A Tennessee state House committee voted on Monday to advance a measure that seeks to ban instruction of certain concepts of race and racism in the classroom.
Lawmakers in the state’s Republican majority House Education Committee approved 12-3 along party lines an amendment that would withhold funding from public schools that teach critical race theory. The doctrine redefines America’s history by claiming that the nation was built through the struggle between “oppressors” (white people) and the “oppressed” (everybody else), similarly to Marxism’s reduction of human history to a struggle between the “bourgeoisie” and the “proletariat.”
