These days, “black oppression” is a tactic used in dirty politics. But in my early life, it was very real. The Jim Crow days were a landscaped wilderness between slavery and freedom – a mirage of freedom.  

But I’ll spare the stories. It’s over. Holding on to that stuff is like walking around with a corpse on your back. Drag it around for too long and your soul rots from moral gangrene – a spirit of revenge if you have power; a spirit of resentment if you don’t.  If you have both, you become Maxine Waters. So, no. 

During the civil rights days, any time MLK wanted to give Southern blacks hope that freedom would come someday, he used the imagery of the Hebrew slaves escaping Egypt, enduring the wilderness, and finally reaching the Promised Land.  

“We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” said this modern-day Moses. “But it doesn’t matter with me now.  Because I’ve been to the mountaintop.  … And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.”

Today, 156 years after the death of slavery and after Jim Crow’s been a corpse for 56 years, the question of whether American blacks have reached the “Promised Land,” remarkably, depends on whom you ask. 

It reminds me of the real Moses who was famous for his headaches while leading ex-slaves with two different attitudes toward their predicament.  Most saw the glass as half empty; a few, half full.  

Ex-slaves who saw the glass as half empty died in the wilderness. All of them. God Himself wouldn’t put up with their incessant complaining and protests. For the rest, a trip that could’ve taken 11 days, took 40 years. Why?  Because too many of them, although free, still thought and acted like slaves.  

In Numbers 13:21, the Hebrews were on the outskirts of Canaan, the Promised Land, a land “flowing with milk and honey.” Moses sent spies to check it out and bring word back.  Discouraged men, after seeing the gargantuan challenges, brought back an “evil report” – fake news from the Canaan News Network (CNN).

 “We be not able to go up against the people,” they said. “For they are stronger than we.”  The people of that land are giants and “we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so were we in their sight.”

Caleb and Joshua disagreed.  With God on their side, the Hebrews were the real giants, they said.

“Let us go up at once, and possess it,” said Caleb, “for we are well able to overcome it.”

But the people – distracted by uncertainty, suffering without luxuries, enough water only to stay alive, and monotonous food – surrendered to a slave’s mentality.  So the “we be not able” crowd split from the “we are well able” crowd.  

They complained against Moses, protested against God, and picketed for the Hebrews to “make a captain” who could lead them back to the government that enslaved them.  That wasn’t an option.  They died in the wilderness between Egypt and the Promised Land.  

Hebrews who refused to give in to the slave mentality went on to clumsily influence the course of history. To this day, the progeny of these Hebrew ex-slaves – the Jewish people – prosper far beyond their numbers while facing down deep hatred.  And they prosper without the incessant complaining, protesting, and excuse-making that got their ancestors stuck in the wilderness. Lesson learned.

Blacks are in a similar predicament today – the discouraged ones. But it’s much stranger. They’re stuck in a self-imposed wilderness inside a “Promised Land” flowing with more milk and honey than any nation in history.  And they’re free.  

But they’ve “made captains” who create imaginary impediments that they say still enslave blacks in America. “You be not able,” they say.  These are critical race theorists, anti-racists, and BLMers who have no incentive to give up the slave mentality because, rather than being punished, their bickering gets rewarded.  

So they’ve built a Wilderness Industry – people and organizations skilled at making complaints, protests, and excuses bloom in the desert. There are workshops, degrees, jobs and careers, how-to books, political and social acclaim, and big money. Worse, they’re using the Wilderness Industry to put the rest of us in slavery.

“Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism,” writes Ibram X. Kendi in How To Be An Antiracist,” (2019), whose speeches earn $20,000.  “At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types.”

Get that? Me either. But I think he’s saying: “All whites are racists. The ‘system’ is racist. It always will be.  So we must dismantle it.”  

The Wilderness Industry has created new terms and tactics, not to solve problems, but to dignify resentment, hide the real causes of disparities, and spread the slave (victim) mentality to as many discouraged groups as possible.

Here’s a morsel you’ll find in Critical Race Theory (Third Edition), by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (2017):

Critical race theorists “urge jury nullification to combat the disproportionate incarceration of young black men,” the authors write.  “If the jury believes that the police system is racist or that the young man is of more use to the community free than behind bars, it will vote to acquit.”

Never mind that the crime, especially violent crime, that young black men commit is wildly disproportionate.  But facts don’t matter. These people are not paid to solve problems; they’re paid to come up with flatulent terms that make complaining sound intelligent. Like, internal colonialism, interest convergence, language rights, Anglo-centric standards, counterstorytelling, differential racialization, blah, blah. 

Meanwhile, in troubled black neighborhoods, cultural cancer metastasizes to Stage IV.  Since it’s become unfixable, these new overseers stay busy building towers of racial babel using jerry-rigged words that cover up the real mess.

Yet, no matter how many people suffer, they are somehow insulated from accountability as they deliberately wander in a fake wilderness advocating for hordes of discouraged blacks to be shipped onto government doles – the new slavery….

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Last week, the Ohio State Board of Education repealed an “anti-racism” resolution and replaced it with something far more meaningful. Gone was the language of division, blame, and condemnation; in its place was offered something more hopeful .

The Board stood against teachings that “seek to ascribe circumstances or qualities, such as collective guilt, moral deficiency, or racial bias, to a whole race or group of people.” The Board also expressed “its unwavering commitment to excellence in education for all, education that empowers each student to reach his or her full potential” not as a member of a particular race – as was woven throughout Resolution 20 – but simply “as a member of the next great generation of Ohioans.”

As a native Ohioan and a former mayor of Cincinnati, it pains me to see how critical race theory is used to both reframe our history, our conversations and even alter the courses of action we must take to improve the lives of all of our children. 

I denounce this educational fad, not as a Black man, but as an American.

Allow me to explain just one way in which critical race theory undermines — rather than upholds — educational aspirations in Ohio and in the United States.

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I was pretty sure that the left would not argue on behalf of CRT or 1619 propaganda against the words of a couple of African Americans opposed to it.  Both of these writers are exactly right.  Even if Biden and Garland want to label us as domestic terrorists for saying so.  

Biden White House Was Fine with Classifying Parents as Domestic Terrorists

Katie Pavlich

Source: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

New documents exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show the White House was aware of a letter written by the National School Boards Association classifying concerned parents as domestic terrorists engaged in hate speech. 

"Attached is a letter President Garcia asked that I share with the board. It was sent to President Biden concerning threats to public schools and school board members. We co-signed the letter which lays out the current issues local school board members are facing and asks for federal cooperation with state and local law enforcement as well as public schools to address these serious issues. It also asks for threat assessments regarding the current situation. Additionally, in talks over the last several weeks with White House staff, they requested additional information on some of the specific threats," NSBA member Chip Slaven wrote in an email, making it clear the White House was involved before the letter was released publicly. 

Shortly after the letter was sent to President Joe Biden, the Department of Justice released a memo addressing the situation and indicated the FBI was getting involved, just as NSBA has requested.

"NSBA requests a joint expedited review by the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Homeland Security, along with the appropriate training, coordination, investigations, and enforcement mechanisms from the FBI, including any technical assistance necessary from, and state and local coordination with, its National Security Branch and Counterterrorism Division, as well as any other federal agency with relevant jurisdictional authority and oversight," the NSBA letter dated September 29 states. "Additionally, NSBA requests that such review examine appropriate enforceable actions against these crimes and acts of violence under the Gun-Free School Zones Act, the PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the Violent Interference with Federally Protected Rights statute, the Conspiracy Against Rights statute, an Executive Order to enforce all applicable federal laws for the protection of students and public school district personnel, and any related measure."…

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Backlash is building after a video of a huge banner accusing a Catholic school of “white privilege” that was displayed at a North Carolina high school football game last week hit the media, yet another example of the poisonous critical race theory that has invaded the nation’s classrooms.

Before the game between teams from a North Carolina school district, cheerleaders from Butler High School displayed the pink sign reading “Sniff, sniff. You smell that? Privilege” with the P-word in white and bracketed by dollar signs.

The message is that Butler’s opponent, Charlotte Catholic High School was fielding a team that benefitted from “white privilege” a racist slur that has become an integral component of the “woke” left’s cultural jihad against America’s history and traditions that while outlandish, has been embraced by the media, major corporations and the upper echelon of one of the nation’s two political parties.

One mother who is the parent of a student at Charlotte Catholic who was in attendance at the game spoke out against what at best was insensitive and at worst, a display of outright bigotry expressed her dismay during an interview on Fox & Friends.

Melissa Swanson, the single mother of a biracial son told host Ainsley Earhardt that the sign was definitely a bigoted message directed at the Catholic students and their families.

(Video: Fox News)

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A sad example of racism directed at white people by others.  

Imagine being so ashamed of your past you don't want it taught to your kids. 

That was three years before I was born so I should be held responsible for reparations and my kids should be taught to feel personal guilt for that.  NOT!  

In other words, you are perfectly happy if all of our children are taught a lame whitewashed history of The United States, whose most defining time in history was a great civil war fought over slavery, because you worry it might hurt an imaginary white child's feelings? Get outta here! False grace is less than no grace!

Really? Is that all you've got? So Lame...

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That is just a bad Peewee Herman imitation! 

I’ll go with the wisdom of the African American authors of the article i seeded and the excerpt of the 2nd supporting one.  I also go along with what  Condoleezza Rice said on the subject on “The View the other day.  There are many African Americans uncomfortable with BLM and CRT.  

I think that he never read the seeded article or the excerpt of the other one and never noticed that both were written by African Americans.  

I think he never realized he was responding on a seed written by an African American author and simply wanted to go on some sort of offensive here.  

He’s mastered and beat that skill hands down!  

Click on the time and date above to see and hear his awesome message of hope for flyover heartland America.  We are the resistance!  

There is no cure for the malady that is the left, particularly on issues like this one.  

Without a doubt that is true!