Critical Race Theory – Why you should be outraged and what you can do about it.

If you don’t subscribe to Imprimus, from Hillsdale College you are missing an enormous opportunity to keep yourself informed.  (To subscribe and read the full editorial, click this link.)

This month’s editorial is on Critical Race Theory, What it is and how to fight it.  Here are some excerpts, but I encourage you to read the entire article.

CRT is a descendent of Marxism.  Classic Marxism poised the “Haves” (i.e. Capitalists) against the “Have Nots” (i.e. the workers.  Since that concept didn’t work in America because of our culture of entrepreneurship, the left subsititued “The Oppressed” for the “Have Not” and the “Oppressors” for the “Haves”.  This is the concept of identity politics pitting blacks versus whites, men against women, gays versus straights, etc.  By their definition, if you were not part of an oppressed class, you were an oppressor.  Here are three examples of how this is being taught in schools:

  1. In Cupertino, California, an elementary school forced first-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”
  2. in Springfield, Missouri, a middle school forced teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix” based on the idea that straight, white, english-speaking, Christian males are members of the oppressor class and must atone for their privilege and “covert white supremacy”
  3. In Philadelphia, an elementary school forced fifth graders to celebrate “Black Communism” and simulate a Black Power rally to free 1960s radical Angela Davis from prison.

According to a recent Gallup poll, 77 percent of conservatives are afraid to share their political beliefs publicly.  This has to stop.  We can’t live in fear.  Choose courage.  Get engaged.

It’s easy to stop a lone dissenter; it’s much harder to stop 10, 20 or 100 who stand up for American principles.  PARC is putting together a team of people who will write letters to politicians and Letters to the Editor of newspapers.  To be put on that list, send an email to se*******@pl********************.or.