Critical race theory has become a hot topic at school board meetings around the country – but similar race-based programs, including the New York Times’ 1619 Project and some equity lessons, are also drawing criticism, even as they’ve received a warmer reception in classrooms.
But some 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.”
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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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”I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” — Booker T. Washington
Throughout history, on every continent except Antarctica, slavery was a way of life. Japan was first to outlaw it in 1590, but it was the West, primarily the UK, then the US, that first fought to eliminate it. The Brits stationed warships off the West coast of Africa to stop slave ships & the US banned the importation of slaves in 1807, early in our history.
And the founding fathers planted within the US Constitution the ideals that ultimately caused the crisis of conscience leading to over 350,000 Union soldiers giving their lives to eliminate it, 40,000 of whom were Americans who were Black & died under the same flag too many athletes now despise.
CRT won’t teach that the Ashanti & Dahomey tribes in Africa had practiced slavery for at least 600 years before they ever saw a white man. And they were happy to sell their slaves to the slave traders. White men rarely left the coast of Africa to go inland (the scene in Roots was not accurate).
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