No, It's Not 'Racist' to Oppose Critical Race Theory (cost, party, financial)

[rantiquity]

Is CRT isn't racist as some say....I say it is racist to teach anyone that one race is better than another or one race has caused damage to another is racist.

[Marc Paolella]

Originally Posted by Trekker99

In 2018, the largest public teachers’ union adopted the following: “The National Education Association (NEA) believes that, in order to achieve racial and social justice, educators must acknowledge the existence of White supremacy culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism, structural racism, and White privilege. Additionally, the Association believes that the norms, standards, and organizational structures manifested in White supremacy culture perpetually exploit and oppress people of color and serve as detriments to racial justice. Further, the invisible racial benefits of White privilege, which are automatically conferred irrespective of wealth, gender, and other factors, severely limit opportunities for people of color and impede full achievement of racial and social justice. Therefore, the Association will actively advocate for social and educational strategies fostering the eradication of institutional racism and White privilege perpetuated by White supremacy culture.

This - from the largest teachers union - which is made up of teachers, you know, the people who have been entrusted to teach....children.

They've adopted this ideology which is pure CRT.

From their own internal business affairs website - which was taken down, but fortunately the internet remembers everything
New Business Item 39ACTION:ADOPTED AS MODIFIED
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The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:

A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) -- what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.

C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.

D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression. Followed by one day of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.

E. Conduct a virtual listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.

F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory.

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Rationale/Background
USA's economy/social order is built on interactions between different cultures/races. To deny opportunities to teach truth about Black, Brown, and other marginalized races minimalizes the necessity for students to build efficacy. The ancient African proverb says, "Know Thyself."

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The mental poison known as CRT should be utterly rejected from all public schools as a divisive and destructive ideology.

This bs cancerous nonsense is why we need to dissolve public education and go to free-market for-profit education where the parents control the curriculum and choose to teach kids how to think, NOT WHAT TO THINK. Critical Race Theory is a cancerous plague, and leftist, human-hating public schools are where it will proliferate.

[TMSRetired]

It is racist to say an entire group did something based solely on their skin color.

[ReineDeCoeur]

I am not only against CRT but the perpetuation of racial ideology period. Race and racism is in the DNA of the USA (and much of the world) and should be uprooted. The right is as toxic as the left, as they conveniently deny the issues racial ideology has caused and perpetuate revisionist theory.

Over all of it.

[kajo13]

Originally Posted by Marc Paolella

I’m a bit tired of this whiny victim mentality. Be an INDIVIDUAL, not a race. Be VALUABLE, not a leech. Be RATIONAL, not a collectivist sheep. I am not responsible for slavery, don’t care about slavery, and owe nobody anything for slavery that took place in ancient Greece, ancient China, or Civil War America. Nobody today is a slave, and nobody today is DUE ANY SPECIAL TREATMENT. Be an individual. Be valuable. Make yourself someone others like and want to be around. Race is irrelevant. I don’t care about it. I don’t want to hear about it. I deal with INDIVIDUALS, NOT GROUPS.

CRT is for groupthink punishment and groupthink entitlement. It is false, wrong, counterproductive, and will increase irrational racism and make life worse for the whiny victims that embrace it. I accept no guilt, and I embrace my “entitlement” as a living human INDIVIDUAL. PERIOD.

"Victim mentality, leech, sheep."

"Be an individual, valuable, likeable" so I can stand to be around you.

Tell me how you really feel about black people.

No, you're not responsible for slavery, but you are responsible for your crappy thoughts.

FYI, nobody today is a Whig, or a puritan, or a Calvinist, yet we still learn about them.

Oh, and the history of black people isn't just about slavery. Seems someone could further their education just a tad more...

[kajo13]

Let America Be America Again (1935)

By Langston Hughes

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)


Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)



O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")



Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?



I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.


I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!


I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.


Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.


O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?
Who said the free? Not me?




Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,

The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that's almost dead today.


O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—

Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.


Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,


America!
O, yes,

I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!


Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!


Langston Hughes was a black American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

And here's a handy lesson plan to guide analysis of the poem, including vocabulary.

[Chowhound]

CRT is cancer and just like the F cancer shirts I've seen they need to make F CRT shirts.

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by Ellis Bell

CRT should have remained in the legal colleges where it belonged.

CRT never left colleges. The idiots on the right seem to think that teaching about slavery, Jim Crow, etc is CRT. It's not, it's fact.

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by fat lou

I asked some pretty simple questions. How much of a U.S. history curriculum should focus on black people? Is it okay to talk about anything besides black people? I get the feeling that your answer to the first question is "all of it," and your answer to the second question is "no." Am I right?

Quite a bit, actually, since much of the wealth of this country was built on the backs of slave labor, and suppression of Blacks legally continued until the mid-1960's.

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

well said. CRT is anathema to a just and cohesive country.

Thus demonstrating you have no idea what CRT is.