Nearly the conclusion of the article - The CRT theme runs deep in the Obama psyche. And it continues to impact us each and every day.
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| Critical Race Theory Explained |
| 2021-07-09 |
| [Breitbart 2012] Last week, Breitbart.com released video demonstrating Barack Obama’s close relationship with Derrick Bell, the father of Critical Race Theory (CRT). And we’ve seen Soledad O’Brien try to twist the definition of critical race theory in order to protect Obama by grabbing a quick definition from Wikipedia. But just what is CRT? Why is it so dangerous? And what role does it play in President Obama’s thinking? Let’s begin from the beginning. CRT was an intellectual development in the late 1970s and early 1980s in which some scholars, perturbed by what they perceived as a loss of momentum in the movement for racial equality, began to doubt that the constitutional and legal system itself had the capacity for change. This criticism mirrored a Marxist attack long voiced in academia: that the Constitution had been a capitalist document incapable of allowing for the redistributionist change necessary to create a more equal world. To create a more equal world, the Constitution and the legal system would have to be endlessly criticized — hence critical theory — and torn down from within. The Marxist criticism of the system was called critical theory; the racial criticism of the system was therefore called Critical Race Theory. So, what does CRT believe? In their primer, Critical Race Theory, Richard Delgado (one of the movement’s founders) and Jean Stefancic set out some basic principles: "Racism is ordinary, not aberrational"; "Our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material." When taken together, these principles have serious ramifications. First, they suggest that legal rules that stand for equal treatment under law — i.e. the 14th Amendment — can remedy "only the most blatant forms of discrimination." The system is too corrupted, too based on the notion of white supremacy, for equal protection of the laws to ever be a reality. The system must be made unequal in order to compensate for the innate racism of the white majority. Second, these principles suggest that even measures taken to alleviate unequal protection under the law — for example, the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education — were actually taken for nefarious purposes, to serve white interests. This is exactly what Derrick Bell believed: he said that Brown had only been decided in order to prevent the Soviet Union from using American racial inequality as a public relations baton to wield against the white-majority United States. So here’s what we’re left with, in simple terms. Racism cannot be ended within the current system; the current system is actually both a byproduct of and a continuing excuse for racism. Minority opinions on the system are more relevant than white opinions, since whites have long enjoyed control of the system, and have an interest in maintaining it. This is a deeply disturbing theory. It is damaging both to race relations and to the legal and Constitutional order. As Jeffrey Pyle rightly sums up in the Boston College Law Review: |
| Posted by:Snomoth Whereling9836 |
| #9 "You are the source of all my problems" reads out pretty much the same as "I'm completely sane, it's everyone else that's crazy..." There is a core of value in this and points toward a widespread human failing. But when it is developed into The system must be made unequal in order to compensate it becomes utter BS. |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-07-09 12:18 |
| #8 Teachers union president Randi Weingarten claims Republicans 'bullying' teachers on race, 'honest history' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-09 09:20 |
| #7 "You are the source of all my problems" reads out pretty much the same as "I'm completely sane, it's everyone else that's crazy..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-07-09 09:18 |
| #6 AFT head Randi Weingarten makes over $560,000 per year, 9 times average teacher salary, records show |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-09 09:10 |
| #5 Nearly the conclusion of the article - The CRT theme runs deep in the Obama psyche. And it continues to impact us each and every day. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2021-07-09 07:30 |
| #4 They're Marxist. They've been out to destroy Western Civ since the beginning. They're not stopping. CRT is just an excuse why everyone and everything else is responsible for the failure in one community* while the rest of world plods on forward. Saboteurs, counter revolutionaries! Cause you know Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela are such excellent examples of what they can deliver. Equity - reduce everyone to poverty (except the usually politically connected one percenters). * strangely enough that failure occurs in the domains of one party for generations after generations and somehow everyone else is to blame. Just as that same party is responsible of the old history of slavery, segregation and the clan, but the whole country is to blame. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-09 07:06 |
| #3 More like Fentanyl Arse Theory. Main tenets: BIPOCs are intrinsically hooping. White girls are easiest / make the best b!tchez. Obama coulda been my son. All your money are belong to us. |
| Posted by: Glack Slinenter2908 2021-07-09 06:48 |
| #2 ^^^^ PDC Pretty Damn Close But you left out the part about having "statutes" (Urban Pidgeon Roosts as many call them) installed commemorating the life of this "drug addled genius" |
| Posted by: Vernal McGurque3748 2021-07-09 03:56 |
| #1 Let see if I got it straight. If it wasn't for structural racism, George Floyd would've got Nobel Price in medicine - for finding cure for cancer AND become a Silicon Valley billionaire. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-07-09 03:23 |