Politics Racism, abuse and ignorance=Critical Race Theory
What goes around, comes around. As far as America has come in stamping out slavery and its tentacles, a new generation of so-called intellectual elites now teaches that race isn’t inherent.
Instead, according to Critical Race theory, the concept of race was invented specifically to oppress persons of color and that the US was racist from its inception.This Marxist- based theory divides humans into classes based, not on character or location or any other criteria, but race.
They conclude that so-called white persons are less-than, less deserving than, other races, and inherently more oppressive. This theory throws away everything our Constitution stands for –individual rights, equality under the law, freedom to strive and achieve happiness. They also vilify hard work, initiative, and the family unit.
This theory, which is creeping across this nation in our schools and courts, actually takes us, not forward in race relations, but back to pre-Civil War. Many in the segregated South firmly believed, as do those who hold to the Critical Race Theory, that how a person thinks derives from skin color—rather than environment, culture, family and. or national ties.
They encourage everyone, including the courts, to judge not on the basis of the facts, not on the basis of what actually transpired, not even whether or not the action was criminal—but solely based on race. This theory codifies discrimination into law.
If you are black, no matter what you’ve done, you should get a pass. If you are white—even if you are the victim, since you are automatically the oppressor, your rights are to be stripped away, again, regardless of the situation or facts. This hideous discriminatory theory has very real-world consequences.
Many who are growing up with a European ancestry are made to feel shame just because they are who they were created to be. If they are attacked by a person with darker skin, they are to bow and scrape and apologize, rather than to protect themselves. Sounds a lot like reverse racism to me.
I read a news story about a schoolteacher who made the back and white students in class form two lines. Remember, these are just innocent little kids. She forced the white students, who’d done nothing wrong but be born with a certain skin pigmentation, to go down the line and apologize to the black students. How confusing for all the students.
This is an abuse of the children in her care. This is not the America envisioned by Martin Luther King jr. whose wish was for skin color not to even be an issue. Yet today, we see the race card played anytime a person with light-colored skin disagrees with a person with dark skin.
According to Critical Race Theory, issues aren’t important, because only skin color matters. But, blaming one race for all the ills of the world, will not bring peace or hope or unity.
Critical Race Theory is based on historical ignorance of slavery. In Bible days, the Jewish people were enslaved by the Egyptians. That’s what the story of Moses is all about.The great American experience freed many oppressed people including Swedes and the Irish to become something more in America.
Even in the early 20th century, Swedish children of poor families in Sweden were sold, supposedly, as indentured servants. Some children became almost members of a family, others became slaves to those who purchased them. So this is White Privilege?
Those with European ancestry make up only a part of the world. Those with Asian ancestry make up a large slice of the world from China to many smaller nations. Arabs dominate in other countries and do a brisk business trafficking in blond, blue-eyed white women—who become sexual slaves.
Something similar happens in countries dominated by those with a black background. Do these so-called intellectuals of this theory even know how slavery came to Europe?
African nations were tribal-based, as were some of the Indian cultures in America. They fought killed and captured enemies. Many became slaves of the conquering tribe. When Europeans made contact, entrepreneurial Africans saw a way to make slavery pay. They sold their captured slaves to the ship Captains until slavery was spread throughout the countries dominated by Europeans.
Slavery did not have its beginning in the United States of America, nor was it set up to do so. Many opposed slavery from the very beginning. Like other peoples, many black persons came over as indentured servants, until someone brought slaves. Even so, slavery was dying out until the cotton gin was invented which made slavery profitable again.
The inventor wasn’t trying to enslave, he was only trying to make a product to help planters have the means to clean the cotton more simply and easily.
Critical Race Theory is not progressive in bringing people together—nor is it intended to do so, It is a throwback to an era of discrimination and evil. Instead of liberating a race, this theory when practiced, enslaves with lies, division and the encouragement to hate, encourages bullying, at behavior at least on par with the attitudes of deep south slavers.
Why would we encourage the spread of such a devastating theory? The invented idea of White Privilege goes along with this discriminatory theory. Each of us is a special creation of a loving God who wants us to accept who we are without apology or shame—just for being who we are. Accepting who we are and respecting one another means letting go hate to see beyond skin color to care about the person within.
That was the dream and goal of Martin Luther King Jr. That is the goal we should strive for—not some flawed theory that hurts not helps, tears down, not lifts up and divides not brings together. Let’s fight, not each other, but ideas and theories that seek to divide us through hate.
Let’s look for and promote the good in ourselves and others. Also, let’s make sure the new health and sex education proposal coming from State Board of Education will not be accepted until rewritten to exclude both inappropriate sex content and this discriminatory Critical Race Theory.
© 2021 Carolyn R Scheidies
RESOURCES:https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is-critical-race-theory/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRPlsa-Y-0https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory
(c) Critical race theory (CRT), intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans.
©Critical Race Theory — a Marxist framework that views society only through the lens of race-based oppression — is everywhere these days. In corporations, federal agencies, schools, and even the military, it sows hatred and division in the name of “dignity” and “equality.”
This ideology teaches that “Whiteness” is oppression and that all its manifestations — including “the nuclear family,” “objective, rational linear thinking,” and the idea that “hard work is the key to success” — must be stamped out. It rejects the most fundamental beliefs of our nation, that we are all equal under the law and should have the same opportunities to prosper and pursue happiness based on individual merit.
At its core, it rejects classical liberalism, especially its emphasis on equality under law, neutral legal principles, meritocracy and individual rights. It propagates racial stereotypes and teaches that the way people think and act is tied to their skin color, the same type of racist views taught in the segregationist South decades ago.
©The vast majority of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and West Africa, who had been sold by other West Africans, or by half-European "merchant princes" to Western European slave traders (with a small number being captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids)..1, 2
"Implications of the slave trade for African societies". London: BBC. Retrieved 12 June2020.
^"West Africa – National Museums Liverpool". Liverpool: International Slavery Museum. Retrieved 14 October 2015
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectweden aives/feature/indentured-servants-in-the-us/The information on how Sweden handled the children of destitute families came from a manuscript I was asked to evaluate. It was the life story of a Swedish man who became a well-known pastor both in Sweden and in the US around the early 1900s. It was put together from his own notes, journals and letters, along with the memories of his family members.
Blog St. Patrick and the Irish
St.Patrick's Day is really not a native American holiday at all, but was imported by the Irish. Still, how many of us, even as adults, take the opportunity on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, to pinch a friend who "isn't wearing the green."
Surprisingly enough, St. Patrick wasn't really Irish at all. Almost 600 years ago around 400 AD when Rome controlled much of the world, Patrick was born into the home of a noble Roman family who lived in Britain.
By the fifth century Christianity had spread throughout most of the Roman empire, and Patrick's family espoused the Christian faith.
At the time, the Irish often raided the coasts of Britain (and other countries) carrying away goods as well. as individuals to be used as slaves. Patrick became one of these unfortunate slaves when, at the age of 16, he was captured, taken to Ireland and sold.
For a young man brought up in, if not luxury, at least in comfort, herding sheep and being all alone in the mountains without adequate food or clothing was a sore trial. Still, he wrote in his "Confession" (his account of his spiritual journey) that it was up there he began to truly believe in God and to love him. He believed God spoke to him there and helped him endure those long lonely years.
Finally, after six years, he escaped, but it was some time before he was able to return home. Even then he could not settle down, feeling God was calling him back to Ireland.
Hampered by his lack of education, Patrick went to study for the ministry at the monastery of Lerins located on an island off the southeast coast of France. He also studied at Auxerre, France, and under the tutelage of the French Bishop Saint Germanus gaining some of the best learning of the day.
However, when a missionary was to be sent to Ireland, Patrick was NOT the one chosen. Later, when this bishop died in 431, Patrick was given his heart's desire, the assignment to go to Ireland.
He was not content to stay in the few pockets of Christianity already established in the country. Instead, he went to the Druid-controlled north and west. Patrick endured much hardship, but, the people knew he really cared about them. As they came to hear him, many believed.
Eventually he made friends with some of the chieftains whose own sons and daughters came to faith. Because Christianity leaches kindness and justice for all and the importance of each individual, the conversion of the people brought changes to the Irish society.
One example is that many slave owners, after embracing Christianity, freed their slaves. Patrick lived his faith by buying and freeing others himself.
As for the legend about his driving the snakes out of Ireland, no one knows the truth. Still, like many legends, there might be some truth in the story, for Patrick lived a long time and did many good and kind things for the people of Ireland.
As for the Shamrock, one legend has it that Patrick used the green three-leaf clover...the shamrock...to teach the people about the Trinity. This is the Christian belief that God is one, yet three, the Father, the Son (whom we know as Jesus) and the Holy Spirit.
Today, besides his "Confession," and his "Letter to Coroticus", a handbell, said to have belonged to St. Patrick, is kept in the National Museum of Dublin. St. Patrick left much more than these physical items.
Patrick was loved not just because he went to Ireland, but because he taught the people to care about each other. He also taught tolerance between the British and the Irish. Patrick deserves the appellation of Saint. He left a legacy well worth following.. .selfless concern for others rooted in and guided by his faith in Jesus.
(c) 1998, 2020 Carolyn R Scheidies
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