Anthony Eichberger
1 min readFeb 10, 2023

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Your example of the White settlers at the Alamo is a perfect example of how history taught in schools needs to be presented through multiple lenses to students. I actually did not know all of those specific details, so you taught me something here today.

If you're criticizing the Fox News Talking Heads who want such accurate historical accounts to continue being whitewashed or covered up, then I agree with you. In that context, I agree with the benefits of exposing to students to that level of CRT-adjacent data.

That doesn't change my original point, which you seem to have missed entirely: if an individual educator then proceeds to rail against their White students while presenting that historical lesson about what actually happened at the Alamo, then *THAT* would be a bastardization of CRT. A radical agenda that strays from CRT's original intent. If the teacher tries to doll up such indoctrination (of their students) as "antiracism," it would be all the more insidious.

So, yes, teach all students about the history of what happened at the Alamo and how it got romanticized and turned into a storybook myth over the years -- but don't use that as an excuse to proceed to hijack that learning opportunity by crowing at all of the White students in the classroom about how collectively and inherently "racist" they are.

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Anthony Eichberger
Anthony Eichberger

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