Letter to Brearly Parents Decrying CRT Indoctrination

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love this and am waiting to see who has the guts to write a
similar letter. Critical race theory is not appropriate and not helpful. The fact this is happening in NYC means it will finally be addressed here. Parents are open to curriculum that addresses past injustice but the teaching that being born white means you are entitled and a racist is just plain wrong.

Let’s hope so!!! I hate that my kids think being white means they are considered racists.

[Anonymous]

I’m guessing brearley was trying to outplace her. I doubt he would have pulled her if there was Not also a push.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing that is absolutely true is that these schools
Don’t want a true dialogue and different view points. I see it at my kids’ schools. You are a racist of you even hint at having a different viewpoint.
You all know I am right.
And I am a D and have no issue with the D&I training my kids are getting.

Good that parents are starting to speak up, but most are still afraid of the bullies.

See above... So funny that these people can't imagine anyone disagreeing with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing that is absolutely true is that these schools
Don’t want a true dialogue and different view points. I see it at my kids’ schools. You are a racist of you even hint at having a different viewpoint.
You all know I am right.
And I am a D and have no issue with the D&I training my kids are getting.

Absolutely. My kids both, at two different schools, both tell me you can’t question affirmative action or the Black Lives Matter movement without being labeled a racist. People don’t even want to hear opposing viewpoints even if it’s not racist — such as give all kids a better education from the beginning so that everyone can compete equally. Or maybe all the woke people think that’s racist.

Tragic that children can't share their own feelings, observations or opinions in school. What's the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this interesting or newsworthy?

The author states: "We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues."

I think that's a pretty fringe viewpoint, and certainly not one worthy of a new thread discussion.

You may need to step outside of your bubble. That is not a fringe viewpoint.

+1 and then some. It is not a fringe viewpoint - he just had the guts to articulate what many think. No matter what the media shoves down everyone’s throat 24/7 - fighting racism with racism is a bad idea for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this interesting or newsworthy?

The author states: "We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues."

I think that's a pretty fringe viewpoint, and certainly not one worthy of a new thread discussion.

Give us examples of systemic racism since the 1960's (other than affirmative action).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this interesting or newsworthy?

The author states: "We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues."

I think that's a pretty fringe viewpoint, and certainly not one worthy of a new thread discussion.

Give us examples of systemic racism since the 1960's (other than affirmative action).

Crack vs powder cocaine criminal penalties. Resulting in far greater rate of incarceration of Blacks.

More Black and Brown people in prison for weed (proportionally) despite whites using at same rate.

NP

[Anonymous]

Vomit. Rich people seeing themselves as some kind of victims and not seeing the racism right in front of them. Utter horseshit.

[Anonymous]

Good. For. Him.

Let's hope this starts trickling down to DC schools as well, although I have yet to hear of one in this area that is this egregious - requiring parents to take anti-racism classes? Are they out of their minds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this interesting or newsworthy?

The author states: "We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues."

I think that's a pretty fringe viewpoint, and certainly not one worthy of a new thread discussion.

Give us examples of systemic racism since the 1960's (other than affirmative action).

Crack vs powder cocaine criminal penalties. Resulting in far greater rate of incarceration of Blacks.

More Black and Brown people in prison for weed (proportionally) despite whites using at same rate.

NP

Thanks for providing examples, but you need to connect the dots. What's the difference in penalties and how does it discriminate based on race. Both blacks and whites do both crack and cocaine. Also, the weed example, you don't say how that is systemic racism. Is there something in the law that prescribes this result?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this interesting or newsworthy?

The author states: "We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues."

I think that's a pretty fringe viewpoint, and certainly not one worthy of a new thread discussion.

Give us examples of systemic racism since the 1960's (other than affirmative action).

Crack vs powder cocaine criminal penalties. Resulting in far greater rate of incarceration of Blacks.

More Black and Brown people in prison for weed (proportionally) despite whites using at same rate.

NP

Thanks for providing examples, but you need to connect the dots. What's the difference in penalties and how does it discriminate based on race. Both blacks and whites do both crack and cocaine. Also, the weed example, you don't say how that is systemic racism. Is there something in the law that prescribes this result?

You know there's nothing in the laws about race, but you should know how it played/plays out in America. So what do you call it then? Laws and culture that were written and developed, respectively, with no bias at all followed by an overwhelming amount of bad luck or coincidences?

What about race with regard to death row? Since race is not mentioned in statutes, is it just bad luck and coincidences?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this interesting or newsworthy?

The author states: "We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues."

I think that's a pretty fringe viewpoint, and certainly not one worthy of a new thread discussion.

Give us examples of systemic racism since the 1960's (other than affirmative action).

The only true systemic racism today is the DOJ ruling that colleges are allowed to discriminate against Asian applicants despite being more qualified. Everything else is just individual bias that is not consistent with the law. Systemic racism is Jim Crow laws, Japanese internment, Nazi laws against Jews, educational exclusion of Jews, Chinese Exclusionary Act...all pre-1960's. In America today, anyone with the determination to get ahead can do so without a law getting in the way. Even so, in my opinion, although not true systemic racism, the closest thing to it today is the dumbing down of American public education and the welfare system that encourages single-parent households. While these two things affect both Blacks and Whites, it disproportionately affects Blacks and makes it very difficult to get ahead. However, with enough determination, ability and luck, it's possible for these people to get ahead because there are no laws prohibiting it. This cannot be said for many other countries. That is why immigrants come to America and tend to do better here than their American-born counterparts because they don't internalize the hurt caused by individual bias and allow it to make them a victim. Victim mentality is a sort of internal prison.

[Anonymous]

Just leaving this here for anyone who needs it:

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear. There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddie, is that *you* must accept *them*. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they can not be released from it.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vomit. Rich people seeing themselves as some kind of victims and not seeing the racism right in front of them. Utter horseshit.

It's easy to see this as a clueless white person thing when it's coming from a white guy at a 60k per year private school, but I wholeheartedly agree with every word he says, and I'm a non-white, relatively poor, public school parent; and I know many others just like me who feel the same way. CRT doesn't belong in schools. It is child abuse and dangerous for the future of our country.

[Anonymous]

The only true systemic racism today is the DOJ ruling that colleges are allowed to discriminate against Asian applicants despite being more qualified. Everything else is just individual bias that is not consistent with the law. Systemic racism is Jim Crow laws, Japanese internment, Nazi laws against Jews, educational exclusion of Jews, Chinese Exclusionary Act...all pre-1960's. In America today, anyone with the determination to get ahead can do so without a law getting in the way. Even so, in my opinion, although not true systemic racism, the closest thing to it today is the dumbing down of American public education and the welfare system that encourages single-parent households. While these two things affect both Blacks and Whites, it disproportionately affects Blacks and makes it very difficult to get ahead. However, with enough determination, ability and luck, it's possible for these people to get ahead because there are no laws prohibiting it. This cannot be said for many other countries. That is why immigrants come to America and tend to do better here than their American-born counterparts because they don't internalize the hurt caused by individual bias and allow it to make them a victim. Victim mentality is a sort of internal prison.

This is a common tactic by the right against the left: to attack the words. Defund the police. Black lives matter. Systemic racism. You poke holes in the words. Fine. Words matter, and the left is picky about language, too. But what lefties (like me) often hear is that those on the right dismiss the words and reject the conversation in whole.

So how do we have this conversation about what many call systemic racism and you and many others call a collection of individual biases? This bias plays out against people of color in multiple venues. In schools. When dealing with police. In courts. In housing. In the professional world. While walking. While birdwatching.

So it's not codified in law, but it sure is pervasive. How do we talk about it and how do we make our society more just?