back with me are erin hayes, editor at large for the 19th news and msnbc contributor, and judith browneresting poll recently conducted according to slate.com's analysis of fox news poll. respondents opposed the teaching of critical race theory by 24 percentage points, but parents opposed it by five points because many parents aren't white and the nonwhite respondents were twice as likely to favor critical race theory as opposed to it. what is really fascinating, we just found out from the census that of the 300 million americans here, that are living in this country, only 30% of them have children in schools that are -- they happen to be disproportionately parents of color. what do you say about this? >> i think this fight over crt is overblown, right, first of all. because the media is covering it, giving it a lot of time, when that's really not what the issues are in public schools. right. the people who attend public schools for their children, they're concerned about making sure they have the resources they need. they're concerned about criminalization. they are concerned about the

kicking us off this hour, justice correspondent for the nation, and judith brown dianes, executive director of the national office. i think hayes gets it so right there, and imagine -- manages to really zoom in on mistakes here and i will talk about all of the politics of all of this but if your kid who doesn't feel seen in your classroom, who doesn't feel seen in your community, who is looking for proof that you matter, and that your life is valid, what is going to be the impact on that kid? >> well, unfortunately, it's come to mean that those students will feel like they are erased. and that their school is not safe for them and they're not accepted and that's what these folks want to happen. on the other side, it really does not want to have conversation about race, about sexual ty, and they don't want to be inclusive and so this is connected to politics, and we will talk about that, but for the young people who are experiencing it, this is very frightening. we have been here before. whether it was the studies or the discussions about race and discipline, and the schools the pipeline, th