civil rights activists and educational leaders are pushing back in favor of programs that teach about the founding promise of the United States, rather than victimhood and "racial grievance."

BLACK CONSERVATIVE GROUP PENS OPEN LETTER URGING SCHOOLS TO DROP CRT, ADOPT 1776 UNITES

The nonprofit Woodson Center’s 1776 Unites is one such group, and it sent an open letter to the National School Boards Association and school boards around the country urging them to drop critical race theory and embrace civics and objective history.

Charles Love is a radio host, author and the assistant executive director of the Seeking Educational Excellence, a nonprofit group aimed at helping disadvantaged students achieve success. He also signed the 1776 Unites letter.

He told Fox News this week that schools need to get politics out of the classroom and teach students how to take part in their democracy.

"I talk often about the need to get away from politics – keep civics and politics different," Love said. "The engine in the machine is different from whether it has a fancy looking chassis. We’re all arguing over what the outside of the car should look like, and not the functions of the car."

In other words, the Constitution and Bill of Rights are what make the United States, not Democrats and Republicans or their positions on political issues.

"If you want to be a social justice warrior, that’s part of the freedom of America and why it’s so great," he said. "The problem is, we don’t teach them a foundation, so they’re arguing, and they’re fighting for these things, but they don’t really understand the underlying basis of civics, what the country is."

And he blasted teachers who promote socialism and Marxism over capitalism.

"Those who are railing against capitalism, if you look at what they’re saying, some of it you may agree with – you may not agree with socialism or communism but you may agree with why they’re upset," he said. "But they’re wrong because no one ever told them what capitalism was. They think a guy cheating is capitalism."

Crooks, scammers and monopolists aren’t capitalists, he said. They’re cheaters.

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The best thing about this 1776 effort is the participation in and open advocacy of it from the African American community.  They now like Harriet Tubman, Stephen Douglas, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King Jr. recognized the basic goodness of America and the opportunity to continue to develop and embrace a more perfect Union.  

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A group of Black conservatives is urging school boards around the U.S. to adopt civic-minded courses that focus on the Founding Fathers’ ideals instead of critical race theory .

In an open letter published Monday, members of the nonprofit Woodson Center’s 1776 Unites Initiative argued that CRT and similar ideas teach young children of color that they are born into a racist system with no hope to control their own lives.

"The prevailing narrative of racial grievance has been corrupting the instruction of American history and the humanities for many decades, but has accelerated dangerously over the past year," the letter reads. "The most damaging effects of such instruction fall on lower income minority children, who are implicitly told that they are helpless victims with no power or agency to shape their own futures."

LARGEST TEACHERS UNION SAYS CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS ‘REASONABLE AND APPROPRIATE’ FOR KIDS

Bob Woodson Sr., a longtime civil rights activist and the founder of the Woodson Center who has opposed critical race theory for a long time, organized the letter.

Bob Woodson Sr., a longtime civil rights activist and the founder of the Woodson Center who has opposed critical race theory for a long time, organized the letter.

"Embedded within the achievements of American history are the tools of self-betterment and self-renewal that our country has always deployed on the journey to become a more perfect union," the letter continues. "Our children deserve an authentic vision of that story, one that will help them to achieve their own human flourishing."

Instead of adopting CRT or bits and pieces of it, the group of Black conservatives is urging school boards to use their 1776 Unites curriculum, which aims to uphold "continuity, not rupture," "dignity, not grievance," and "resilience, not fragility."

"We ask you, as stewards of public school systems around the country, to lead by example and embrace materials that will inspire the next generation, like those before them, to overcome challenges, achieve their goals, and live in a spirit of service to the common good."

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They now like Harriet Tubman, Stephen Douglas, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King Jr. recognized the basic goodness of America and the opportunity to continue to develop and embrace a more perfect Union.  

You not knowing much about American history, I suppose we can forgive you mistaking Stephen Douglas for Frederick Douglas. Stephen Douglas was not African American

In the 1858 campaign for the U.S. Senate, Douglas was a vocal proponent of white supremacy, and he was Illinois’ proslavery candidate.

https://www.nprillinois.org/statehouse/2004-02-01/lincoln-race-the-great-emancipator-didnt-advocate-racial-equality-but-was-he-a-racist#:~:text=Throughout%20the%20debates%2C%20Douglas%20repeatedly%20accused%20Lincoln%20of,white%20supremacy%2C%20and%20he%20was%20Illinois%E2%80%99%20proslavery%20candidate.

Back to the drawing board XX. 

Clearly in the context of historical African Americans I was referring to the record and works of Frederick Douglas. 

You have no knowledge of these things. You have an affection for your interpretation of the founding of America. 

No one who had any experience reading American history could mistake Stephen Douglas for Frederick Douglas. 

You can if you are typing on a phone while eating at a fast food restaurant. 

The seeded article throws out a bunch of names and titles as if we are supposed to be impressed. 

Charles Love is sort of unknown as far as I can see, as are the groups mentioned. 

Big deal. 

Seeking Educational Excellence appears to be a right wing group. 

You should be impressed.  A bunch of very impressive groups and people.  It’s great to see African Americans opposing CRT at school board meetings all across America and now supporting 1776 as well.  

A patriotic history of the United States is readily available to teach our children and youth our history in a way that is factually true and inspires pride in and patriotism for our patriotshistoryusa  great exceptional nation.  The USA is a great country.