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More than a dozen community members attended the Hardin County Schools board meeting to discuss critical race theory.
This included a news conference before the meeting by Hardin County Parents for Education, an organization recently founded by Michelle Smith.
With a small group livestreaming, Smith, Angel Headden and Rep. Nancy Tate, R-BranÂdenÂburg, spoke about critical race theory. Statements were read from Pastor Jerry Westerfield, senior pastor at Bethesda House of Mercy in Elizabethtown, and Rep. Joseph Fischer, R-Fort Thomas.
According to the Encyclopedia of Britannica, critical race theory, or CRT, is an âintellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed . category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color.â