Conservatives Would Ban Teaching the Real MLK

King believed racism was “as native to our soil as pine trees” and had poisoned white America “to its soul”

Tim Wise
An Injustice!
Published in
7 min readJun 21, 2021

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Spurred by right-wing activists and media, state lawmakers across the country have passed legislation to ban the teaching of so-called Critical Race Theory in schools.

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Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)