Critical Race Theory: it's the educational controversy that's sweeping the nation, but what's the real story? Set aside the hearsay and join me for a rigorous examination of CRT's place in American education, particularly spotlighting the situation in Arizona's Snowflake Independent School District. We're peeling back the layers of legal jargon and social rhetoric to reveal the stark differences between what's being banned in K-12 classrooms and what's still on the menu in higher ed. You'll come away from this episode with a clear understanding of CRT's core principles, its potential effects on young minds, and how its interpretation under the current administration might alter the weave of America's social tapestry.
As the conversation turns from theory to reality, we tackle the thorny issues of racism's history and presence in America—was the country built on a racial divide, and how far have we truly come since the Jim Crow era? Without shying away from the uncomfortable, we question the validity of labeling any race as inherently racist and discuss the delicate balance between acknowledging past injustices and fostering a future unshackled by racial determinism. This isn't just academic sparring; it's a crucial dialogue for anyone invested in the character and direction of our nation and the education of its future guardians. Tune in, and be prepared to confront your assumptions and perhaps leave with a fresh perspective on race, identity, and how we navigate the complexities of both in our daily lives.
Critical Race Theory: it's the educational controversy that's sweeping the nation, but what's the real story? Set aside the hearsay and join me for a rigorous examination of CRT's place in American education, particularly spotlighting the situation in Arizona's Snowflake Independent School District. We're peeling back the layers of legal jargon and social rhetoric to reveal the stark differences between what's being banned in K-12 classrooms and what's still on the menu in higher ed. You'll come away from this episode with a clear understanding of CRT's core principles, its potential effects on young minds, and how its interpretation under the current administration might alter the weave of America's social tapestry.
As the conversation turns from theory to reality, we tackle the thorny issues of racism's history and presence in America—was the country built on a racial divide, and how far have we truly come since the Jim Crow era? Without shying away from the uncomfortable, we question the validity of labeling any race as inherently racist and discuss the delicate balance between acknowledging past injustices and fostering a future unshackled by racial determinism. This isn't just academic sparring; it's a crucial dialogue for anyone invested in the character and direction of our nation and the education of its future guardians. Tune in, and be prepared to confront your assumptions and perhaps leave with a fresh perspective on race, identity, and how we navigate the complexities of both in our daily lives.
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Speaker 2:Well, hello everybody. Good morning. It's Monday, february 13th. I hope you're having a great and wonderful start of your week. I hope you had a great yesterday. Yesterday was super cool. I didn't watch it, but that's a whole different podcast. So let's go ahead and get ready for the no PC Zone. We're going to be talking about CRT again, ladies and gentlemen, critical Race 30. What is it? Well, well, good morning everybody. I hope you had a great day.
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Speaker 2:Everybody, all right, let's go ahead and dig right into this. I know that a lot of you already know what CRT is Critical Race Steering. We've talked about this. You hear it on the campaign trail. You hear people mention it, yada, yada, yada.
Speaker 2:Now in Arizona last year we passed a law that you could not teach Critical Race Steering K-12. Now there is a misconception of where this is being taught. I will tell you. First off, it is disingenuous when we have members that are running or not members, candidates that are running for office, and they are talking about Critical Race Steering and they are saying that it is being taught in every single class. That is a complete falsehood because I will tell you and the Snowflake Independent School District, they are not teaching CRT. They are not teaching Critical Race Steering. However, they may be teaching it in other places of the state and they are violating the Arizona statute that covers that. The problem with that is that when we have candidates that are running around saying that that is being taught in every single school. They either one, don't know their information. Number two they are being disingenuous. Number three they are just straight morons. By doing that, you are so dumb, you are really dumb for real.
Speaker 2:Now here is something else about CRT. Though it is not able to be taught or authorized or legally to be taught in K-12, it can be taught in colleges and universities. So, for example, at ASU, u of A, a community college that is in your community or where have you? Crt can be taught, because we cannot control their curriculum, even though they are state supported school. Because I know that question. What is coming next? Well, we pay our taxes and they shouldn't be teaching that in colleges. However, there is a different type of priorities and authorizations that colleges go through and they can teach this course, and I do know it is being taught in some of these universities and some of these WALK institutions. If you will Now, if you heard about critical race theory and I am guessing you probably have, unless you have been living under a rock it is already insulated itself into many institutions and it is making a rapid and growing progress in others. Now you may have thought that it has died, but since the Biden administration, they have actually ramped this program up and if it takes hold, the way that this administration and the left is wanting this to take hold, it will completely change the very nature of America and in the way we live. Now.
Speaker 2:Critical race theory holds the basic concept of it. Critical race theory holds that the most important thing about your race and about you is your race. Not about you and your race, but the most important thing about you is your race. The color of your skin, who you are, your behavior, your values, your environment is not a factor according to the left. It is about your race. In critical race theory, if you are a member of a minority group, racial group their uvor term Not mine you are a victim of a system that is rigged against you, a system that doesn't want you to succeed. So, on the other hand, if your race is a privilege, you're an explorer, whether you intend to be or not. Can you believe that? This is what the left believes when we're talking about critical race theory? The problem and the reason why we ban critical race theory CRT from K through 12, particularly at those younger stages, the imprinting stages, from one to eight. The imprinting stages are things that stay with you based on how you were taught in your environment, your culture, your behavior. Those are things that stay with you. The imprinting stage one to eight. That is a critical, critical point in time when a young person is, or would be, getting this type of curriculum and it is basically teaching kids. You're not judged by who you are, your behavior, your values. You are judged simply on the basis of race. That is what they are saying Now.
Speaker 2:Critical race theory begins from its assumption that race occurs. Racism occurs in all interactions, every single interaction that you have during your day. It is surrounded and flushed and smothered by racism events. Now, to see how this works, I want you to consider this. I want you to think about this next thing that I'm going to say Now. Imagine you own a shop or a store or what have you, and two customers enter at the same time. One happens to be white and the other happens to be black. Who do you help first? Who do you help first? Well, typically a normal person would say whoever comes up to the counter first or whoever you encounter first is who you help first. Now, if you help the black person first, critical race theory says you did this because you don't trust black people, you don't trust them to be left alone in your store. Now, in fact, that would be racist. Now, if you help the white person first instead, critical race theory says you would do this because you think blacks are second class citizens. That is also a racist opinion in audiology. That is critical race theory in a nutshell. Now, there are some professionals in this and people from some of these woke universities that will say it goes a little bit deeper, deeper than that. You know. In a nutshell, that's what it is. It is about placing value on someone based on the color of their skin and teaching people that. That is the very premise that you need to start at the starting point when you are dealing with people, and that racism occurs every single day.
Speaker 2:Now, crt is uniquely, uniquely an American invention. Now, I grew up in Germany, I was born in Portugal, I lived all over the world because I was a military kid and then, when I joined the military, I was all over the world and I have not seen this anywhere in the world that I have been and I am not saying it is none other places, but the places that I have been around the world in European cultures. This is solely an American invention. Now. This was brewed up at Harvard Law School, woke University and the 70s, now part of the academic and media mainstream. It is also un-American because it rejects the core tenets of America and Americans. Now, when we are talking about a liberal, judeo-christian values that system, it has turned the bedrock of America ideals upside down, and all you have to do is look around. Go to your nearest university. Now, I am not saying that every single university is a woke university. However, the majority of these universities that we see that teach this type of curriculum have actually turned out to be, as I said, woke and it is based on my opinion, a road to disaster.
Speaker 2:Here, in the words of Richard Dango and Jane Steadfack, two leading proponents of critical race theory, questions that the very foundations of the left order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism and the natural principles of constitutional law. It does this because critical race theory proponents assume racism is present everywhere we go and it has always been there according to them, and they look at it critically until they find it and in any ways. They do this in any way, shape or form to try to do this and, according to them, it has been there, because this is how the imperial European powers and then America set things up. So, back in the days of the programs, when the country was discovered, they had this idea. We need to install critical race theory, because this is how we set it up. I don't know, I am just throwing on out there.
Speaker 2:Now, here, as in all dangerous academic theories, there is a bit of truth. Now, human beings were not preoccupied with race until the 16th century. You can look that up. Now some people are going to say well, what about slavery, and what about this, and what about that and what about this? Human beings were not preoccupied with race until about the 16th century and Europeans began to explore and then connalize other parts of the world not just the United States, if you are a history person, as I am not just the United States, but other parts of the world, and they were drawing distinctions between race and races as it reached out its peak in the 19th century. Now, this is what a widespread, the widespread of the use of slave labor in North and South America. Now, no one denies this. We've said this. We've talked about slavery and the effect, the America's original sin. We've talked about all these things I am just saying, based on the research that I have done and seeing that human beings were not preoccupied with race until about the 16th century. Now, no one denies this, they don't deny it.
Speaker 2:But since then, the Western world, and most importantly America, has spent a lot of time, money and blood breaking free of its racist past, and that is a fact. It's been. It's been a rocky road, for sure. We understand it, but great progress has been made, in my opinion. When we are talking about trying to get past this Now, is it to say that racism does not exist in the United States? I am not saying that. I am saying that, in my opinion, we have made some great progress. Now, the road has been tough and there is still a long way to go. However, is it right to teach this type of hate curriculum to our children when they are at a critical age where their minds are developing Now? Some people say, yeah, we should be able to do it. Some people say no.
Speaker 2:However, critical race theorists say that all this progress is a mirage, it's a trick, it's magic, and racism never died at all. Now, I and I just said that I'm not saying that the United States and parts of the United States are not racist because it is. I would be a fool to say that it does, that racism does not exist, however it does. Sadly enough, it does. But they are willing to go a step further while saying racism never died, never even faded out a little bit. What they are saying to critical theorists of races, of critical race theory, say it just hit itself better. Critical race theory, therefore, is not, is not a continuation of the civil rights movement. They'll go on and say that they have taken it step further when we are talking about the progress, the progression that we have made to stamp out racism in our country.
Speaker 2:White Americans can never judge black by the content of their character. That's what they're saying. They are saying that white people, white folks, do not have the wherewithal to judge black people or people of color by the content of the character, such as what Martin Luther King said in his famous I have a dream speech. They are saying you're not, you're not capable to do that, and that they can only judge that white folks can only judge on favorably about people of color, unconsciously, by the color of their skin. Now, some people yes, that is a problem. But to say that only white folks unconsciously do this and judge people by the color of their skin again is disingenuous. I think all people do that in some way, shape or form. Does it mean that they are racist? It means that they have a preconceived conception, which may be wrong, which may be right, I don't know. However, when we are talking about racism, the act that follows the thought may be racism. So, again, two people come into my store and I happen to not like the white person. The act that is being built in my mind to inflict on the person, the white person coming into my store, could be something like get out of my store, but I don't. I don't serve white people. Or vice versa, get out of my store, I don't serve black people.
Speaker 2:Now, now, now, ironically, and not since the Aryan obsession in Germany in the 30s and the 40s are in South Africa. When we are talking about apartheid In the second half of the 20th century, we know a social movement has been so obsessed with what race? Why is that? Why is the social movement so obsessed with race? Critical race theory, then, is a real sense of counter American revolution. It's counter to what the revolution was all about, ladies and gentlemen, but that's a positive, not a negative, to those who subscribe to this theory of critical race theory. That's what they believe. It's counter to the American Revolution, it's counter to our foundation, it's counter to what the principles of the Constitution state All men are created equal. The Constitution does not say all men are created or created equal except for blacks. It doesn't say that all men are created equal except for Jews, except for Irish, except for Native American, indigenous people, except for women, except for children. Except it does not say that it says that all men are created equal and they are endowed by these rights by their creator. Thus leads me into this is a man made American type of problem that is continually being flamed by the left.
Speaker 2:Now again, there are some. There are some acts of heinous, heinous racial acts in violence that have taken place in our country. It is evident I am not saying that it has not taken place. When we are talking about the Jim Crow era, when we talk about lynching, when we were talking about black people were drug out of their homes and murdered in the middle of the night. When we were talking about you know, you know, think of Emmett Till what happened to him. That is an act based on racial tendency, racial thoughts, it is the act that takes place.
Speaker 2:If a person is racist, that is their deal, that is their problem. If it stays in their head and they do not act out that racism and inflict their hate on other people, it is what it is. You cannot control what a person thinks. However, that's what the left wants you to know that they are going after the very way you think. It is the act of racism. That needs to be the underlying problem that is addressed, not what a person thinks, but in critical race theory. They say since you think it, then it is true.
Speaker 2:And if again two people come in the store, they choose the white person first, they are racist. If they choose the black person first, they do not trust that black person in their store. Now a lot of people say they have gone in the stores and people. The clerk will go up to that person in the store if they are a person of color and say can I help you? A lot of people think that that is racism. They think that why are you coming to me and you are not talking to that other white person over there? Why are you talking to me? That is dumb. That is dumb to even think that if that comes in your mind when you first enter a store and a person comes over and asks, can they help you, and that is the first thing that goes to your mind, you need to do a self-assessment. Now. If the person comes to you and you are in that store and you are a person of color and they say, can we help you? Because we don't trust black people or brown people or people of color in the store, that is the act that they are thinking of. And if a person comes in the store and the first person they see to greet or to help assist, what have you, is a white person and not a person of color. It doesn't mean that the person is racist. Have you ever thought that it could be that that is the first person they saw when they looked up? So they went to that person. But no, they're racist. They're racist.
Speaker 2:How do you expect America to act when every move that they make follows this nonsense of racism, when in fact, there is some racism in our country? However, the overt attack on people of color critical race theory has it wrong, in my opinion, and they have it wrong to a point to where it hurts. It hurts our country. Now, the American experience, you know it was given a 400 year trial and we're talking about the whole experience, not just since the Revolutionary War, but the whole American experience was given a 400 year trial and they're saying it doesn't work. They're saying, after as long as our country has been here, the American experience has failed. How is it failed? Now, there are many setbacks in the American experience, like slavery, like Jim Crow, like like the, the lynching of black people in the South, like Kansas when they went, when that town, that black town, was attacked. There are many setbacks to this. However, does it say that the whole country has failed? The American experience has failed simply because we've got some yahoo's out there to think that they are superior based on their color?
Speaker 2:We have also failed when we have placed every single white person into a box and say that they are racist. Who's the real racist when we say that? Didn't Martin Luther King? Dr Martin Luther King says do not judge a person by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Who's that coming from? That's coming from Dr Martin Luther King, who is the renowned, or was the renowned, expert on peace and love and ethnic backgrounds, being able to work and live together.
Speaker 2:But this theory that every single interaction that you have on a daily basis is racism and the white people at the core, the core of their being, are racist and they know it and they are exercising their will of racism on the people of color every single day. That, my friend, is nonsense and it is really really dumb to believe that. And if you do believe that, you probably need to go back to school. So let's scrap that and know that that is what the left believe. Is that what you believe? Do you believe some of those things that I have said? Are you racist in your very soul, the core of your being, of who you are? Are you racist? Now, again, if a person is thinking racist thoughts, that's what they think. You can't control what a person thinks, but is the act of the thought that turns into racism? That is the difference, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm guessing that most of you do not think that way and most of you don't believe that. You are racist to the very core of your being.
Speaker 2:So how do we stop critical racism before it infects the brains of so many decent Americans? How do we stop that? Well, we need to take a look at how we can help, how it affects our young people, because our young people are the next generation of this country. They are the next leaders, the next leaders of industry, the next business owners, presidents and Congress and senators, so on and so forth. They are the next leaders of our country. How do we stop this infection from turning us into something that we have never been and shouldn't ever want to be? How do we stop that? Well, in my opinion, the answer is simple we refuse to accept it. We refuse to accept that every encounter that we have with people during the day is a racist encounter. We also cannot be intimidated by the left and by the woke mom by the heads I went in the tales. You lose logic, it's self-destructive, it's America hating, it's anti-reality. And also, ladies and gentlemen, don't be bullied into thinking that you're racist when you are not and, especially to people of color, don't be bullied into thinking that you are a victim when you are not. It is important that you defend yourself, you defend who you are and that you want people to judge you on the content of your character, not the color of your skin. Because as we move forward in our country. That is what we need to be moving on. Not that every single person in the United States is racist.
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