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CRITICAL RACE THEORY: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Where It's Going
This news should suggest an opportunity to school administrators. They could pursue educational strategies that help struggling students of all racial backgrounds. Sadly, rather than seizing this opportunity, teachers in Wake County are busy planning conference presentations on "toxic masculinity," "microaggressions," "peace circles," and "applied critical race theory." North Carolina might be a red state, but in its largest county, the school system has fully bought in to the latest progressive dogmas.
Parents across the U.S. should not assume that their local district is immune to these trends. The new political education is spreading everywhere.
[**** City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank].
D. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN SCHOOLS??
There are many implications - all negative - of implementing the policy in the school system and in our classrooms, but I'll mention just three here:
1). It implies that behaviors such as mispronouncing a student's name, making both too much or too little eye contact, or not equally distributing how a teach walks around the room or calls on students is racist.
2). It accuses teachers and administrators who choose to treat students, parents, and colleagues equally regardless of their skin color or ethnicity of "CULTURAL BLINDNESS." As several training sessions teach, regarding "whiteness": "It must be nice to be able to go through life every day without having to think about race."
3). Training sessions also instruct teachers and administrators to focus on "WHITE IDENTITY." It asks questions such as: "What does it mean for you to be white?" And "How has being white helped you?" The sessions encourage teachers and administrators to adopt the mindset in their teaching that BEING WHITE IS ACTUALLY A BAD THING.
E. THE PROBLEMS WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY:
Again, there are many problems with Critical Race Theory - with its very premise and with its implementation in our North Carolina public schools, and in American public schools in general. I will address only five of such problems:
1). Progressive teachers have taken it upon themselves to USE PUBLIC RESOURCES to teach policies NOT grounded in science or rationality or actual data. They are USING PUBLIC RESOURCES to push extremist views on our kids.
2). Critical Race Theory is a policy that amounts to INDOCTRINATION in the public school system. The school system was never meant to be a place that indoctrinates our children; it was never meant to supplant the role of the parents or the family in the upbringing of their children or the impressions of their minds. The role - the ONLY role - of the school system is to provide children an honest and accurate education. Everyone who believes it's time to stop the Indoctrination and focus on Education should get involved - go to Board of Education meetings, write the DPI, join activist groups, file lawsuits, become a blogger.
3). A Critical Race Theory Plan (or whatever the name they choose to give it) transforms the primary goal of a teacher - from basic education to mind control. It gives teachers too much opportunity to shape a student's views on social and political issues rather than being one who strictly instructs in the core subjects. How does it become the school's job to teach children to "view problems and issues through the lens of race?"
4). Critical Race Theory has no place in our taxpayer-funded schools. All white people are not racists, and how dare our public schools teach that to our impressionable children. The truth is that success in life is based on a lot of things, such as a stable home life, having two committed parents, study habits, ambition, support from parents, who the child associates with, morals and values, peer pressure, drug usage, access to technology, and yes, even religion.... but the color of one's skin isn't really one of them. How can we ever hope to teach true equality to our children and take pride in the fact that we have been able to overcome discrimination and segregation over the many years by all legal and constitutional means possible when we plan to teach that it will never be possible because of structural racism. We can't have it both ways.
And here's the kicker -
5). Good-intentioned parents and other concerned citizens aren't willing to talk to media outlets or post on social media because their perspective will be surely be depicted as racist, even though their true goals are combating racism and ensuring equal treatment and continued academic excellence for ALL students - regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, etc etc.
BUT WE MUST BECOME VOCAL. We must be willing to talk to media outlets and express our views on social media. We must be willing to be seen in Raleigh, at the state General Assembly building, to oppose this policy. The First Amendment is our friend and not our enemy. Unlike those on the left, we must embrace our right to speak, to express, and to assemble to promote our ideas. The left uses racism as a means to mock and censor our ideas. We must fight for our children. We must force the schools to erect a wall between a solid education in core classes and indoctrination on socially progressive issues. We will tolerate the former, but will not tolerate the latter. That is the role of the parents and of family, and certainly involves the child's religious values. Sure, government wants to increasingly control its citizens. We see that trend. And one of the most critical and effective ways to begin controlling the population is to control the education system. We can't let government hijack the public schools. The outcome is nothing less than the survival of our national identity. No nation can survive a generation of citizens who hate their country ... who are actually taught to hate their country.
Freedom is never completely free. It can't be taken for granted. It must be guarded and must be defended against an ever-ambitious government, whether it be local, state, and federal.
The future of our school system lies with the good intentions of good people and their willingness to get involved. Always remember this phrase: "A government of the People, by the People, for the People." If we don't get involved, government will be transformed into "A government for the government."
There is going to be a meeting next week of activists and conservative group leaders to learn more about Critical Race Policy and we're hoping that something concrete and actionable will come out of it.
Stay tuned ...
ADDENDUM: BACKGROUND on RACE THEORY:
I. SOME HISTORY BEHIND RACE THEORY.
Why is it that we must turn our attention to what is being legislated, taught, and promoted in our public schools? Well, it goes back to the issue of political power, thought control, and what to do with "useless idiots."
After the "Civil War" ("War to Prevent Southern Independence," that is) and the northern victory over the southern states, the Southern Democrat Party, embracing the contemporary notion that African-Americans were uncivilized (see the Dred Scott case, 1857) and uneducated, together with the fact that they associated with the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln (the party of abolition, of freedom), used various approaches to prevent them from voting, to intimidate them, and to silence them, including violence. They created a two-tier system of "whites" and "blacks." That was the beginning of race theory. That two-tier system continued during the Jim Crow era, which lasted until the Supreme Court struck down segregation in education with the Brown v. Board of Education ruling (1954).
Then came the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's, and finally, African-Americans were recognized and legally protected as equal human beings, with the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965).
In the 1970's, the question was asked "What to do with useless idiots?" Saul Alinsky, the rabid and famous progressive and Marxist, and author of RULES FOR RADICALS, had the answer - control them, seize their minds, control what they think, and organize them for political power (for the Democratic Party, that is). This way, 'useless idiots' can be transformed into 'useful idiots.' And one of the most critical and effective ways to begin controlling the population, he wrote, is to control the education system. As the government knows all too well (and especially the Democratic element), the aim of its indoctrination is to appeal to people's emotions rather than their brains. And for school-age children and teens, with their level of brain development, emotions are easier to comprehend than facts, which have to be studied and internalized.
This was the same approach taken by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's right-hand man (head of Nazi propaganda, beginning in 1933). The Nazi Party looked to the Marxist ideology of the Southern Democratic Party, as well as the eugenics policies of Margaret Sanger (also a Democratic policy) for their political platform of fear and oppression, as well as racial purity. That should tell you something right there. Goebbels explained: "There are two ways to make a revolution.... You can blast your enemy with machine guns until he acknowledges the superiority of those holding the machine guns. That is one way. Or you can transform the nation through a revolution of the spirit."
Policies such as Critical Race Theory, diversity (but not of thought), white privilege, white supremacy, gender identity, gender fluidity, the growing LGBT movement, genderless marriages, abortion, etc etc are not grounded in science, facts, or rational thought, but rather they are a means to an end......to effect mind control, to teach children of the evils of this country, and to ultimately obtain and secure political power.
II. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MARK ROBINSON ADDRESSES THE NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY ABOUT RACE. In speaking to the House Committee of the Judiciary about the need for Voter ID to ensure election integrity and about the Democrats' assertion that such a law is discriminatory to African-Americans and an attempt to suppress their vote, our Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson said that "it is not only insane but Insulting to suggest black Americans are incapable of obtaining a FREE photo ID." I would argue that it is insulting and insane to think that our country must promulgate a false and misleading position that racism is inherent in white people and therefore our society is built on structural racism to continually keep African-Americans from succeeding. I don't believe in victimhood.
Here are the remarks Lieutenant Governor Robinson delivered:
"I am very proud of the history in this nation of my people. My people were put in the belly of ships, and bound in chains during the middle passage. My people were whipped, beaten, and sold as property into slavery. During Reconstruction and during Jim Crow, my people were in intimidated, harassed, and even killed to keep them from having a voice in government. Symbols like chains, nooses, and burning crosses were not just symbols of death but symbols of forced, coerced silence. The sacrifices of our ancestors so I can have the opportunity to become the first black lieutenant governor of my state, to see a black man sit in the White House for two terms, and for millions of us to become leaders in business, athletics, government, and culture add up to an incredible story of victory.
Today we hear that our states are being compared to Jim Crow, that black voices are being silenced and that black voices are being kept out. How? By bullets, by bombs, by nooses? NO... by requiring a free photo ID to secure their vote. Let me say that again - By requiring a free ID to secure the vote. How absolutely preposterous! Am I to believe that black Americans who have overcome the atrocities of slavery, who were victorious in the Civil Rights movement, and who now sit in the highest level of this government cannot figure out how to get a FREE ID to secure their votes? Am I to believe that they need to be coddled by politicians because we can't figure out how to make our voices be heard? Are you kidding me?? The notion that black people must be protected from a free ID to secure their votes is not only insane, it is insulting. This has nothing to do with politics. It has everything to do with power."
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTvKswJjves&ab_channel=BreitbartNews
References:
Christopher F. Rufo, "Subversive Education," City Journal, March 17, 2021. Referenced at: https://www.city-journal.org/critical-race-theory-in-wake-county-nc-schools [City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank.]
Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson Addresses House Committee on the Judiciary, BreitbartNews (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTvKswJjves&ab_channel=BreitbartNews
Michelle Cordero, "How Critical Race Theory is Dividing America," The Heritage Foundation, October 26th, 2020. Referenced at: https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/how-critical-race-theory-dividing-america [Includes a podcast interview and a full transcript of that interview}
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Parents across the U.S. should not assume that their local district is immune to these trends. The new political education is spreading everywhere.
[**** City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank].
D. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN SCHOOLS??
There are many implications - all negative - of implementing the policy in the school system and in our classrooms, but I'll mention just three here:
1). It implies that behaviors such as mispronouncing a student's name, making both too much or too little eye contact, or not equally distributing how a teach walks around the room or calls on students is racist.
2). It accuses teachers and administrators who choose to treat students, parents, and colleagues equally regardless of their skin color or ethnicity of "CULTURAL BLINDNESS." As several training sessions teach, regarding "whiteness": "It must be nice to be able to go through life every day without having to think about race."
3). Training sessions also instruct teachers and administrators to focus on "WHITE IDENTITY." It asks questions such as: "What does it mean for you to be white?" And "How has being white helped you?" The sessions encourage teachers and administrators to adopt the mindset in their teaching that BEING WHITE IS ACTUALLY A BAD THING.
E. THE PROBLEMS WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY:
Again, there are many problems with Critical Race Theory - with its very premise and with its implementation in our North Carolina public schools, and in American public schools in general. I will address only five of such problems:
1). Progressive teachers have taken it upon themselves to USE PUBLIC RESOURCES to teach policies NOT grounded in science or rationality or actual data. They are USING PUBLIC RESOURCES to push extremist views on our kids.
2). Critical Race Theory is a policy that amounts to INDOCTRINATION in the public school system. The school system was never meant to be a place that indoctrinates our children; it was never meant to supplant the role of the parents or the family in the upbringing of their children or the impressions of their minds. The role - the ONLY role - of the school system is to provide children an honest and accurate education. Everyone who believes it's time to stop the Indoctrination and focus on Education should get involved - go to Board of Education meetings, write the DPI, join activist groups, file lawsuits, become a blogger.
3). A Critical Race Theory Plan (or whatever the name they choose to give it) transforms the primary goal of a teacher - from basic education to mind control. It gives teachers too much opportunity to shape a student's views on social and political issues rather than being one who strictly instructs in the core subjects. How does it become the school's job to teach children to "view problems and issues through the lens of race?"
4). Critical Race Theory has no place in our taxpayer-funded schools. All white people are not racists, and how dare our public schools teach that to our impressionable children. The truth is that success in life is based on a lot of things, such as a stable home life, having two committed parents, study habits, ambition, support from parents, who the child associates with, morals and values, peer pressure, drug usage, access to technology, and yes, even religion.... but the color of one's skin isn't really one of them. How can we ever hope to teach true equality to our children and take pride in the fact that we have been able to overcome discrimination and segregation over the many years by all legal and constitutional means possible when we plan to teach that it will never be possible because of structural racism. We can't have it both ways.
And here's the kicker -
5). Good-intentioned parents and other concerned citizens aren't willing to talk to media outlets or post on social media because their perspective will be surely be depicted as racist, even though their true goals are combating racism and ensuring equal treatment and continued academic excellence for ALL students - regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, etc etc.
BUT WE MUST BECOME VOCAL. We must be willing to talk to media outlets and express our views on social media. We must be willing to be seen in Raleigh, at the state General Assembly building, to oppose this policy. The First Amendment is our friend and not our enemy. Unlike those on the left, we must embrace our right to speak, to express, and to assemble to promote our ideas. The left uses racism as a means to mock and censor our ideas. We must fight for our children. We must force the schools to erect a wall between a solid education in core classes and indoctrination on socially progressive issues. We will tolerate the former, but will not tolerate the latter. That is the role of the parents and of family, and certainly involves the child's religious values. Sure, government wants to increasingly control its citizens. We see that trend. And one of the most critical and effective ways to begin controlling the population is to control the education system. We can't let government hijack the public schools. The outcome is nothing less than the survival of our national identity. No nation can survive a generation of citizens who hate their country ... who are actually taught to hate their country.
Freedom is never completely free. It can't be taken for granted. It must be guarded and must be defended against an ever-ambitious government, whether it be local, state, and federal.
The future of our school system lies with the good intentions of good people and their willingness to get involved. Always remember this phrase: "A government of the People, by the People, for the People." If we don't get involved, government will be transformed into "A government for the government."
There is going to be a meeting next week of activists and conservative group leaders to learn more about Critical Race Policy and we're hoping that something concrete and actionable will come out of it.
Stay tuned ...
ADDENDUM: BACKGROUND on RACE THEORY:
I. SOME HISTORY BEHIND RACE THEORY.
Why is it that we must turn our attention to what is being legislated, taught, and promoted in our public schools? Well, it goes back to the issue of political power, thought control, and what to do with "useless idiots."
After the "Civil War" ("War to Prevent Southern Independence," that is) and the northern victory over the southern states, the Southern Democrat Party, embracing the contemporary notion that African-Americans were uncivilized (see the Dred Scott case, 1857) and uneducated, together with the fact that they associated with the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln (the party of abolition, of freedom), used various approaches to prevent them from voting, to intimidate them, and to silence them, including violence. They created a two-tier system of "whites" and "blacks." That was the beginning of race theory. That two-tier system continued during the Jim Crow era, which lasted until the Supreme Court struck down segregation in education with the Brown v. Board of Education ruling (1954).
Then came the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's, and finally, African-Americans were recognized and legally protected as equal human beings, with the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965).
In the 1970's, the question was asked "What to do with useless idiots?" Saul Alinsky, the rabid and famous progressive and Marxist, and author of RULES FOR RADICALS, had the answer - control them, seize their minds, control what they think, and organize them for political power (for the Democratic Party, that is). This way, 'useless idiots' can be transformed into 'useful idiots.' And one of the most critical and effective ways to begin controlling the population, he wrote, is to control the education system. As the government knows all too well (and especially the Democratic element), the aim of its indoctrination is to appeal to people's emotions rather than their brains. And for school-age children and teens, with their level of brain development, emotions are easier to comprehend than facts, which have to be studied and internalized.
This was the same approach taken by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's right-hand man (head of Nazi propaganda, beginning in 1933). The Nazi Party looked to the Marxist ideology of the Southern Democratic Party, as well as the eugenics policies of Margaret Sanger (also a Democratic policy) for their political platform of fear and oppression, as well as racial purity. That should tell you something right there. Goebbels explained: "There are two ways to make a revolution.... You can blast your enemy with machine guns until he acknowledges the superiority of those holding the machine guns. That is one way. Or you can transform the nation through a revolution of the spirit."
Policies such as Critical Race Theory, diversity (but not of thought), white privilege, white supremacy, gender identity, gender fluidity, the growing LGBT movement, genderless marriages, abortion, etc etc are not grounded in science, facts, or rational thought, but rather they are a means to an end......to effect mind control, to teach children of the evils of this country, and to ultimately obtain and secure political power.
II. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MARK ROBINSON ADDRESSES THE NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY ABOUT RACE. In speaking to the House Committee of the Judiciary about the need for Voter ID to ensure election integrity and about the Democrats' assertion that such a law is discriminatory to African-Americans and an attempt to suppress their vote, our Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson said that "it is not only insane but Insulting to suggest black Americans are incapable of obtaining a FREE photo ID." I would argue that it is insulting and insane to think that our country must promulgate a false and misleading position that racism is inherent in white people and therefore our society is built on structural racism to continually keep African-Americans from succeeding. I don't believe in victimhood.
Here are the remarks Lieutenant Governor Robinson delivered:
"I am very proud of the history in this nation of my people. My people were put in the belly of ships, and bound in chains during the middle passage. My people were whipped, beaten, and sold as property into slavery. During Reconstruction and during Jim Crow, my people were in intimidated, harassed, and even killed to keep them from having a voice in government. Symbols like chains, nooses, and burning crosses were not just symbols of death but symbols of forced, coerced silence. The sacrifices of our ancestors so I can have the opportunity to become the first black lieutenant governor of my state, to see a black man sit in the White House for two terms, and for millions of us to become leaders in business, athletics, government, and culture add up to an incredible story of victory.
Today we hear that our states are being compared to Jim Crow, that black voices are being silenced and that black voices are being kept out. How? By bullets, by bombs, by nooses? NO... by requiring a free photo ID to secure their vote. Let me say that again - By requiring a free ID to secure the vote. How absolutely preposterous! Am I to believe that black Americans who have overcome the atrocities of slavery, who were victorious in the Civil Rights movement, and who now sit in the highest level of this government cannot figure out how to get a FREE ID to secure their votes? Am I to believe that they need to be coddled by politicians because we can't figure out how to make our voices be heard? Are you kidding me?? The notion that black people must be protected from a free ID to secure their votes is not only insane, it is insulting. This has nothing to do with politics. It has everything to do with power."
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTvKswJjves&ab_channel=BreitbartNews
References:
Christopher F. Rufo, "Subversive Education," City Journal, March 17, 2021. Referenced at: https://www.city-journal.org/critical-race-theory-in-wake-county-nc-schools [City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank.]
Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson Addresses House Committee on the Judiciary, BreitbartNews (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTvKswJjves&ab_channel=BreitbartNews
Michelle Cordero, "How Critical Race Theory is Dividing America," The Heritage Foundation, October 26th, 2020. Referenced at: https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/how-critical-race-theory-dividing-america [Includes a podcast interview and a full transcript of that interview}
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