Should racial issues and racial history be taught to American kids in schools? If yes, how should it be taught at different ages? Is critical race theory being taught in schools, or is it a made-up boogie man used to oppose teach about race in history?

Are white children made to feel responsible and guilty for America’s racial wrongs, or are they simply being taught the realities of our racial history? Are they taught to feel fundamentally wrong or racist as a white person? Should we be sensitive to white children’s feelings when it comes to teaching the racial parts of our history, or should we accept their feelings as natural and focus on teaching them what to do with those feelings? 

In this conversation, our guests discuss how we should navigate teaching about the role of race in our history and society in America. Do we teach enough about race in history? Should we teach more? Is the example of how Germans teach about the Holocaust and atone for their ancestors sins a model for what should be done in America?

The guests also discuss whether there is a double standard in what black children have to face and learn when it comes to race and what white children have to learn… and the kind of sensitivity that their parents can and do bring to that education process.