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The True Citizen, Wednesday, June 2, 2021 — Page 5
Michael N. Searles
No words have generated
as much panic since Chicken
Little claimed the sky is falling.
Critical Race Theory or CRT
can caused grown women to
cry. At a Rockwood School
District meeting in Eureka,
Missouri, angry white parents
called for critical race theory to
be banned even though it is not
part of the current curriculum.
One white parent said that she
drove from a nearby district
where critical race theory is
"rampant." She called it "child
abuse." Another woman was
"moved to tears discussing
her young daughter's regret at
being white." “She is one of
the most innocent little girls
in the whole world, and she
has friends, Black and White
kids in her classroom, and she
doesn't see any difference. I
have actually raised my kids to
love people and accept people
no matter what, and just be
cause I don't want critical race
theory taught to my children
at school doesn't make me a
racist, damnit!"
What has caused all ra
tionality to break down and
produced this much tumult?
Apparently, linking the words
critical and race in the same
phrase suggest something
dire. Kimberle Crenshaw was
among a group of intellectu
als, along with Derrick Bell,
Alan Freeman and Richard
Delgado, who attended a 1989
conference in Wisconsin that
focused on new strategies to
combat racism. Critical race
theory is a graduate school
level exercise that grapples
with a history of White su
premacy that rejects the belief
that what's in the past is in the
past, and that the laws and sys
tems that grow from that past
are detached from it.
With this heightened sensi
tivity and fear mongering, the
teaching of American history
that includes the wrongs done
to African Americans or Native
Americans could be described
as critical race theory. Under
this approach, no words or sub
ject can be presented that could
make a young white child feel
bad. As parents increasingly
have become apprehensive, po-
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
litical leaders have seized upon
CRT to gain an advantage. In
a letter to U.S. Secretary of
Education Miguel Cardona
Wednesday, twenty attorneys
general claim proposed priori
ties for the department's grant
funding via the American
History and Civics Education
programs include language that
imposes the "deeply flawed
and controversial teachings"
of the theory on schools and
teachers.
The rash of books and ar
ticles that have pointed out
the ways white society has
benefited from systemic racism
has had a dual effect. There are
a growing number of whites
who have seriously examined
the ways black folks have
been disadvantaged. Others
see any retreat from the ideal
that America is the home of
the brave and land of the free
is disruptive and contrary to the
“American” way of life.
Accepting the notion that
white people have had and
continue to have an advantage
over People of Color is difficult
for some to accept. We all
like to believe that everything
we have accomplished was
based on our hard work and
ability. Yet, we do not have
to look far to see that some
of what has been achieved
was not based on merit but on
privilege. African Americans
are arrested for violating mari
juana possession laws at nearly
four times the rates of whites,
yet both ethnicities consume
marijuana at roughly the same
rates. The Drug Policy Alliance
filed an amicus brief urging
the Louisiana Supreme Court
to review the egregious prison
sentence of Bernard Noble, a
48-year old black man who
was sentenced to 13.3 years
of hard labor in prison without
the opportunity for parole for
possessing the equivalent of
two marijuana cigarettes. If
it is believable that the above
situations are coincidental and
have nothing to do with race,
then you are likely to oppose
the reality of systematic rac
ism. We are being challenged
to open our eyes and clearly
see our history. This does not
mean hating every White per
son or believing every White
person hates Black people.
This is the time we need to re
spond to the Lord’s invocation,
“Come now, and let us reason
together.”
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