Indeed. And this will keep sowing the seeds of racial strife for all time.
I grew up in rural West Virginia and was born in the 1970s. There weren’t many black people around, and I was taught to treat everyone equally. Many of my peers were not taught that. Although I didn’t do everything my parents told me to do, I have always upheld that part of the bargain.
However, CRT seems to say that NOTHING I can do will make up for the treatment of blacks. I can be as non-discriminatory as anyone, but the theory holds that I still am oppressing blacks unconsciously. They don’t quantify that in any way, but trust us, they say, I am doing it.
So what am I supposed to do? Kiss ass forever? Just sit by when my daughter’s seat at a school is passed over for a lesser qualified minority student? I will do neither of those things, and most people like me will not do that. I will not be punished for the sins of my fathers and will not subject myself to an ever changing standard that I am truly not guilty of perpetuating.
The ideas of the CRT movement simply will not happen, and if we are to continue as a society, there must be a point where once people like me have agreed that we will no longer have slavery, Jim Crow, etc. that things can recede into the past and we can move forward.
Failures in some communities like drug dealing, poor education, out of wedlock children, and general ignorance are not grounds to blame me. White people do that in my state and we don’t condone that either. This isn’t a racial issue and at some point it must stop being a racial issue unless we keep dividing the country.