
Martha MacCallum spars with teachers union president over critical race theory in classrooms: 'That's a dodge'
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"The Story" host Martha MacCallum tangled with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten Monday over her support of The New York Times’ controversial "1619 Project" and critical race theory curriculum that has made its way to classrooms across the country
The project is based on the belief that the first importation of the slaves to American shores in 1619 constituted the nation’s true founding, "and that the reason for the revolution and the colonization was because people wanted to preserve slavery," MacCallum explained. "If you raise children in this country believing that it's a bad country that was founded in wanting to preserve slavery...then we've got a problem in our school system." Weingarten, a self-described "history and social studies teacher" defended the controversial belief, claiming that "from everything I can see and understand from the data that I see, 1619 was the year that the first slave boat came from Africa to the United States. So that's a point in history that I think we should be teaching."More Related News