This blog undertakes to discuss three related topics over which books can and have been written. But Critical Race Theory is being introduced to our schools and our very youngest children are being taught that they were born to be racist oppressors, endowed with “white privilege,” and that they were born into a country founded upon racism and today brims with systemic racism in which every segment of society prevents minority groups from getting ahead. That all of these comments are false goes without saying, but when delivered from kindergarten on by teachers, these ideas become accepted as fact by their students.
Critical Race Theory has its roots in Marxism, the ideology that took over Russia, China, North Vietnam, Cambodia and Cuba and following WWII spread its tentacles over all the Eastern Bloc countries. In each of these countries, the leaders killed millions of their own countrymen who resisted the indoctrination and the “classless” society of their Marxist betters. Marx saw a world divided among capitalists (those who owned businesses and were thus wealthy) and workers, (those who worked for the capitalists without sharing their wealth and were thus poor.) Such an ideology doesn’t work well in the United States, where for centuries we have believed in the rags to riches stories of individuals such as Ben Carson, who grew up in the slums and became a world-renowned neurosurgeon, presidential candidate, and Secretary of HUD. Oprah Winfrey, of television fame, also grew up poor, as did the Starbucks Chairman and CEO Charles Schultz. Americans believe that if you work hard, you can achieve whatever you want.
So, in the U.S., Marxists turned the battle between the classes into a battle between the races. Divide us into warring camps and eventually, everyone will be pressed down to the same level— except the elite Marxists (known in the U.S. as the Far Left), who will have all the money and all the power. It might be interesting to note at this point, that for all their complaints about the wealthy in America, Democrats are the ones who those wealthy CEOs are trying hard to please, and the wealthiest people in the United States are no longer Republicans, but Democrats!
But how do you start a war between the races? By lying and lying and lying. As Nazi Joseph Goebbels said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” And thus, many white people today have swallowed entirely the idea that they were born racists and that to deny that they are racist is proof of their racism. Huh? I am not a frog. If I say that I am not a frog, by their argument, that simply proves (ribbit!) that I am a frog. No, this does not make sense. It doesn’t need to if people can be frightened into accepting it for fear of being ostracized on social media, being doxed, or even losing their jobs. Marxists play dirty! Remember all those millions of dead Russians, Chinese, Cambodians, North Koreans, and Cubans?
So Critical Race Theory teaches that America was founded upon slavery, totally ignoring the fact that the first settlers arrived from England to found Jamestown in 1607 but slavery wasn’t introduced into the 13 Colonies until 12 year later. Nor does it consider the following FACTS:
- In the 1600s slavery was still, as it had been for thousands of years, an accepted practice in countries all over the globe. The Africans who sold slaves to the British and Portuguese traders who brought them to the New World, also sold them to Arab countries in Northern Africa and the Middle East, where slaves can still be found today.
- Only 4 to 6% of slaves actually came to the 13 Colonies. Many went to the British West Indies and, because most of the slave traders were Portuguese, the majority went to the Portuguese colony of Brazil.
- The 13 Colonies were ruled by Great Britain, whose primary interest was in the profit to be made from tobacco in the 13 Colonies and sugar in the Caribbean. Indentured slaves (those who worked off their passage to the new world for often 7 years and who were mostly white but could also be black) and African slaves provided free labor to keep their profits high. When one northern colony voted to abolish slavery within its colony, the royal governor overruled them and slavery stayed.
- When slavery was at its height in the United States, some free blacks themselves owned slaves.
- Only about a quarter of southerners ever owned slaves. By the 1860s, many northern states had banned slavery. The vast majority of Americans either had no servants, or paid them wages.
- It wasn’t until 1783 and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in France that the fledgling United States took control of its own destiny and its slaves. Less than one hundred years later, in 1863, all slaves in the revolting states during the Civil War were granted freedom, and with the 13th amendment in 1865, all slavery was ended for once and for all. The new United States, which since its founding had fought yet another war with Great Britain, thus joined the long line of European nations that began, one after another, to ban slavery in the 1800s.,
Do we have a history of slavery that should teach us that all men are indeed equal and that no man can own another human being? Undoubtedly! But was our country founded upon slavery? Not when only a quarter of southerners owned slaves and when most early colonists came here with the intent of being able to buy their own land or businesses (entire villages were owned by members of the aristocracy in Great Britain) or of being able to practice their own religion rather than that of the state-sanctioned Church of England.
The other lie, that whites are born racist oppressors, endowed with white privilege is easily countered. 3,640,000 white children were living in poverty in 2019 according to KidsCount Data Center. Where is the white privilege for those children? And even more, if there is in fact a system of racism (systemic racism) that prevents the success of minority groups, why is it that the highest wage earners in the U.S. are Indian-American, followed by Taiwanese-American, Filipino-American, and Chinese-American. White Americans rank 9th behind these and four our minority groups. Systemic racism? White supremacy? It is true that black-Americans who were born here rank last in the list, but since black-American immigrants earn 30% more than they do, perhaps their last ranking has more to do with the incessant chatter of the Democrats telling them that they can’t achieve and the Democrat officials who prevent them from sending their children to schools that are not failing than with their skin color.
And finally, the list of black Americans who have become successful, wealthy, and important in our society includes figures like Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, black sports figures like Hershel Walker and Magic Johnson, mayors, police chiefs, famous surgeons like Dr. Ben Carson, CEOs like Herman Cain, Senators like Tim Scott, Representatives like Burgess Owens, Secretaries of State like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powel, judges, district attorneys, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, President of the United States Barack Obama, and vice president* Kamala Harris. If the system were rigged against minorities, these people would never have achieved the positions, the power, the money that they did.
Critical Race Theory and all of the resultant indoctrination, not only of our children, but of, now, our military, our government officials, our businesses, is a total lie, created in order to divide Americans and make us easier to control until the Left (Marxists) have destroyed the capitalistic society that has made the United States the strongest country in the world and have instead turned us into a socialist hell-hole like Venezuela, where paper money is cheaper than wallpaper so they use it to paper the walls of their houses.
What can you do? Stand up and be heard. Find out if Critical Race Theory is being taught in your schools and protest it. Organize other parents. Tell your school board it is rewritten history and you won’t allow your children to be taught that hogwash. Perhaps consider running for the school board yourself. Above all, don’t be silenced! If one person alone is courageous, he may become a martyr. But 20, or a hundred, or two hundred are harder to silence. Speak up. We must take on their lies or our children, just like many young adults, will come to believe the “big lie.” And a lie that everyone believes, becomes their truth and the world is turned upside down!