Dr Martin Luther King said he had a dream....
Here we go.
King didn't mean "we should ignore racism." He was telling the racists to stop being racist. He also spoke out strongly against economic inequality. It is truly stunning how so many on the right distort his position.
The bottom line is most people; 98%, were not part of the problem.
Cool story bro. Too bad it's completely false.
The Confederate states literally betrayed their nation, and fought a bloody war, rather than give up slavery. The leaders were very explicit that they were fighting because they wanted to keep their slaves.
That means roughly 1/3 of Americans were part of the problem.
If the content of character; choice, was important to CRT, it would not fixate of skin color....
I have a feeling you don't know what the **** "Critical Race Theory" actually means. If it helps, it's not a blanket theory about race in America, it's a specific legal theory about how race influenced US laws, and it's basically only taught in law schools.
CRT doesn't actually "fixate on skin color," it takes into account other intersectional issues like sexism, homophobia, and hatred of ethnicities. The reason why CRT "fixates on skin color" (among other factors) is because that is the trait that racists routinely use to decide whom they're going to hate.
By the way, slavery may have officially ended on January 31st 1865, but racism certainly did not end on that day. Feel free to tell us when racism actually ended, though. That should be rather amusing.
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.
Well, that's an enormous crock of shit. CRT focuses on racism in the US legal system, meaning there isn't really much reason to discuss slavery in ancient Rome. Nor does pointing out past instances of slavery in any way, shape or form exculpate racists in US history.
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.
lol... Hello? CRT is taught in law schools. Anyone who is admitted to a law school almost certainly knows who Lincoln is.
Of course, it's important to note that Lincoln was still a racist, who thought that former slaves should be shipped off to Liberia. And, of course, focusing on Lincoln largely erases the history of those slaves who took matters into their own hands, and fought for their freedom.
Dr King would also say that Southern Democrats, who choose their own political orientation, wanted slavery to continue after Lincoln freed the slaves.
Yes, we know. Some of us also know that the party realigned after the civil rights laws were passed in the 1960s -- the laws that King advocated for, and that racists railed against.
One is not born with a political stance, but people makes such choices with will power.
Or... Structural racism doesn't rely on the intent of the individual. It's largely based on how institutions act, and unconscious biases.
It is not coincidence that Democrats still control cities that create social environments, leading to segregation by skin color.
Uh huh. By the way, crime dropped more than half between 1991 and 2019 in those big cities. When do you plan to credit Democrats with that?
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.
And again, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, as CRT discusses how structural racism winds up perpetuating many of the issues of blacks.
The Democrats party of today is now openly tilted toward Socialism.
Let us know when you can actually bother to learn the topics you're discussing, rather than rely on hoary old heuristics.