Dr Martin Luther King said he had a dream that a person would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. Within that statement is a clean and simple definition for racism. He was very wise. Color of skin is something one is born with. We do not have a choice in terms of skin color. It is beyond one's control, since this is assigned at conception.
Content of character is the opposite. One is not born with character. Character is an individual journey of learning, discovery and living, based on good moral choices, using will power. Good and bad happen around us and the moral person walks the high road and builds their character. Based on this contrast CRT is racist, since is writes history based on the color of skin, not by the actions of certain individuals, with and without character, making choices.
For example is anyone aware that in 1860, at the peak of salvery the estimate ranges from 1.4% to 7.5% of all US families owned slaves. If you do that math by individuals, since the head of household owned everything instead of families, the range is 0.9%-1.5% of individuals owned slaves. Of that there were about 3000 free black families who owned slaves. The bottom line is most people; 98%, were not part of the problem. Only a small minority, from all walks of life, willfully chose to own slaves. Many in these families were born into that environment; not by choice. This is a distinction where character creates a crossroads for some.
If the content of character; choice, was important to CRT, it would not fixate of skin color using a broad brush to lump the 98% with the 2%. Instead they would target, those from all walks of life who owned slaves, but separate the vast majority of people who did not own slaves. Most of the majority were immigrants that come from places where they were a notch above slaves and many could empathize with the hardship of the slaves. All immigrants go through crap, when they arrive, but content of character allows some to overcome and blaze a trail for all. Other of low character become criminals. While most struggle to survive.
The CRT would also say that slavery has been around since the dawn of civilization. They would not try to start their story in the 1600's and ignore the first 5000 years of slavery, thereby distorting the context of slavery as a US created problem. They would also teach that a Republican; by choice, Abraham Lincoln, altered this long standing tradition of some humans, by making all slaves free in the USA. I am trying to teach the CRT racists, how Martin Luther King's would have summarized this history, based on content of individual character instead of the board cold brush of racism.
Dr King would also say that Southern Democrats, who choose their own political orientation, wanted slavery to continue after Lincoln freed the slaves. One is not born with a political stance, but people makes such choices with will power. The Democrat philosophy, at level of its leadership, at the peak of slavery, was pro-slavery and pro-division of country to maintain slavery. Most Democrats were not leaders and many developed character and resisted this push. Many fought keep the country united. This racist pipe dream of the Democrat leadership ended with the end of the Civil War. However, clever individuals high up in the Democrat party would soon find legal ways to reframe their individual desires and guilt. But Martin Luther King would frame racism in a clear way that would backfire of these legal racists. These Democrats without character had to snuff him out.
It is not coincidence that Democrats still control cities that create social environments, leading to segregation by skin color. Look at the inner cities of most large Democrat controlled cities. CRT does not go there, since that would be about lack of character among their own leaders, and not the racist and reverse racists philosophy used to distract blame.
The Democrats party of today is now openly tilted toward Socialism. Socialism is where there is no business class and no middle class. It is a place where the elites in government, have all the power and even the wealth of the nation. The rest are the common peasant folk are like slaves, who cannot move upward in society. In Cuba the Castro's become billionaires with their power but the masses suffer, since the seed potato is eaten by the Socialists leaders.
Socialism and the inner cities both remind me of an old southern slavery planation, where human right can be taken away by those playing god. The Democrat inner cities Ghettos are set up like a small socialist enclave. Business and individual opportunity is driven away or burned down, until all you have are the desperate masses, with Big government throwing them a bone, after they finish stealing the meat. They then blame everyone else as a distraction.
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