During my career, I haved with, worked and supervised citizens of 18 different nationalities on three continents, and the term -- or practice of -- racism is abhorrent to me.  As a grandparent, the thought of perpetuating the lie that is CRT to our most vulnerable and impressionable students scares me to death.  One doesn't need to be a keen student of history to understand that the sin that was slavery was not the invention of "colonial white men".  Slavery has been a practice for thousands of years, and is practiced today in dozens of countries.  As a naturalized citizen who wanted to come to this country, and who studied American history in my native Scotland, I believe that there is no such thing as "selective" history.  History must be taken as a whole, as it is.  Slavery in the USA is a sin that we will never be able to erase, but it happened, and it happened to people of all skin colors.

That does not mean, in any way, shape, or form that anybody today is a victim of that sin; nobody today is an Oppressor (except Congress and groups like the teachers' unions and the VDOE), or Oppressed.  Stop teaching children to base opinions on skin color.  Racism is taught, not inherited.