What fantasy is Ms. Ford and the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice living in? Half is somewhat true, but the other half is pure gibberish. She speaks about the misrepresentation of the 1619 project. There’s no misrepresentation; it’s pure fantasy. Many many historians have come forward and debunked it as false. Those Black people brought to Virginia on an English ship were not slaves. They were brought to Virginia on a pirate ship that captured them from a Spanish ship. The English crew set them ashore to do as they wished. It was the Virginia Burgess that enslaved them. Where did I get this information? From a national park ranger (who was Black). There’s more to the story, but that is the essence.
And Oregon’s new math! Math is racist? I’d like to see someone using that math try and design a smart phone using it. Good luck.
The following excerpts are from Hillsdale College:
Critical race theory has a series of euphemisms deployed by its supporters to describe critical race theory including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion” and “culturally responsive teaching.”
Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that Neo-Marxism would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds non-threatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Equality - the principle proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, defended in the Civil War and codified into law in the 14th and 15th amendments and the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, is explicitly rejected by critical race theorists. To them, equality represents mere nondiscrimination and provides camouflage for white supremacy, patriarchy and oppression. In contrast to equality, equity as defined and promoted by critical race theorists is little more than reformulated Marxism. In the name of equity, UCLA law professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land, wealth and redistributing them along racial lines. Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Anti-racist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal department of anti-racism. This department would be independent of (i.e. unaccountable) to the elected branches of government and would have the power to nullify, veto or abolish any law at any level of government, and curtail the speech of political leaders and others who are deemed insufficiently anti-racist. So an equity-based form of government would mean the end of not only private property but individual rights, equality under the law and freedom of speech. So to be truly anti-racist, you also have to be anti-capitalist. In other words, identity is the means and Marxism is the end.
In ending this screed, critical race theory prescribes a revolutionary program that would overturn the principles of the Declaration and destroy the remaining structure of the Constitution. Critical race theory doesn’t seem so harmless now, does it?
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