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"Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man. And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man." Morgan Freeman

Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory is a theoretical framework in the social sciences, developed out of epistemic philosophy, that uses critical theory to examine society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power.

What is epistemic philosophy?

• Epistemologists study the nature of knowledge, justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues.

The key word to is "justification".

Critical thinking

Critical thinking is defined as "disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence": Critical thinking, is supposed to be "the analysis of facts to form a judgment". Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. For critical thinking to produce a viable critical theory there must be an "objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment." In order to produce an objective evaluation of an issue you need to have and objective evaluation of your self.

The school of social standing

Critical race theory (CRT) is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing. Social standing based on race as a social stratification is the antitheses of judging people by the content of their character. Social stratification refers to society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, gender, occupation, and social status, or derived power. As such, stratification is the relative social position of persons within a social group, category, geographic region, or social unit.

Social standing in nature can be a sort of pecking order which establishes a hierarchy at least in the imagination of people, if not in reality.

Seeing people as a groups is the antitheses of seeing people as individuals. It may be convenient in conversation but it is not not conducive to critical thinking nor good judgment.

• CRT continues to be an influential body of legal and academic literature despite the apparent bias that has made its way into more public, non-academic writing.

If you think your social standing is actually determined by race or the opinion of another race then, That is racism. The idea contradicts the thinking often held by freed slaves who proved other wise by progressing against "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism". Thinking or having the belief that a given race is inherently racists. To believe that a race as a group is racist diminishes the potential power of the individual by making him or her a preconceived victim and gives it gives that power, whether real or imagined, to a collective racial group.

"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward." Booker T Washington

Origins of CRT

"Critical race theory" first emerged as a challenge to the idea that the United States had become a color-blind society where one's racial identity no longer had an effect on one's social or economic status.

Critical race theory arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two decades since the Civil Rights Movement and associated legislation, abusive racial inequality observed and identified in the system had been resolved and affirmative action was no longer necessary.

Some people obtain a sense of identity and justification from being abused and oppressed. It can be seen in abused people all the time and leads to numerous syndromes and compulsive behaviors. The battered wife or girlfriend returns to her abuser or the hostage defends their kidnapper, even joins them.

When that source of identity and justification as a victim was slipping away with rapid moves in society toward equality some felt an inner or subliminal compulsion to reestablish that oppression or some sense of it in order to maintain that victim identity.

Critical Race Theory was a way to reclaim that racial oppression and inequality continued despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Statistics are often brandished about without the critical thinking needed to distinguish correlation from causation.

Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, argued that racism and white supremacy were defining elements of the American legal system and despite the actual law they conjectured "equal protection." did not exist.

Derrick Bell argued that Brown v. Board of Education was a result of the self-interest of “elite whites”.

"The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'" Thomas Sowell

He protested Harvard's failure to hire female faculty of color because he felt they should have jobs based on the color of their skin.

"In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people." Thomas Sowell

Drawing on ideologies, including feminism, Marxism, and postmodernism the term "intersectionality," was used to highlight the multiple and overlapping systems of oppression.

"In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected." Thomas Sowell

Race as a social construct essentially means that race has no scientific basis or biological reality. The liberal universities are teaching that race is everything.

"Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality." Thomas Sowell

Instead of bringing people together they are isolating and tearing people apart. This is likely due to the actual Marxist agenda, divide and conquer. Instead of teaching love and tolerance under the pretense of inclusiveness they are actually excluding opinions.

Instead of teaching the social virtues that raised societies of liberty through the content of our character as individuals who assume responsibility for ourselves and our neighbors through the right to choose, the pursued the covetous practices of the collective that Polybiudegenerates society into perfect savages.

"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late." Thomas Sowell

Race differences make up a fraction of genetic elements and tell us nothing about the content of our character, intelligence, behavior, or moral capacity. None of these are inherent to any single race.

The Critical Race Theory “society frequently chooses to ignore these scientific truths.” Instead they are compelled by their need to be justified, to create races, endow “them with pseudo-permanent characteristics” which is racism.

1. . Critical race theory was a response to the idea that America had become a color-blind society.
2. . While "race" or color effects economic, educational, and the legal system.
3. . Critical race theory inspired "intersectionality" and pushed identity politics.

Correlation vs Causation

Race Statistics in America

People are divided by their own pride, greed, covetousness, and of course their sloth and wantonness.
Different view - same statistics:
* America Is Less Racist Today Than Ever Before including comments by Condoleezza Rice narrated by Larry Elder
https://www.prageru.com/video/america-is-less-racist-today-than-ever-before/
* Larry Elder and facts about racism and profiling in America 5min
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-america-racist/
* Facts matter
https://www.facebook.com/127225910653607/posts/3236873216355512/
* Are the Police Racist? by Heather Mac Donald
https://www.prageru.com/video/are-the-police-racist/
* Cops Are the Good Guys
https://www.prageru.com/video/cops-are-the-good-guys/
* The Left Wants to Keep Racism Alive 5min
In America, there's a card more valuable than any card from Visa or American Express. What is it? How can you get one? Candace Owens answers these questions and explains why the Left continually invokes racism. 5min
https://www.prageru.com/video/the-left-wants-to-keep-racism-alive/
Is Larry Elder an Uncle Tom? Who or what is harming and destroying the black community?
https://youtu.be/vbhFubiFiqg 56 minutes

"All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation." Thomas Sowell

Any fact or even the "messenger" who points to a fact that contradicts the theory of major racial oppression is called an enemy, an "Uncle Tom", or a racist. Like religious zealots who use their ideology to justify themselves, despite their weakness and frailties or fallacies, will gather their "pitchforks and torches" and desire to burn you at the stake even if they set the whole world on fire.

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today." Thomas Sowell

This idea that racism is the cause of the plight of the Black-man was financially lucrative for many who depended on continuing racial friction or the appearance of it. Men have depended on keeping the people at odds from Caesar to Al Sharpton.

"Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans." Thomas Sowell

Could the victim of racism become a racist?

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." Booker T Washington

Without a culture of forgiveness, and a regular call to forgive, you will become like those whom you are insisting upon hating.

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." You will not be able to do that until you forgive them first.

"For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Matthew 7:2

"Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color." – Booker T. Washington

Those who preach any other gospel than love and forgiveness lead the people away from liberty under God. Only the truth will set you free.

"The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country." Thomas Sowell

Assigning collective guilt may be simple or even comforting but it may be expensive in social capital. Focusing our attention on the negative may graft negative into our own mind. To do so with resentment, judgment and angry unforgiveness may draw us into the very thing we claim to hate.

Booker T Washington knew that "At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence." He knew to whine and complain or just think of yourself as a victim whether real or imagined is destructive. To desire benefits without working for them and becoming dependent upon those gratuities would degenerate and destroy the very character of the people.

"I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed." – Booker T Washington

"I would say: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” Cast it down, making friends in every manly way of the people of all races, by whom you are surrounded." Booker T Washington's “Atlanta Compromise” address or “Cast down your bucket" speech

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Collective guilt

• To assign collective guilt to a race for the actions of some individuals of previous generations is not only unjust but it is also racism and a denial of individual right to choose.

Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.

It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity. To imagine that an entire race can be assigned characteristics of "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism" toward another race is also racism.

Price of slavery

Enslavement of the Black man in the south made more white men poor than it made rich. Cheap labor in society cheapened the labor of the individual in the market. The greatest cost was the blinding of oppressor to the wisdom of social virtues extended to all man kind.

"Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society." Thomas Sowell

Like the Stanford prison experiment (SPE) demonstrated that there is the potential of a cognitive dissonance molding the thinking of individuals through the roles of prisoner and guard, or slave and master. SPE showed that one third of the guards were judged to have exhibited "genuine sadistic tendencies" while the regular "emotionally, physically and mentally humiliate the prisoners" altered their identity.

"An old and sincere friend of America, I am uneasy at seeing Slavery retard her progress, tarnish her glory, furnish arms to her detractors, compromise the future career of the Union which is the guaranty of her safety and greatness, and point out beforehand to her, to all her enemies, the spot where they are to strike." Alexis de Tocqueville

The subjugation of one class of one group by another weakens both. Both may become dependent upon the other. Dependence upon others to do that which you must do yourself weakens the people.

"Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow." Thomas Sowell

You can do little to force others to do the right thing but you can do much to discipline yourself to do the right thing. Accepting responsibility for your thoughts and actions is the beginning of the road to freedom.

"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts." Booker T Washington.

The Social structures alter society as the people are altered. The private and complete ownership of your self embeds responsibility within the individual.

Most of the people who profess CRT also advocate communism if not socialism. Systems like slavery takes the power of choice and invests it in a master. In systems like socialism and communism the power of choice is vested in the collective or its elected representatives to one degree or another.

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." Thomas Sowell

The less choice entrusted in the hands of the individual, the less freedom of the individual. Te individual is never truly free in a political collective.

“Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish

Those wealthy enough to own slaves were able to make others labor on their behalf. They were able to do less and less at other people's expense. But socialism allows the same ability to be supported by the labor of others. The same degeneration of morals and decay of social virtues we saw among the slave owner now has taken place among the recipients of modern Welfare.

"The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state." Thomas Sowell

The same debilitation by "gifts, gratuities and benefits" of society goes back to the free bread of Rome and the unrighteous wages of Nimrod.

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." Thomas Sowell

The people will be altered by such systems of welfare and since the days of Polybius where he said they would become perfect savages. We were warned against such covetous practices by the apostles and the prophets, advised against by John the Baptist and forbidden by Jesus.

The Product of enslaving one class

"The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefited them." Thomas Sowell

People filled with unreasoning anger and contempt for people of the past they do not even know nor have taken the time to know now desire to destroy the statues placed in honor of what good they did lack the characteristics of Critical thinking. The same people who hold the men of the past in such bias contempt will hold their neighbor in contempt as well. They will be so focused on their own justification through the oppression of others in bigotry and hate they will do little to nothing for the present sins of slavery pervasive in the world today.

"Everyone hated the idea of being a slave but few had any qualms about enslaving others. Slavery was just not an issue, not even among intellectuals, much less among political leaders, until the 18th century – and then it was an issue only in Western civilization. Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other American leaders. You could research all of the 18th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there. But who is singled out for scathing criticism today? American leaders of the 18th century." The Thomas Sowell Reader, chapter “Twisted History”

Now people who have been taught the "philosophy of hate" rather than the truth of history tear down statues of men who plowed the road to liberty.

"Deciding that slavery was wrong was much easier than deciding what to do with millions of people from another continent, of another race, and without any historical preparation for living as free citizens in a society like that of the United States, where they were 20 percent of the population."

"It is clear from the private correspondence of Washington, Jefferson, and many others that their moral rejection of slavery was unambiguous, but the practical question of what to do now had them baffled. That would remain so for more than half a century.The Thomas Sowell Reader, chapter “Twisted History”

Condemning the slavery of the past is much easier and much more convenient than doing something about the mountain of slavery and injustices of today.

"There are an estimated 27 million men, women, and children in the world who are enslaved — physically confined or restrained and forced to work, or controlled through violence, or in some way treated as property.

"Therefore, there are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade [11 million total, and about 450,000, or about 4% of the total, who were brought to the United States]. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives." “21st Century Slaves“, National Geographic article, Thomas Sowell

There was a tole upon the cruel slaver who paid a price in character and vision for his abuse of his fellowman. Those who excuse riots today fuel the same misfortune among those who bring violence to their own streets. Not only does their community suffer but also their character and of course their own vision of things to come.

"Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved – and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed." The Thomas Sowell Reader, chapter “Twisted History”

Slavery in the Ottoman Empire was a legal and significant part of its economy and traditional society and continued largely unabated into the early 20th century.

"Incidentally, the September 2003 issue of National Geographic had an article about the millions of people still enslaved around the world right now. But where is the moral indignation about that?" The Thomas Sowell Reader, chapter “Twisted History”

No one obtain the higher moral ground on issues of past slavery until they are willing to stand against the slavery of the present. Any time you take a portion of a man's labor away without his consent and just compensation you engage in the slavery of others.