One of the more ridiculous efforts on the left this week-has been to try to use Juneteenth day to push critical race theory as history, and portray anyone who denounces it as racist.
One of those doing it is, of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is-very good-at just making things up and spreading lies...
And she was at it yesterday on the capitol steps...pretending that republicans and conservatives ‘deny’? Juneteenth day? What?
And that denial is just part of a racist thread that runs thru America? Huh?
Try to follow this-which is always the fun of an AOC cut: trying to figure out what the heck she’s saying...but here’s her attempt at linking the poisonous and invalid ‘critical race theory’ to Juneteenth day-the day the slaves were emancipated.
My friends- it’s never worth the time to try to pull apart and break down AOC’s idiocy...but...two points: first, republicans and conservatives have never denied Juneteenth day or the importance of it....because....second point: it was-republicans-who freed the slaves!
Does this woman know anything about history?
If she’s talking about some Republicans in the past who didn’t want to make Juneteenth day a federal holiday, their objection was simply that we had too many federal holiday’s, already.
And by the way- lawmakers on both sides of the aisle rejected the idea of this being a federal holiday-for decades- and for that reason.
There have been proposals by both republicans and democrats, I believe,- but certainly Republicans- to say that- if we make Juneteenth day a holiday, then we erase a different federal holiday, like president’s day.
But it was never about-denying the day, or denying slavery existed, or whatever AOC is talking about here.
Republicans freed the slaves! Her party members were the slavers and the slave owners.
What. Is she talking about?
But see- too many Americans don’t know the history. And too many American adults start to believe the twisted BS that liberals have used over the years, to try to ‘flip the script’ on who the racists are.
It was southern democrats who owned other human beings and fought a war for the continued ability to do so.It was past members of AOC’s party.
And her party still has an entire cadre-
And entire eastern seaboard full if liberal white elites who still think the same way: that blacks are inferior and cannot make decisions for themselves, or perform as white children do, without help...
That’s all- still engrained-in the white east coast elites that AOC and Ihlan Omar and Corey Booker and black dc liberals all pal around with.
Those racist white elites fund their campaigns and pretend to be boosting them...due to their white guilt.
And the attempt to smear the republican side of the aisle as racists and 21st century slavery supporters now, is as idiotic as it is outrageous.
Folks...Kay James is the current president of the heritage foundation. This is a conservative foundation that we reference regularly on the show...
Kay James is its current president...and she’s an African American woman.
And she’s got a great response to those democrats and left wing activists who are attempting to use Juneteenth day to push their anti-American agenda of racial division.
She says—fools- this day was always meant to mark the exceptional nature of this country.
June 19th, 1865 was the day Union Soldiers started to enforce the emancipation proclamation, and freed all remaining slaves in Texas.
It came two and a half years after the emancipation proclamation-technically-took effect. It was ‘final freedom’ day.
And it represents a day in which America finally started to live up to two of its’ greatest principals: all men are created equal, and this is a nation divided to liberty for all.
This is a perfect retort to the America-hating left’s efforts this week-and their efforts to make ‘critical race theory’ the new history of this country: the idea that the country was founded on slavery and oppression....and not the greatest set of governing principals and human ideals ever laid out by man-for his fellow man.
America is a miracle. And billions of people around the globe know that-which is why so many of them are clamoring to get in here. To be able to live their lives- under those ideals...and based on those ideals.
America-and the globe-need to reject this CRT, that separates people by race and gender, and thru what ever prism of identity politics they think helps them in the moment...
And here’s the good news: the battle against this poison has clearly heated up to the point that the democrats and their education activists are scrambling to get away from it. Avoid criticism of it.
If you’ve missed it, over the last few weeks, all sorts of democrats and school officials have tried to claim that CRT isn’t even real...and this is just another wild invention of the conservatives trying to scare you.
Terry McAuliffe-the democrat running for governor of Virginia again is claiming...oh. It’s just scare tactics. This isn’t being taught in schools.
The problem is- Virginia schools have been caught teaching it, and some Virginia educators have been digging in to defend it- as the honest history of this country.
So now we’ve got lefties waffling between: CRT isn’t even real ....and.... Our schools need to teach it because it’s the true history of the country.
So, which is it?
This will surprise no one in this audience, and yet it’s a very important study from the Heritage Foundation:
About 7 in 10 parents...and six in ten teachers...see CRT for the poison that it is. It’s repackaging Marxism and trying to divide and conquer this country using race because the socialist’s 20th century attempts to bring down America using social class didn’t work.
This is an offense against all the country stands for and everything we adopted as most important since Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement: these activists now want to disrupt and disband all attempts to achieve a fair and colorblind society, and so they are working to reinstall old-school racism and sexism into even our youngest children.
They are training our kids to see and perceive, and think about, and treat people differently based on their skin color or their gender.
It’s textbook, old school racism of the worst sort.
And they’re pretending to be ‘enlightened’ and ‘enlightening the children’ as they do it.
The same respondents of this survey -both parents and teachers in high numbers-said schools need to get back to a strong civics curriculum...and from k-thru-12.
Since critical race theory is an idea-or a series of ideas-
It’s difficult to ban it from being taught, but legislatures and school districts -can-move to do so and make it clear what sorts of lessons on race and American history the children in their states, and in their communities, are exposed to.
You probably saw that, yesterday, Texas governor Greg Abbott officially signed a law banning the teaching of critical race theory and this equally fraudulent1619 project...from Texas schools.
CRT isn’t history. It’s left wing indoctrination of the worst sort. It’s political. Not factual.
And for those in the educational establishment or on the left who are saying that we cannot ban critical race theory from public schools-
Of course we can.
The schools are formed by government, overseen by government and controlled by government, yes.
But that government was formed to represent and follow the wishes of ‘we, the people’.
School boards were formed to reflect and act on the wishes of the local citizenry and parents.
This doesn’t work the other way around, where we can’t ban crt because government’s control the schools-
That’s the argument some educators are making, and even some conservatives are making: that state government shouldn’t get involved in what can and cannot be taught in the public schools like this. It should be left up to the communities.
Wrong.
The proper way to think about it is: we -can-and should-ban CRT because these are government schools. They are tasked with educating our children, our way. All children, regardless of race, sex, or social status.
Can Governor Abbott and the Texas legislature step in and ban the teaching of critical race theory in Texas’s private schools and universities?
No.He can’t.
But, as governor, he can enforce the overwhelming wishes of the rest of the community on government schools.
In fact, he’s got a duty to.
And as for the Biden administration and the federal education department butting in- they have no right to.
I have long said on this show: we should not have a federal education department, and i sincerely believe that.
Education was-never-the purview of the federal government. It is a state and local issue, and until the carter era- we didn’t have a federal education department.
Most people don’t know that: for most of this country’s existence- federal lawmakers knew where their powers and responsibilities stopped...and the feds were not really involved in education.
Until Carter. And so, today, fast forward 50 years, and you’ve got federal lawmakers insisting that they have the power and authority to micromanage our schools.
But education-is- a state matter, as well as a local matter, and always has been. The question for the smaller and larger community has always been:
We members of the community not only have the legal right- but we also have the moral imperative- to monitor, influence, change, denounce, approve...the curricula in our public schools and universities.
And the only reason that CRT has seeped so deep into our schools and universities is that so many members of the community have taken their eye off the ball....when it comes to education and local curricula.
This covid-19 crisis that had parents-finally-seeing some of what was really being taught in our schools- served as a great wake up call.
I can’t remember I’ve seen this level of activism and push back from concerned parents and teachers before.
It’s a winning issue for conservatives and republicans in 2022 and 2024...up and down the ballot.
We must deliver loss after loss, blow after blow, to the socialists and ‘progressives’ that have taken over one of the two major political parties in this country.
We-must- in order to preserve our communities and our nation-
We -must- deal the democrats loss after loss after loss after loss until the leaders of the party realize they either need to shove the socialists and crackpots back onto the fringes of their own party....or see their party die off.
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