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It's obvious that America's depressingly large populations of racist parents, mostly centered in the South but also scattered across the rural areas in many other states, don't understand what "Critical Race Theory" even is, where it's taught, or why. And it's telling that they don't care. They don't care about intellectual arguments, moral imperatives, factual history, epic hypocrisy, or public shame. All they care about is maintaining white privilege from generation to generation.

And they care about power. CRT is just their latest battle cry of faux-outrage to whip the troops into a frenzy and drive them to the polls.

It works. Last time, 74 million fearful, hateful, small-minded bigots purposely and knowingly voted for the most openly racist asshole on the ballot -- even after witnessing four years of radical, in-your-face racist policies here at home and spanning the globe. These people are Trump's "good people on both sides" masqueraders who are only posing as good parents and patriots. Their attitudes and actions argue the opposite.

At all costs, the children of racist parents must never learn the whole truth of racism in America ...or in their own families, more importantly. The parent's lamest deflection of guilt is to blame their own children (shamelessness knows no bounds): "It might hurt their feelings." (Spit coffee out.)

Yeah right. Do they care about the little whelps' tender feelings when they drill fear and hatred of "others" into their malleable brains in their formative years? Do they care about all the little brown and black kids' feelings who've suffered persecution in all its disgusting forms for the entire history of this country at the hands of arrogant white pissants who think they are God's chosen race?

The real issue is the white feelings of racist parents. That's one of the biggest problems with public education in America, right up there with a lack of funding, which is also a direct result of institutionalized racism (CRT if you will; although, it's not just theory).

Racist parents won't be cheering on the elected members at school board meetings until Brown v. Board of Education is reversed and the members are replaced by the herd, chanting, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" Sing along, kids -- follow the white bouncing ball.

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I wrote the other day this is a new dimension of politics. As of this month, we have entered The Twilight Zone. First, the asinine racist attorney at the Arbery trial decided he could not abide any more Black preachers sitting in court with Ahmaud's grief-stricken mother while she suffers the loss once more listening to the gory details. Second, during the debate for the "big" Build Back Better bill, a Republican Representative actually used the term "Blue-State Yankees". The only things missing for effect were the Q-anon Shaman and the guy with the Confederate flag.

I probably have the timetable wrong; we hit The Twilight Zone on January 6th! The "outliers" are waaaay out there in another dimension.

The media doesn't have to point out anything. They just keep endlessly playing the footage, and the Republicans, racists, misogynists, and gender biased a-holes speak for themselves. If you want a little media pick-me-up, look up the story on NBC KOBI TV titled "Hundreds of high school students walk-out after ‘I Resolve’ educators reinstated". These young people are beautiful inside and out. 

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