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This week’s Feedback Friday topic is:
Black & Blue?
Today is the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, with Black Friday. The rush of consumers to retailers, both brick & mortar and online, is almost surreal. By today’s end, we’ll likely see video footage on the evening news of surging crowds mad dashing their way into big box superstores and practically running over each other.
Our questions to you:
Did you partake in the Black Friday shopping blitz and if so, where did you go; was it nuts? If not, what are your holiday shopping plans?
Will you support mom & pop local shops as well?
What other holiday and charitable shopping/giving will you support this season?
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We asked you about Critical Race Theory and you responded. Here is a sampling of reader responses. To read more, click here.
The names of many of these movements and talking points are not clear. BLM, Defund, critical race theory. They leave much to the imagination and are not clear on exactly what they stand for. We need some simple slogans and wording so that people can understand what is fundamentally behind them. And I’m not completely clear in what any of them mean; and I’ve even researched.
Lee Norwood, Severna Park
Don’t know who is teaching it, but certainly every American needs to be provided the data showing that one piece of racism and our failure to achieve social justice lies in the area on inequality under the very law that purports to be blind to appearance. The idea is right, but the application of blind justice is nonexistent.
Carol Chisholm, St. Michaels
Critical race theory is being taught, but I guess the educators don’t want to call it that. For them, it is all about equity where the government wants to determine the outcome for selective “oppressed” groups, rather than equality where everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve success. In addition to their teachings about race, our students are asked to sexually identify as something and what pronoun they want to be used to describe them and to question their sexual identity. No wonder kids are confused.
Julia Jones, Edgewater
