A Sound Method for Obliterating Critical Race Theory

CRT is Poisoning Schools, Society, the Military... America at-Large

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I spoke of solutions in my last post.  I hope I don’t sound immodest when I say I just might have a solution in halting Critical Race Theory in its tracks – if we’re bold enough to adopt it. Too, we need to reverse damage it has already done.  (Upcoming, we’ll propose a solution to so-called “mandatory” masking and “vaccinations”).

Critical Race Theory (CRT) will destroy America.  It is the ultimate in explicit racism:  It has race at the very center of its name, and at the core of its curriculum.  Its corrupting influence on education, government, our military, and organizational principles of all kinds, public and private, is becoming pervasive.

As a bottom-line-up-front (BLUF) token, let’s start with a primary point at the outset: Pitting groups of people against one another is wrong on its face. But as importantly, categorizing groups (whether “White,” “Black,” “Hispanic,” “Indigenous,” “Asian,” etc.) ignores an important point: People within groups are as diverse as those outside any specific group. For example: I don’t identify as White. I am Scottish, Irish, Slovak. Referring to me as White is a disrespect, a denigration, of my ancestors and ethnicities.

CRT turns our country into something so corrupt that it becomes a grotesquery of its founding principles, purposes, and standing as the greatest country in the history of humanity and the world.  There is a simple way to prevent this.

Here, I must note that “simple” is not the same as “easy.”  It is a simple thing to quit smoking (you don’t have to learn a language, a trade, or save Mount Rushmore); you simply don’t put the next cigarette in your mouth – forever.  However, it is not easy:  You have to beat the nicotine addiction, and the social habit.

Likewise, quitting CRT is simple but not easy.  But let’s start with that earlier primary point:  Most of us are not what we are forced to identify as.  Again, in my case, I am not White.  Nor are people such as me White.  As regards “people of color,” more and more are rejecting CRT, and they are going on record:  Television interviews, school board meetings, university showdowns, and more.  Many non-Whites (for lack of a better term) are rejecting its rancid racism:  That is, the segregating of people based on skin color; the assignment of beliefs, behaviors, and various levels of “privilege” – or relative lack - based on skin color.  And, the assignment of victimizers and victims according to same.  It is heartening that people of all stripes are, increasingly, rejecting CRT.

I am forced to check a box, “White,” on many government forms, and am perceived to be merely “White” by many others in the conduct of general life.  Yet, if I hold typing paper next to my face I am clearly not white in color.  For that matter, most people forced to identify as “Black” (or who self-identify that way, willingly or no) are not actually black.  They are brown.  So, what are we identifying as?  Rather than guess at government’s or society’s motivations, I prefer my own rational understandings.  (Note:  Medicine, policing, and disciplines that have necessary needs for these identifications get a pass here.  Examples:  There are reasons to know a person’s medical history, including ethno-race-geographical concerns and inherited ethno-etiologies.  In policing, it’s imperative to use every identifier possible when seeking suspects).

So, for socialization, education, etc.… what am I?  Who am I?

As I am in fact Scottish, Irish, Slovak, we can also see that lumping people together as merely “Black,” “Hispanic,” “Indian,” “Native American,” “Asian-American,” etc., does the same thing.  There are many distinctions to accommodate if we’re to mount true respect - and the origins and diaspora of various peoples unfairly “grouped” should not be ignored.

In terms of ethno-identification(s) - that is, my race, my people, my background history and culture - what do I have in common with a French-American?... a German-American?... an Italian-American?... a Belgian-American?... etc. - as well as any combinations, all of whom may look “White” and be forced to identify as “White”?  

They look similar to me such that they are forced to check “White” boxes on/in various forms, media, training exercises, forums and many straightjacketing practices.  We may have many or few things in common.  But certainly there are large differences and appreciations to be had.  Arguing otherwise is to de-humanize people.  This is what CRT does. It dehumanizes us… all of us.

Lumping people into groups, to pit groups against one another, is wrong.  Assigning feelings of privilege, guilt, debts owed, against purported modern-day victims -  hopeful collectors on so-called debts - diminishes everyone.

This theory and its propagation are wrong, but we’re intimidated against speaking out.  The “woke” snowball has been provided a downhill trajectory, with a favorable governmental gravity, such that it is gaining size, mass and influence, even as it takes us to the bottom. 

How did a self-identified “theory” such as CRT gain this sort of prominence?  Don’t theories get re-named with a bit more substance and permanency upon “proving out”?  Perhaps the ongoing moniker as a “theory” allows proponents to laugh up their collective sleeve at the fools who buy into this “critical” theory. 

What we’re doing to vulnerable children is abominable.  We’re injecting malleable minds with the theory’s components that simply cannot present themselves to kids in any natural sense.  Watch kids play from two, three, four years of age.  And as those integrated kids grow and mature, they continue to work in harmony, play in harmony, create in harmony, and produce useful things in harmony – so long as “woke” and overly-politicized adults steer clear and concentrate on teaching and counseling regarding practical things.  In these “woke” circumstances, we’re limiting the school day - bending it from critical Readin’, ‘Ritin’, and ‘Rithmetic that needs to be occurring, and occurring according to standards of empiricals, excellence, and accountabilities. 

As kids grow so too does CRT’s influence.  By no means comprehensive, we’re infecting:  Literature; Creative Writing; Film; Algebra; Geometry; Trigonometry; Calculus; Physics; Biology; Chemistry; Ecology; Social Studies; Geography; World History; U.S. Government; Economics; English Language; Foreign Languages; various Electives; to say nothing of Advanced Placement classes. 

I heard an absolutely heartbreaking story from a mother. She spoke of how her son (“White”), and best friend (“Black”) had been BFs since 2nd Grade. They’re tight. They are now in 7th Grade. Her son came home one day in utter confusion; his friend is in the same state. They are now, respectively, oppressor and oppressed according to their school’s curricula. This is a sick, sick business this CRT.

Schedules eaten up by measures of CRT are a tragic impact to students’ attention in two regards.  1) It removes time for things legitimate, and 2)  The resultant space in these minds is injected with garbage.  All so students, K-to-University, can become whiners and criers, pointing outside themselves with expanding imagination and efficiency for discovering things owed them absent better efforts and merit. 

This theory teaches denigration of country, society, and allied ideals – to hate the aforementioned with virulency.  Spreading this hate is required.  For, if you are not a booster of CRT you are an enemy.  You must be attacked and removed.  CRT adherents have us indoctrinating and building people from their earliest school days, when individuals’ minds are at their most impressionable, in creating an ever-larger number of minds that are incapable of thinking independently:  A fish doesn’t know it’s wet; CRT’s goal is an environment that is so dominant that people haven’t a clue regarding “the swim they’re in.”  CRT’s goal is to have them in a constant “intuitiveness” that America is racist, sexist, and mounted atop “White Privilege” – permanently, from birth to death. 

Rather, from her founding moments, America has been the land of freedom and opportunity.  America is not responsible for her offices being occupied by people who fell short of her ideals, as enshrined and codified in our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our Declaration of Independence, and other documents.  Those are America.  Her charters.  People are human, often fallible and corrupt.  Politicians,  appointees, office-holders and general citizenry who oppressed others in diametric opposition to America’s ideals and codes are responsible for past racism, sexism, injustices, and suppressions – not America.   America is not a land of systemic racism but rather a country of systemic opportunity.  This is why people storm our border and hang onto the wheel-wells of airplanes in hopes of getting here… and staying here. 

Critical Race Theory.  Wow:  That sounds like a plan for living.  That sounds like a happy life.  That sounds like a plan for maintaining and growing a country with an actual future.  Not.

Start with the insistence that we all be acknowledged for who we truly are, with all the nuance and respect each of us deserves – as individuals.  Not as beings who are basketed into some chunked up category that’s actually just as diverse on the inside as the world outside.  We’re individuals.  And as such, no one is responsible for what predecessors did or did not do.  We need to crush the overtly racist program known as CRT.

Now.

NP:  The Youngbloods; Get Together. 

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David Scott Strain is a U.S. Army veteran and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive.  He is also the author of the novel The Grim Grind of Life:  A PI’s strange bounces through a surfeit of eateries, juke joints, and dark doorways.  Prior, he authored the MBA-text (UofW, UofMD, more than a dozen others) I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium. Books and expanded bio are available on Amazon.

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