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At first, I thought CRT was an analytical lens that helps you take a look at race as a whole. Now I now that CRT is a theoretical and analytical framework to breakdown and reconstruct race and racism across all political and societal structures.

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I heard about CRT, but never understood it or talked much of it until graduate school. I now see CRT as the theory that whites are oppressors to POC, they are the reason all laws are not inclusive to POC, and it needs to be banned to keep bias of the whites from trying to change historical facts that talk of people in power in the past.

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Before taking a graduate education class I think I still believed CRT was important, but I didn't know much about it other than it was a "woke" thing to support. I believed the narrative spread by CRT detractors that it mainly fostered a sense of guilt in people who have benefitted from systematic racism (now I understand it really empowers students to create change & isn't about languishing in guilt).

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I don't think I had heard anything about CRT before it started getting banned. And by the time it reached me, I had already started learning about it with Haddad coincidentally enough. But I guess before then, if I had heard it, I would have believed the same as others: that it was meant to teach white guilt. This would have come from my family's interpretation of it which they would have gotten from news outlets like CNN and MSNBC. My mother's family would have gotten it from Fox News and thought it was the devil whispering in our ears. But, I am blessed (and privileged) to have heard about it first in a safe and conducive environment like Haddad's class.

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Before grad school I never really had heard about CRT. I slowly started hearing the term come up and saw a lot of resistance towards it in the news.

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I heard from social media that CRT was being banned because they didn't want schools talking about how bad white people have been historically.

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Before these courses, I truly knew nothing about CRT (aside from the political drama around it). From news outlets and other media I gathered that it had something to do with making white children feel bad about themselves, and I had no understanding of why it was important/useful.

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I knew absolutely nothing about CRT or whiteness prior to starting grad school. Dr. Haddad's class last semester was my first true introduction, which is extremely sad. Prior to starting grad school, I knew I had privilege that I could attribute being white but did not understand the complexity and depth of my privilege.

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Prior to grad courses, I had very limited experience and essentially no true knowledge of CRT. I might have read about it briefly in an undergrad class or two, but other than that I knew that it was something that got people riled up and that was about it. I knew that there was a lot of resistance.

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I heard about CRT the summer before grad school on the news when Abbott was hollering about it. I knew that if Abbott said it was bad, I probably thought it was awesome. So, I googled and checked Twitter to see what was up with CRT.

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Share what you have heard or are currently hearing about CRT.

1. Engage with your own previous understanding/misunderstandings/interpretations, not just what you have learned in class

2. News, social media, legislation, readings