'Unmasking’ critical race theory
By: Richard D. Land
Critical Race Theory is a clear and present danger to America and to the Republic we all hold dear and pledge allegiance to. It goes against everything our Declaration of Independence and constitution stands for and is 100% the enemy of God and religious liberty. It divides us and sets us against each other. It is intended to cancel culture MLK Jr. and his methods as well as to forever terminate his dream.
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'Unmasking’ critical race theory
Last week I shared a quote from a very important column “How Adherents See ‘Critical Race Theory’” by William A. Galston, a former Clinton administration veteran (1993-95) who is currently a fellow with the Brookings Institution (a liberal “think tank”) and a weekly columnist with the Wall Street Journal.
(Photo: The Christian Post/Katherine T. Phan) I know Galston and have participated on various panels with him in Washington, D.C. I like Bill. He is liberal but he’s honest and a “straight-shooter” as we would say in Texas. That common sense, patriotic streak may be attributable to his having served a four-year stint in the United States Marine Corps when he was a young man.
In that July 14th column, Galston concludes with the following observation: “But, one thing is clear: Because the Declaration of Independence – the founding document of the American liberal order – is a product of Enlightenment rationalism, a doctrine that rejects the Enlightenment, tacitly requires deconstructing the American order and rebuilding it on an entirely different foundation.”
It took the courage of a Marine to write that column in the face of a withering propaganda barrage in favor of critical race theory in the progressive media. After this week's column, “A Deeper Look at Critical Race Theory,” it would be wise for Bill to employ a food taster at Capitol Hill receptions and D.C. dinner parties. Why? It is quite simple – he has told the truth to the progressive elites, and they often react viscerally and violently to such effrontery.
Galston “unmasks” CRT as a mortal threat to the American constitutional and judicial system and he does so in no uncertain terms.
Having dived into the original sources, Galston reports several devastating facts about CRT. First, “Critical Race Theory denies the possibility of objectivity.” Second, CRT makes “race the center of our focus,” which is in direct opposition to Dr. King’s focus and vision. As such, CRT harshly critiques the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s as making only “symbolic” and “token” solutions for systemic racism.
Third, Galston notes that CRT “is an explicitly left-wing movement inspired by the thinking of an Italian neo-Marxist Antonio Gramsci.” Fourth, CRT’s founders “identified with Black Power movements much more than with those who were working for integration.”
Lastly, CRT “rejects the principle of equality of opportunity” and asserts that the real goal must be “equality of results,” measured by the “black share of income, wealth and social standing.” CRT rejects policies such as affirmative action as mere “diversions” meant “to make the mythology of equal opportunity plausible.”
Galston concludes his exposé and critique by quoting Ibram X. Kendi, the author of the best-seller, How to Be an Anti-Racist, where he asserts that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” This would condemn America to a perpetually racist future in perpetuity.
Bill Galston has committed the unpardonable progressive sin. He has told the plain, unvarnished, democracy-destroying truth about CRT. The counter-culture lynch mob will be out in force in full-throated rage.
We need more Americans and especially more progressives to display this kind of extraordinary courage and intellectual honesty.
I hope you will join me in applauding Bill Galston’s courage, and his intellectual honesty. Please also join me in praying for him in the days ahead, because the proto-fascists and black shirts masquerading as progressives will be out to destroy him.
Dr. Richard Land, BA (magna cum laude), Princeton; D.Phil. Oxford; and Th.M., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, was president of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (1988-2013) and has served since 2013 as president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Land has been teaching, writing, and speaking on moral and ethical issues for the last half century in addition to pastoring several churches. He is the author of The Divided States of America , Imagine! A God Blessed America , Real Homeland Security , For Faith & Family and Send a Message to Mickey .
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Galston is more often than not a thoughtful essayist, however, this time he missed that mark by cherry picking from a longer paragraph of which the first sentence defines what comes next:
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in 1978, “In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”
We’ve been working on that since the late 1950’s to the present. What was true in 1964 or even 1978 no longer is. The CRT advocates would have us believe it’s still 1865 or 1965 and that there has been no progress since then. Galston is correct here. I.S. Sen. Tim Scott is as well when he said America is not a racist country.
Yawn ... I've heard it many times.
Running around claiming to be the Party of Lincoln and tossing in quotes from MLK is not working on it ... it's a mask.
Who is we, and what have you been working on?
Pure BS. Darrow published in 1859 and the theory of evolution caused controversy for 66 years resulting
in the Scopes trial where William Jennings Bryan did his best hair on fire Bible thumping to defeat science.
The CRT theory arguments are emotional, just like Bryan's arguments.
More emotion unsupported by the actual CRT theory.
I.S. ? The man is entitled to his religion and opinions.
The most important statement from the Scopes "Monkey Trial" was when Scopes finally spoke after sentencing.
States and school boards are enacting laws all over the country forbidding CRT to be used as curriculum or even
discussed as theory. It's ridiculous of course but eventually those laws will be struck down as well.
Let's hope it doesn't take another 80 years.
And we will throw it in the face of CRT advocates 24/7/365 because he’s right.
There will be no compromise on CRT. There is a multiracial middle and working class coalition opposed to it. It is the most racist idea in America today. It and it’s advocates are opposed to America and to everything America stands for.
I’ll reply to this portion of your post that’s actually on topic.
There’s nothing ridiculous at all about it. Education is a state and local issue and there’s no grounds to take the states, counties, boards to court to compel them and us to bend over to your will. CRT is racism. There is no place for it or 1619 project in our public schools. We intent to resist both forever and will never be compelled to teach that crap in our local schools. I’ve never oppressed anyone nor is anyone a victim of me and I bear no guilt for the accident of my birth color.
The most racist idea in America today is that legislatures and school boards are passing laws
making it illegal for teachers to consider racism in teaching their classes...
Their arguments border on religious hysteria, not sound teaching methods.
And there isn't one thing in CRT that does that.
I don't feel one bit of responsibility for what the people of Redding did to the Wintu Indians, do you?
It doesn't change history to ignore what white settlers did to the Wintu
both inadvertently through disease after first contact in 1826
or the systemic destruction of their farms, deliberate poisoning at a festival or the ambush by white miners in the
Bridge Gulch Massacre.
WHY be afraid to admit that skin color still determines the prejudice in many of our countryman's hearts?
Is it better than it was 100 years or 10 years ago? Certainly.
Why take it so personally?
It's our collective history. Own it.
No one said not to talk about or teach about racism. There are other ways to do that besides that controversial hostile hate filled method. It is CRT advocates who have a religious like hysteria in trying to spread their racist unAmerican propaganda.
That is hysterical nonsense. Why should we engage if you indulge in such doublespeak?
The only thing I see about it here is negative hysteria by hair on fire conservatives.
Imagine my shock /s
No, it just more catastrophyzing by people who don't want to know their history or why things work.
Teaching knowledge of American history and science is not un-American propaganda
and forbidding it reeks of totalitarianism.
This statement is hysterical over reach of un-American ideals.
Clearly propaganda run amuck and classic catastrophyzing comments.
Engage or not, we are here and we’re going to believe what we do, listen to whom we do, read whom we do, say and express what we believe come what may and you do have to share this country with us. What I said was the truth. PC, Wokeism, and CRT are what double speak are what is double speak. We are not going to change what we believe or what we say on a given issue in order for you to engage with us. Progressives will engage with us on the issues on our terms not bowing down to some terms as a precondition. We are happy enough to live our lives in our states and counties and towns on our terms with no dialogue at all with national far left democrats based in our bi coastal urban centers. Bottom line in America is that if there is conversation and dialogue between progressives and conservatives, progressives will not set the terms for it, no preconditions or no dialogue at all.
Critical Race Theory is a clear and present danger to America and to the Republic we all hold dear and pledge allegiance to. It goes against everything our Declaration of Independence and constitution stands for and is 100% the enemy of God and religious liberty. It divides us and sets us against each other. It is intended to cancel culture MLK Jr. and his methods as well as to forever terminate his dream.
It’s the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Why are you so clearly intent upon cramming that theory down our throats against our will and over our objections if only you had to power to do it?
Lol.. Stop the hysterics. No one is doing that.
That is toxic bullshit. I hope you find peace...
That's a good example of double speak (or double stupid).
No it’s not. It’s not toxic or bs to disagree with you. You will one day come to realize that there are many Americans who do not think or believe as you do and that I’m hardly alone in what I believe.
Thanks! Coming from your ideological viewpoint, I’ll take it as a compliment and move on.
You realize that the person discussed in the article and the points that person made in other articles exposing CRT is in fact a liberal?
If only.
I don't care because it doesn't matter.
Stop judging individuals and groups by assigning labels.
Repeating the hateful statements over and over doesn't make it true.
Saying that my disagreeing with you is a hateful statement over and over again doesn’t make it so. You are simply using transference to transfer your own feelings to me as if they were mine.
1. I didn’t assign any label. Read the actual article.
2. Take your advice and apply it to yourself…
1. You dont know anything about critical race theory
2. You insist on broadcasting number 1.
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oh, and you dont know anything about the 1619 Project either. There were 7 or 8 fairly long essays that made up the 1619 Project in the New York Times . My guess and assumption is that you didnt read any of them . Not a single one.
If I had to be as ignorant as you are of the subjects you try and talk about I would stop posting on forums like this one.
Your words...
False labels.
False ideas.
False, it says look at history through a different perspective, the eyes of the minority.
False, emotional misinformation.
Butt, at least you are consistent.
Yes they are! I stand by every one of them.
Not at all. It’s all true and stated correctly.
Nope. Accurate and true ideas.
Many in the minority community beg to differ. Much of the opposition to CRT comes from those in minority communities.
True rational actual information.
I am indeed consistent in what I believe and the expression of said beliefs. Thanks for noticing.
the enemy of God
I doubt that God even gives a shit about it.
God cares about all of us and all that all of us say or do.
if that was true, a lying, adulterous, murderer by neglectful incompetence, con artist would be a burnt spot on the ground now...
We all will die of something someday. Being a believer or even a leader among us does assure us of eternal salvation. It does not assure we won’t die in an auto accident, a plane crash, or some sort of mass crime where an evil person takes out innocent victims, or a natural or man made disaster. Not all of us get to simply die of natural causes at an old age. We don’t blame God for things that happen here due to the rebellion against Him here. Sometimes someone gets through one of the above situations in a miracle from God and we praise Him for the survivor and for the witness to others of the power of God.
I covered that already -
You were talking about CRT Joe Biden…..
no, I was talking about your false idol.
So the Biden Administration admitted it was errant? That seems like a good thing, doesn't it?
Does it really matter who chooses to report it?
...it sounds like a refreshing change of pace as opposed to the previous 4 years.
How would Biden have been exposed and been forced to admit its error if not for conservative media discovering it and reporting it? If not for the alternative media, it would have happened and not been corrected at all. If the liberal msm had its way it would never have been reported at all and the controversial resource would have been used.
Because 1776 American History is such a terrible thing. NOT!
Please. As if you care about a republic. You want to be ruled by a tyrant.
Speaking of 1776, perhaps you should review the Declaration of Independence, noting the "acts which may define a tyrant" listed therein, and contrast several them with your golden calf Trump...
And the most obvious and glaring comparison...
Spare us your faux patriotism. It's sickening at this point.
That is the medias job, dig, dig, dig for dirt and an opening on the WH press corp, could be yours...Kaylee.
You seem to forget that the First American Republic of 1776, (with capitals in Philadelphia and Annapolis, Princeton, York & Trenton) ,
the first 14 presidents of Congress and the Article of Confederation were a complete failure due to states rights and slavery.
The Constitution of 1789 sought to correct those mistakes but ultimately failed by 1860 due to state's rights and slavery.
We are like hamsters on a wheel sometimes.
Too bad that the msm which is an apologist arm of the democrat party doesn’t care to expose a thing about their regime.
Yes, there it is. According to liberals we are such a failure of a country. Unless their side has all the political power and then they’ll barely tolerate her while still hating the other half of the country. Michele obama wasn’t proud either until her husband was about to be President.
What nonsense. The Articles of Confederation didn't fail because of slavery.
ought to correct those mistakes but ultimately failed by 1860 due
The Constitution that's governed the greatest Republic in the history of the world failed????? More insanity [Deleted]
I stated that the First American Republic failed and there was a small crisis in 1860 that the Union seemed intent on losing. Unlike you, I only speak for myself.
The Constitution has had to be modified many times,
there's no shame in that, any more than there is for being white by birth.
The hatred here on social media is evident and whenever I participate here or on Reddit or Facebook, it isn't the
"liberals" dishing it out.
Don't assume anything about me please.
As for Michele Obama perhaps you should write to her and
ask her about CRT and her feelings on it, or being guilty of shopping while black
while in a department store being followed by security people.
Surely it did because they refused to acknowledge it's existence.
It caused more problems than it solved until the Constitution was ratified.
Yes, it failed to address slavery, narrowly avoiding becoming two countries instead of one.
The first legitimate step to address slavery was taken by the liberal party in 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation.
Sean,I understand the blind patriotism to the country of our birthright, but after 245 years can it really be considered the
best that ever was yet? The Germans and Russians have been pretty certain as well and have been proven wrong.
We aren't even half way to the Roman Empire's record (499 years), not to mention to mention that of the
Pandyam or Byzantine Empires of thousands of years.
Kindly take your personal animosity and shove it, I am not interested.
That had nothing to do with why it failed. you can't just make up reasons. You might as well blame it on the moon.
it failed to address slavery, narrowly avoiding b
It set up this thing, called the Amendment Process, that allowed slavery to be addressed when the country was ready for it.
t, but after 245 years can it really be considered the best that ever was yet? he Germans and Russians have been pretty certain as wel
How long do you imagine Germany and Russia have been Republics? You, of course, claimed the Constitution is a failure, so please point out which Constitution has governed a more successful Republic for more than 245 years. While I understand the reflexive anti-Americanism of the left, why don't you make an actual substantive argument with examples of Constitutions that have been more successful than ours?
You won’t get a reply to that awesome post!
They should teaching kids the basics.....ya know, like readin', writin', and 'rithmatic.
Instead of some fake Marxist propaganda that's meant to divide the races.
History, who needs it...
Everyone who doesn’t want to repeat a mistake of the past. Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.
And whitewashing history does not accomplish that.
No one is whitewashing history. We are teaching it in a fair and balanced way. Covering all the important details we well know about. We will not be fed propaganda that deliberately divides us nor accept guilt trips for something we had nothing to do with. We will go to figurative early over CRT and 1619. We won’t discuss it or dialogue with its proponents. They are biased hate based theories designed to re litigate grievances already being dealt with the last 70 years as if nothing has been done at all. As long as CRT is the basis of dialogue on race, there will be none. We have made a lot of progress on race issues and we’re not going to let BLM and CRT take us back to square one. There are many African Americans who do not support BLM and CRT and are resisting them and their marxist goals with us at these board meetings. We don’t need BLM or the CRT tool to develop friendships and positive relationships with African Americans and members of other minority groups. There are plenty who put MLK Jr.’s methods and dream and desire for police in their neighborhoods and school choice we know. BLM and CRT aren’t even favored by that many African Americans so we don’t have to deal with them. African Americans are no longer a monolithic political or voting block. Forget CRT. There’s no place for it unless a local school board without coercion from the feds or a state or county/city voluntarily choose to do it on a district by district basis and only if the teaching of it is not coerced upon a school by a county, state, or the feds.
Anyone that says marxist goals....deserves nothing more from me...
there you go, all fixed now...
You already divide us by religion or politics.
Some fucking religions are hate based theories about afterlife and admittance.
Awesome, then STFU, PLEASE.
Still missing the point.
True Christians would never try to divide others who have different beliefs from their own. Only CINOs do.
True Christians would not bring their own religious beliefs into politics as the only true religion. Only CINOs do.
True Christians would not fear those whose religious beliefs are different from their own. Only CINOs do.
True Christians would not fear those who have no religious beliefs (Atheists). Only CINOs do.
True Christians would not engage in proselytizing here to try to give themselves credibility as Christians. Only CINOs do.
True Christians here on NT show themselves as such by their own words, and do not attack others just for simply having different religious beliefs, no religious beliefs, or for their different political affiliations. Only CINOs do.
And it is not hard at tell who they are.
those the loudest in proclaiming their piety and/or patriotism are likely farthest from it in reality.
That plays out to be the truth here on NT. And while they may relish the idea that they are being obscure while trying to look so innocent, they are in fact very obvious as to what they really mean.
And everyone knows what and who they are.
We do need to teach a true history of our country along with government and economics in high school. We should instill a sense of pride in our nation, it’s founders, founding documents, forms of government, our culture, our ability to overcome mistakes, and to develop a more perfect Union.
Then why do you fight so hard to deny the theories of crt, climate change and evolution ?
They are part and parcel of our daily lives. For some people much more so than others.
This is a new one. CRT is now on the level of a scientific theory.
Words fail.
"Conservatives" do not care about critical race theory. I doubt if 95% of them could even come close to explaining what it actually is.
What conservatives really want is to say that America is not now nor has ever been a racist country. Conservatives are almost desperate to convince themselves that racism has only been a minor hiccup in America.
Its too late for that.
Drop the dishonesty.
Are the three things theories or not?
It's a simple yes or no answer.
...good luck with that.
Look who's talking!
Equating hard science theories that are supposed to be objectively falsifiable with an announced soft science "theory" that is simply the opinions of some activists is incredibly dishonest. Marjorie Talyor Green has some theories too, I guess we better put all her theories about jewish space lasers on the same plane as the theory of relativity. There all "theories", after all.
To quote a one time, incredibly funny member known as Bad Fish,
"can you point to where, on the doll, any of these theories hurt you personally?"
Let us all know when MTG wins a Pulitzer Prize for anything please. Maybe she believes the flat earth theory, too.
I do recommend using her initials to avoid misspelling her name again.
The Pulitzer Prize is an American journalism award for Americans awarded by Americans so there's that.
There, Their or They're?
Have a nice Sunday S.
n you point to where, on the doll, any of these theories hurt you personally?"
Keep deflecting. But what else can you do when your argument consists of applying some sort of talismanic power to the word theory and can't actually justify how you conflate hard science theories that are actually falsifiable with social science that wins, as you say, journalism awards.
CRT is a theory. As Carlito Popperss points out, ascribing nefarious agency to a complex system of causes is the hallmark of conspiracy theory.
Maybe she believes the flat earth theory, too.
Since it's a theory, we have to treat flat earth theory like global warming. It's called a THEORY! Bow down before it. None may question it.
The Pulitzer Prize is an American journalism award for Americans awarded by Americans so there's that
Wow, so despite months of the left wingers here claiming otherwise, the 1619 project is, in fact Critical Race Theory and it's obviously taught in schools. Can't wait to see you attack the leftists on the board for making that claim.
Not to mention that's the first theory I've seen supposedly validated by referencing a journalism award that's been given in the past to deniers of the soviet famine Guess those millions of dead peasants can feel better knowing a Pulitzer PRize winning journalist reported the famine never occurred.
By all means, stick to being my personal proofreader though. Water finds it level.
That was addressed in 2003.
My bold.
Dead peasants aside...
Well apparently while you are looking down your nose, you need a proof reader.
A simple thank you would be sufficient.
The shape of the earth is not a theory...
Yeah, by not rescinding an award to a journalist who knowingly helped one of the great butchers in human history cover up the murder of millions. Thank you for driving home just how worthless the Pulitzer organization remains.
It makes sense though. The same type of people who rewarded Duranty and the New York Times for feeding Americans Stalinist propaganda are more than happy to champion ahistorical nonsense like the colonists revolted to protect slavery because it also suits their ideological agenda.
A simple thank you would be sufficient
Well, when you get better at It I will. You missed some, so try again. Keep working at it and I think you can find your niche.
SP called it a theory. I was responding to him.
Peter Wood made the apt comparison:
Exactly! Great post and quote.
Oh yeah, Peter Wood. There's an objective essay. Comparing CRT to the Salem Witch trials.
How many people have been lynched over CRT to date?
Peter, the conservative Director of NAS, member of the Heartland Institute, rarely fails to convey what
non conservative people assume about those institutions.
The author of Bee in the Mouth, an scholarly attempt which devolves into an angry rant about how we lost the good old days.
Peter Wood, the author of "Diversity:The Invention of a Concept."
Also the author of "Black Majority: Negroes in South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Revolution."
Peter wasted no time in authoring "1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project.
He should be on every conservatives' biased reading list.
In most of the country CRT will only taught in our schools by some sort of coercion or overwhelming show of force to compel it. We will resist it and many other progressive initiatives and mandates to that extent. Leave us alone or compel obedience by end of the republic forever levels of force and coercion to compel obedience the only way your side will ever get it from ours.
Baseless opinion.
Classic victim-hood.
Catastrophyzing hysteria bordering on a ToS. Well done, sir!
Fortunately, it’s not up to you to decide if another members opinion is baseless or not.
Resistance to the agenda of the bi coastal ruling elites secular progressives is not victimhood. We refuse to become victims of that agenda or their dictates.
Thanks for the compliment but how so exactly?
Oh yeah, the predictable ad hominem attack rather than any substantive reply. Attacking an unrelated work with an Amazon review? Might be a new low.
How many people have been lynched over CRT to date?
How many witches were lynched during the Salem Witch Trials?
but again, you miss the point of the article. Try again.
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Did you notice that for the past week or so that the participation of some on our seeds has been nothing but attack the seeder, attack the source, or attack the author of the seed or of any support material one of us brings to the discussion? The only exception seems to be to bring up Putin and Russian intelligence agencies while making a concerted effort to say absolutely nothing about the content of the seeded article or our comments related to that?
Because only conservatives are biased..
