuminova. The government must explain to us why this happened. Our sons did nothing wrong. They werent criminals. They were innocent.

After the protests, authorities visited the homes of the victims relatives, the mothers of the dead men claimed, with threats that, if they did not follow the police orders, the same fate would befall them.

There is no justice here, said Amchigul Tutishoevna Amirshoeva, 50, the mother of Tutisho Amirshoev, who was killed. People no longer trust the authorities. They have lost faith in the institutions.

I have seen the changes in my country and governments from 1957 to today, said 90-year-old Dustnazar Marodbekov, whose son was shot dead by police last autumn. But whats been happening in recent months is something Ive never seen before. My wife is paralysed, my son has died, and my grandchildren have now lost their father. The authorities accuse us of violating the law, but it is they who are violating the law and the constitution.

Conflict between Rahmons government and the Pamiri has continued for decades, with the minority group suffering discrimination in employment and housing and human rights abuses. The Pamir region has been the only place in the country where protesters against government oppression still take to the streets, despite the heavily authoritarian regime.

Since it gained independence from the former Soviet Union, Tajikistan has been involved in a sometimes violent border dispute with neighbouring Kyrgyzstan. During the Tajikistan civil war of 1992 to 1997, thousands of Pamiris were killed, in what some human rights activists have described as ethnic cleansing.

In 2012, during clashes seen by many in GBAO as an attempt by the Tajik government, which has little influence in the area, to bring the autonomous region under its full control, at least 40 civilians were killed.

Prof Parviz Mullojanov, a political scientist, said the repression was yet another confirmation of the obsession of the central government to take control of the entire country.

It was a natural centralisation power process, he said. They started from the centre and gradually got rid of the independent commanders in the country, mainly in GBAO region.

While in the rest of Tajikistan the level of unemployment is about 1518% of the population, in the GBAO it is estimated to be as much as 30%, said Mullojanov. Pamiris are underrepresented in the government and discriminated against within the administrative structures.

Viola von Cramon, a member of the European parliament with an interest in the region, said the EU was considering an inquiry. We should be careful not to see the recent incidents as an isolated event.

It goes way back, she said. The autocratic rule in Tajikistan and lack of the rule of law boils up the ethnic tensions. The use of excessive force and the shooting of protesters, even if they were throwing stones, is unacceptable and contributes to the spiral of violence. These events need to be urgently investigated and everyone who overstepped their authority needs to be prosecuted.

We are considering an inquiry and a resolution on the November events that still have strong ramifications as people in GBAO are largely deprived of the freedom of expression and families of the killed are demanding justice.

During the protests, mobile and internet coverage was blocked in GBAO, which constitutes 45% of Tajikistan, with a population of nearly 230,000. The internet is still only available to state institutions and key bank staff.

Security checkpoints have been reinforced, and hundreds of people who took part in the demonstrations have reportedly been banned from leaving the region. Special forces numbers have increased and, in January, Pamiri youth leader Amriddin Alovatshoyev disappeared. Alovatshoyevs family said they were only told this week by Tajikistans interior ministry that he was in custody.

Over the years, a number of activists have left to escape repression and arrest. At least 15 Tajik citizens have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Russia or Turkey since crackdowns on opposition in 2015 in Tajikistan.

Repression in GBAO has been yet another conflict in central Asia which, in recent months, has seen an escalation of tensions. In Kazakhstan, peaceful protests in early January turned into violent unrest that left 225 people dead. Clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters in the energy-rich ex-Soviet state prompted President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to declare a state of emergency and call in help from a Russian-led military bloc.

This is actually the result of a combination of several factors, both internal and external, said Mullojanov. The internal factors are mainly the crisis of the existing political and economic model, which was created after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That economic system required reforms and the local government is not able to do that now. This is why we are facing such a crisis. It is like a domino effect it started in Kyrgyzstan and then shifted to Kazakhstan, with Tajikistan and also Uzbekistan facing a similar crisis.

Mullojanov said other factors have contributed to the destabilisation of the area, such as the collapse of Afghanistan, the intensification of jihadist activity and interference from Russia and China.

This article was amended on 5 February 2022. The order of some names were changed to give the surname last, according to traditional naming conventions.

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We want the truth: families of ethnic Pamiris killed in Tajikistan call for justice as tensions rise - The Guardian

Critical race theory is a buzzword that is at the center of a heated debate on what children learn in classrooms.

The only problem -- what does it mean?

Some parents and Republican legislators say educators are "indoctrinating" students with certain lessons on race that make students feel "discomfort" or "shame."

They say critical race theory seeks to blame white students for the actions of people in the past and teach that "the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist," according to a 2020 executive order from former President Donald Trump.

Critical race theorists, educators and some parents say that some opponents are actively distorting what the theory is in order to reverse progress made in diversity and racial equity. They say it's also a way to rile up voters in a collective fight against perceived reverse discrimination.

The theory isn't being taught in K-12 classrooms, they say, but rather in law schools and higher education courses.

As a result, attempts to teach race, diversity and systemic racism -- no matter the scope or context -- are being villainized in public schools, a reaction, experts say, against people of color speaking up for civil rights. They also say that vague language in recent legislative efforts -- including those that punish teachers or expressly forbid some subjects -- could infringe on educators' ability to teach students basic U.S. history.

In this Sept. 29. 2021, file photo, Congressman Bob Good speaks at a press conference denouncing Critical Race Theory and introducing his Defending Students' Civil Rights bill at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

This gulf, and urge to understand critical race theory have made it a hotly searched term on Google in 2021.

And so, the debate rages on: at least 35 states have introduced anti-critical race theory legislation so far.

Where the debate began

Controversy over critical race theory took shape in 2020, following months of calls for racial equality and anti-racism efforts.

Many industries and institutions vowed to respond to the calls for a racial reckoning. For some, that meant implementing lessons on diversity and oppression to improve equity in the workplace and in schools.

That September, then-President Donald Trump responded by banning any diversity training for the federal workforce that included lessons on "white privilege" or "critical race theory," according to an Office of Management and Budget memo.

In this June 22, 2021, file photo, angry parents and community members protest after a Loudoun County School Board meeting was halted by the school board because the crowd refused to quiet down, in Ashburn, Va.

The White House directed federal agencies to "cease and desist" funding for race and diversity training, according to the memo.

According to the memo, OMB director Russell Vought said that certain racial bias training efforts are "un-American" and "divisive" and that Trump wanted to end it.

Later that month, Trump issued an executive order to that effect, without mentioning critical race theory. In it, he argued that the "pernicious and false belief that America is an irredeemably racist and sexist country" was undercutting the notion of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal.

The anti-critical race theory movement gained traction when Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist and reporter, began amplifying reports and allegations in 2020 against agencies and schools that held training on white privilege," "antiracism" and how white people perpetuate systems of oppression. He appeared on Fox News to discuss his findings shortly before Trump declared his attacks on the theory.

He told ABC News in a Jan. 28 interview that "all children should be protected by civil rights laws and if teachers are using their power to scapegoat, stereotype, demean or abuse them, that should stop" regarding critical race theory.

"Everyone supports teaching a full, accurate and honest account of American history. Critical race theory is not a historical discipline," he argues. "We're not fighting about history, we're fighting to restrict abusive practices that violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

From September 2020 onward, the vast majority of national news stories about critical race theory came from conservative news sources, with mainstream news sources and liberal news sources falling behind, according to recent research from UCLA and UC San Diego.

The research found there were more than seven stories from national conservative news sources about critical race theory for every one story from a national liberal media source. In conservative media sources, news of the theory was paired with phrases like "Marxism," "oppression matrix," "state-sanctioned racism," "oppressor and oppressed," and "collective guilt."

The study also noted incendiary language used in school board arguments against critical race theory that called it "child abuse" and "the cancer" of school districts.

In March 2021, Rufo tweeted: "We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think 'critical race theory.'"

And this effort to attack education on race and diversity has worked, researchers say, through the waves of legislation and debate.

"This was an event that was manufactured," said Gloria Ladson-Billings, a critical race theorist, former professor and former president of the American Educational Research Association. "Any discussion of race, racism, diversity, equity, inclusion, whiteness, social-emotional learning, slavery, school segregation -- any of that is now called critical race theory."

Re-shaping critical race theory

Critical race theory, scholars say, is a discipline that seeks to understand how racism has shaped U.S. laws and how those laws have continued to impact the lives of non-white people.

Justin Hansford, a law professor at Howard University, says that critical race theorists, as most philosophers, have many different analyses concerning racism in the U.S. and there isn't one way of teaching or looking at things.

"[This] campaign thrives on caricature on often distorting altogether both scholarship and K12 educators efforts at accurate and inclusive education, deeming it (and particularly K12 efforts to discuss the full scope of racism in our nation) wholly inappropriate for school," said UCLA and UC San Diego researchers in a study on the impact of anti-CRT campaigns.

Hansford says critical race theory has been made into a boogeyman for all lessons that aim to discuss current issues of racism and inequality in a time when institutions have begun to address racism.

"There's long-term resentment against people of color speaking up for civil rights," Hansford adds. "If you don't see race, that doesn't really help anybody. It's ignoring the truth."

Legislators and anti-CRT advocates like Rufo have said that most Americans oppose teaching critical race theory in schools.

In this June 12, 2021, file photo, people talk before the start of a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Va.

But researchers from Monmouth University found in a November 2021 study that study that respondents seem to approve of education on race, but not when the question is phrased asking about "critical race theory:"

When asked about teaching the history of racism in schools, 75% supported the idea. However, when asked about teaching critical race theory, only 43% supported it.

"Whoever controls the message controls how the public will react," said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. "As the huge differences in the poll questions on teaching race show, a negative visceral message can be very powerful in reframing an issue in the publics mind."

Legislative efforts continue

Still, there have been several bills across the nation that broadly target race education through arguments against critical race theory.

The majority of them look almost identical and many have no actual mention of critical race theory in their text, including bills signed into law in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Hampshire.

They list restrictions that say school employees can not teach lessons that include that:

This legislation coincides with an ongoing effort to ban from schools with diverse learning content on race, gender and sexuality that some parents say are explicit or obscene.

Some educators fear that not only are their jobs on the line because of these policies but the education and future preparedness of their students are also at risk.

"You cannot hide this from students forever," Ladson-Billings said. "I would have students come to the university level and when they would begin the search for history, they were angry, right? Why didn't my parents ever tell us this? Why weren't we ever taught this?"

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Critical race theory thrust into spotlight by misinformation - ABC News