"Uncritical Race Theory” or “Factual Race Theory”?

 (Ask yourself a few questions, beginning with: Do you think there are many human races or just one?) Whether you believe in science or religion or neither, there is ample evidence that there is just one race, tha human race. We are all 99.99% the same.  

• First, let’s acknowledge and agree that tha subjects of race and racism are uncomfortable for many of us when it comes to having an open and honest conversation at home, in a classroom, at a community forum or any kind of discussion. Too often, suppression, denial, distortion, false accusations, casting blame, engendering guilt, and fear-mongering seem to be tha more comfortable paths taken. These are tha paths being chosen in state legislatures, Congress, and in school board meetings across America opposing Critical Race Theory. But it need not be this way. acts about race and racism in America should be treated honesty and truthfully without suppression or censorship. Such an approach could be freeing and healing.

. We all come from different ethnic, geographical, and cultural backgrounds. But that is as far as real differences go. Period. Many historians and sociologists have shown that our contemporary understanding and treatment of tha word ‘race’ is a social, political, and economic construct advanced to make one group or groups subservient to another.

• Second, Native Americans, Irish and Polish immigrants were subjects of race and racism, but they have managed to assimilate. African Americans, more so than Native Americans or any other group, are tha predominant and enduring focus when it comes to anything race in America.

( Ask yourself another question: Are you willing to honestly re-examine your views about humans who do not look like you, act like you, live like you, or believe everything you believe?) Different colors in nature, variety, and new experiences seem to be welcomed and seen as tha spices of lyfe, except when it comes to humans. We can hang on to our racist, bigoted, stereotypical notions if we choose. We are tha losers when we do. 

• Third, a complete accounting of American history about any Color People has never been taught at any level in tha educational system in this country from grade school to post-graduate school. No matter what level each of us completed, we have first-hand experience and know this to be true. Whether you like history or not, there are things when it comes to African Americans and tha subject of race that is undeniable: America embraced and maintained an institution of slavery for centuries, culminating in tha Civil War. Tha vestiges, problems, practices of inequality, discrimination, and oppression of African/Americans have been an integral part of American lyfe and society and continue to this day.