Citizen Letters And Race History
Dear Editor,
Letters from 10 citizens were published on the Opinion page of the Feb. 20, 2022 edition of a local newspaper. Multiple letters denounced the NAACP’s demand for an apology and reparations (taxpayer money being given to blacks) and that racism is being fostered by Guilford County Schools.
These letters criticized the NAACP as well as the neglect of the Democrat controlled school board to properly maintain and improve schools and to address the disparity in student achievement between schools with mostly white students and those with mostly black students.
The common theme was that local and county governments have failed citizens by providing only lip service to real issues while bowing to demands of woke groups that schools should teach critical race theory, our country is racist, people can self-identify as whatever sex and ancestry they choose and because you may self-identify as a descendant of a slave you are entitled to receive money from taxpayers. All of these are wrong!
Our country is not perfect. We’ve made mistakes in the past but to improve our future we need to learn from all of our history, including the good, bad and ugly without blaming everything on whites and demanding that whites pay reparations to select blacks for a practice that a Republican president ended almost 160 years ago.
The 1960s civil rights laws were passed mostly by Republicans because Democrats opposedthem. Remember it was Democrat governors who stood in the doorways of schools to keep blacks from entering. President Clinton said a pro-segregation governor was his mentor and Joe Biden gave a eulogy for Sen. Robert Byrd who was, at one time, a supreme leader of the Ku Klux Klan?
With Democrats in charge, nothing will ever improve. It is past time to vote for Republicans. They will responsibly manage taxpayer money and improve the quality of education.
Ken Orms
NO ONE is asking local schools to teach CRT. That is yet another big lie by republican shepherds for their sheep.
What is being asked by republicans is that we ‘White Wash’ America’s history of slavery and subsequent racism. Tell me how the republicans will improve the racial divide in the US with the following samples of laws being proposed by Republicans across the US:
– Oklahoma proposes to charge teachers personally from the own personal resources $10,000 per
incident per individual if they teach any biology that offends Christian moral principles.
– Iowa Republicans have introduced a bill that would put government-installed cameras in every
single classroom to livestream school activities for parents to spy on teachers and children at all
times of the day
– Proposed Bill in Indiana – librarians can be jailed, curriculums in lesson plans must be uploaded
by Jan 30 th so parents can review and opt their kids out. Oh! And Nazis can’t be portrayed as
“low moral character”.
– Texas, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming have already removed (banned) over 200
books from school that address race, LFBTQ issues or marginalized communities.
-FL passes ‘intellectual diversity law” that requires all public universities and colleges to survey
students, professors, and staff on their political beliefs. (no real details in the law but very very
very creepy)
This is of course the short-list. Clearly republicans want to deny America’s past history in order to deny our current circumstance.
Also note in regard to your comment on Democrats not supporting rights….look up the term Dixiecrat and stop your ignorance before you hit nutter status.
YouTube – Benjamin Boyce – The Complete Evergreen Story. Watch a few of the 24 episodes and you will understand why some of us believe that the schools are being used to teach anti-white race theories. It’s divisive and dangerous.
Na. I actually listen to my kids that are in school now. Racism is discussed but there have never been any formal lessons on the subject and given that the teachers are people from my local community, I highly doubt that white guilt is taught. I will give the videos a watch however as I greatly appreciate your lack of name calling that I get from some many others here that response to my more liberal points of view.
Best wishes.
…so says the guy who habitually disparages us all as ‘nutters”.
What a hypocrite.
Explain?
My God, you’re stupid.
You praise Deborah for her “lack of name calling”, but you call everyone else “nutters” Tin foil hat” types, ‘Bigots” and even “racists” – you had to publicly apologise for that one, remember?
So you like to call others nasty names, but decry it when others do so.
That is the definition of hypocrisy.
Got it now, Einstein?
You sure do have a fascination towards sheep and sheeple. You must get your news from the DNC or that other rag N&R .
If the NAACP is demanding an apology from me because I am white, they can drop dead.
And they insist that we address the academic disparity between “schools with mostly white students and those with mostly black students”. But couldn’t that be because of an intelligence gap between white students and black students? That is certainly a plausible explanation for the desperately poor academic performance of African-Americans, isn’t it?
Your ignorance is why more diversity education would be a good idea.
“Diversity education”? Now there’s an Orwellian brainwashing term, if ever there was one.
That must be what they’re indoctrinating our kids with. I think they call it Critical Race Theory…
Kids learn their social standards from parents and friends. Not teachers. Teachers have way too much on their hands to worry about Jimmy treating Niko politely.
Now when kids go to college, they are not indoctrinated by professors. They just happen to meet people from a diverse background versus the echo chambers they crew up in. And many become ‘woke’ as a result.
Why fear diversity? What are you afraid of Austin? Having to tone down your bigotry?
How am I a bigot?
“Having to tone down your bigotry?”
He who is without sin, cast the first stone? Keep the discussion focused Chris and you might lean something vs disparaging a lot of people who voice their opinion here.
Floyd Turbo.
It seems Chris may be on to something…the ” white washing” in today’s new world is called ” woke “. Rewrite history, no matter if it is good or bad. Eliminate traditions for the new woke socialist society. Basically, learn nothing from the past to improve the future.
Republicans don’t want to “white wash” history we just want to remember it, learn from it, and not repeat it. That does NOT mean we have to continue to live in it as some would propose. There is only division when you see color or if I don’t acknowledge that you are a person of color which is obvious by the way. ! I didn’t care about your skin color until it was jammed down my throat and I didn’t care about your political beliefs until yours was jammed down my throat. All I saw was another American. Not an African American but just a plain old American. This is partly what is causing division. Wake up people and be proud of America because if we were so terrible as the left wants you to believe then why do they always try to come here and live?? True racist people are the ones who insist on being separate.
Diversity isn’t just about skin color. It is about taking the time to understanding cultural differences within our community. For example, understanding what life is like for a Muslim immigrant from north Africa. The most noise is about understanding how racism impacts day to day lives of Black America today. To ignore it and ‘white wash’ away how racism still exists and still impacts society today is how I see the modern republican movement under Trump’s [good people on both sides] leadership taking the party down a path of ignorance and division.
I don’t agree with reparations as that time has mostly past. But I do believe that acknowledgement of different communities challenges due to racism is critical for a healthy country. It doesn’t matter if that community is defined by skin color, country of origin, or social economic status.
Where I think the modern democrat has hurt the country is ignoring the challenges facing the white lower income families and only providing lip service to black American culture. This has added to the divide that Trump has taken advantage of and led to greater division in the US since the 60s.
NONE of that has anything to do with CRT. No school is asking to teach kids CRT.
It is the Left that sets people against each other, sowing division and enmity by continually beating the racism drum. The devil loves to stir up hatred and antagonism, and he works through the political Left to generate conflict and misery.
Nom de Plume clearly believes you are African-American, Chris.
Is he correct?
I was taught CRT in the 1980’s in law school and you are wrong when you say it doesn’t deal with race/color. That’s all it’s about. It wasn’t meant to be taught in lower grades or even college, but rather in the upper education levels. That’s where it should stay period. Unless you went to a doctorate level education you have no business even trying to teach this. This is being used as another tool to divide. Personally I feel like division didn’t come under Trump but rather Obama. It shouldn’t be African American or Indian American or any other identifying race before the word American. We are all American and if that bothers you and you feel the need to single yourself out with another culture then perhaps you should consider moving to that other country to help your feelings. As for me and mine we are Americans and damn proud of it!
Well said, Nom de Plume. The Government schools are sowing division and hatred among our children, teaching them to resent and despise each other based on skin color. The “educators” are deliberately creating racial animus because it promotes their interests. They are stealing our children’s beautiful innocence.
It’s obscene.
Such sheep to believe this lie from your shepherds.
Why are you avoiding answering the question about whether you’re black?
Missed this comment. Why does it matter? But no, I am white.
I wanted to settle a wager. My wife gradually formed the opinion that you were black. I demurred (you’ll have to look up that word).
I win.
Ken, can you tell me what paper published 10 letters?
I love that I am the center of Austin’s family pillow talk. LOL
Oh you’re funny!
You ought to be a comedian.