A woman man in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him:
“Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."
She rolled her eyes and said, “You must be a Democrat."
“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”
The man smiled and responded, “You must be a Republican.”
“I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”
“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are — or where you are going. You’ve risen to where you are , due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault.”
New York City's Lincoln Center honored activist who said she admired Usama bin Laden
"I’m glad that you are curious why I consider Usama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire," she told the interviewer. "To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, all leaders that I admire. They had much in common. Besides being strong leaders who brought consciousness to their people, they all had severe dislike for the U.S. government and those who held power in the U.S."
We've bestowed virtually unlimited power upon those who despise our country and worship our enemies like China, Iran and Hamas. And our "leader" is a certified imbecile.
A 72-year-old good Samaritan was nearly beaten to death after pulling over to help a black teen who was stranded on the side of the highway because of a flat tire.
An elderly Missouri man is lucky to be alive after he was violently attacked when he stopped to help a stranded driver on I-35 in Clay County.
Jason Jones was driving to Kansas City last week when he saw a couple stranded on the side of the road with a blown out tire.
“He was kind of stand-offish, like kind of wish I hadn’t stopped, but I kept asking and they kept saying yes,” Jones told Fox4.
Jones said 19-year-old Choyce Davis and a woman with him got into his van so he could take them to find a spare tire.
The couple began beating Jones as he drove them back to their stranded car.
“We got their tire, got back in the van and just barely started off. All the sudden something hit me on top of the head,” Jones said.
Jones opened his van door and dove out to escape, but the 19-year-old man grabbed his neck, choked him and repeatedly punched him in the face.
“In today’s world, nobody does that and that was my thing. I’ve always stopped to help people. They’ve always appreciated it — until now. Now at my age, maybe I’ll think twice next time before I do it again,” Jones said.
Jones was rushed to a local hospital after a passerby dialed 911.
Jones was covered in blood and suffered a brain bleed and a fractured skull.
Doctors weren’t sure he would make it but he miraculously survived and after spending 11 days in the hospital, Jones was released.
Davis and the young woman were both arrested but Davis was granted bond.
Biden Feels Pressure from the Left Dan Balz: “Biden will have to make some difficult choices about the unfinished parts of his economic and domestic agenda. He will continue to feel pressure from the left on voting rights, immigration, racial injustice, guns and the filibuster. So far he has maneuvered through this with relative confidence, but he has been forced by circumstances to adapt to the changes within his party and govern accordingly.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL: “An increasingly vocal progressive wing is putting more pressure on Democratic leaders over hot-button issues including U.S. military aid to Israel, Capitol security funding and policing practices.”
BUT THE GOP IS IN EVEN WORSE SHAPE
GOP Struggles to Define New Governing Coalition THE WASHINGTON POST: “Aggravation and drama have defined the Republican Party since Trump left office. In just the two weeks, Republican leaders have punished his enemies, continued to pursue a revisiting of the election results and, on Capitol Hill, opposed bipartisan efforts to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection. A few members expressed concern for those who broke into the building where they work. (OH YES, THOSE POOR, DEAR CREATURES!)
“A new generation of Trumpist acolytes — like Missouri attorney Mark McCloskey, who became famous for drawing a gun on Black Lives Matters protesters — have announced their intention to run for high office with a set of Trump issues that motivate them. McCloskey has announced plans to run for the Senate.
“The moves pose a threat to the party’s efforts to reclaim moderate, largely college-educated voters whom were turned off by Trump, while muddying the party’s efforts to shift the national focus to the less popular parts of Democratic policies. They also mark a continued repudiation of the orthodoxy that last restored Republicans to power and governed the party for two generations.”
But imagine being the lying POS "pastor" continuing to plagiarize from Goddard's political_lire blog
without links
Taking Goddard's headline, Goddard's sliced out quotes, Goddard's additional snippets from Goddard's sources and whatever subject matter Goddard chooses to blog about
And that is how you will "think" today.
at least it's real easy to bypass though the "pastor" wants everyone else to be the mindless tool he is.
Love that joke, at least when I heard it the other way around. Your Democrat and Republican are switched from when and where I have heard it.
But it's good to see that Roger is becoming more conservative and less liberal. After all, he claims to reject Critical Race Theory which is the backbone of the Democratic Party platform right now.
As the joke goes... you don't want to be that person blaming someone else for your problems. Obviously if Roger is making fun of someone "blaming someone else for their own problems" then that is why he hates CRT (which literally makes nobody who isn't White responsible for anything in their lives).
A black person does poor in school. Whitey's fault. A black person turns to drugs. Whitey's fault. A black person turns to crime. Whitey's fault. A black person works in poorer paying jobs. Whitey's fault.
I could go on and on and on and on... but the point remains that the Democratic Party led by CRT is 100% about blaming others for the problems that some people see. They look to the vulnerable and tell them that their plight is not their fault and that they will make others solve their problems for them.
Vote for me and I will pin the blame on someone else and make em pay!!!
Good thing that Roger seems to be rejected that, along with CRT and the idea that if you are lost in a hot air balloon that it's the fault of the person who doesn't do enough to solve your problem for you.
Reality for Roger... is that conservatives really don't go around blaming others. They want personal responsibility. They don't go around demanding that it's white supremacy to treat everyone the same or strive for a colorblind society.
Welcome to the dark side of taking personal responsibilities for your own problems and not pointing the fingers at others. There is a home for that thinking in the 2021 Republican Party. But no home for that in the Democratic Party. They will "cancel" you just for claiming that we should treat people equally and that CRT is not the answer.
Tim Young https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1396156461747687440 They're reviewing ballots in Fulton County, Georgia now... but I'm sure the most popular President in all of American history has nothing to worry about.
Funny when he gives a commencement speech to the military he has to chastise the crowd for not cheering his plagiarized joke from 40 years ago. Of course reading it is not the same as giving it.
And now the students at Notre Dame didn't even want him to give the commencement address.
Well we are saving lots of money because so few people want to see him in person.
Tim Young https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1396171153539047428 Leftists up until election day: Trump is going to subvert democracy, cheat and rig this election!!!!
Leftists after the election: This was the safest, most secure election in American history!!!
Well Biden was very secure in his basement bunker not taking questions and being protected by the DOJ and FBI
AUSTIN, TX—Governor Greg Abbot has signed into law a bill that deputizes students in Texas classrooms so they can use their lassoes to hog-tie any teachers promoting critical race theory and forcibly drive them out of town.
The bill is part of a wider national effort by red states like Texas to combat critical race theory since efforts at the federal level have stalled under the scrutiny of Democrats like President Joe Biden. In the main provisions of the bill, each student will be given a little deputy badge, a 10-gallon hat, and a set of shiny spurs that ring out authoritatively on each step.
“This bill is about teaching true racial harmony and true history,” said the Governor at the signing. “It also empowers deputized students to take responsibility for the maintenance of their communities and Texas culture by driving out these cowpokes that just aren’t doing their jobs in Texas schools.”
Students were already beginning to take up their responsibilities at one school in San Antonio as several teary-eyed school teachers were run off into the desert with their hands still tightly bound.
"Yeehaw!" yelled 9-year old Susannah as she fired her revolver into the air. "And don't you commies ever come back, ya hear?"
According to the bill signed today, critical race theory would not only be prohibited from any school district’s curriculum, but violators may also be tied up to a SpaceX rocket fired from Starbase on a one way trip into the sun!
""There’s a lot of cloudiness around the origins of COVID-19 still, so I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?" PolitiFact’s Katie Sanders asked the nation’s top infectious disease expert in an event, United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking event.
Scott, The CRT is not the agenda of the Democratic party.
Falsely accusing of their support is propaganda.
When propagandists start to spread the Big Lie and CRT gullible people believe in an alternate reality.
It's like this?
Republican legislators in a handful of states are trying to cut funding to schools and colleges that use the New York Times’ award-winning 1619 Project for classroom lessons — efforts that have served to keep the provocative retelling of American history in the spotlight.
The project, published in the newspaper’s magazine in August 2019, is a collection of essays and stories that argue that America was not founded in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was adopted, but rather in 1619, the year that enslaved Africans were first brought to the land that became the United States.
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When they colonized North America, they also committed a near extermination of the Native Tribes. They stole the Black Hills of South Dakota, after gold was found.
The Republicans are claiming that teaching the truth about the facts.
Slavery was allowed in the Constitution until the Civil War. Republicans claim that it would make people of color or hate white people, because of the color of their skin. And yes like the Red Scare of the McCarthy era, would destroy capitalism. Eisenhower came out again it became he was a conservative Republican of that era.
Teaching that George Washington was a slave owner, and several other founding fathers were slave owners, will not make people of color, hate whites.
When the people understand everything, it will unite the country not divide it.
Republican legislators in a handful of states are trying to cut funding to schools and colleges that use the New York Times’ award-winning 1619 Project for classroom lessons
You do realize that the 1619 project is pretty much pure fiction, right? It has no place being taught as history (because it isn't real history). Not even the author claims it to be at this point.
So what would be the other justification for teaching (in school) a political opinion from a NYT author?
But you always go right back to where you always go, Roger?
Lying.
Nobody is demanding that you don't teach slavery.
Slavery is history
Nobody is demanding that we do not teach about our wars with the native Americans.
Those wars are history
Nobody is against pointing out that George Washington owned slaves
That fact is history
See where I am going with this Roger.
Conservatives have no issue with teaching history. We were taught history when I grew up, including how founders fought with native Americans over their land. Including slavery. Including all that.
What we were not taught is any particular political point of view on the subject. Our teachers did not 'embellish history" in order to make a political point (1619 project).
So again Roger..
Only a matter of time till we see your full throttle support of CRT. You have no mind of your own and as soon as your Party leaders provide you with the "their" explanation of things - you will put on your sheep outfit and Baaaaaah your way right in line.
Like a good little sheeple!
And then I will laugh at you and say "I told you so".
You do realize that the 1619 project is pretty much pure fiction, right?
Like your analysis of the ballot dumps and that trump won?????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Seems to me that the R's in congress and you live in an alternate universe where facts have no meaning and conspiracy of an authoritarian asshole rule the day!!!!!!!!!!!
After the January 6th attacks on the Capitol building, for a very brief moment — elected Republicans and Democrats were united in their condemnation of the violent mob and the president who in many ways inspired the attack, according to leading elected Republicans at the time. It is worth recalling Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) own words just one week after the Capitol insurrection: “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters.” Similarly, McCarthy’s counterpart in the Senate, then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) denounced the former president’s actions, calling his behavior a “disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.”
When they colonized North America, they also committed a near extermination of the Native Tribes. They stole the Black Hills of South Dakota, after gold was found.
A people came across a people with superior technology.
Alky this has happened since the beginning of time. It didn’t just start with our founding, idiot
After the 9/11 attack, Congressional leaders from both parties came together to pass legislation establishing the commission with overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate as part of that year’s Intelligence Authorization Act (2013, H.R.4628). At the time, both chambers were under united Republican control, and President George W. Bush signed the authorization bill on Nov. 27, 2002. During the signing ceremony, President Bush declared, “As a nation, we're working every day to build a future that is peaceful and secure. To reach this goal, we must learn all about the past that we can. So with this commission we have formed today, America will learn more about the evil that was done to us, and the understanding we will gain will serve us for years to come.”
Shortly after the incident happened and George W Bush had a 75% approval rating and soars Yahoo started.
The Insurrection was far more dangerous than destroying two skyscrapers and the attack on the Pentagon. Brave American people gave their lives to reverse course of the airplane that was going to attack the White House.
We united for A very brief moment of patriotism and bipartisanship.
If the Republicans block the January 6th investigation bipartisanship is truly dead in the nation’s Capitol, and yes be replaced by Trumpism. I don't like the use the word, but it's Thecoldheartedtruth.
Kputz doesn't believe that I was in Rapid City during the 1972 flood.
Earlier that day I was working with my father Ivan building a new home, right on the coast of Canyon Lake in Rapid City.
We got a lot of thunderstorms over the Black Hills, in the spring. I saw a storm building. But it is just normal.
Later on the day I was getting high on weed with a friend. But we listened to KOTA am and they said the forecast was a warning of a storm, so we got back home.
The next morning, a dozen people came to my parents home at 4104 Minnekahta Drive and were crying and scared. And missed their families.
It was a 500 year flood that we got 15 inches of rain in a two or three hours period.
Thousands of homes were destroyed and about I have to look it up but over 600 people died. I posted a link yesterday afternoon.
The Black Hills Flood of 1972, also known as the Rapid City Flood, was the most detrimental flood in South Dakota history, and one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. The flood took place on June 9–10, 1972 in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota. 15 inches (380 mm) of rain in a small area over the Black Hills caused Rapid Creek and other waterways to overflow. Severe flooding of residential and commercial properties in Rapid City occurred when Canyon Lake Dam became clogged with debris and failed in the late evening hours of June 9 resulting in 238 deaths and 3,057 injuries. Over 1,335 homes and 5,000 automobiles were destroyed. The value of property damage was estimated to be over US$160 million in 1972 dollars ($990 million in 2020 dollars). Flooding also occurred in Battle, Spring, Bear Butte, and Boxelder creeks.
“I worked for eight presidents, five of them were Republicans. I don’t think any of them would recognize the Republican party today. I think in terms of the values and the principles that the Republican party stood for under those five presidents are hard to find these days.”
— Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, quoted by The Hill.
Scott I laughed out loud when you said I was a sheepie.
The Republicans of today are Sheep.
They were herdists.
A herd of cattle are lead by the bull.
Humans have a tribalist history. Like the tribes in North America before the United States was created.
In the summer of 1971, I lived in a campsite on Spring Creek along side Sheridan Lake Drive. Hippies for several areas stopped and camped for a few days.
One of them came from New York. They had several pounds of hashish. We got very high.
You are the one who doesn't want kids taught history. History as it exists and how it was taught to us.
You are the one rejecting decades of how we taught facts to our children.
You now represent the Critical Race Theory that everything needs to be taught with race in mind and that we need to not just "teach" history, but "judge" history with the Critical Race Theory that "white" people are to blame for anything and everything that ever happened.
You keep saying its not what you believe.
But then you continue to argue the concept.
What was wrong with the say history has been taught for generations? Teaching kids the truth and the facts of history?
You follow CRT - Baaaaaaahhhh!!!
Good liberal sheeple! Towing the line with lies! I told you so!
A small group of Republicans don't want the children taught about our somewhat different situations before the civil war and the voting rights act and the anti discrimination laws, will convict African Americans, Hispanics,and Asians to hate white people because they were racist in the past.
May 25 is the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin, and his family is marking the occasion with an official visit to the White House to meet with President Joe Biden.
Biden’s team had initially hoped to mark the anniversary by signing into law a major police reform package named in Floyd’s honor, but that’s a longer quest as lawmakers and advocates fight over what the bill will include. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act has reportedly been held up by disagreements about qualified immunity, which can shield police officers and their departments from civil liability in misconduct cases, according to the Washington Post.
The White House announced the Floyd’s family planned visit early Saturday. The administration reportedly has been in contact with the family, including George’s brother Philonise Floyd, ever since a jury found Chauvin guilty.
95% police officers despise racist police officers. But the unions and administration officials refused to support the legislation.
Scott believes "some schools were teaching that “white people are inherently privileged, while Black and other people of color are inherently oppressed and victimized”; that “achieving racial justice and equality between racial groups requires discriminating against people based on their whiteness”
Education will not require people to enforce legal discrimination against their skin color or gender discrimination. Like reconciliation.
A small group of Republicans don't want the children taught about our somewhat different situations before the civil war and the voting rights act and the anti discrimination laws, will convict African Americans, Hispanics,and Asians to hate white people because they were racist in the past.
Name them.
Don't name people who are against teaching CRT. Name those who are on record and you can quote saying that they don't want to teach the same history that we have always been taught that certainly includes things that happened prior to the Civil war.
I bet you cannot name one.
But you can name several liberals who want to teach history (such as 1619) that doesn't actually exist, because they believe it teaches some other lessons. You could probably name many liberal who want out kids to be taught not just "about" history - but literally taught how they should "judge it" in the correct political doctrine.
You found one person arguing against teaching Critical Race theory?
Another suggesting that the Tennessee banning Critical Race theory in the classroom is wrong?
Neither of those articles are showing that anyone is suggesting that History cannot be taught, slavery cannot be part of history, or anything that you suggest.
In fact, if you read the second one... the teachers are suggesting that they will continue to teach that such and such is racism. One even suggested that it's wrong to not teach Critical Race theory.
"Good teachers should be teaching the truth, which is that every system in the U.S. is built on racism and white supremacy.”
There you go Roger...
You defend this thinking and are alarmed that people are rising up against it... then you are a proud supporter of Critical Race Theory!!!!!
Thanks, once again, Roger... for proving my point.
That nobody is against teaching history.
But that the left wants to teach kies that EVERYTHING in this country is built on racism and white supremacy.
I rest my case!
Why don't you just say "baaaahhh" and be the good sheeple you want to be?
Critical legal studies (CLS) is a theory which states that the law is necessarily intertwined with social issues, particularly stating that the law has inherent social biases. Proponents of CLS believe that the law supports the interests of those who create the law. As such, CLS states that the law supports a power dynamic which favors the historically privileged and disadvantages the historically underprivileged. CLS finds that the wealthy and the powerful use the law as an instrument for oppression in order to maintain their place in authority.
Then comes the kicker: “Many in the CLS movement want to overturn the hierarchical structures of modern society[,] and they focus on the law as a tool in achieving this goal.”
Just as with Critical Theory, Critical Legal Theory is, then, an instrument to overturn society for those who follow its tenets, this time from a legal perspective. The law, they argue, is simply the cultural hegemony codified in statutes and defended by a jurisprudence that aims to support the powerful against the claims of the marginalized. CLT proponents trace their founding to the first Conference on Critical Legal Studies, held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1977. Among its main theorists figure Duncan Kennedy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Robert W. Gordon.Duncan Kennedy and Karl E. Klare, “
In a 2002 essay, Kennedy acknowledges the debt Critical Legal Theory owes to both Marxism and post-modernism (championed by a mostly Parisian set of intellectuals who preached that texts could be “deconstructed” by the reader, a complicated philosophical concept that involves reinterpreting words to replace ideas based on objective physical existence), two separate critiques of bourgeois reality that nevertheless can rub uneasily against each other. “Critical legal studies,” he writes, “operates [sic] at the uneasy juncture of two distinct, sometimes complementary and sometimes conflicting enterprises, which I will call the left and the modernist/postmodernist projects.”
Post-modernism is a much more complex phenomenon, but it aims at the same destruction of society as the Marxist project, starting with the use of reason itself. We can gain a sense of such complexity in Kennedy’s own abstruse writing on Modernism/Postmodernism (or MPM). He explains:
[MPM] is a critique of the characteristic forms of rightness of this same culture and aims at liberation from inner and outer experiences of constraint by reason, in the name, not of justice and a new system, but of the dialectic of system and anti-system, mediated by transgressive artifacts that paradoxically reaffirm the “higher” forms of the values they seem to traduce.Ibid."
Just as with Critical Theory, post-modernism borrows heavily from the Nietzschean attack on objectivity. Writes Kennedy:
For the [MPM] project, the demand for agreement and commitment on the basis of representation with the pretension to objectivity is an enemy. The specific enemies have been the central ethical/theoretical concepts of bourgeois culture, including God, the autonomous individual choosing self, conventional morality, the family, manhood and womanhood, the nation state, humanity.
CLT scholars also display an awareness of the rising identity groups that Marcuse identified as the new revolutionary base. Kennedy quotes approvingly his fellow university professor Cornell West as asserting the existence of aninchoate, scattered yet gathering progressive movement that is emerging across the American landscape. This gathering now lacks both the vital moral vocabulary and the focused leadership that can constitute and sustain it. Yet it will be rooted ultimately in current activities by people of color, by labor and ecological groups, by women, by homosexuals.
Kennedy adds that “in the United States, by the end of the 1970s, with the rise of identity politics, left discourse merged with liberal discourse, and the two ideas of the rights of the oppressed and the constitutional validity of their legal claims superseded all earlier versions of rightness.”Ibid.
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center’s entry on Critical Legal
focused from the start on the ways that law contributed to illegitimate social hierarchies, producing domination of women by men, nonwhites by whites, and the poor by the wealthy. They claim that apparently neutral language and institutions, operated through law, mask relationships of power and control. The emphasis on individualism within the law similarly hides patterns of power relationships while making it more difficult to summon up a sense of community and human interconnection.”“Critical Legal Studies Movement,” From there it is a short step to Critical Race Theory. Unsurprisingly, given its name, CRT makes everything about race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life—and do so with a degree of persistence that has helped CRT impact all aspects of American life.
Derrick Bell, referenced above, the widely-acknowledged “godfather” of CRT, explains in the essay cited earlier that the work of CRT authors “is often disruptive because its commitment to anti-racism goes well beyond civil rights, integration, affirmative action, and other liberal measures.”Bell, “Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?” p. 899.
Bell quotes Angela P. Harris as explaining that CRT inherits from its Critical Legal Theory ancestor the commitment to dismantle all aspects of society through unremitting criticism—and at the same time eschews the wooly deconstructionist excesses of the postmodernists and adopts the practicality of the Civil Rights movement. Bell points to theorist and professor Charles Lawrence and says he “speaks for many critical race theory adherents when he disagrees with the notion that laws are or can be written from a neutral perspective.”
Because the law “systematically privileges subjects who are white,” CRT calls for a “transformative resistance strategy.”
From there it is a short step to Critical Race Theory. Unsurprisingly, given its name, CRT makes everything about race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life—and do so with a degree of persistence that has helped CRT impact all aspects of American life.
Derrick Bell, referenced above, the widely-acknowledged “godfather” of CRT, explains in the essay cited earlier that the work of CRT authors “is often disruptive because its commitment to anti-racism goes well beyond civil rights, integration, affirmative action, and other liberal measures.”Bell, “Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?” p. 899.
Bell quotes Angela P. Harris as explaining that CRT inherits from its Critical Legal Theory ancestor the commitment to dismantle all aspects of society through unremitting criticism—and at the same time eschews the wooly deconstructionist excesses of the postmodernists and adopts the practicality of the Civil Rights movement. Bell points to theorist and professor Charles Lawrence and says he “speaks for many critical race theory adherents when he disagrees with the notion that laws are or can be written from a neutral perspective.”
Because the law “systematically privileges subjects who are white,” CRT calls for a “transformative resistance strategy.”
Seems to me that you cannot make up your mind as to whether or not Critical Race Theory is the crazy philosophy that you thought was wrong just to days ago... and demanded just again today that it was not part of the Democratic belief system.
Or whether it is something that you now want to embrace, as you start to realize that I am against it and many in your party is for it.
As far as "understanding it". I am not the one confused here. I am against it as are pretty much everyone on my side of the political aisle. I simply do not believe that everything in our society is about White Supremacy and that every difference between people can be explained away by racism.
Perhaps that is because I grew up without much, had to struggle to make my way in life, and nothing was "given" to me. I didn't live any sort of white supremacy concept that my family accumulated money because of slavery (as my grandparents were all first or second generation immigrants and died penniless).
I inherently understand that "privilege" exists in many different forms and that the world will never be completely fair because people are inherently different. Some people are attractive, some are ugly. Some are gifted and some are ridiculously talentless. Some are born rich. Others are born poor. In the grand scheme of things, race is only one of many many many factors and in and of itself cannot explain the ills of the world or the differences in who is successful and who fails.
Either way... at the end of the day you will warm to CRT because the TPM of your Party will demand it.
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A woman man in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him:
“Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."
She rolled her eyes and said, “You must be a Democrat."
“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”
The man smiled and responded, “You must be a Republican.”
“I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”
“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are — or where you are going. You’ve risen to where you are , due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault.”
��Roger Amick May 22, 2021 at 10:52 PM
I was there.��
More of Life Roger wish he had lived
So...
Some of our fine African-American upstanding citizens decided to hold another one of their spontaneous "celebrations."
Except this on was on a commercial airliner MID-FLIGHT.
A violent fight broke out midflight on Spirit Airlines this week.
It is unclear what caused the fight or if anyone was arrested.
Videos of the massive brawl were posted to social media on Friday.
VIDEO (language warning):
A male flight attendant was seen trying to deescalate the situation.
Another flight attendant said if the fighting didn’t stop, the pilot would land the plane.
“Ladies and gentlemen, everybody take your seats! We will land this plane right now!” a Spirit Airlines crew member shouted over the intercom.
VIDEO (language warning):
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/violent-fight-breaks-midflight-flight-crew-threatens-land-plane-video/
New York City's Lincoln Center honored activist who said she admired Usama bin Laden
"I’m glad that you are curious why I consider Usama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire," she told the interviewer. "To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, all leaders that I admire. They had much in common. Besides being strong leaders who brought consciousness to their people, they all had severe dislike for the U.S. government and those who held power in the U.S."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-lincoln-center-yuri-kochiyama-usama-bin-laden
We've bestowed virtually unlimited power upon those who despise our country and worship our enemies like China, Iran and Hamas. And our "leader" is a certified imbecile.
There's no possible way this ends well.
A 72-year-old good Samaritan was nearly beaten to death after pulling over to help a black teen who was stranded on the side of the highway because of a flat tire.
An elderly Missouri man is lucky to be alive after he was violently attacked when he stopped to help a stranded driver on I-35 in Clay County.
Jason Jones was driving to Kansas City last week when he saw a couple stranded on the side of the road with a blown out tire.
“He was kind of stand-offish, like kind of wish I hadn’t stopped, but I kept asking and they kept saying yes,” Jones told Fox4.
Jones said 19-year-old Choyce Davis and a woman with him got into his van so he could take them to find a spare tire.
The couple began beating Jones as he drove them back to their stranded car.
“We got their tire, got back in the van and just barely started off. All the sudden something hit me on top of the head,” Jones said.
Jones opened his van door and dove out to escape, but the 19-year-old man grabbed his neck, choked him and repeatedly punched him in the face.
“In today’s world, nobody does that and that was my thing. I’ve always stopped to help people. They’ve always appreciated it — until now. Now at my age, maybe I’ll think twice next time before I do it again,” Jones said.
Jones was rushed to a local hospital after a passerby dialed 911.
Jones was covered in blood and suffered a brain bleed and a fractured skull.
Doctors weren’t sure he would make it but he miraculously survived and after spending 11 days in the hospital, Jones was released.
Davis and the young woman were both arrested but Davis was granted bond.
More from Fox4:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/72-year-old-good-samaritan-nearly-beaten-death-stopping-help-black-teen-flat-tire/
GOOD MORNING!
BIDEN IS FACING SOME DIFFICULTIES
Biden Feels Pressure from the Left
Dan Balz:
“Biden will have to make some difficult choices about the unfinished parts of his economic and domestic agenda. He will continue to feel pressure from the left on voting rights, immigration, racial injustice, guns and the filibuster. So far he has maneuvered through this with relative confidence, but he has been forced by circumstances to adapt to the changes within his party and govern accordingly.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL:
“An increasingly vocal progressive wing is putting more pressure on Democratic leaders over hot-button issues including U.S. military aid to Israel, Capitol security funding and policing practices.”
BUT THE GOP IS IN EVEN WORSE SHAPE
GOP Struggles to Define New Governing Coalition
THE WASHINGTON POST: “Aggravation and drama have defined the Republican Party since Trump left office. In just the two weeks, Republican leaders have
punished his enemies,
continued to pursue a revisiting of the election results and,
on Capitol Hill, opposed bipartisan efforts to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
A few members expressed concern for those who broke into the building where they work. (OH YES, THOSE POOR, DEAR CREATURES!)
“A new generation of Trumpist acolytes — like Missouri attorney Mark McCloskey, who became famous for drawing a gun on Black Lives Matters protesters — have announced their intention to run for high office with a set of Trump issues that motivate them. McCloskey has announced plans to run for the Senate.
“The moves pose a threat to the party’s efforts to reclaim moderate, largely college-educated voters whom were turned off by Trump,
while muddying the party’s efforts to shift the national focus to the less popular parts of Democratic policies.
They also mark a continued repudiation of the orthodoxy that last restored Republicans to power and governed the party for two generations.”
IT'S CALLED
GOING DOWN WITH TRUMP.
CEASEFIRE.
I guess the Sunday funnies editor didn't get the message.
Imagine going through life and as you approach the end being such a mindless tool.
Desperate for ANYONE to notice him.
kind of like the alky
must be a partisan lib gene.
Personal attacks on Roger.
Just ignore them, Rog.
They're not worth responding to.
FANTASTIC MORNING !!!
But imagine being the lying POS "pastor" continuing to plagiarize from Goddard's political_lire blog
without links
Taking Goddard's headline, Goddard's sliced out quotes, Goddard's additional snippets from Goddard's sources and whatever subject matter Goddard chooses to blog about
And that is how you will "think" today.
at least it's real easy to bypass though the "pastor" wants everyone else to be the mindless tool he is.
well an alky and a bleater agree
ROFLMFAO !!!
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1396438297698783233
I'd never own a car that runs on dirty coal.
Those people must really hate planet Earth.
Good morning Roger...
Love that joke, at least when I heard it the other way around. Your Democrat and Republican are switched from when and where I have heard it.
But it's good to see that Roger is becoming more conservative and less liberal. After all, he claims to reject Critical Race Theory which is the backbone of the Democratic Party platform right now.
As the joke goes... you don't want to be that person blaming someone else for your problems. Obviously if Roger is making fun of someone "blaming someone else for their own problems" then that is why he hates CRT (which literally makes nobody who isn't White responsible for anything in their lives).
A black person does poor in school. Whitey's fault.
A black person turns to drugs. Whitey's fault.
A black person turns to crime. Whitey's fault.
A black person works in poorer paying jobs. Whitey's fault.
I could go on and on and on and on... but the point remains that the Democratic Party led by CRT is 100% about blaming others for the problems that some people see. They look to the vulnerable and tell them that their plight is not their fault and that they will make others solve their problems for them.
Vote for me and I will pin the blame on someone else and make em pay!!!
Good thing that Roger seems to be rejected that, along with CRT and the idea that if you are lost in a hot air balloon that it's the fault of the person who doesn't do enough to solve your problem for you.
Reality for Roger... is that conservatives really don't go around blaming others. They want personal responsibility. They don't go around demanding that it's white supremacy to treat everyone the same or strive for a colorblind society.
Welcome to the dark side of taking personal responsibilities for your own problems and not pointing the fingers at others. There is a home for that thinking in the 2021 Republican Party. But no home for that in the Democratic Party. They will "cancel" you just for claiming that we should treat people equally and that CRT is not the answer.
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1396156461747687440
They're reviewing ballots in Fulton County, Georgia now... but I'm sure the most popular President in all of American history has nothing to worry about.
Funny when he gives a commencement speech to the military he has to chastise the crowd for not cheering his plagiarized joke from 40 years ago. Of course reading it is not the same as giving it.
And now the students at Notre Dame didn't even want him to give the commencement address.
Well we are saving lots of money because so few people want to see him in person.
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1396171153539047428
Leftists up until election day: Trump is going to subvert democracy, cheat and rig this election!!!!
Leftists after the election: This was the safest, most secure election in American history!!!
Well Biden was very secure in his basement bunker not taking questions and being protected by the DOJ and FBI
And big tech and the FAKE NEWS media
there is that
And China and Iran sure helped him.
They're good guys, guys
AUSTIN, TX—Governor Greg Abbot has signed into law a bill that deputizes students in Texas classrooms so they can use their lassoes to hog-tie any teachers promoting critical race theory and forcibly drive them out of town.
The bill is part of a wider national effort by red states like Texas to combat critical race theory since efforts at the federal level have stalled under the scrutiny of Democrats like President Joe Biden. In the main provisions of the bill, each student will be given a little deputy badge, a 10-gallon hat, and a set of shiny spurs that ring out authoritatively on each step.
“This bill is about teaching true racial harmony and true history,” said the Governor at the signing. “It also empowers deputized students to take responsibility for the maintenance of their communities and Texas culture by driving out these cowpokes that just aren’t doing their jobs in Texas schools.”
Students were already beginning to take up their responsibilities at one school in San Antonio as several teary-eyed school teachers were run off into the desert with their hands still tightly bound.
"Yeehaw!" yelled 9-year old Susannah as she fired her revolver into the air. "And don't you commies ever come back, ya hear?"
According to the bill signed today, critical race theory would not only be prohibited from any school district’s curriculum, but violators may also be tied up to a SpaceX rocket fired from Starbase on a one way trip into the sun!
So Blacks could not get USDA LOANS.
Sad, but , explain why 13,000 of them are getting $4 Billion in loan forgiveness?
Roger...
Did you already get your talking points memo about CRT and realize that it "IS" actually the backbone of the 2021 Democratic Party...
and now you decided to hold your nose and support it, even after you called it crazy and demanded that Democrats did not support it?
Which is it Roger?
Is it crazy and wrong as you argued the past couple of days?
Or is it the greatest thing since sliced bread, now that you realize that it is supported by your side?
Tell us if you have any real principles or if you are simply being led around by the nose?
Fraud Fauci.
""There’s a lot of cloudiness around the origins of COVID-19 still, so I wanted to ask, are you still confident that it developed naturally?" PolitiFact’s Katie Sanders asked the nation’s top infectious disease expert in an event, United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking event.
"No actually," Fauci
Scott, The CRT is not the agenda of the Democratic party.
Falsely accusing of their support is propaganda.
When propagandists start to spread the Big Lie and CRT gullible people believe in an alternate reality.
It's like this?
Republican legislators in a handful of states are trying to cut funding to schools and colleges that use the New York Times’ award-winning 1619 Project for classroom lessons — efforts that have served to keep the provocative retelling of American history in the spotlight.
The project, published in the newspaper’s magazine in August 2019, is a collection of essays and stories that argue that America was not founded in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was adopted, but rather in 1619, the year that enslaved Africans were first brought to the land that became the United States.
____ and
When they colonized North America, they also committed a near extermination of the Native Tribes. They stole the Black Hills of South Dakota, after gold was found.
The Republicans are claiming that teaching the truth about the facts.
Slavery was allowed in the Constitution until the Civil War. Republicans claim that it would make people of color or hate white people, because of the color of their skin. And yes like the Red Scare of the McCarthy era, would destroy capitalism. Eisenhower came out again it became he was a conservative Republican of that era.
Teaching that George Washington was a slave owner, and several other founding fathers were slave owners, will not make people of color, hate whites.
When the people understand everything, it will unite the country not divide it.
Republican legislators in a handful of states are trying to cut funding to schools and colleges that use the New York Times’ award-winning 1619 Project for classroom lessons
You do realize that the 1619 project is pretty much pure fiction, right? It has no place being taught as history (because it isn't real history). Not even the author claims it to be at this point.
So what would be the other justification for teaching (in school) a political opinion from a NYT author?
But you always go right back to where you always go, Roger?
Lying.
Nobody is demanding that you don't teach slavery.
Slavery is history
Nobody is demanding that we do not teach about our wars with the native Americans.
Those wars are history
Nobody is against pointing out that George Washington owned slaves
That fact is history
See where I am going with this Roger.
Conservatives have no issue with teaching history. We were taught history when I grew up, including how founders fought with native Americans over their land. Including slavery. Including all that.
What we were not taught is any particular political point of view on the subject. Our teachers did not 'embellish history" in order to make a political point (1619 project).
So again Roger..
Only a matter of time till we see your full throttle support of CRT. You have no mind of your own and as soon as your Party leaders provide you with the "their" explanation of things - you will put on your sheep outfit and Baaaaaah your way right in line.
Like a good little sheeple!
And then I will laugh at you and say "I told you so".
You do realize that the 1619 project is pretty much pure fiction, right?
Like your analysis of the ballot dumps and that trump won?????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Seems to me that the R's in congress and you live in an alternate universe where facts have no meaning and conspiracy of an authoritarian asshole rule the day!!!!!!!!!!!
After the January 6th attacks on the Capitol building, for a very brief moment — elected Republicans and Democrats were united in their condemnation of the violent mob and the president who in many ways inspired the attack, according to leading elected Republicans at the time. It is worth recalling Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) own words just one week after the Capitol insurrection: “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters.” Similarly, McCarthy’s counterpart in the Senate, then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) denounced the former president’s actions, calling his behavior a “disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.”
A very brief moment of patriotism.
When they colonized North America, they also committed a near extermination of the Native Tribes. They stole the Black Hills of South Dakota, after gold was found.
A people came across a people with superior technology.
Alky this has happened since the beginning of time. It didn’t just start with our founding, idiot
After the 9/11 attack, Congressional leaders from both parties came together to pass legislation establishing the commission with overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate as part of that year’s Intelligence Authorization Act (2013, H.R.4628). At the time, both chambers were under united Republican control, and President George W. Bush signed the authorization bill on Nov. 27, 2002. During the signing ceremony, President Bush declared, “As a nation, we're working every day to build a future that is peaceful and secure. To reach this goal, we must learn all about the past that we can. So with this commission we have formed today, America will learn more about the evil that was done to us, and the understanding we will gain will serve us for years to come.”
Shortly after the incident happened and George W Bush had a 75% approval rating and soars Yahoo started.
The Insurrection was far more dangerous than destroying two skyscrapers and the attack on the Pentagon. Brave American people gave their lives to reverse course of the airplane that was going to attack the White House.
We united for A very brief moment of patriotism and bipartisanship.
You don't want the history of America to students. Because you believe that they would hate you for being white.
If the Republicans block the January 6th investigation bipartisanship is truly dead in the nation’s Capitol, and yes be replaced by Trumpism. I don't like the use the word, but it's Thecoldheartedtruth.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/554962-bipartisanship-is-dead-republicans-killed-it
A people came across a people with superior technology.
Pure genius shorty......I guess that is what you learned by drinking heavily in college!!!!!!!
WOKE Roger hates himself.
Roger AmickMay 23, 2021 at 11:52 AM
You don't want the history of America to students. Because you believe that they would hate you for being white."
I'm not going to post this but it's tough news https://news.yahoo.com/casualty-israeli-hamas-fighting-palestinian-090009482.html
Basically a two state solution perhaps won't happen.
"A people came across a people with superior technology.
Alky this has happened since the beginning of time. It didn’t just start with our founding, idiot"
Yep.
DD214 , Roger has one, according to his US Naval tests.
Biden said it is the "only" solution.
"
Basically a two state solution perhaps won't happen." Ambassador Alky
Kputz doesn't believe that I was in Rapid City during the 1972 flood.
Earlier that day I was working with my father Ivan building a new home, right on the coast of Canyon Lake in Rapid City.
We got a lot of thunderstorms over the Black Hills, in the spring. I saw a storm building. But it is just normal.
Later on the day I was getting high on weed with a friend. But we listened to KOTA am and they said the forecast was a warning of a storm, so we got back home.
The next morning, a dozen people came to my parents home at 4104 Minnekahta Drive and were crying and scared. And missed their families.
It was a 500 year flood that we got 15 inches of rain in a two or three hours period.
Thousands of homes were destroyed and about I have to look it up but over 600 people died. I posted a link yesterday afternoon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6bxy6M3Bmg&feature=youtu.be
The Black Hills Flood of 1972, also known as the Rapid City Flood, was the most detrimental flood in South Dakota history, and one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. The flood took place on June 9–10, 1972 in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota. 15 inches (380 mm) of rain in a small area over the Black Hills caused Rapid Creek and other waterways to overflow. Severe flooding of residential and commercial properties in Rapid City occurred when Canyon Lake Dam became clogged with debris and failed in the late evening hours of June 9 resulting in 238 deaths and 3,057 injuries. Over 1,335 homes and 5,000 automobiles were destroyed. The value of property damage was estimated to be over US$160 million in 1972 dollars ($990 million in 2020 dollars). Flooding also occurred in Battle, Spring, Bear Butte, and Boxelder creeks.
Several friends and relatives of friends I knew died.
Five or six were never found.
A house we had just finished was destroyed in the flood.
Fantasy
Quote of the Day
“I worked for eight presidents, five of them were Republicans. I don’t think any of them would recognize the Republican party today. I think in terms of the values and the principles that the Republican party stood for under those five presidents are hard to find these days.”
— Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, quoted by The Hill.
Scott I laughed out loud when you said I was a sheepie.
The Republicans of today are Sheep.
They were herdists.
A herd of cattle are lead by the bull.
Humans have a tribalist history. Like the tribes in North America before the United States was created.
In the summer of 1971, I lived in a campsite on Spring Creek along side Sheridan Lake Drive. Hippies for several areas stopped and camped for a few days.
One of them came from New York. They had several pounds of hashish. We got very high.
The flood destroyed the campsite.
Always Wrong Roger
"
A herd of cattle are lead by the bull."
Excusing Roger because he never had owned cattle. A Bull is not the leader, he is only with the herd 45 to 90 days a year.
Actually Roger...
You are the one who doesn't want kids taught history. History as it exists and how it was taught to us.
You are the one rejecting decades of how we taught facts to our children.
You now represent the Critical Race Theory that everything needs to be taught with race in mind and that we need to not just "teach" history, but "judge" history with the Critical Race Theory that "white" people are to blame for anything and everything that ever happened.
You keep saying its not what you believe.
But then you continue to argue the concept.
What was wrong with the say history has been taught for generations? Teaching kids the truth and the facts of history?
You follow CRT - Baaaaaaahhhh!!!
Good liberal sheeple! Towing the line with lies! I told you so!
You have it completely reversed from what I said.
A small group of Republicans don't want the children taught about our somewhat different situations before the civil war and the voting rights act and the anti discrimination laws, will convict African Americans, Hispanics,and Asians to hate white people because they were racist in the past.
Going Trumpet day!
This will trigger another 500 word diatribe.
May 25 is the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin, and his family is marking the occasion with an official visit to the White House to meet with President Joe Biden.
Biden’s team had initially hoped to mark the anniversary by signing into law a major police reform package named in Floyd’s honor, but that’s a longer quest as lawmakers and advocates fight over what the bill will include. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act has reportedly been held up by disagreements about qualified immunity, which can shield police officers and their departments from civil liability in misconduct cases, according to the Washington Post.
The White House announced the Floyd’s family planned visit early Saturday. The administration reportedly has been in contact with the family, including George’s brother Philonise Floyd, ever since a jury found Chauvin guilty.
95% police officers despise racist police officers. But the unions and administration officials refused to support the legislation.
"white" people were to responsible for anything and everything that ever happened.
The white people fought and died in the civil war to preserve the United States.
In the 60s, white people passed the laws I talked about before.
Martin Luther King Jr. Used non violent protests against racism.
But before he became the first prominent African American hero, the white people saved the country.
"white" people were responsible for anything and everything that ever happened.
Edited to remove to!
Always Wrong Roger
"
A herd of cattle are lead by the bull."
Excusing Roger because he never had owned cattle. A Bull is not the leader, he is only with the herd 45 to 90 days a year.
Scott believes "some schools were teaching that “white people are inherently privileged, while Black and other people of color are inherently oppressed and victimized”; that “achieving racial justice and equality between racial groups requires discriminating against people based on their whiteness”
Education will not require people
to enforce legal discrimination against their skin color or gender discrimination. Like reconciliation.
That occurs during the spring and summer months, and when the dominant bulls have sex with the cows.
I understand more than you can imagine.
A small group of Republicans don't want the children taught about our somewhat different situations before the civil war and the voting rights act and the anti discrimination laws, will convict African Americans, Hispanics,and Asians to hate white people because they were racist in the past.
Name them.
Don't name people who are against teaching CRT. Name those who are on record and you can quote saying that they don't want to teach the same history that we have always been taught that certainly includes things that happened prior to the Civil war.
I bet you cannot name one.
But you can name several liberals who want to teach history (such as 1619) that doesn't actually exist, because they believe it teaches some other lessons. You could probably name many liberal who want out kids to be taught not just "about" history - but literally taught how they should "judge it" in the correct political doctrine.
Can you actually name one Roger?
Or are you just lying again?
In the spring when they castrated most of the bulls we had rocky mountain oysters with onion rings.
https://www.heritage.org/civil-rights/report/critical-race-theory-the-new-intolerance-and-its-grip-america
https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/10/22429654/teaching-the-truth-tennessee-educators-respond-to-proposed-limits-on-teaching-about-racism
Farce Fauci.
WUHAN CHINA VIRUS may have come from Lab.
So Roger -
You found one person arguing against teaching Critical Race theory?
Another suggesting that the Tennessee banning Critical Race theory in the classroom is wrong?
Neither of those articles are showing that anyone is suggesting that History cannot be taught, slavery cannot be part of history, or anything that you suggest.
In fact, if you read the second one... the teachers are suggesting that they will continue to teach that such and such is racism. One even suggested that it's wrong to not teach Critical Race theory.
"Good teachers should be teaching the truth, which is that every system in the U.S. is built on racism and white supremacy.”
There you go Roger...
You defend this thinking and are alarmed that people are rising up against it... then you are a proud supporter of Critical Race Theory!!!!!
Thanks, once again, Roger... for proving my point.
That nobody is against teaching history.
But that the left wants to teach kies that EVERYTHING in this country is built on racism and white supremacy.
I rest my case!
Why don't you just say "baaaahhh" and be the good sheeple you want to be?
Critical legal studies (CLS) is a theory which states that the law is necessarily intertwined with social issues, particularly stating that the law has inherent social biases. Proponents of CLS believe that the law supports the interests of those who create the law. As such, CLS states that the law supports a power dynamic which favors the historically privileged and disadvantages the historically underprivileged. CLS finds that the wealthy and the powerful use the law as an instrument for oppression in order to maintain their place in authority.
Then comes the kicker: “Many in the CLS movement want to overturn the hierarchical structures of modern society[,] and they focus on the law as a tool in achieving this goal.”
Just as with Critical Theory, Critical Legal Theory is, then, an instrument to overturn society for those who follow its tenets, this time from a legal perspective. The law, they argue, is simply the cultural hegemony codified in statutes and defended by a jurisprudence that aims to support the powerful against the claims of the marginalized. CLT proponents trace their founding to the first Conference on Critical Legal Studies, held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1977. Among its main theorists figure Duncan Kennedy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Robert W. Gordon.Duncan Kennedy and Karl E. Klare, “
In a 2002 essay, Kennedy acknowledges the debt Critical Legal Theory owes to both Marxism and post-modernism (championed by a mostly Parisian set of intellectuals who preached that texts could be “deconstructed” by the reader, a complicated philosophical concept that involves reinterpreting words to replace ideas based on objective physical existence), two separate critiques of bourgeois reality that nevertheless can rub uneasily against each other. “Critical legal studies,” he writes, “operates [sic] at the uneasy juncture of two distinct, sometimes complementary and sometimes conflicting enterprises, which I will call the left and the modernist/postmodernist projects.”
Post-modernism is a much more complex phenomenon, but it aims at the same destruction of society as the Marxist project, starting with the use of reason itself. We can gain a sense of such complexity in Kennedy’s own abstruse writing on Modernism/Postmodernism (or MPM). He explains:
[MPM] is a critique of the characteristic forms of rightness of this same culture and aims at liberation from inner and outer experiences of constraint by reason, in the name, not of justice and a new system, but of the dialectic of system and anti-system, mediated by transgressive artifacts that paradoxically reaffirm the “higher” forms of the values they seem to traduce.Ibid."
Just as with Critical Theory, post-modernism borrows heavily from the Nietzschean attack on objectivity. Writes Kennedy:
For the [MPM] project, the demand for agreement and commitment on the basis of representation with the pretension to objectivity is an enemy. The specific enemies have been the central ethical/theoretical concepts of bourgeois culture, including God, the autonomous individual choosing self, conventional morality, the family, manhood and womanhood, the nation state, humanity.
CLT scholars also display an awareness of the rising identity groups that Marcuse identified as the new revolutionary base. Kennedy quotes approvingly his fellow university professor Cornell West as asserting the existence of aninchoate, scattered yet gathering progressive movement that is emerging across the American landscape. This gathering now lacks both the vital moral vocabulary and the focused leadership that can constitute and sustain it. Yet it will be rooted ultimately in current activities by people of color, by labor and ecological groups, by women, by homosexuals.
Kennedy adds that “in the United States, by the end of the 1970s, with the rise of identity politics, left discourse merged with liberal discourse, and the two ideas of the rights of the oppressed and the constitutional validity of their legal claims superseded all earlier versions of rightness.”Ibid.
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center’s entry on Critical Legal
focused from the start on the ways that law contributed to illegitimate social hierarchies, producing domination of women by men, nonwhites by whites, and the poor by the wealthy. They claim that apparently neutral language and institutions, operated through law, mask relationships of power and control. The emphasis on individualism within the law similarly hides patterns of power relationships while making it more difficult to summon up a sense of community and human interconnection.”“Critical Legal Studies Movement,”
From there it is a short step to Critical Race Theory. Unsurprisingly, given its name, CRT makes everything about race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life—and do so with a degree of persistence that has helped CRT impact all aspects of American life.
Derrick Bell, referenced above, the widely-acknowledged “godfather” of CRT, explains in the essay cited earlier that the work of CRT authors “is often disruptive because its commitment to anti-racism goes well beyond civil rights, integration, affirmative action, and other liberal measures.”Bell, “Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?” p. 899.
Bell quotes Angela P. Harris as explaining that CRT inherits from its Critical Legal Theory ancestor the commitment to dismantle all aspects of society through unremitting criticism—and at the same time eschews the wooly deconstructionist excesses of the postmodernists and adopts the practicality of the Civil Rights movement. Bell points to theorist and professor Charles Lawrence and says he “speaks for many critical race theory adherents when he disagrees with the notion that laws are or can be written from a neutral perspective.”
Because the law “systematically privileges subjects who are white,” CRT calls for a “transformative resistance strategy.”
From there it is a short step to Critical Race Theory. Unsurprisingly, given its name, CRT makes everything about race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life—and do so with a degree of persistence that has helped CRT impact all aspects of American life.
Derrick Bell, referenced above, the widely-acknowledged “godfather” of CRT, explains in the essay cited earlier that the work of CRT authors “is often disruptive because its commitment to anti-racism goes well beyond civil rights, integration, affirmative action, and other liberal measures.”Bell, “Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory?” p. 899.
Bell quotes Angela P. Harris as explaining that CRT inherits from its Critical Legal Theory ancestor the commitment to dismantle all aspects of society through unremitting criticism—and at the same time eschews the wooly deconstructionist excesses of the postmodernists and adopts the practicality of the Civil Rights movement. Bell points to theorist and professor Charles Lawrence and says he “speaks for many critical race theory adherents when he disagrees with the notion that laws are or can be written from a neutral perspective.”
Because the law “systematically privileges subjects who are white,” CRT calls for a “transformative resistance strategy.”
It's a scam artist they are not marxists
Even though you are well educated but it doesn't mean that you understand anything outside of your political agenda.
Well Roger...
Seems to me that you cannot make up your mind as to whether or not Critical Race Theory is the crazy philosophy that you thought was wrong just to days ago... and demanded just again today that it was not part of the Democratic belief system.
Or whether it is something that you now want to embrace, as you start to realize that I am against it and many in your party is for it.
As far as "understanding it". I am not the one confused here. I am against it as are pretty much everyone on my side of the political aisle. I simply do not believe that everything in our society is about White Supremacy and that every difference between people can be explained away by racism.
Perhaps that is because I grew up without much, had to struggle to make my way in life, and nothing was "given" to me. I didn't live any sort of white supremacy concept that my family accumulated money because of slavery (as my grandparents were all first or second generation immigrants and died penniless).
I inherently understand that "privilege" exists in many different forms and that the world will never be completely fair because people are inherently different. Some people are attractive, some are ugly. Some are gifted and some are ridiculously talentless. Some are born rich. Others are born poor. In the grand scheme of things, race is only one of many many many factors and in and of itself cannot explain the ills of the world or the differences in who is successful and who fails.
Either way... at the end of the day you will warm to CRT because the TPM of your Party will demand it.
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