A high school graduate warned Dr. Phil’s audience on Tuesday that education is dividing classrooms into oppressors and oppressed students based upon their ancestry, arguing such curriculum should be banned.
A mother named Alma who raised children of mixed White and Latino heritage warned that critical race theory is teaching children radical ideas about race and politics without parents’ knowledge.
“There’s this group of kids that are oppressors, and there’s this group of kids that are oppressed,” she said. “That really was troubling for my daughter.”
After noting that their own family have different complexions, she said that she and her more tanned complexion daughter would be labeled as oppressed, while on the other hand, “there’s these people, the half of the family – the sister, the brother, the father – that are oppressors.”
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Dr. Phil then played footage of Alma’s daughter warning about racialized education she encountered in her own California high school.
“I am a recent high school graduate from a school located in California. I was recently put into an Ethnic Studies class my senior year of high school,” she said. “This class was teaching us about how minorities are oppressed.”
She added, “Because of the color of my skin, because I’m considered to be a Latina, and I am more Brown that I will never be successful like my White peers. People like my dad or my sister or my brother would have more prosperity, just because of the color of their skin.”
She then noted that it was awkward to be of even partial White ancestry in a room full of people being told they are in a racial hierarchy.
“The fact of the matter was, I was the only person who was considerably half White, half Mexican, and the rest of my peers were minorities,” she said. “They were all people of color learning about how we’re all put in a hierarchy, and we’ll never be…
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