CRITICAL RACE THEORY

THE GREAT EVIL OF OUR TIME

Critical Race Theory, which is just an updated form of racism, is the most destructive force of the 21st century. If you had told me 50 years ago that a half-century hence, there would be a successful social movement, dominating academia, politics and even the business world, holding that the most important thing about a person is his skin color, I wouldn’t have believed it. But that is where we are now.

From an obsessive preoccupation with race and equity to “sex education” focused on gender fluidity—parents are shocked at what they have been seeing. Why are America’s schools teaching children to hate America? See video update to article below. -W.W.

At the Epoch Times, Roger Simon wrote eloquently about the curse of CRT:

Something called Critical Race Theory intervened to turn our society around, head it back toward racial enmity and, to be blunt, destroy our country, and with it our common humanity, unless it is stopped.

Unlike slavery, which was overt, CRT is a growing cancer infecting our schools, media, entertainment, and businesses. It is everywhere, often unseen and more often not even known or recognized by a large percentage of the public, so all the more dangerous.

Martin Luther King’s justifiably famous dream that the day will come when we judge each other by our characters and not by the color of our skins has been turned on its head.

The color of our skins is to be the be all and end all of our existences, no matter what, no escape. That is what determines our position in life and our fate, beyond class and, apparently, beyond our character as well (i.e. how we actually behave and what we have done).

Race is everything. In order to be considered good, you must acknowledge that, literally bow to it, and behave accordingly.

Every aspect of our culture has been infected with this absurdity right up to the corporate board rooms. Even Coca Cola executives are now instructing us on the dangers of “whiteness.” Do they actually believe this hogwash? Who knows? Perhaps they are just scared, cowards playing along with the zeitgeist to keep their lucrative jobs. But if that’s so, it’s worse.

Most importantly, the ideology has infected our schools, even at the lowest levels, to the degree that young children are being hard-wired to hate or distrust each other and, even more sadly, themselves.

At the other end of the spectrum, The Defense Department has resumed its diversity training efforts, after the Biden White House acted swiftly to reverse the Trump administration's controversial curtailment of such programs.

White kids—no matter their social class, no matter at what point their families came to America, in many cases decades and more after slavery, fleeing genocides, pogroms, the most abject poverty or whatever—are being taught they are oppressors and must spend their lives expiating the sin of their skin color.

There is an organization is battling CRT in Minnesota’s schools. Their governor has appointed a far-left activist committee to revise the social studies standards that govern instruction in K-12 public schools. The first draft of the revised standards was pure CRT. You can read about it here. They are fighting back against the proposed anti-American curriculum on a daily basis by mobilizing public opposition.

If you wanted to invent an ideology that actually created racism where it doesn’t exist, you could do no better than Critical Race Theory.

That is largely the point, I think. The Democratic Party has calculated that race hatred will work to its advantage, so it is doing everything possible to foment racial conflict and promote racism.

With the blessing of CRT, one of the major goals of the Civil Rights Movement, integration, has also been flipped on its head, back to segregation, with institutions like Columbia University holding separate graduation ceremonies for different ethnic and racial groups. Not that long ago this would have been considered a racist outrage by the same people.

These institutions are now leading the charge against free speech, with Critical Race Theory as their intellectual underpinning. After all, the Bill of Rights was written by white men. It had to be thrown away.

In the battle between free speech and CRT, CRT is winning hands-down and the federal government has relatively little to do with the decisive conflict of our time. 

This will take bravery and conviction that many have never shown before or even know that they have. But they do. Many are beginning to show it across the country.

Among the most courageous doing so now are black men and women who see more clearly, feel more acutely, than any of us the disastrous betrayal of the civil rights movement and of their own people by Critical Race Theory and are opposing it vehemently. One such individual is Pastor Voddie Baucham who points out the weekness in Christian preaching on the subject. A short Townhall podcast is here.

That is absolutely right. One of the blacks standing up against the corrosive evil of CRT is Kendall Qualls. Kendall, a successful businessman with a wonderful, all-American story, got involved in public affairs because he was appalled by CRT and the anti-Americanism of the Democrats. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2020, and now has formed an organization–a movement, we hope–called TakeCharge Minnesota. TakeCharge encourages young blacks to take control over their own lives, reject the deadly narratives of the Left, and pursue their own version of the American Dream. The organization’s “Core Principles” include, among others:

The promise of America is open and available to all individuals regardless of skin color or station in life.

We reject the concept of group identity and all its ancillary components including white privilege, systemic racism, equity, etc.

By rejecting group identity, we empower and celebrate the achievements made by an individual’s merit – hard work, creativity, personal investment, and risk taking.

The private sector and free enterprise are the fastest and most financially rewarding routes to a better life for the Black community.

Getting a job and earning a living brings dignity, respect, and value to a person’s life.

Private sector job creation is the cornerstone of prosperity for all Americans.

We reject socialism in all shapes because it deprives individuals of their personal value, robs them of their unique contributions, and values them only as a member of a special group.

It is through the private sector that Americans including black Americans can create wealth.

In a few short months, TakeCharge Minnesota has taken off. Kendall has enlisted black mothers and grandmothers in his campaign. This video is the first of many the organization will release:

Critical Race Theory is debased Marxism with a racist twist. Stupid though it may be, it poses an existential threat to our country. Its adherents are aggressive bullies, often motivated by surprisingly substantial financial self-interest. If pro-Americans are cowardly or lazy, their onslaught will succeed and our Constitution and our country will be lost. 

The situation is really that stark especially under the Biden administration.

The following is adapted from a lecture, "Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It", delivered at Hillsdale College in March 2021 and reprinted in IMPRIMIS.