There will always be racism.....just like there will always be poor, and different socio-economic levels.CRT is not on solid intellectual or academic ground as it is based upon flawed historical analysis, to say the least.
This is not to say that there is not currently racism or that slavery had ill effects which still linger. Both are true, in my opinion. However, CRT is not about that, primarily. It is about a theory that race, and more specifically, racism, is at the center of everything foundational to modern life. It simply is not and was not.
It was indeed forced. He really didn't have a choice. Four decades earlier the VP of The United States had published what would become of the financial oppression being exercised against the south. Then, when everybody was thoroughly propagandized and tired of talking, the pot boiled over.And a union of consent was replaced with a union by force.
Claiming Lincoln preserved the union is like the abusive husband who kills his wife, as she is trying to walk away from the abusive marriage, claiming he preserved the marriage.
(Though to Lincoln's credit, he did it more than 600,000 times)
The French abolished slavery in 1794, after the (ultimately successful) slave revolt in what is now Haiti/Dominican Rep. Napolean revived the practice from 1804 until its final abolition in 1848
The Dutch East India Co signed an international agreement to abolish slavery in 1814
George III signed a law abolishing slavery in the British Isles in 1807. It would be abolished in the rest of the empire in 1833
Spain abolished slavery in Spain and all of its colonies in 1811
We did not limit slavery until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which technically only freed slaves in Confederate States. Not until the 13th amendment was ratified in 1865 did the US officially abolish slavery everywhere, and that only after years of bitter, deadly fighting over the issue
It was indeed forced. He really didn't have a choice. Four decades earlier the VP of The United States had published what would become of the financial oppression being exercised against the south. Then, when everybody was thoroughly propagandized and tired of talking, the pot boiled over.
He could have done that. The results would of course been different. I think European powers would have regained control of the continent. That's why I say he really didn't have a choice, just a job to get done. But, it's history now, to be studied. And I love digging into why things happened.He did have an alternative choice.....to abide by the Constitution.
The tyrant chose to not do so.
CRT is not on solid intellectual or academic ground as it is based upon flawed historical analysis, to say the least.
This is not to say that there is not currently racism or that slavery had ill effects which still linger. Both are true, in my opinion. However, CRT is not about that, primarily. It is about a theory that race, and more specifically, racism, is at the center of everything foundational to modern life. It simply is not and was not.
I have seen the criticisms you’ve stated, but I have not seen where the CRT thought illustrates this. I would disagree with it, if I thought that were the case it was trying to make.CRT is not on solid intellectual or academic ground as it is based upon flawed historical analysis, to say the least.
This is not to say that there is not currently racism or that slavery had ill effects which still linger. Both are true, in my opinion. However, CRT is not about that, primarily. It is about a theory that race, and more specifically, racism, is at the center of everything foundational to modern life. It simply is not and was not.
Three things;
1. Slavery was pure evil. Period.
2. I`ve never owned a slave.
3. No one alive today in the United States has ever been a slave.
lets please stop this stupid stuff and move forward together, instead of allowing liberals to keep us at each others throats.
To answer your question. No. Silence is not violence. No one should be compelled to speak on things, even if they disagree with them.That is a favorably reductive description of CRT. First, I reject the idea that slavery can be described as "the original sin". It is *A* sin that the US participated in, along with the rest of the world. Of course we need to acknowledge the reluctance of the US to end it. It took a war to do it, notwithstanding BigRed's fantasy of the South being innocent victims of Lincoln. But for you and others to couch it in that religious wording isn't descriptive. The doctrine of original sin doesn't describe the dynamics of slavery in early US history.
But, CRT gets some things right. The historical injustices committed against Black people in the US of course has affected Black people generationally in culture and status. But that's about all that CRT gets right. And that part that they get right could be taught without the identitarian ********. CRT makes some specific claims about the nature of White people and the nature of Black people, particularly that White people manifest racism always.
So my objection to CRT is not that they're teaching that the generational injustices committed against Black people have disadvantaged Black people living today. The thing they also teach is that all the social institutions today were created by white people to maintain their power to oppress Black people and that is simply nonsense.
The goal of CRT is to tear down all those institutions and create new ones which flip the hierarchy. The goal isn't just to end racism--they don't believe that racism can be ended, because they believe White people are inherently racist--the goal is to change the power structure, create new institutions, where they get to use institutional power against their oppressors.
A sane and functional society would mock that idea and drive the ideologues who promulgate it to just stop.
I agree that we're no where close, and that race relations have made great strides in the past 100 years. But I completely disagree that the CRT academia aren't saying it's still bad. Because they are. Micro-aggressions and cultural appropriation, and all that lingo they've developed, to me sound like excuses to claim racism is still as bad. And if we're talking within the thinking of CRT, yes, people ARE being told they're racist. We're told that if we want to live in a society that no longer cares about immutable characteristics, like skin color, that that's actually racist. So yes. People are being called racists for saying or doing things that aren't actually racist.
ETA: A question for you. Is silence really violence? Must a White person be an anti-racist ally to forgive their original sin of racism? Now see, that's an appropriate usage of original sin to describe the way CRT academia thinks about it. They think White people are inherently racist and just can't help it--they keep saying it--as if they're incapable of racism themselves. That whole dogma is racist to the core. Hell no that ideological ******** should not be taught in school.
Slavery, or to be more comprehensive, inequality is the original sin of the United States. Our country was founded on the premise of all people are equal, and yet, before the ink had dried on the Constitution, that had already been enshrined as false. And again, you have to look at the big picture and competing interests. Our nation would not exist, and the framework to fix those problem would be absent. So I can practically say that I understand, but it was still a bad thing with hope of future good coming from it.The original sin of The United States...
Now that's really is another interesting topic deserving of its own thread. Obviously it isn't slavery.
Reckon how many people could have the faintest glimmer of what that sin might be.
The more we push this the farther back we go.To answer your question. No. Silence is not violence. No one should be compelled to speak on things, even if they disagree with them.
Now we are back to what CRT actually teaches. No, White people are not inherently racist. You imply that CRT teaches this. I have also heard this criticism, but again I have not seen this stated within CRT itself. Now sure, I’m confident you can find “someone,” who offers that opinion, but is that generally accepted? I do not believe it is.
The original sin of the United States started long before slavery, but I guess it is hard to see when you are wearing blinders.Slavery, or to be more comprehensive, inequality is the original sin of the United States. Our country was founded on the premise of all people are equal, and yet, before the ink had dried on the Constitution, that had already been enshrined as false. And again, you have to look at the big picture and competing interests. Our nation would not exist, and the framework to fix those problem would be absent. So I can practically say that I understand, but it was still a bad thing with hope of future good coming from it.
Clearly, because filling their heads with ******** for the past 20 years has worked out real well. Why not pile on some more.This thread is probably the best argument, I've seen, for CRT being taught in schools.
"CRT has its underpinnings in the philosophical writings of Derrick Bell in the 1970s and early 1980s. It was born out of the realization by legal scholars, lawyers, and activists that many of the advances of the civil rights era had stopped and in some circumstances were being reversed."You're calling it racist indoctrination; can you please tell me exactly how CRT is that? In what way does the concept cultivate racism against, assumedly, White people living today.
Following the Civil War, and the emancipation of the slaves, vagrancy laws popped up all across the South (ie VA Vagrancy Law of 1866). A key component of those laws was being employed. If someone couldn’t prove the were employed, they could be imprisoned, and forced to work. If they ran away, the would be caught, shackled, and forced to work - no compensation. I imagine I need not tell you who this typically applied to.Three things;
1. Slavery was pure evil. Period.
2. I`ve never owned a slave.
3. No one alive today in the United States has ever been a slave.
lets please stop this stupid stuff and move forward together, instead of allowing liberals to keep us at each others throats.