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Critical race theory has become a topic of fierce political debate in the US in recent months. The conflict has most prominently played out in public school districts, as parents, teachers and school administrators grapple with how to teach race, discrimination and inequality in the classroom.
For supporters, it s an important framework for understanding the way systemic racism can perpetuate discrimination and disadvantage. For opponents, it s a subversive plan to indoctrinate young Americans to reject their country and its history.
To start, there is an inability to even agree on what critical race theory is, where it came from and what it seeks to accomplish. Beneath the rhetoric, however, lies an ongoing fundamental dispute about equality and equity - what these concepts mean, and what government s role should be in addressing them.