Critical race theory is teaching kids to hate each other

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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hate-each-other/>

When parents reject public-schools teaching critical race theory, a common
retort from the left is that it’s a university graduate-level analytical
framework that’s incomprehensible by children and therefore incapable of
being taught in K-12 schools.

This attempted gaslighting of parents and conservatives from Virginia Gov.
Glenn Youngkin to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — nothing to see here! —
through such false claims is destructive.

In fact, we’re already seeing the horrifying results on our kids.

Just because CRT began as a 1970s-era, law-school-level analysis doesn’t
mean it isn’t adapted for lower-level understanding.

Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton broke barriers in comprehending the laws
of physics, but the vast majority of us can never fully, technically grasp
how or what they did.

Yet the basics of physical science are age-appropriately adjusted for
masses of students from elementary to high school.

The truth is union-controlled public schools are teaching kids to be
racist — paid for by your tax dollars — and it’s making schools more
dangerous and disharmonious.

Instead of the promised racial reckoning blossoming into racial utopia,
the CRT crowd is fracturing America.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a country where children are judged
by their character, not skin color.

But in January, school officials forced students at Virginia’s West
Springfield High School to watch a racist, dehumanizing video about
microaggressions.

It depicts white people as blood-sucking, cartoon mosquitos who must be
destroyed by nonwhite people wielding flamethrowers.

In Orlando, Fla., Howard Middle School black teacher Ethan Hooper proudly
displayed his Black History Month video on TikTok, showing his white
students bow down to, luxuriously fan and cater to their black classmates.

And in Springfield, Ohio, police reported an incident at Kenwood
Elementary School, where a group of black students on the playground
rounded up white students “and forced them to state, ‘Black Lives Matter,’
against their will.”

Police say the black students could face charges of assault and menacing.

What’s unfolding in real life echoes what Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliot
found decades ago.

Starting in 1968, Elliot indoctrinated her students in a troubling
“experiment” where she’d teach kids with brown eyes to despise and
marginalize blue-eyed students and vice versa.

Her students responded aggressively against those with the opposing eye
color, leading to bullying and abuse.

Elliot’s unethical tactics needlessly harmed students’ academic
performance.

We now have a nation of Jane Elliots from coast to coast.

It’s vitally important to teach children to reject racism and learn
empathy.

But today’s schools introduce a new kind of racialism that reduces human
beings to prisoners of their race, rather than unique individuals.

Black Lives Matter and CRT are failing to create effective racial healing.

In 2014, the last year before BLM rioters began burning down majority-
black neighborhoods and destroying black-owned and -operated businesses,
Gallup found 55% of Americans said they were “very” or “somewhat”
satisfied with the state of America’s race relations.

Just 35% said they were “very” or “somewhat” dissatisfied.

Those numbers flipped in 2015, with 62% reporting dissatisfaction with
race relations and just 30% reporting satisfaction.

In 2021, things got worse, with 71% reporting dissatisfaction in race
relations and 61% this year.

We know CRT’s race-obsessed lens doesn’t work.

So why are schools doubling down on this toxic, Marxist-rooted philosophy?

It stems from the 1930s-era, Marxist-inspired Frankfurt School.

Germany’s Frankfurt School founders, who created critical theory, sought
to dismantle capitalism and Western civilization, just as America’s CRT
does today.

Indeed, BLM founder Patrisse Cullors, proudly calls herself “a trained
Marxist.”

CRT divides people by skin color through ideologically infused methods.
Despite what leftists claim, this is not teaching neutral history.

It is a political ideology that relies on lies, including The New York
Times’ “1619 Project,” an ahistorical assault on truth.

Tragically, the “1619 Project” is peddled to schoolchildren nationwide.

CRT supporters ignore the fatal effects of LBJ’s Great Society, which
ravages black families and neighborhoods.

They ignore black conservatives like Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele and
Jason Riley who prove how welfare decimates families.

They’re dead set on dismantling capitalism, never mind the good it’s done,
and teaching young Americans to loathe their country.

America’s far from perfect, but we cannot deny the enormous progress Dr.
King and the civil-rights movement wrought.

CRT backers would have us reverse that progress, stepping back to the time
of segregation.

Teachers pushing this pernicious philosophy in the classroom and out are
engaged in a perilous experiment whose results are already obvious: CRT
divides us in alarming ways.

Carrie Sheffield is a senior fellow at Independent Women’s Voice and Tony
Blankley Fellow for American Exceptionalism at The Steamboat Institute.

Comments:

Chiefdeputy21
9 March, 2023

CRT is wrong and shouldn't be taught at anytime K thru 12. People that
promote and teach CRT should be identified by vigilant parents and other
family members of students and watched closely. Conservative teachers and
other school employees should be encouraged to report on their colleagues
for inappropriate lessons and other behaviors that parents deem
unprofessional and subversive. Together we can fix this problem in the
school systems.


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