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Critical Race Theory Should Be Banned, and a Black Parent Explains Why

The best case ever against critical race theory is in the following video, sure to go viral.

Partial Transcript – Emphasis Mine

I’ve got two children her in the school district. It’s very apparent here by all the parents who have spoken, that this board and the school district is failing. More importantly, about Critical Race Theory, this theory was never meant to be brought into grade schools, high schools at all. 

It’s actually taught in the collegiate atmosphere, more importantly, the legal portion of the collegiate atmosphere to see different laws through the lens of race from an ethics and ethical standpoint, not for grade schools and high schools.

The problem in bringing it up at the high school and grade school level is we do not have the educators to properly teach the kids. 

Instead, educators use it as their own agenda, to indoctrinate the kids to hate each other. And whether you believe that or not, the reality is that is what’s happening. 

Critical Race Theory is teaching us that white people are bad. That’s not true. That would teach my daughter that her mother is evil.

You have an educator within your staff that has pulled my daughter aside and said ‘You’re a minority. So you know better than to engage in certain things.’ [Audience gasps, wow, whoa, etc.]

When I brought this to the school’s attention, nothing happened to that educator. Instead, my daughter was brought in, and she was ridiculed. [Again audience gasps].

 So my question is now, with Critical Race Theory being brought in, what is your criteria to educate the educators? And who are you to educate my children, or any of our children on life issues? That’s our job.

Your job is to teach them math and science. Our job is to teach them about life. 

I believe racial issues and tensions across the US are nowhere near what they used to be decades ago. Do we have a long way to go? Sure. Do we have individuals who need to be taught? Absolutely. 

But people here do not look at me as a black man. They look at me as a man coming in front of you, addressing an issue that we all are passionate about. [applause!] 

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Even the Left has serious issues. 

In a must see video, comedian Bill Maher blast wokes who have no sense of massive progress on many liberal and Libertarian fronts.

To play the video and for a partial transcript as well, please see The Woke Liberals Have a Bad Case of Progressophobia

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This should have a major impact in the midterm elections, and I believe it will if Republican can put aside infighting.

CRT is not (or at least should not) be a Left vs Right issue. Instead, it is a right vs wrong issue. 

School boards, typically liberal progressives, are on the very wrong side of this debate.

Your job is to teach them math and science. Our job is to teach them about life!”

Indeed. And a huge majority of the public would agree. Unfortunately, grade school kids are caught in the crossfire of Woke indoctrination and a Woke debate and that belongs in a collegiate law class. 

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Barpi
Barpi
4 years ago
US School boards are filled with Marxist woketards living in the Liberal stupid-verse 
Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
5 years ago
Oh, that our teachers (from preschool to graduate school) had the intelligence to engage in actual critical thinking. That era ended decades ago.  Now, our ability to understand and form opinions on nearly every subject comes from mass media, Facebook and friends, and websites like this. And if someone voices a different opinion…. unfriend them.
The problem is that society only advances by innovative ideas–more-of-the-same thinking does not move us forward.
So, lets assume critical race theory is an innovative idea. Let’s test it out, (as the founders intended) and teach it in liberal states, or through the free market of private schools, since they seem to want it so much. A decade from now, we can evaluate the results.
fla56
fla56
5 years ago
Next time you push for a Marxist Democratic Party Mish perhaps you can reflect on the horror you helped push for here?
As brash and rude as Trump was he was a necessary change from the mainstream -non-racist non-leftist BAME people like this person and myself are utterly appalled by leftists attempting to use our families’ legacies in this way
Greenmountain
Greenmountain
5 years ago
I think there is universal agreement that CRT is not designed to be taught below the collegiate level.  However, there is the issue of American history.  And that should be taught in grade school. And American history should be taught honestly – whether it be our treatment of Native American tribes, slaves, questionable foreign wars.  At the same time we should highlight our many triumphs.  but to sugar coat our history is not honest and does not help our children understand the people we are today.  I think there is some effort to tie CRT to a more honest rendering of our country’s history than some people would like.  My concern is that our history classes tend to focus on our exceptionalism without fully recognizing the cost to certain groups in our society.
fla56
fla56
5 years ago
Reply to  Greenmountain
To the contrary, America is the freest nation on Earth and this should be celebrated while the country continues to move forward
Don’t like it? Try Eastern Europe or the Middle East like my family did -and fled
Ultimately CRT just like BLM is merely Marxism, hate and violence wrapped up
Greenmountain
Greenmountain
5 years ago
Reply to  fla56
No one denies what you are saying, but recognizing that America was built in part by stealing land from the indigenous people and on the backs of slaves is not marxism – not sure how the two are related.  We sure didn’t buy the land and we sure didnt pay the wages.  Those are facts.
RonJ
RonJ
5 years ago
Critical Sex Theory?
Yahoo News:
 A California law allowing transgender inmates to pick the prison
gender of their choice has come under fire from a women’s rights group
citing abuse of females by men.

In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom,
the Women’s Liberation Front accused the state of violating the
constitutional rights of incarcerated women by allowing men into their
living quarters to “prey on women.” Since the law took effect on Jan. 1,
WLF has received numerous complaints of assaulted, abused, and
traumatized women at the hands of male inmates transferred into their
prisons, WoLF Legal Director Lauren Adams said.

“We are working
with a woman who was punched in the face so hard by a new transfer that
she couldn’t chew for three days. He was taken away and released back in
a different yard with no restrictions,” Adams said. “He was her
cellmate. She had to sleep with him.”

============
“Make no mistake: We’re in the midst of an unprecedented wave of bigotry
and discrimination in this country — and the State of California is not
going to support it,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.
I have to guess that the Women’s Liberation Front is out of luck, as Bonta would consider them to be part of an “unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination.” 
honestcreditguy
honestcreditguy
5 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
bizarro world…..California…it was fun to build it only to watch it take acid when the liberals seized the throne…
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
CRT CRT CRT is NOT never has never will be taught to grade schoolers. This hysteria is the same as if there was a parent freakout about teaching Heidegger in middle school. it aint happening. It’s just a white tribalistic freakout fueled by fox news, good lord 
KidHorn
KidHorn
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
Except it has been taught in elementary schools. Even to kindergartners. Maybe you should stop watching CNN and start watching FOX. So, you’ll know what’s actually happening instead of the propaganda that CNN spews. Like everyone else not stranded at airports.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
id rather kill myself than watch any cable news and subject myself to pizza and ford 150 commercials every 9 minutes. Just read more my man, read and learn 
KidHorn
KidHorn
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
So, you don’t watch fox. But you somehow know what they report.
RonJ
RonJ
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
BREAKING: The nation’s largest teachers union has approved a plan to promote critical race theory in all 50 states and 14,000 local school districts.

The argument that “critical race theory isn’t in K-12 schools” is officially dead.

kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
ronj you linked to a dead link
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
screen shot twitter is not good enough. give the source. give the pdf of this announcement 
RonJ
RonJ
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
Apparently, the truth is not good enough for you.
Casual_Observer2020
Casual_Observer2020
5 years ago
Pray tell, why can’t children handle the truth ?  Like most things, children are way better at this stuff than adults.
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
What stuff? According to Derrida truth in itself has no meaning.
KidHorn
KidHorn
5 years ago
So, why don’t we teach the kids that blacks are far more likely to commit crimes than other people?
RonJ
RonJ
5 years ago
Critical Race Theory isn’t about truth.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
the only truth is that whites must rule everything at all cost? all CRT does is frame history from the slave perspective which is sorely overdue. (and it’s not taught in gradeschool! this is college level material ) 
Mike 2112
Mike 2112
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
Most poor ppl in this country are white. Not exactly sure how much “ruling” those white ppl living in trailers in Kentucky and West Virginia are doing, but I would bet it’s not much, if anything.
Zardoz
Zardoz
5 years ago
New day, same moral panic.  This circus is stale, and where’s my bread?
Eddie_T
Eddie_T
5 years ago
Reply to  Zardoz
Less bread, more circus. Tighten your belt, http://citizen.It’s all for the war effort.
What, all the wars have ended? We must do something. Immediately.
Zardoz
Zardoz
5 years ago
Reply to  Eddie_T
We’ve got a bunch of angry people, China’s got a bunch of angry people.  The solution is obvious:
KidHorn
KidHorn
5 years ago
Race and climate change are tools used by the left to get their way when they can’t win an argument using logic. They want to convince people that the logically minded people are racist so people will believe their racist reasons for enacting what they want.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
nothing in your comment here uses any kind of logic. can you please logically explain why climate change is a hoax or that black people in the usa live in abject poverty relative to whites? 
honestcreditguy
honestcreditguy
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
 a lot of it is generational saving habits, vanity, laziness and family….
KidHorn
KidHorn
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
I didn’t write that climate change is a hoax. I said it’s used as a reason for the left to implement policies that don’t make logical sense. My personal opinion is humans are effecting the climate, but the danger is way overblown. Predictions of the future due to climate change have always been far worse than the reality. Any other science that predicted outcomes as badly as climate change would be dismissed as nonsense.
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
“Critical Race Theory Should Be Banned”
Don’t expect Democrats to do that. 
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
i thought you people were against cancel culture
Zardoz
Zardoz
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
They’re against whatever Tucker Carlson tells them to be against.  
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
“You people”?? That’s a racist term. 
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
honestly i just feel bad for you guys. you don’t even know what you are supposed to believe in 
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
Honestly I just feel bad for you. You think that you can get whatever you want by just calling someone racist. 
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
i never called you racist. if i am wrong please site. I just thought that you were making a terrible unfunny joke about “you people”. What i will call you is a bland angry loser that wants to fight a race war for no good reason other than you’re mad. you are mad in ways you don’t even understand yourself. i know in your heart you want to “cancel” me so hard right now. sorry 
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
Look kurt. You live by CRT. I think it’s bulls…t. Most people think it’s bulls..t too. Have fun while it lasts. 
Casual_Observer
Casual_Observer
5 years ago
Critical race theory is just history by another name. Slavery was real and white people thought they could own non-white people and bought and sold them. Native Americans were slaughtered. Sorry if you don’t like the ugly parts of history. My 8 year old seems to be doing fine.
Eddie_T
Eddie_T
5 years ago
Typical liberal take…..a deliberate oversimplification and misinterpretation of what’s going on. Same point of view as my wife, fwiw. 
You don’t have to be in denial about history to not like CRT. 
Casual_Observer
Casual_Observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Eddie_T
Its splitting hairs Eddie. History isnt pretty and it hasnt always been telling the full picture. Call it whatever you want.
Eddie_T
Eddie_T
5 years ago
What’s going on now is only tangentially connected to history. Not many people think slavery was ever a good idea. We can all see the terrible legacy.
The question is, what, if anything we should do now, if anything, to somehow try to make the world more equitable for those whose ancestors suffered. And whether we actually still have “systemic” structural impediments to that built in to our society. 
Everything I see that CRT and its proponents are doing will make things worse instead of better….
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Eddie_T
its easy to say lets move on when you are already wealthy and your kids are going to private school. I understand black grievance, as of now blacks have literally almost no wealth in society. rap and black culture that is so hated on the right  is not the cause to this, it’s a reaction
Eddie_T
Eddie_T
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
My white privilege got me a job working nights in the hospital to pay my own way through college. 
It got me a business start-up loan when I got out of school…..12.5% interest on a rolling 180 day note.
In my next life I want, like uh….more of an Ivy League, George Bush white privilege…..screw this kid from the trailer park white privilege.
Greenmountain
Greenmountain
5 years ago
Reply to  Eddie_T
The point is that a black person may not have been so lucky to get the night jobs, start-up business loan.  Yes your interest rate was high – you were a risk. But someone was willing to take the risk.  What happens when no one is willing to take the risk?  Pull your self up by your boot straps – but you need the straps.
Eddie_T
Eddie_T
5 years ago
Reply to  Greenmountain
I get the point. In fact, I was never ignorant of any of what gets taught in “inclusion and diversity training”. I just think it’s overdone…..I actually have known a great many black people, and I have my own opinions of what holds many of them back…..and it isn’t just white people taking advantage. There are a host of cultural problems in African-American society, and laying the whole enchilada on white people is…just a canard. It absolves individuals from taking responsibility for their own lives.
Dutoit
Dutoit
5 years ago
I am still traumatized, as a French, by the invasion of Gaul by the Romans, more than 2 thousand years ago. Many Gauls were killed, many enslaved. And I have seen no repentance of the Italians, nothing about italian fragility.
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
Reply to  Dutoit
Not to mention forced their stupid language on you. My wife is from Brittany and she is traumatized by Duchesse Anne de Bretagne’s forced marriage to the king of France in 1488 just because she lost a bunch of battles thereby losing Brittany’s independence and forcing their stupid language on them too.  
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Dutoit
terrible example. what gaul or frenchman today still suffers in poverty at the hands of italians? 
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
Except that Black people owned other Black people in Africa before colonialization and that the Indians owned took slaves of other Indians before the Whites arrived but since that is not in your comic book view of history. CRT is not history. It is an ideology. to Sorry if you don’t want to acknowledge that. For your 8-year old come back in 10 years and give us an update. 
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
lot of white pride going on in this thread. jesus mish i’d rather know less about this side of your readership
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
Then I suggest closing your eyes.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
you are a slaver apologist any which way you slice it. good for you!
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
Slaver apologist! Four of my ancestors died in the Civil War freeing the slaves so by your logic I can say they owe me.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Doug78
look doug assuming you arent KKK or anything can we acknowledge that black people are an underclass of people that have been and always will be poor? can we acknowledge that every S-corp and legal entity stands to gain more and more money by turning whites and blacks against each other? poor White people in Zanesville Oh are also fucked just as much as a lot of black folk. The only reason to hate each other is because it showers riches into the stockholders pockets 
Doug78
Doug78
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
CRT is not about the poor in general. It is about putting the blame on one racial group for the poverty of another. It’s about being so aware of your own racial group that it excludes all others so don’t try to give me a snow job about the rich vs the poor because we are all in this together because your aim is to divide by racial group. You couldn’t care less about poor whites or poor blacks for that matter unless they could serve you in some manner. Scratch a CRT and find a marxist underneath. 
KidHorn
KidHorn
5 years ago
No one denies slavery or American Indians being killed. You’re creating a straw man argument. What people object to is their children being taught white people are inherently bad because some white people did some mean things to some other people hundreds of years ago.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
“white people are inherently bad” that is not CRT by a long shot. also college students are grown adults not children
KidHorn
KidHorn
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
You need a reliable source of information. Stop watching CNN. Like Almost everyone else has figured out.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  KidHorn
what did i say that you are disputing? you cant just say “you suck cuz you watch CNN” and walk away. the only reason i love this blog because mish gives facts and figures at every turn. you do the opposite, you say “look it up bro” and run away
honestcreditguy
honestcreditguy
5 years ago
Of course white people have been slaves many times over, head over to Longshanks era and Hun era and tell us your feeble lies….
RonJ
RonJ
5 years ago
Critical Race Theory is not history by another name. It is Marxist propaganda. You really need to educate yourself.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  RonJ
how much marx have you read?
honestcreditguy
honestcreditguy
5 years ago
Totally Agree with this post, Most race issues today are generated by the very ones who scream it loudest. Social media and media made race 10000% larger than it is. Hate mongers like Cori Bush and Maxine Water showed it off again. Racists like them want CRT, its a racist theory with no hypothesis……
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
black people live in abject poverty with zero access to health, education and job opportunities, always have. you don’t think history has anything to do with that or is it just a coincidence they were slaves?
honestcreditguy
honestcreditguy
5 years ago
Reply to  kurtellis
they haven’t been slaves, nor their mom or grandpa, the lack of fathers, saving habits, goals, community and easy money via gangs, drugs and violence has been getting worse the more you pull away from that 200 year old history….it seems they are now a serfs to democrat caucus and their dumb ideas
Hansa Junchun
Hansa Junchun
5 years ago
I teach at a middle school. Its half white and half other races, blacks being the lesser of the various groups. The kids have been friendly to one another without regard to skin color. Yet in February a black security guard (and former prison guard) was allowed to start an African American Club. By the end of May, the 7th-8th grade black boys were overtly hostile to their white peers, and there was only one answer to every single thing they did not want to do: “That’s racist.”
That is the result of that little exercise. Not sure why anyone in the admin thought it was something necessary, or what the goal might be. If spreading dissent and division among what were harmonious relations between all students was the goal, then it succeeded admirably.
threeblindmice
threeblindmice
5 years ago
Reply to  Hansa Junchun
Horrible.  We seem to be intent on teaching 12% of the US population that 62% of the population hates them and keeps them down.  We are intent on replacing national identity (which brings us together) with ethno-tribal identity to tear us apart.
Maximus_Minimus
Maximus_Minimus
5 years ago
Reply to  Hansa Junchun
Can you venture a guess what would happen if you started a European American club?
My guess is we would already hear about it from the MSM.
kurtellis
kurtellis
5 years ago
Reply to  Hansa Junchun
even if i choose to believe your story its entirely normal in a school setting thats split evenly between 2 groups racially to antagonize each other from the most aggressive males. this is not a “horrible tragedy” as the comments below state. YOU ARE ALL SUCH BABIES AND DRAMA QUEENS
Intelligentyetidiot
Intelligentyetidiot
5 years ago
People like to learn, but no one likes to be taught.
njbr
njbr
5 years ago
Creeping fascism.
Cameras on teachers and in classrooms. 
Having students and teachers declare their political outlooks.
Banning areas of study.
threeblindmice
threeblindmice
5 years ago
Reply to  njbr
“Creeping fascism.  Banning areas of study.”  You mean like teaching biological differences between men and women (preferences for professions, work/life balance, abilities in many sports), social contagion of transgender claims, trans people who “desist” being trans, any explanation of the disproportionality of black men being shot by police other than racism?  Pledging allegiance to BLM and concepts of systemic racism?  Yes, by all means, we should not ban areas of study including CRT.  Yours is a fine reminder to fix an existing problem in your own house.
Casual_Observer
Casual_Observer
5 years ago
Reply to  njbr
It is an attempt to ban the ugly parts of history and whitewash it. 
njbr
njbr
5 years ago
Remember the phrase “white fragility”?  This is the prime example d’jour.   It becomes a way of banning the examination of history from more than one perspective.
From Rhode Island ban bill author…”“This act would prohibit the teaching of divisive concepts and … prohibit making any individual feel discomfort, guilty, anguish or any distress on account of their race or sex,” the bill’s sponsors wrote.
Whose discomfort, guilt, anguish?  Could it be the fragile white male person?
What I find ironic is that these are generally the same group that promote the institutionalized discomfort and distress of people who are not like them.  Transgender students, gay students, or pehaps even foreign students.
Funny, eh?
threeblindmice
threeblindmice
5 years ago
Reply to  njbr
What’s actually funny is you avoiding the topic to toss out an evidence-free accusation of an evidence-free concept.  What used to be a conversation stopper (an accusation of white fragility), has become a speed-bump on the way to being simply ignored.
Casual_Observer
Casual_Observer
5 years ago
Reply to  threeblindmice
A speed bump because whites are too fragile and have been for too long. 
Carl_R
Carl_R
5 years ago
Re: “This should have a major impact in the midterm elections, and I believe it will if Republican can put aside infighting.”
Do you really think there is any chance that the Republicans can put aside Donald Trump? Even though he turned the party from one with a solid majority in both houses to a minority, I just don’t see that happening. I see a continuing effort to divide what was once Ronald Reagan’s “Big Tent” party.

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