Commentary

Previously, I have mentioned my concerns over the infiltration of critical race theory into high school, college and university curriculums and the government’s insertion of the race and white privilege subject matter into our military training programs.

I’m sure you’ve noticed that Americans across the nation are confronting school boards with vocal disapproval over study content that shames whites and, I believe, actually encourages racism, citing white privilege.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, encountered tough questioning for authorizing critical race theory being taught in the Defense Department.

Florida Rep. Michael Waltz, a former Green Beret, brought up the teaching of the race theory at West Point in seminars titled, “Understanding Whiteness” and “White Rage,” voicing concern over such training that is “rooted in Marxism that classifies people along class lines, an entire race of people as oppressor and oppressed.”

Informed that members of the military have been telling congressmen that the stand down ordered by Secretary Austin did more harm than good in terms of racial cohesion in the military.

“I don’t know what the issue of critical race theory is and what the relevance is with the department,” Austin said according to a report in Roll Call by Andrew Clevenger. “We do not teach critical race theory.  We don’t embrace critical race theory, and I think that’s a spurious conversation.”

Conversely, General Milley said “I want to understand white rage and I’m white, and I want to understand it.” He ridiculously tied it to the breaching of the Capitol building.

Milley said he has read works by Mao, Marx and Lenin, but “that doesn’t make me a communist.”

 That’s entirely different, and Milley knows it.  Our academy cadets and officers attending the Naval War College and other advanced schooling study a wide range of works by leaders other than our own generals.  Critical race theory is an attempt to shame whites.

If you didn’t see Fox Primetime News hosted by Will Cain Thursday, you missed an insightful segment on race, including an interview with the black host of Informed Dissent, Leonydus Johnson, who pointed out that we are one country, one people. “Our history is our history.  We must recognize that there are things in our history that we are not proud of, but we must move past race.”

In a Washington Post clip, a pathetic unidentified white woman, says she has gone through a period of deep shame after studying white privilege.

Having heard various definitions of critical race theory, I was struck by the concise definition by film director Christopher Rufo:

Critical race theory is an academic discipline that holds that the United States is a nation founded on white supremacy and oppression and that these forces are still at the root of our society.

Critical race theorists believe that American institutions, such as the Constitution and legal system, preach freedom and equality, but are mere “camouflages” for naked racial domination.

Many of you have already recognized that this is the latest effort by progressives on the left to further divide us with false claims of systemic racism.

We cannot allow them to succeed.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.