Critical Race Theory – Unpacking My Stack of Stuff. Part 1

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I have a lot of browser tabs full of articles on Critical Race theory that I’ve been saving for the last few months. Each one was supposed to be a standalone – and now I’ve gotten to the point that I could be writing about one a day and be doing it for over a year as more and more keep showing up.

While the Left (race-baiters, Black Supremacists, and America Haters) has had a long head start on this, the pushback on CRT and Black Lives Matter (as well as Transgenderism – we can throw that into the mix that the Left is throwing at we Normal Americans) has finally started. So, let me start pouring gas on the anger you should be feeling as the Left is intensifying their efforts:

Years ago, I attended a play with the theme of racism. At curtain rise, two actors began berating the audience primarily made up of white people about how this work would make them uncomfortable, uneasy, and fearful. It is a very common theme in “antiracism” and critical race theory. But if part of “doing the work” to “dismantle systemic racism” is to endure this discomfort, how does that apply to teaching “antiracism” to small children? Should young white kids be made to feel uncomfortable?   Examples abound in CRT theory and popular writing about how overcoming white fragility requires of white people that they sit with their guilt, shame, and unease.

So, are you happy with making your kids feel bad and guilty about themselves?  My, how the educational fad of “self-esteem” has been tossed aside to the complete opposite of ingraining GUILT into our kids…

One by one, the American Marxist left has, over the course of a half-century, taken over all American institutions and have turned them into little mind-altering propaganda mills aimed at overthrowing the old order for good….And in fact, the takeover by the left is now so pervasive, the propagandist/professorial types openly, brazenly admit what their real objectives are.

A New York City high school principal reportedly sent white parents a “tool for action” that encourages parents to fight America’s “regime of whiteness” and become “white traitors” and “white abolitionists.” This language of combatting “whiteness” echoes Marxist critical race theory, the noxious ideology that inspired and inflamed the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots over the summer.   “The principal of East Side Community School in New York sent white parents this ‘tool for action,’ which tells them they must become ‘white traitors’ and then advocate for full ‘white abolition,’” Christopher Rufo, director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty at the Discovery Institute, announced on Twitter. “This is the new language of public education.”

Yep, not only are your kids racists because they are white, so are YOU.  RENOUNCE YOUR GUILT (even as you’re hardly guilty of anything)!   Isn’t it lovely that Mao’s Cultural Revolution has come to America?

But what if the impetus behind a particular type of race-based training programs and curricula we see spreading at the moment is not exclusively, or even primarily, about skin color? What if race is just a façade for a particular strain of thought? What if what stands behind all this is the old, color-blind utopian dream of uniting the “workers of the world,”  and eradicating capitalism?  CRT, after all, does nothing to remedy racial disparities.

All strains of CRT are of Marxist origin, a fact that would be better known to the wider public if the press did its job. CRT is based on Critical Theory, a concept developed in the 1930s by a neo-Marxist European group of academics housed in the Institute for Social Research, though better known as the Frankfurt School because it was originally part of the University of Frankfurt, in Germany. The media never mentions the connection between CT and Marx—or between CRT and CT, for that matter. Yet, CT’s link with Marxism is clear in the very first essay in which Critical Theory was introduced to an unwary world.

Yeah, and guess how many of the Leftist dregs in those newsrooms would be purged once the Glorious Revolution goes hot?  Lenin called people like this “useful idiots“.

A Virginia school district has become an epicenter of the debates occurring over critical race theory and other, similar curriculums coming to K-12 classrooms around the country. In 2020, Loudoun County Public Schools adopted a plan to double down on bringing so-called culturally responsive teaching to the classroom.

Culturally Responsive Teaching – just another example of the Left using euphemisms to “soften” the idea so that people, not in the know, go “oh, that sounds alright, right?” Just another way of saying Critical Race Theory which is another way of saying “We want Marxism NOW!”.

It’s notable that the administration of Loudoun County Public Schools has not only aggressively promoted critical race theory, it essentially threatened teachers and staff against criticizing the program in any way, on campus or off. The message it sent to staff was, basically, that the First Amendment is fine and all, but accept the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” plan—or else.

You know, like how NH Governor Chris Sununu basically said (under the tutaledge of now NH Supreme Court Justice  Gordon MacDonald and NH Superior Court Judge Dan Will that both devised held that the Constitution could be set aside during emergencies via “Public Health trumps EVERYTHING!”.

Same ending for both strains of anti-Constitutional theory…

But pushback against CRT is starting to gain momentum – Children are Parents most valuable assets and in a Free country (still), Parents are starting to turn into raging Grizzlies to protect their children against the Government flunkies “that know what’s best”.

The latest story of effective organization at the local level comes from a group of families in a mid-sized town of Southlake, Texas; a town northwest of Dallas with a population of 31,000.  The school board was about to initiate the indoctrination program of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the region.  The parents said “no more” leftist bullshit, organized an effective political action committee pooled their financial resources, selected candidates and launched a full-frontal assault in the next local election.

The results were stunningly successful as the pragmatic patriots crushed the leftist effort with a turnout three times greater than the previous election, and an overwhelming seventy percent level of voting support for their candidates.  Their opposition barely scraped 30% for their side.  This is how it is done; smile as you read the details below:

SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Nine months after officials in the affluent Carroll Independent School District introduced a proposal to combat racial and cultural intolerance in schools, voters delivered a resounding victory Saturday to a slate of school board and City Council candidates who opposed the plan.

Note how the Media reported it: “combat racial and cultural intolerance”. What – by waging a racial war on a different skin color? Does two wrongs make a right? Note that the Left has perverted the words “inclusive” and “welcoming” such that instead of meaning EVERYONE must be brought together, those words are (as the Left claims) “dog whistles” meaning “we’re welcoming of you and are inclusive but only to those that believe like us“. It’s nothing more than guilt-washing by redefining what words mean.

In an unusually bitter campaign that echoed a growing national divide over how to address issues of race, gender and sexuality in schools, candidates in the city of Southlake were split between two camps: those who supported new diversity and inclusion training requirements for Carroll students and teachers and those backed by a political action committee that was formed last year to defeat the plan.

On one side, progressives argued that curriculum and disciplinary changes were needed to make all children feel safe and welcome in Carroll,

Seriously, making them “safe” (ENOUGHT of this stupid Safetyism principle!) by guilting them into depression???

a mostly white but quickly diversifying school district. On the other, conservatives in Southlake rejected the school diversity plan as an effort to indoctrinate students with a far-left ideology that, according to some, would institutionalize discrimination against white children and those with conservative Christian values.

Indeed.  There can be no God before Marxism – and they are starting that evangelization earlier and earlier in Government schools.

Candidates and voters on both sides described the election as a “fork in the road” for Southlake, a wealthy suburb 30 miles northwest of Dallas. “So goes Southlake,” a local conservative commentator warned in the weeks leading up to the election, “so goes the rest of America.”

In the end, the contest was not close. Candidates backed by the conservative Southlake Families PAC, which has raised more than $200,000 since last summer, won every race by about 70 percent to 30 percent, including those for two school board positions, two City Council seats and mayor. More than 9,000 voters cast ballots, three times as many as in similar contests in the past.  (read more)

They organized. They put their money where their Principles and children were. They outworked the other side. I’m betting they’re glaring at the Left with “Go ahead, try it again!”.

The superintendent of the Bellingham School District in the state of Washington responded to parents’ reactions to the report last week that a first-grade teacher read a transgender book to her young students, by defending his district’s practice of “reading diverse books and learning about all kinds of lives” as “consistent with our values in our strategic plan, The Bellingham Promise.”

In his response message, Superintendent Greg Baker did not appear to address parents’ concerns their alarm was ignored, but instead complained the national attention to the reading of I Am Jazz to first-graders, is “prompting hate speech and harassment based on our values as a district and our commitment to equitable, diverse and inclusive education.”

Whose values? Once again we see a Governent School District, run and staffed by the Left, enforcing ITS values onto “their” children and Parents can go pound sand. Since when should a first grader be concerned with “gender identity”??  This is nothing less than grooming our children.

When parents expressed their alarm to school board members, the officials reportedly refused to take action, including the president of the school board, Jennifer Mason, who also owns and operates WinkWink, a local sex toy boutique that self-describes as for “All-Ages” and “identity-inclusive.”

No, not a CRT oriented story but indicative that Government Schools have no problem in disregarding the idea that a lot of Parents think that this is both insulting and out of bounds for young children to be exposed to. Both this whole gender identity and CRT are just two means to the same end – forming in childrens’ minds that what they are being taught at home is silly and should be disregarded; their Parents don’t know what’s best for you but *I* as your Teacher does.

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  • Skip

    Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

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