How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory

When did teaching kids that racism is immoral become an exclusively liberal "worldview"? I remember before Trump this was basically everybody's worldview. Except white supremacists, of course.

 

It's as true now as it was when Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address. Where you are? Who knows? Government consists of U.S. citizens, working to carry out the law made by their elected representatives.

 

This is the whole thing about conservatives. They go on about freedom a lot but it's just their freedom. The rest of us are expected to be obedient slaves.

 

No, it happened in Gettysburg PA.

 

Very good, But he was speaking for the country.

 

The only way you can stop me from reading what's on your mind is if you stop writing what's on your mind.

It's not my choice. It's yours...

 

CRT is actually the divisive force.
No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)
Published by Kenny Xu and Christian Watson

". . . When Donald Trump signed an executive order to rid federal agencies of CRT, over 120 civil rights organizations signed a letter condemning his initiative. The simplified political narrative presented CRT as the antidote to racism, while Trump clung to the old racist ways. But you don’t have to be a Trump supporter to find the tenets of CRT offensive. Martin Luther King and his contemporaries famously fought for a world in which “people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Not only does CRT put the color of one’s skin front and center, it also presents human character as largely an outgrowth of race—with white oppressors being implicitly programmed by the wicked ideology of “whiteness,” while non-whites are presumptively granted the status of victim. . . ."

 

CRT was not even an issue until agitators made it one. That's the point. It's a non-issue that, like Dr. Seuss, has been blown out of proportion for partisan propaganda purposes and nothing else.

 

Well, no. CRT has been a fiercely debated topic in academia for quite some time.

 

Maybe, but then what isn't debated in academia?

 

The point is that it's not a fake issue.

 

Hmmm I'm certain very few are against teaching racism is immoral, I've done that with my kids. Teaching kids one is racist or one is impoverished due to their skin color on the other hand is racist and the very thing that is immoral.

 

Please note that CRT has been contentious (and dangerous) for years.

". . . King was assassinated in 1968. But some of his contemporaries lived long enough to see the way that his ideas were mangled. The Reverend Wyatt Tee Walker, a leading civil rights activist, and one of King’s closest confidants, spoke out against Critical Race Theory in 2015, years before CRT went mainstream in schools and bestselling books. “Today, too many ‘remedies’—such as Critical Race Theory, the increasingly fashionable post-Marxist/postmodernist approach that analyzes society as institutional group power structures rather than on a spiritual or one-to-one human level—are taking us in the wrong direction,” he wrote in a co-authored article. “[These ideas] separat[e] even elementary school children into explicit racial groups, and emphasizing differences instead of similarities.”. . . "

No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)
Published by Kenny Xu and Christian Watson

 

White guilt so many have? Isn't the whole point of this program to instill a sense of white guilt that not only isn't there but isn't justified today? I was born white but I was also born poor. I have lived my life on a working man's dollar and I don't feel guilty about what I have had. ​

 

^^^^^ That thinking is Orwellian insanity. That is today's modern Left.

 

That's a good one. Not only do you read minds but you are also able to read what I don't write. Quite a lot of talent there.

 

He was speaking for himself to the country.

 

And, that's what you fail to understand. He was speaking for the country and its patriots...many of whom died at Gettysburg. And, my great-great grandfather lost his leg at the Battle of Chancellorsville, fighting for the Confederacy. Tragically, he was wrong.

 

I'll bet I know more about pre and post Civil War Africans / African Americans than you by a mile. I am educated on the topic. From the Hausa States to Islam's influence in pre-1850 Africa to the Slave Trade to Tenant Farming to Jim Crow to Segregation and Civil Rights, I have studied extensively on the issue under Black scholars from the U.S. and Africa at UCSD. The history is horrific, tragic, and deadly... but it does not relate to modern blacks in America and the hang over and issues for Black Americans today is not from Slavery, but from the Welfare State created by Democrats / Leftists with the design to keep Black Americans dependent on the Government.

CRT is absolute mental garbage bull crap to push a hate America and politics of division agenda. What they teach dismisses many of the key historical facts of slavery and the slave trade to demonize today's America with a stigma that is undeserved. The United State of America is clearly one of the LEAST RACIST NATIONS in the world today.

 

Surf's up.

 

It's only 3-4 ft today with an overcast sky and on shore breeze. It should pick up to about 5 feet on the weekend, but every kook around will be in the water if it is sunny.

I really do need to get into the water.

 

Yes! Reducing the problem of racism to just "skin color" is most definitely racist. That may be why CRT doesn't say that.

Unfortunately it is what white supremacists like Tucker Carlson, Hannity, ... and others, make their audience believe that it's all the problem is reduced to.

 

So what your saying is that the first Portuguese and Spaniards were white but after they were needed to bolster the voter roles of the Democrat party they became classified as oppressed browns? Keep trying.

 

Sorry but, I quoted you! Posts don't go away that easy.

 

I have spent most my life in Colorado. In Colorado there aren’t very many Blacks. But there are plenty of Hispanics, mostly Mexicans. About a third of Coloradoans are Mexicans, even though most do not speak Spanish. After all, half of Colorado used to be part of Mexico. In Colorado, it is not uncommon to hear conservatives say the most horrible things about Mexicans.

In Southern California the animosity is greater.