Critical Race Theory

Frederick Douglass was a problem! The Black prophet of freedom wrapped himself simultaneously in the Old Testament traditions of prophets… — Frederick Douglass was a problem! The Black prophet of freedom wrapped himself simultaneously in the Old Testament traditions of prophets like Jeremiah and Ezekiel and progressive notions of equal voting rights and access to education. A man who learned how to read and write against his enslavers’ commands, made a…

Fear of critical race theory is more accurately a fear of thinking about race critically. — “…how we understand violence, its use, and its place in United States history depends on what sort of violence is being described and who is describing it.” -This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed In July of 2020 I found myself sheltering from the humidity of a North Carolina summer in…

I do not support critical race theory. Full stop. — I do not support critical race theory. Full stop. I’m asked this question more often than almost any other issue. Parents are rightly concerned that their children are being taught to hate who they are or think that people of a certain color or race are automatically good or bad…

March 25–29, Hunenberg, CH Seasonal Memoir #65 — March 25–29, Hunenberg, CH Seasonal Memoir #65 There is a scene from The Good Lord Bird Showtime series where John Brown (played brilliantly by Ethan Hawke) holds a sword against a white man’s neck, and forces him to denounce slavery (or lose his head). …

I’ve missed quite a few days of writing. — I’ve missed quite a few days of writing. I have a ton of drafts. That I could have finished and published, but I decided to go a different route. I had ambitions of writing a story every day. That isn’t realistic. At least not for me. A short while ago…

Hint: It isn’t about the past. — “ Nietzsche” by eozikune is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0. My Experience Writing about such Conflicts I learned a lot about history fights when, as a lawyer who had worked both as a prosecutor and a Defence lawyer, I wrote a book (Who Speaks for the River?) about the battle over a dam that took place…

American liberalism as an ideology is perhaps so widely revered because of its legendary origins in the founding of this country. The… — American liberalism as an ideology is perhaps so widely revered because of its legendary origins in the founding of this country. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were, indeed, written with the values of liberalism in mind: individual rights, popular sovereignty, and social contract, to name a few. Granted…

Though featured frequently in the headlines of major news outlets this past year, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is not something many… — Though featured frequently in the headlines of major news outlets this past year, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is not something many Americans understand. Given its long and somewhat radical history (rooted in the rigorous world of academia) the confusion comes as no surprise. …