Condoleezza Rice Rejects CRT: ‘I Don’t Have to Make White Kids Feel Bad for Being White’
By: Tre Goins Phillips
Condoleezza Rice is exactly right. CRT is a destructive way of presenting propaganda as history.
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Condoleezza Rice Rejects CRT: ‘I Don’t Have to Make White Kids Feel Bad for Being White’
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denounced critical race theory during an appearance this week on ABC’s “The View,” telling the show’s co-hosts that making “white kids feel bad for being white” is not the way to empower black children.
Rice, who served as the first black woman to lead the U.S. Department of State after growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, made the comments in response to Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, saying last month he does not believe parents “should be telling schools what they should teach.”
During a separate appearance on WAVY-TV , a local Virginia news station, McAuliffe said critical race theory “doesn’t exist” in the Old Dominion, adding it “doesn’t matter” how it’s defined.
After discussing a series of instances regarding critical race theory being taught in classrooms, Rice said Wednesday she’s “not certain 7-year-olds need to learn it.”
Co-host Joy Behar said parents need to accept whatever is being taught in public schools and, if they’re unhappy with it, “they’re going to have to homeschool their kids.”
“Well, they’re actually homeschooling them in increasing numbers, and I think that’s a signal,” replied Rice. “First of all, parents ought to be involved in their children’s education. … I think parents ought to have a say. We used to have parent-teacher conferences. We used to have PTAs. There are lots of ways for parents to be involved, and they should be.”
The former secretary of State then transitioned to speaking directly to critical race theory:
My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice, but they also told me, “That’s somebody else’s problem, not yours. You’re going to overcome it and you are going to be anything you want to be.” That’s the message that I think we ought to be sending to kids. One of the worries that I have about the way that we’re talking about race is that it either seems so big that, somehow, white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past — I don’t think that’s very productive — or black people have to feel disempowered by race.
“I would like black kids to be completely empowered, to know that they are beautiful in their blackness, but, in order to do that, I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white,” added Rice.
Lead co-host Whoopi Goldberg interjected to say teachers who are good at their job will merely educate their students on the historic problems of racism in hopes they won’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
Rice responded that she, of course, has “no problem” telling kids “what happened.”
“But let’s remember, history is complex,” she noted. “Human beings aren’t angels now and they weren’t angels in the past. And so how we teach about our history is also important.”
Those comments frustrated co-host Sunny Hostin, who claimed parents across the U.S. are just angry because teachers are finally teaching the “real” history of America and they don’t want to reach a point of “true racial reconciliation.”
“Come on now,” said Rice. “People are being taught the true history, but I just have to say one more thing: It goes back to how we teach the history.”
“We teach the good and we teach the bad of history,” the former top diplomat continued. “But what we don’t do is make 7- and 10-year olds feel that they are somehow bad people because of the color of their skin. We’ve been through that, and we don’t need to do that again for anyone.”
Behar, still unconvinced, shot back, telling Rice that kind of divisiveness isn’t intentional.
Rice, for her part, said such division is very much “part of the plan.”
“We all have to learn about our history,” she explained to Behar, “but we also have to recognize that we have to live together and we’re going to do better living together if we don’t make each other feel guilty.”
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As far as education goes, here is what "we the people" must do:
People/parents need to create Community committees in every school district across America
and
1) The Committees need to ensure that members attend ever school board meeting to ensure that the public's interest and that of the students are being served, not the monopoly interests of the Teacher's unions.
2) The devious ideological nature and practices of local school systems must be brought to an end.
3) Community Committees should insist that contracts with the Teacher's unions prevent teachers from using classrooms and abusing academic freedom to indoctrinate students about CRT or any other radical theories.
4) Private attorneys and legal groups should be recruited to launch lawsuits against CRT training & teaching in public schools, arguing that discrimination on the basis of race and or color in addition to sex, gender and religion, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
5) The Committees should demand competition in education.
6) The Committees should develop & train potential candidates to run for local school boards.
Great ideas one and all. I’m proud to be considered as a domestic terrorist by this regime of “let’s go Brandon” and his AG. Thank God Mc Connell kept that freak off the Supreme Court!
I also think while we teach the good and bad of history it has to be age appropriate. They can teach the unvarnished truth to High School Students but it makes no sense to teach 5th and 6th graders things they're unable to understand or put into the context of history vs. the present. Anyone who wants to divide children into racial groups doesn't belong in our education system. I just wish MR Rogers was still alive to give his opinion on CRT, I doubt he'd approve of filling children's heads full of feelings of Hate, Guilt, Resentment, and Mistrust.
As sometimes happens in a world of ignorance, the right has somewhat successfully (at least within their own sphere of influence) branded "CRT" as something anti-white being taught in grammar or high schools. The fact that this is a lie is immaterial in the ignorant world of the far right. The person who started all this CRT hooha in the media is a conservative grifter named Christopher Rufo, who actually admitted that he was using "CRT" as a catch-all for classroom activities that white parents might not approve of. We even got the old "communism" and "socialism" charges , because occasionally people associated with CRT are people not totally unfriendly to socialist ideas.
The problem is CRT is not taught in schools , it is a legal theory whose teaching is confined to discussions of the US justice system.
ewhat successfully (at least within their own sphere of influence) branded "CRT" as something anti-white bei
Let's talk about ignorance. The left either claim CRT doesn't exist, or CRT is just teaching kids about slavery, and if you can't teach CRT, you can't talk about Jim Crow. In the same thread, left wingers will claim it doesn't exist, or it is the only think standing between a total ban on acknowledging slavery.
Most Americans had never heard of critical race theory until Christopher Rufo complained about it on Fox News appearances and suggested , rather specifically, that conservatives should label anything they dont like about the teaching of racial issues in schools as "critical race theory". Why anyone promote recognition of something so obscure? Because he learned that critical race theory does have "divisive" elements to it, and if he could label many unrelate things as "critical race theory" to the average uninformed right winger he could raise his own profile, make a little money off it, and create a "brand" for himself.
Just more basic right wing dishonesty at work.
Agree 1000%
Haven't heard of that at all
Again, CRT is a legal theory about systemic denial of real estate transactions or redlining particularly
by the FHA, the 7 Levittown projects and the refusal by SCOTUS to hear the cases.
Government sanctioned discrimination.
There is nothing in the official CRT that has anything to do with teaching small white children to hate themselves. That is strictly a hysterical dramatic white parent issue with different school boards.
I didn't see the show, but I saw and read the many excepts. I thought Rice was magnificent with the haters looking like haters. If one is a rational human being, it was an obvious victory of the decency of Condoleeza Rice over the hate-filled ideology adopted by the Teacher's union.
The liberal fans of “the view” really dislike her as the conservative host. They can’t handle her calm presentation of her beliefs and her ability to take on all three of the others effortlessly. She’s exactly right about her views of CRT. Behar basically parroted what Mc Auliffe said in the Va. governor debate about parents having absolutely no role in the public school education of their own kids and if parents don’t like it they can home school their kids. Rice said that they are doing exactly that in increasing numbers.
They are on the losing side of the cariculum battle and they are on the wrong side of history.
You are right. They are on the wrong side. I notice that the opposition to the anti CRT position is muted when it’s an African American is the CRT opponent.
They do have to be very, very careful when dealing with a monolithic vote, which has blindly supported them in lock-step for so long.
Funny thing about CRT is that I live in a small town in AZ in the Mexican border and we have zero problem with people espousing CRT, because they don't. When you consider that the majority of the population is Hispanic and the majority do not accept the tenets of CRT. You only see it in the liberal Democrat run areas like Tucson, Phoenix, and Flagstaff, i.e. big university cities, and even then not as much as other areas of the country.
Good grief. My wife is exactly like you.
She doesn't need to be taught about white aggressions (or their self awarded superiority)
She's a blend of Spain/Mexico and Colorado NA.
She schooled in the LA public schools. Prejudice by whites is an open secret.
HS was worse, working for the government even worse, backhanded compliments indicating most
Mexicans weren't as capable etc. Hurtful compliments about how pretty she was for a (@#$%)(*&%^$)
CRT is a legal theory about the damage of redlining blacks since 1865 particularly after 1945.
Indians and Mexicans have been "redlined" in their own county far longer than blacks.
CRT has been hijacked by people that don't want white people to have to hear how bad their ancestors were.
Too fucking bad.
What I find interesting is that so many people of Mexican, NA and even Jewish heritage are so silent
on the topic.
100 years ago, Texas Rangers and the USArmy ran roughshod along the TX and AZ border
dispensing vigilante justice killing Texans and Arizonans of Mexican descent with impunity.
Mexicans had no rights.
Figure out what you think CRT is, don't assume it is what you heard, or that all these privileged
people in white neighborhoods like Grapevine TX have a clue about CRT or discrimination.
You should not have to go to Vietnam to prove that you are as good as everyone else in the mud.
You are not telling me things I do not already know, having grown up with it. It is not, at least in my area anyway, that we are silent about it. We just have different ways of dealing with it. When I was growing up, my town was run by a small minority of LDS Mormons who ran the city government and and most businesses. When I was growing up, I regularly got beat up up by the Anglos for being part Mexican and beat up by some Mexicans for being part Anglo on my father's side. Talk about identity crisis. I saw my share of racism growing up. The Mormons were bigoted and racist, employing the Hispanic locals and paying lesser wages than their fellow Mormons and non Hispanics up until about the mid 80's when a lot of Hispanic parents made sure their kids got college educations. Those kids came back to town and slowly displaced that Mormon minority and started taking over the town. The pendulum then swung the other way but made sure not act like those they replaced. And they were and are today decent, tolerant, and proud Americans, both Republican and Democrat. I went to Vietnam knowing I was as good as anyone else and had nothing to prove. Having been raised by my non English speaking maternal grandmother who raised me and drummed that into me from a early age. My apologies for possibly straying off topic and ranting
No apology expected. It's all pertinent.
I never met my inlaws they were both dead before I got here
One BIL was a banger in LA.
Because of his frequent arrests, the girls were not taught Spanish or allowed to speak it at home.
Later they both married white men and with those last names, magically became white by assumption.
The youngest brother insisted on keeping his accent and although a successful nurse
could have done better.
They also had a Spanish only Grandmother that lived with them and taught them the meaning of
conchas, lol
Where, what neighborhoods did your wife live in, SP?
I lived in the Boyle Heights area of ELA and also in Montebello and PR.
ELA, then Montebello, Greenwood St, in front of the Montebello HS.
Then Pasedena
Maybe ? LOL.
I spent part of my formative years in Highland Park and Lincoln Heights area back when it was safe to roam the hills of Highland Park as a child.
Where in ELA? Ask her if she knows White Fence also known by the initials WF.
I know Greenwood St but I think that is the Montebello intermediate school. The HS if I remember right is on Cleveland St. Of course, I'm old so I could have it ass backwards.
After a hard night off to Atlantic Blvd for homemade Menudo.
I lived on Rose Lane for a while right between Olympic and Whittier Blvd.
Pretty sure ELA is short for East Los Angeles. It was when I lived there.
ELA is East Los Angeles, Doc.
Yep. In my teenage years back in the late 60's very early 70's I was all over that area. My brother in law at the time's father owned a towing business. I learned to drive standard on a Chevy 3/4 ton truck with a Holmes 440 towing rig on the back end. Drove that all over the LA freeways. By the time I graduated from high school, I could drive just about anything short of a 18 wheeler. I had a blast.
I enjoyed living in Boyle Heights in ELA. Could be a little rough but it was fun, lots of history/culture there.
Did you ever go out to El Monte Legion Stadium? It was neutral ground so no trouble was allowed there.
Where you living in Lincoln Heights when you did the driving around LA?
Remember this?
The most famous restaurant in ELA.
Or this?
Looks familiar.
Thanks for the confirmation, empty head and all.
In other words you have nothing to say about Biden and democrats great things they have done….
“but we also have to recognize that we have to live together and we’re going to do better living together if we don’t make each other feel guilty.”
I wish she would offer her leadership, and get us away from career assholes.
Exactly. It’s important to comity and civil dialogue to not make one group feel either inferior or guilty.
Condoleeza Rice is the most over rated person to ever be the focus of anything.
She was a national security advisor and Secretary of State for the United States. She’s an academic at Stanford University. That’s overrated?
I think bbl is saying she's overrated because she doesn't support many of the lefts moronic ideals
That is the bottom line. It’s interesting to note the marginalization and denigration of certain African Americans by the progressive left. Many who claim to be anti racist are themselves very racist when it comes to racial minorities of any race who are conservatives.
it's more interesting to note how and why the right feels so compelled to publicly present black conservatives, repeatedly.
As if there’s supposed to be something wrong with that….We’ve been saying and especially since Trump that we are a multiracial working and middle class coalition.
so I've heard. looks like the R's got all the good ones, huh?
So much for that "unity" crap they've been spewing.
You all want inclusion and unity, well, there it is. And here you are complaining about it.
I’d like to see the current regime lift a finger to try to generate some national unity on any issue.
They couldn't generate a single original thought let alone the slightest bit of unity.
Sad but true. They are governing by executive order and what ever they can get done 51-50 in the senate under reconciliation. The one thing they got Republican cooperation on has been blocked in the house because it was bi partisan.
And that block come from within.
Exactly. There is no bi partisanship anywhere in Washington DC.
As a matter of fact, we did. I’m proud of each and every single one of the members of our multiracial coalition.
The quote of the day:
"We don't have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage, the right-wing media's pedals to juice their ratings.".....Barack Obama
I guess that’s one way to describe child rape in negligent Virginia government schools.
Not to mention the cover up of that event that was attempted.
Proud of this?
Really? Where did you invent that one? That secular progressive school board would have exposed him in a quick second if what you allege were true.
seems to work pretty well on the gullible, why change now...
The secular progressive left is quite gullible.