After flipping to a conservative majority, a California school board voted to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) on Tuesday.
The Temecula Valley Unified School Board adopted a resolution 3-2 which bans the teaching of CRT from the classroom, the same night the three new board members were sworn in. The resolution was introduced by newly elected Joseph Komrosky who said the resolution was a way for him to keep “a campaign promise.”
“The first night Dr. Joseph Komrosky said ‘I ran my campaign making promises to my future constituents and tonight, I’m gonna make good on those campaign promises,’” Pastor Tim Thompson, founder of the Inland Empire Family PAC, a group focused on parental rights in education that endorsed the three candidates, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This is the first one and he did good on that campaign promise and I’m grateful for that. He’s a man of his word. All three of them.”
….The board also adopted a resolution condemning racism Tuesday, stating that any racist conduct will be punished.
Inland Empire Family PAC worked with and endorsed the three school board candidates in an effort to bring “pro-parental rights candidates” to the Temecula Valley Unified School Board, according to the group website. The group began in 2017 when parents discovered a comprehensive sex education curriculum was being taught within the school district.
The above comes from a Dec. 15 posting on the Daily Caller.
….The board also adopted a resolution condemning racism Tuesday, stating that any racist conduct will be punished.
Well, without a rational definition of what ‘racism’ is and how to identify it, it’s just more BS from a public school board…should have left that one alone instead of virtue signaling like the radicals they replaced. Might as well adopt a resolution condemning the flu and sprained ankles…
As I see it, however my perspective has limitations, the problem with CRT is that it defines racism in such a way that it constitutes a condemnation of whiteness and an exoneration of blackness. In other words, racism is not about character but about ontology. Thus CRT is racist to the core under the conventional understanding as the treating of people based on the color of their skin. As such it should be condemned. Its excesses are ludicrous– claiming math is racist, for instance. That said, I suppose it is easier to define racism than to identify it, especially given the CRT ploy of finding subconscious racism in everything white.
They had to do that to show they aren’t racists. In some people’s minds, opposing CRT is a racist stance. Like how some people think opposing gay marriage is homophobic.
Banning Critical Race Theory is good. They should be commended. Are they perfect? No, none of us are. But, should we let the perfect prevent us from doing good? Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t perfect, but he was right when he said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
I have always wondered about that quote. Why do his children have to be judged at all?
Maybe i understand your point. But, judge, the verb, means to form an opinion or conclusion about. It isn’t necessarily bad or condemnatory. Shouldn’t physicians judge a child’s health? And, his children grew into adults. Don’t you want the pilot during your next air travel to be judged? Or, should anyone who claims they can fly a 737 be allowed into the cockpit? As a parent, don’t you judge your children, even positively, when they demonstrate good behavior and virtuous character traits? Jesus Himself said to “judge rightly.” As Catholics, we judge no one’s soul. But, Christ and His Church do judge certain acts as sinful and others as virtuous. I think Rev. King was right on this.
CRT? What is it? Do they teach it in elementary and high school? They don’t teach it in public schools or most colleges. Most of us don’t know what it is, but we think we do. Let’s start with the idea that it is ok for one person to own another, regardless of race. I don’t know anyone who believes that is ok, but they did back in earlier times, and it was legal in our country until 1865, only 157 years ago. When slavery was abolished with the 13th Amendment, that didn’t end racial discrimination. We still have vestiges of discrimination in the workplace, in our society in general, yet few of us identify ourselves as racists. What we see now, I observe, is a willingness to treat the history of our country in more real terms than in the past. Jefferson wrote of all men being equal but owned lots of slaves. Washington had slaves. Our communities discouraged mixed races living in the same neighborhoods, banks charged higher interest on home loans, etc. Those things were pretty much shoved under the rug in our schools in favor of more stories that were really close to propaganda. Today we have the Proud Boys overtly calling for rule by white people, refusing to be “replaced” by Jews, etc.. Teaching about that is not CRT, it is history. Just this month Congress passed the first law that makes it legal throughout the land for people of mixed race to marry.
Another uninformed opinion of the leftist Bob One, we will do our best to correct it.
CRT? What is it?= Answer: white people are inherently evil, non whites are inherently good, whites oppressor, non whites oppressed
Do they teach it in elementary and high school?= Yes
They don’t teach it in public schools or most colleges. = Wrong on both counts
Let’s start with the idea that it is ok for one person to own another,= Bob One like most leftist thinks most whites living today actually own slaves, it would come quite as shock to him that there are actual slave markets in places like Libya and Somalia, which he of course would blame on whites. Or that some of biggest holders of slaves were non-whites as were slave traders
Today we have the Proud Boys overtly calling for rule by white people, refusing to be “replaced” by Jews, etc. Bob One you are wrong once again, the guys yelling “Jews will not replace us” were not Proud boys. If you did any actual research, the Proud Boys were a response to Antifa ( a group your side has affinity for) who were constantly physically attacking right wing personality with ideas that your side find verbotten
Bob One you hate anyone of European descent which puts you in perfect line with the democrat party.. Knows this Bob One you or your Marxist band of thugs will never convince me to hate my family, my culture, my lineage or my skin color based on crimes I didn’t commit
bohemond, as usual, I wouldn’t know where to begin! First of all, I am of European descent – Irish and French. My ancestor fought at Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill and Ticonderoga, were officers and enlisted men in the Civil War, etc. I don’t hate people. I have a few friends who are Democrats, and they don’t hate people, just the opposite.
Your history needs some updating.
Your facts need checking.
Deal with policy, not denigration of people. Because someone has a differs from your opinion doesn’t make them bad people. I’m sure you are a very nice person, too.
Bob One, your family lineage no matter how impressive does not matter to me. My history and facts are spot. Tell me where I am wrong, point out the error. Some of the biggest slave trader and holders were non-white, that is fact. But its a fact that has not been taught because it does not align with the narrative of regime of woke: ie. whites are oppressive non -whites oppressed. I am not a “nice” guy and I am truthful if that means I am not popular, so be it. I will continue to denigrate the left as much as possible
The brainwashing in you is strong.
A powerful Sith I have become…..
CRT:. Crazy, Ragin’ Thoughts
Bohemond, Your sweeping accusations are mere hyperbole or delusional paranoia. There is no “regime of woke” CRT does not teach that “whites are oppressive non-whites oppressed” . ” Bob One like most leftist thinks most whites living today actually own slaves” is slanderous and false. I am sure Bobe one does not think that most whites living today actually own slaves and neither does any “leftisit” In fact, no one thinks that “most whites lilving today actually own slaves”. Most of your other statements are similarly flawed and blatant lies. Who cares what the world slave trade is or was; lame deflection of facts. We are talking about America. In America, the slave trade was run and maintained by white people, in fact many battled in a civil war to maintain it. You are a Catholic? Odd, denigration is not what the church or Christ taught. You are correct that you are not nice person.