Critical Race Theory

CRT is not a diversity and inclusion “training” but a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship. Crenshaw—who coined the term “CRT”—notes that CRT is not a noun, but a verb. It cannot be confined to a static and narrow definition but is considered to be an evolving and malleable practice. It critiques how the social construction of race and institutionalized racism perpetuate a racial caste system that relegates people of color to the bottom tiers. CRT also recognizes that race intersects with other identities, including sexuality, gender identity, and others. CRT recognizes that racism is not a bygone relic of the past. Instead, it acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans and other people of color continue to permeate the social fabric of this nation.

www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publicat...ritical-race-theory/

Wayne Harrison wrote: After being asked about Critical Race Theory, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley delivers an answer every American should watch.

www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/0...ent/?sh=34ca45c56798

As I stated....MILLEY FOR PRES....he looked Trump straight in the eye and said F**K YOU,the answer
is NO and then proceeded to back up his stance,by PROVING Trump did NOT have the power,he thought he had. CHECKMATE.

This guy is obviously very woke, or he's acting very woke so he doesn't get his ass cancelled by the media. The uniform he's wearing used to not be respected as an authority of human behavior, but it appears that suddenly Democrats love them some military big wigs. I just find it interesting, along with the Democrats love and trust of the government... it's not the sixties anymore, obviously.

Now I'm not saying anyone here would check those two boxes that I presented, I'm just stating an educated opinion about the majority of Democrats and those who are not Democrats but always vote Democrat.

Now for the point:

The guy completely lost me and I knew he swallowed the woke pill when he said two key words in a row... WHITE RAGE. He "wants to know more about it", LOL

How about you teach these men and women how to kill people while not getting killed? The vast majority of men and women have been coming out of the service as much better people, even when they've had to deal with a lot of trauma, they may have issues but they are still mostly good people. So why start demonized the largest racial group in your force? Sorry, I just don't see how that makes him a good leader, in the military they've been taught to be as a unit, to be a single machine. Now these woke b@@@ards want to mess with success. Good luck with that.

For your next assignment, I would please ask anyone willing, to show me the definition of "white rage" and the evidence of it's obvious harm to society. I'd like to know what kind of data or evidence was used to prove rage is something much more pervasive in people with lightest skin color. I watched a whole lot of protests/riots/looting over the last year, and I'm pretty sure the people raging were not mostly white (except maybe white-guilt BLM protestors). But I have to admit I don't know what white rage is so I'll patiently wait for the answer.

General Milley was just saying that he wanted to understand the situation, not that he necessarily agreed with it. He stated that if we want to address concerns, we must understand them. Isn't that the military way?

Critical Race Theory is about understanding how racism has affected our country and the policies we have made. It's not about demanding reparations, it's not about becoming woke, it's about understanding and acknowledging our past and how it affects the present.

It appears that "Woke" has become a trigger word for the right.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS on PBS is an avenue to understanding....story,after story,after story of the history
of individuals, BOTH SLAVE OWNERS and slaves. For many generations, the stories unwind and the
"guest" on the show (of all races) are stunned when they find WHO THEY CAME FROM. These stores
r both sad and happy,BUT the tracings of their "roots" is a profound experience,for both the viewer and
the guest. IT IS A START to the path of understanding.

Rick wrote: This guy is obviously very woke, or he's acting very woke so he doesn't get his ass cancelled by the media. The uniform he's wearing used to not be respected as an authority of human behavior, but it appears that suddenly Democrats love them some military big wigs. I just find it interesting, along with the Democrats love and trust of the government... it's not the sixties anymore, obviously.

And I find it interesting Conservatives are suddenly dumping on military leadership because they express a desire to continue learning about things.

OPINION PIECE

As everyone knows, leftists hate America’s military. Recently, a prominent left-wing media figure attacked Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declaring, “He’s not just a pig, he’s stupid.”

Oh, wait. That was no leftist, that was Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. What set Carlson off was testimony in which Milley told a congressional hearing that he considered it important “for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and widely read.”

The problem is obvious. Closed-mindedness and ignorance have become core conservative values, and those who reject these values are the enemy, no matter what they may have done to serve the country.

The Milley hearing was part of the orchestrated furor over “critical race theory,” which has dominated right-wing media for the past few months, getting close to 2,000 mentions on Fox so far this year. One often sees assertions that those attacking critical race theory have no idea what it’s about, but I disagree; they understand that it has something to do with assertions that America has a history of racism and of policies that explicitly or implicitly widened racial disparities.

www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/opinion/tucke...nion&pgtype=Homepage

homeagain wrote: FINDING YOUR ROOTS on PBS is an avenue to understanding....story,after story,after story of the history
of individuals, BOTH SLAVE OWNERS and slaves. For many generations, the stories unwind and the
"guest" on the show (of all races) are stunned when they find WHO THEY CAME FROM. These stores
r both sad and happy,BUT the tracings of their "roots" is a profound experience,for both the viewer and
the guest. IT IS A START to the path of understanding.

I can't believe that Americans don't understand how bad slavery was. They understand it. Even back in the 70's with Roots the miniseries, people understood.

Another complex issue. The US military has a checkered past with race relations. In some ways, they eased integration, creating Black units with white officers in the American Civil War and also the Buffalo soldiers. For many African Americans, it was a way to advance. President Truman took it further, integrating the military during the Korean War, decades before the southern states. And once again, poor Blacks found the military as a way to learn electronics, mechanics, and other tech skills. Plus they used the GI Bill to afford college, often even going to college as they were serving in ranks. Many minorities found careers in the military where they were treated better than their civilian counterparts.

From my personal perspective of growing up in the South, I would not consider segregated Black military units (like the Tuskegee Airmen) to be "integrated."