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Sojourner Truth Radio: June 25, 2021 - Roundtable On Infrastructure & Critical Race Theory


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Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg and Dr. Gerald Horne.
The infrastructure compromise. On Thursday, June 24, U.S. President Joe Biden reached an infrastructure deal with a bipartisan group of senators. The deal allocates roughly $579 billion in new investments in roads, broadband internet, electric utilities and other projects. However, the plan only incorporates part of the total $4 trillion economic proposal Biden has put forth and is seen as a compromise with the GOP.
The fight for voting rights. On Tuesday, June 22, the Republican Party blocked the opening debate on the For the People Act, a key voting rights bill put forward by the Democrats. All members of the Republican Party in the Senate voted against opening debate on the bill, thus killing the legislation. With a 50-50 vote, the push to defend voter rights fell far short of the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster. All GOP members opposed the voting rights bill and voted against taking up the legislation.
Criminalizing the teaching of U.S. history. Across the United States, crackdowns are increasing on the teaching of Black and Brown history in schools. The main school of thought that is under attack, critical race theory, is being slandered by the right as being racist and segregationist. In reality, however, critical race theory is a progressive theoretical framework by which structural and institutional racism can be examined. In fact, it developed as an academic movement of Black and Brown civil-rights scholars and activists in the U.S. who aimed to critically examine U.S. law as it intersects with issues of race in the U.S. and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice.
Also, elections in New York and Indigenous graves at a Canadian school. Do we know anything about a similar history in the United States?
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