{"id":18536,"date":"2023-03-03T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/critical-of-crt-critical-race-theory\/"},"modified":"2023-07-15T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T14:51:18","slug":"critical-of-crt-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/critical-of-crt-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical of CRT (Critical Race Theory)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s what I think about Critical Race Theory (CRT). I think it sucks. Making school kids feel bad about their race, white or black, is not positive or useful, and can harm their mental health. Stop it teachers, if you’re doing it (I don’t actually think most<\/em> of you are).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Race Theory shouldn’t be a thing. In fact, it really isn’t a thing, except in the minds of the anti-woke. But, no one should be made to feel bad about their race, gender, or religion, or blamed for events if the past committed by others ‘like them’. History should be taught in an objective way, the truth being prioritized over politics and prejudice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sins of our forefathers are our past, not our future. We must learn about and use the events of the past to guide our steps into the next chapter of human evolution. To make a better future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must learn of past injustices…without blaming anyone for them… in order to devote ourselves to fixing them, avoiding making the same mistakes over and over again. We can’t sensor out the bad parts because we don’t like the way they reflect on us. We cannot allow ourselves to forget, because our history…our collective memory…is the key to learning to do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that means we must teach ALL the facts about the past…even the uncomfortable ones. In the past we may have fucked up. OK. Now it’s time to move on. It sure as fuck wasn’t my fault. I’m gonna say it wasn’t yours either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look…We can simply choose to accept “that’s just the way things are”, or we can decide to change things for the better. Fear of change doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary. I won’t accept that we can’t do a LOT better, despite some very great progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are still plenty of haters out there, and they are only getting louder, angrier, and more violently hateful, trying to create a more divided nation. They resist being “woke” because they don’t want us to wake up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because they know the truth: Change is overdue. But they don’t want change. It will hurt their profits and wealth, and they’re “doing just fine the way things are, thanks”, and you know, rich people are so much more important than the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E pluribus unum. From many, One. One people, one voice. #Vote for Change. Vote for #Progress. #VoteProgressive<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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