It has been a
couple years since I blogged about systemic racism. At that time I said the
I now have to say we do have systemic racism. The system hurts blacks while claiming to stop racism. The whole WOKE movement and cancel culture is ridiculous and racist.
Hiring quotas are totally racist. Any affirmative action based on skin color is racist by definition. These hiring guidelines hurt everyone including blacks because blacks are put in positions they may not be able to handle. Are these hiring quotas implying blacks are not smart enough to compete on a level playing field? That is racist.
College admissions that consider skin color are totally racist. These standards hurt both the qualified and unqualified applicants. If an unqualified black is admitted to collage, it is naive to think that individual can maintain an acceptable performance.
Some colleges are so racist that they designate certain areas as safe spaces where whites are not allowed. It is hard to imagine any school policy that promotes racial hatred that way.
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society did more to hurt the black community than anything since slavery. This program enslaved blacks to a life of poverty and despair. It broke up the traditional family, took away good work ethics, and made blacks more dependent on the government than God.
I had hopes President Obama would stop the racial divide, but he made it worse. He told blacks that their failures were not their fault and they had no personal responsibility. The Left says that blacks are so stupid and irresponsible they can’t obtain an ID to vote.
I am not saying there are no white supremacists, because they do exist. The good news is that they are rare and they have not been violent.
On the Left we have Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA which should be designated as domestic terrorist movements. They have committed murder and destroyed black communities. They care nothing about black lives.
Talk of equity and reparations are totally racist. Why should people be forced to pay for past sins they had nothing to do with based on the color of their skin? Equality is guaranteed under the Constitution. Unfortunately, the Left would like to dispose of the Constitution.
Teaching Critical Race Theory in our schools is the most racist thing happening in our country today. This tells blacks they are inferior and not responsible for their own future. It tells all whites that they are racist because of the color of their skin. It is pure propaganda brainwashing our youth and further dividing the country on race.
We have to stop the racial divide. Racial division has become a political tool used by the elite for political and financial gain, while they talk big and keep their communities gated.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a non-violent civil rights activist. He dreamt of a time when people would be judged on their character and not the color of their skin. That time is now.
I am sick and
tired of the racism. We must stop
promoting it. I have refused to mark any
race on any survey for years. I leave it
blank or mark N/A. Think about doing the
same. We are all Americans. Let’s act like it.
We must fight for fair elections and take control back
from the DC establishment and
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To comment point by point on this blog would be insufficient sine the following article does such a thorough job of explaining the position on CRT.
ReplyDeleteRashawn Ray and Alexandra Gibbons
As published by The Brookings Institution, November 2021
Fox News has mentioned “critical race theory” 1,300 times in less than four months. Why? Because critical race theory (CRT) has become a new bogeyman for people unwilling to acknowledge our country’s racist history and how it impacts the present.
To understand why CRT has become such a flash point in the culture, it is important to understand what it is and what it is not. Opponents fear that CRT admonishes all white people for being oppressors while classifying all Black people as hopelessly oppressed victims. These fears have spurred school boards and state legislatures from Tennessee to Idaho to ban teachings about racism in classrooms. However, there is a fundamental problem: these narratives about CRT are gross exaggerations of the theoretical framework. The broad brush that is being applied to CRT is puzzling to academics, including some of the scholars who coined and advanced the framework.
CRT does not attribute racism to white people as individuals or even to entire groups of people. Simply put, critical race theory states that U.S. social institutions (e.g., the criminal justice system, education system, labor market, housing market, and healthcare system) are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules, and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race. Sociologists and other scholars have long noted that racism can exist without racists. However, many Americans are not able to separate their individual identity as an American from the social institutions that govern us—these people perceive themselves as the system. Consequently, they interpret calling social institutions racist as calling them racist personally. It speaks to how normative racial ideology is to American identity that some people just cannot separate the two. There are also people who may recognize America’s racist past but have bought into the false narrative that the U.S. is now an equitable democracy. They are simply unwilling to remove the blind spot obscuring the fact that America is still not great for everyone.
Scholars and activists who discuss CRT are not arguing that white people living now are to blame for what people did in the past. They are saying that white people living now have a moral responsibility to do something about how racism still impacts all of our lives today. Policies attempting to suffocate this much-needed national conversation are an obstacle to the pursuit of an equitable democracy. Supporters of CRT bans often quote Martin Luther King Jr’s proclamation that individuals should be viewed by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin, ignoring the context of the quote and the true meaning behind it.
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ReplyDeleteTo better understand how widespread these efforts are to ban critical race theory from U.S. classrooms, we did an assessment of anti-CRT state legislation. Here’s what we found:
Nine states (Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation. Arizona’s legislation was overturned in November by the Arizona Supreme Court.
None of the state bills that have passed even actually mention the words “critical race theory” explicitly, with the exception of Idaho and North Dakota.
The legislations mostly ban the discussion, training, and/or orientation that the U.S. is inherently racist as well as any discussions about conscious and unconscious bias, privilege, discrimination, and oppression. These parameters also extend beyond race to include gender lectures and discussions.
State actors in Montana and South Dakota have denounced teaching concepts associated with CRT. The state school boards in Florida, Georgia, Utah, and Alabama introduced new guidelines barring CRT-related discussions. Local school boards in Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia also criticized CRT.
Nearly 20 additional states have introduced or plan to introduce similar legislation.
The approach of some Republican-led state legislatures is a method for continuing to roll back racial progress regarding everything from voting rights to police reform. This is a horrible idea and does an injustice to our kids. Laws forbidding any teacher or lesson from mentioning race/racism, and even gender/sexism, would put a chilling effect on what educators are willing to discuss in the classroom and provide cover for those who are not comfortable hearing or telling the truth about the history and state of race relations in the United States. Ironically, “making laws outlawing critical race theory confirms the point that racism is embedded in the law,” as sociologist Victor Ray noted.
Some parents are worried about their kids learning things in school that they do not have the capacity to address. As a college professor who does teach CRT as one of the many theoretical frameworks that I bring into the classroom, students are alarmed by how little they have learned about inequality. They are upset at their schools, teachers, and even their parents. So, this is the conundrum: teachers in K-12 schools are not actually teaching CRT. But teachers are trying to respond to students asking them why people are protesting and why Black people are more likely to be killed by the police.
Ultimately, we cannot employ colorblind ideology in a society that is far from colorblind. Everyone sees it, whether they acknowledge it consciously or not. As I wrote in a previous Brookings article on whether the U.S. is a racist country, systemic racism can explain racial disparities in police killings, COVID-19, and the devaluing of homes in Black neighborhoods. If we love America, we should want it to be the best it can be. Rather than run from the issue of racism in America, we should confront it head on. Our kids and country will be better for it.