Controversy after CMS hosted Kendi. Here s what the professor shared on anti-racism. Anna Maria Della Costa, The Charlotte Observer
Jul. 3 Despite two top North Carolina Republicans issuing an angry statement last month, charging that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools was embracing a discriminatory ideology, video released Friday of the event in question shows something different.
Critical Race Theory was specifically discussed for less than two minutes out of a more than 40-minute-long session during a keynote address from Ibram X. Kendi to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leaders in June. The politicians, N.C. Sen. Phil Berger and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, had claimed: This is the state s second-largest school district embracing a discriminatory ideology by paying $25,000 to learn from (Critical Race Theory s) most prominent adherent.