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Critical Race Theory peddlers won’t teach real history…the reason will shock you..
MikeDamone
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This meme is ironic in that it tacitly admits CRT in schools would misinform students about the history of racial discrimination. In this case, it lays the blame on private banks, without mentioning that it actually rested squarely on the Federal government, and progressive politicians in particular. Here is the relevant history that you probably weren’t taught, nor would CRT teach in public schools.
▪️The following comes from the book The Color of Law, which covers the history of racial discrimination imposed by government. This is a book written and approved by CRT sympathizers, so they can’t question the source, even though when you dig through the pages it often reads like a libertarian tract (at least until the last chapter)
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america/
▪️When the G.I. Bill was adopted in 1944:
🔹“The VA not only denied African Americans the mortgage subsidies to which they were entitled but frequently restricted education and training to lower-level jobs for African Americans who were qualified to acquire greater skills.”
♦️The biggest road blocks for black veterans and civilians alike, outside of Jim Crow, were put up by the Federal government under progressives. To see this fully, we need to go back a bit further.
▪️In the late 19th-early 20th centuries the US was far from a land of racial harmony, but many blacks who moved north lived in integrated areas, particularly with European immigrants like Irish, Italians, Polish and Jews, who were also considered low status and discriminated against.
▪️But like those ethnic groups, blacks were making strides in many areas. For example, black Americans:
🔹“in the federal civil service had been making great progress; some rose to positions whose responsibilities included supervising white office workers and manual laborers. This came to an end when Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1912.”
🔹“In 1913, Wilson and his cabinet approved the implementation of segregation in government offices.”
🔹“One official responsible for implementing segregation was the assistant secretary of the navy: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
▪️This was the era of eugenics, popular among progressives, and segregation spread beyond jobs to housing.
🔹“In 1915, The New Republic, still in its infancy but already an influential magazine of the Progressive movement, argued for residential racial segregation until Negroes ceased wanting to “amalgamate” with whites.”
▪️Racially segregated housing was given its biggest boost by the New Deal and the explosion of public housing projects. At the time, public housing was meant for the middle class not the poor, and were desirable for much of the working class.
🔹“Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal created the nation’s first public housing for civilians who were not engaged in defense work…The administration constructed separate projects for African Americans, segregated buildings by race, or excluded African Americans entirely from developments.”
▪️His Public Works Administration (PWA) built such projects all across the country, solidifying segregation where it existed and segregating areas which were previously integrated, like Cleveland.
🔹“Despite the neighborhood’s biracial history, the PWA constructed two segregated projects, one for African Americans (the Outhwaite Homes) and one for whites (the Cedar-Central apartments).”
🔹“PWA projects also concentrated African Americans in low-income neighborhoods in Detroit, Indianapolis, Toledo, and New York.”
▪️Roosevelt also created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) which insured bank mortgages and greatly accelerated the middle class buying homes. But the FHA wouldn’t insure black mortgages, nor would they back housing projects that weren’t segregated.
🔹“Because the FHA’s appraisal standards included a whites-only requirement, racial segregation now became an official requirement of the federal mortgage insurance program.”
▪️While many in the private sector were also racist, some weren’t and/or they wanted to do business with blacks anyway to make a buck. This is how capitalism erodes racism, think of Major League Baseball. But these attempts were repeatedly thwarted by Federal, State and Local governments.
🔹“In 1941, a New Jersey real estate agent…twenty miles west of Newark, attempted to sell twelve properties to middle-class African Americans. All had good credit ratings, and banks were willing to issue mortgages if the FHA would approve. But the agency stated that ‘no loans will be given to colored developments.’”
▪️After WWII, the FHA and VA continued to discriminate, even for veterans. Developers were forced to build segregated communities, else they’d be denied funding by the FHA and VA. Levittown was a prime example, and required:
🔹“A commitment not to sell to African Americans. The FHA even withhold approval if the presence of African Americans in *nearby* neighborhoods threatened integration.”
🔹“in these and thousands of other locales, mass-production builders created entire suburbs with the FHA- or VA-imposed condition that these suburbs be all white.”
🔹“The extraordinary growth of California and the West in the decades following WWII was financed on a racially restricted basis by the federal government.”
🔹“One of the federal government’s specifications for mortgages insured in Milpitas [for veterans] was an openly stated prohibition on sales to African Americans.”
▪️This continued with Truman, who proposed a new housing effort. At the time,
🔹“conservative Republicans had long opposed any government involvement in the private housing market.”
🔹“To defeat Truman’s bill they attempted to saddle the legislation with an amendment prohibiting segregations and racial discrimination in public housing. The conservatives knew that if such an amendment were adopted, southern Democrats would kill the legislation.”
🔹“Liberals, led by Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, had to choose between enacting a segregated public housing program or no program at all.”
🔹“The Senate and House rejected the proposed integration amendments, and the 1949 Housing Act was adopted, permitting local authorities to continue to design separate public housing projects for blacks and whites…”
▪️These government programs instilled urban segregation across the country, as well as kept blacks and minorities from owning homes and building wealth, while whites were subsidized. And, it was done knowingly in violation of the 14th amendment.
▪️This isn’t to pretend there would be no racial strife absent these measures, but the European immigrants who were similarly discriminated against in the early 1900s and who often were lower status than black Americans in the north, were able to claw their way up in society with hard work over generations. If the Federal government had enforced the 14th amendment among the states, or, at a minimum didn’t violate it on a giant scale itself, things would likely have turned out much differently.
▪️The reason why CRT adherents wouldn’t highlight this history in schools is because it’s an activist ideology which is anti-capitalist and pro-big government. Thus, they’ll gladly point out that banks didn’t give loans to blacks because it fits their narrative.
▪️But they’ll seldom point out how progressive politicians, infrastructure programs, public housing, labor unions, the minimum wage or even simply ignoring the constitution contributed to discrimination in much more meaningful ways. Because underneath they want more of those things and less of capitalism.
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All those Southern Democrats FDR needed to get his New Deal policies passed that massively expanded the welfare state for the first time in our history, they were really Conservative Republicans not Democrats.
Is there anything about Blacks that white leftists won't turn into victimhood? Poor little things can't even work at home with out code switching
Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television and America’s first Black billionaire, wants a check. He wants it from the government. And he wants it to come with an apology for slavery, Jim Crow, and hundreds of years of racism.
The 75-year-old media magnate owns several homes, heads an asset management firm, and was the first Black person to own a majority stake in an NBA team. He doubts that check will ever come, but he sees a new kind of reparations—being called by a different name so as not be “divisive” or “controversial”—happening already.
The new “reparations” is critical race theory education, it’s the housing grant program in Evanston, Illinois, it’s the $5 billion of targeted support and debt relief for Black farmers, and it’s the $50 billion in corporate pledges in the wake of George Floyd’s murder dedicated to combating systemic racism and inequality. (Even though just $250 million, or 0.5%, has actually materialized so far.)
“That’s what’s happening to the reparations—it’s been cut up into small pieces of things that look and feel like, ‘We want to end systemic racism, we want to end police brutality and shootings and to provide financing to Black small business owners,’” Johnson tells VICE News.
“Reparations had two components: The first was atonement, and the other was monetary,” he adds. “With no doubt whatsoever, it was supposed to come from the government representing the people of the country. It was reimbursement, or recompense if you will, for the harm.”
The fight for reparations has evolved significantly since The Atlantic published Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations” in 2014. It has grown from a struggle to raise awareness and build sympathy for the cause, to a campaign that seeks to calculate exactly what is owed and how it should be distributed and demand full payment.
He is continuing to push for a $14 trillion reparations proposal he says would provide enough to close the yawning Black/white wealth gap that exists through home ownership, wages, and occupational attainment, among other imbalances. Though he’s not exactly optimistic.
“Reparations would require the entire country to … admit that the result of slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism and for that reason Black folks have been denied $13-15 trillion of wealth and therefore we as a country now must atone by paying Black people of all stripes —the rich ones, the poor ones, and the middle—out of our pocket,” Johnson says.
I gotta admit that the wealth gap between Johnson and me is epically wide.
Another crazy billionaire to ignore I guess
Recognition that race is not biologically real but is socially constructed and socially significant. It recognizes that science (as demonstrated in the Human Genome Project) refutes the idea of biological racial differences. According to scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, race is the product of social thought and is not connected to biological reality.
Acknowledgement that racism is a normal feature of society and is embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality. This dismisses the idea that racist incidents are aberrations but instead are manifestations of structural and systemic racism.
Rejection of popular understandings about racism, such as arguments that confine racism to a few “bad apples.” CRT recognizes that racism is codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy. CRT rejects claims of meritocracy or “colorblindness.” CRT recognizes that it is the systemic nature of racism that bears primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality
All of that looks pretty good to me.
What is being taught to children? Because I keep seeing parents freaking out at meetings where the district is explicitly saying they aren’t teaching CRT.
Everyone knows that