Uploaded June 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
"There's no neutral with CRT. No discipline is neutral or safe from being infused with racism... I think a lot of instructors get into the field [of ESOL] to help students assimilate. And then that is so complicated, right, because, and people that talk about accent reduction, I'm like 'cultural genocide! stop it!'... I don't tell my students anymore that 'learn English and you can do anything in the U.S.' cause, honestly, that's just not true" says this English For Speakers Of Other Languages instructor during a critical race theory workshop at Portland Community College's "whiteness history month".
"There's no neutral with CRT. No discipline is neutral or safe from being infused with racism... I think a lot of instructors get into the field [of ESOL] to help students assimilate. And then that is so complicated, right, because, and people that talk about accent reduction, I'm like 'cultural genocide! stop it!'... I don't tell my students anymore that 'learn English and you can do anything in the U.S.' cause, honestly, that's just not true" says this English For Speakers Of Other Languages instructor during a critical race theory workshop at Portland Community College's "whiteness history month".
