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Clarence Page: Who s afraid of critical race theory? Those who don t know what it is

Clarence Page: Who’s afraid of critical race theory? Those who don’t know what it is Tribune Content Agency 3 hrs ago Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency © Chicago Tribune Clarence Page. Amid rising attacks against a line of academic debate called “critical race theory,” I was surprised to see a Black state lawmaker from Chicago’s West Side, La Shawn Ford, introduce a bill calling for its inclusion in police officer training. As a practical matter, I’d rather see, for example, more violence de-escalation training to help officers avoid shooting unarmed suspects. Just a thought. “Critical race theory,” or CRT, has become a trigger term for politicians, activists and media voices, particularly on the right wing where it’s competing with “cancel culture” on the hit parade of things we are all supposed to be angry about or afraid of or both.

Clarence Page: President Trump may be most memorable for his lies

Clarence Page: President Trump may be most memorable for his lies Tribune Content Agency 5/4/2021 Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency © Getty/TNS President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, on one of four stops in the Keystone State on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. For those who occasionally have dared me to say something nice about President Donald Trump, here you go: His first and, I pray, only term in office has taught me a lot. The lessons began with Sean Spicer’s blistering insistence as the new president’s press secretary that the inauguration had brought out “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”

Clarence Page: Are we a democracy or a republic ? How about both?

Clarence Page: Are we a ‘democracy’ or a ‘republic’? How about both? Tribune Content Agency 5/4/2021 Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency © Getty Images/TNS Senator Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on October 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. Are we a “republic” or a “democracy?” Every time I think this question a golden oldie for grade school civics classes, high school debate teams and call-ins by C-SPAN viewers has gone away, it pops up again. Its latest life comes to us from the Twitter fingers of Republican Sen. Mike Lee, a rising conservative star from Utah, who in a series of tweets during the recent vice presidential debate, declared, “We’re not a democracy.”

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