* how come HBCU’s in South Carolina get more federal funding, but yet are less than 5% white?
* are you asking folks consider whether the criminal laws of South Carolina are racist ? Is that why you think black people disproportionately populate South Carolina prisons because criminal laws favor white people?
Derrick Bell was a law professor at Harvard who opined that certain groups can obtain rights, like “women’s” rights for example, under the Constitution despite not being mentioned. This of course makes no sense because every being is equal in dignity under our Constitutional framework with each person’s desired outcome for their life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness decided and obtained by each person individually. The whole framework falls apart if an individual is seen to have obtained a right under the Constitution, to the exclusion of others, due solely to their membership to a group. It’s why Roe v. Wade was ultimately overruled.
I digress except to say Bell’s notion of group rights has been largely ignored by both liberal and conservative leaning jurists alike.
Kimberly Crenshaw is just not very bright. CRT holds to an assumption that if someone happens to belong to more than one historically disadvantaged group, that intersection makes that person that much more disadvantaged. So a black woman belongs to two disadvantaged groups: black ppl are disadvantaged and when intersecting another disadvantaged group like women folk, black women are more disadvantaged than black men.
A back women who prefers her own sex romantically is therefore more disadvantaged than just a plain old black woman, and even that much more disadvantaged than a black man.
This is “intersectionality” and it is nothing less than absurd. Taken to its logical conclusion, you arrive back to the person as an individual anyways. It’s hyper intellectualized nonsense.
“White Fragility” presumes the superiority of whiteness. So folks who are white must recognize how groups who are not white are consistently being measured against a world built for white people and by white people. It is a ridiculously racist notion, designed to provide a statical justification to discriminate against white supremacy and therefore white people. But just like any statistical analysis: garbage-data in, yields a garbage data out. White Fragility is garbage out.
CRT as a “graduate level course” isn’t taught in South Carolina schools - is a true statement, such that there isn’t a course called “Critical Race Theory” like Social Studies or Algebra offered in South Carolina schools.
But CRT isn’t an academic discipline. Rather it seeks to inform teachers, school administrators, and educrates of social injustice and inequities and to ultimately place these social issues at the forefront of all k-12 curricula.
Math is racist and sexist, teachers adhering to CRT would profess in the classroom as is History, as a design by white people for white people — this sort of pedagogy takes hours upon hours away from teaching the actual math, science and history children really need to understand in the world.
Despite the ever so uselessness of CRT and White Fragility as subjects of academic and intellectual pursuit, it is simply irrelevant to any k-12 curriculum and to this, my conclusion, the democrats/liberal leftist will say to me:
I yell at my reps via their congressional website forms regularly, but I've quit twitter a few months ago and wondering if there are any other good routes to let them know how bad of a job they are doing in most areas?
Paul and other commenters , Please visit these sites regularly, you will find truths you are currently lacking. I’ll pry the rot of Socialism leaves your minds. Brian.
Thank you so much for your astute and oh so accurate diagnosis of why
People in certain groups are destroying the lives of students , teachers and schools .
‘Make believe’ only works briefly and is no cornerstone of education, except when Republicans insist on playing the game . The problem is they insist on it for everyone” whether they like it or not”.
This is White Supremacy at its worst;it infiltrates the brains of kids forced
to play and learn by lies.
The fact is all this contrived educational alterations to suit the lies already told .
This is totally self centered prattle from people have no knowledge of reality , and if it surfaces they bury it w bullsh*t.
This is the kind of rational, well-researched letter I wish I could write myself. I reached out to my conservative state representative last week about my concerns with all the upcoming abortion laws floating around the legislature. I was surprised to receive a personal response from her, except it was immediately defensive in essentially telling me "I didn't vote for that". I couldn't bring myself to exert the energy in forming a response. All that to say, great work and thanks for being a great example of how to be the sand in the gears!
You are doing crucial and difficult work! I would also like to see the Pen "Come and Take It" as a t shirt. If you can recommend a NPO or group in defense of truth/ed that would benefit from a charity t shirt, please lmk.
Amen!- from a former Charleston County School Board member. All of this is, sadly, so true.
Thanks for writing this!
* how come HBCU’s in South Carolina get more federal funding, but yet are less than 5% white?
* are you asking folks consider whether the criminal laws of South Carolina are racist ? Is that why you think black people disproportionately populate South Carolina prisons because criminal laws favor white people?
Derrick Bell was a law professor at Harvard who opined that certain groups can obtain rights, like “women’s” rights for example, under the Constitution despite not being mentioned. This of course makes no sense because every being is equal in dignity under our Constitutional framework with each person’s desired outcome for their life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness decided and obtained by each person individually. The whole framework falls apart if an individual is seen to have obtained a right under the Constitution, to the exclusion of others, due solely to their membership to a group. It’s why Roe v. Wade was ultimately overruled.
I digress except to say Bell’s notion of group rights has been largely ignored by both liberal and conservative leaning jurists alike.
Kimberly Crenshaw is just not very bright. CRT holds to an assumption that if someone happens to belong to more than one historically disadvantaged group, that intersection makes that person that much more disadvantaged. So a black woman belongs to two disadvantaged groups: black ppl are disadvantaged and when intersecting another disadvantaged group like women folk, black women are more disadvantaged than black men.
A back women who prefers her own sex romantically is therefore more disadvantaged than just a plain old black woman, and even that much more disadvantaged than a black man.
This is “intersectionality” and it is nothing less than absurd. Taken to its logical conclusion, you arrive back to the person as an individual anyways. It’s hyper intellectualized nonsense.
“White Fragility” presumes the superiority of whiteness. So folks who are white must recognize how groups who are not white are consistently being measured against a world built for white people and by white people. It is a ridiculously racist notion, designed to provide a statical justification to discriminate against white supremacy and therefore white people. But just like any statistical analysis: garbage-data in, yields a garbage data out. White Fragility is garbage out.
CRT as a “graduate level course” isn’t taught in South Carolina schools - is a true statement, such that there isn’t a course called “Critical Race Theory” like Social Studies or Algebra offered in South Carolina schools.
But CRT isn’t an academic discipline. Rather it seeks to inform teachers, school administrators, and educrates of social injustice and inequities and to ultimately place these social issues at the forefront of all k-12 curricula.
Math is racist and sexist, teachers adhering to CRT would profess in the classroom as is History, as a design by white people for white people — this sort of pedagogy takes hours upon hours away from teaching the actual math, science and history children really need to understand in the world.
Despite the ever so uselessness of CRT and White Fragility as subjects of academic and intellectual pursuit, it is simply irrelevant to any k-12 curriculum and to this, my conclusion, the democrats/liberal leftist will say to me:
well, that’s just because you’re racist, Brett.
I yell at my reps via their congressional website forms regularly, but I've quit twitter a few months ago and wondering if there are any other good routes to let them know how bad of a job they are doing in most areas?
Paul and other commenters , Please visit these sites regularly, you will find truths you are currently lacking. I’ll pry the rot of Socialism leaves your minds. Brian.
https://www.tsowell.com/
http://walterewilliams.com/book-recommendations/
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/
Thank you!
Paul, your writing is informative, honest, and helps me build a much broader understanding of the real challenges in South Carolina. Thanks so much :)
Thank you so much for your astute and oh so accurate diagnosis of why
People in certain groups are destroying the lives of students , teachers and schools .
‘Make believe’ only works briefly and is no cornerstone of education, except when Republicans insist on playing the game . The problem is they insist on it for everyone” whether they like it or not”.
This is White Supremacy at its worst;it infiltrates the brains of kids forced
to play and learn by lies.
The fact is all this contrived educational alterations to suit the lies already told .
This is totally self centered prattle from people have no knowledge of reality , and if it surfaces they bury it w bullsh*t.
This is the kind of rational, well-researched letter I wish I could write myself. I reached out to my conservative state representative last week about my concerns with all the upcoming abortion laws floating around the legislature. I was surprised to receive a personal response from her, except it was immediately defensive in essentially telling me "I didn't vote for that". I couldn't bring myself to exert the energy in forming a response. All that to say, great work and thanks for being a great example of how to be the sand in the gears!
You are doing crucial and difficult work! I would also like to see the Pen "Come and Take It" as a t shirt. If you can recommend a NPO or group in defense of truth/ed that would benefit from a charity t shirt, please lmk.
Paul, this is great! Thanks for writing this and sharing.