GOP rep demands Air Force Academy professor be removed for teaching critical race theory

Apparently, he did not hear or listen to Secretary of Defense Austin or General Milley. This is the new boogeyman. Critical Race Theory is more than 40 years old. It was a theory that dealt with the inherent racism that existed in American law. How would these individuals propose to teach American History without discussing laws that were enacted prior to the Civil War and immediately after that denied the rights to Blacks? Those laws were inherently racist. It was not until 1965 that laws were enacted to defend those who were denied their right to vote. American slavery was unique in that slaves and former slaves were distinctly treated differently because of race.

He who refuses to listen to and study history is doomed to repeat it. I've often accused the GOP of trying to bring us back to the 1930s but apparently it's really the 1830s. You can't study ancient history without seeing the impact of race and the resulting slavery on the development of civilization. How on earth does the GOP think knowledgeable American citizens can study our history without considering the impact of race on it? One possible explanation is that their cult leader has referred to loving uneducated voters in the past.

I have not commented on RP for a LONG time (about a year or more I think). This subject has tempted me out of "exile"... and so, here it goes. There's an old saying, "It's not what you say. it's how you say it." If we are asking whether or not racism played a part in our nation's past, and if we're calling an impartial study of those facts, "Critical Race Theory"... then frankly, that was being taught way back in the late 1980s when I was in elementary school. We fought an entire Civil War over the question, so it goes without saying that there are far-reaching implications and consequences to be addressed. However, if we're going to label CRT as the wider-ranging philosophy that the net result of these past wrongs is an imbalanced present requiring specific and unilateral actions to correct moving into the future... my personal view is that such patterns have disturbing parallels and present needless and perhaps counterproductive factors into society. I'm certain many proponents of CRT do not see it so divisively... but replace race with class, and it's difficult to distance CRT from certain forms of propaganda used in the past by certain other movements. The real question surrounding CRT is what does it ultimately compel students (or officer candidates) to DO about racism? Does it ask them to remember how easily mankind accepted the enslavement of others? Does it imbue them with a sense of understanding for the challenges overcome by those of the past? If so, I don't see any issue with these concepts; frankly, they were taught to me over two decades ago. However, if CRT ultimately encourages Americans to start measuring relative ability and opportunity based on skin color... I do not see how that does not eventually translate to limiting the opportunities of some to afford more opportunities to others.