Of course, ONLY white immigrants from all over the world WANT to come here, right? Hmm, the media must be making a mistake because they are showing minorities swimming the Rio to get here. You have to be mistaken, because everyone knows how racist this country really is and would not dare cross our borders to get here. Picture tongue in cheek.
Hey, maybe CRT is just what we need to curb some of this illegal invasions of our border. Make out how "racist" this country is so that nobody would dare be associated with the evil White Supremacist Americans. That's me being facetious again.

Sadly true. He nailed it here.

Many folks truly do not wish to be treated equally. They wish to be treated specially.

Not to get into line, but to get to the head of the line.

Funny how had months to mail in votes and truck loads showed up after the closing poles. And why all the cardboard over the windows?

Science has nothing to do with propaganda.

It’s an opinion, one sided one. And that’s my opinion.

Teacher gets paid to teach state approved curriculum, they don’t get to teach off the cuff. It they can’t teach what state has approved, then they need to find another job. They don’t get to change history or state approved curriculum.

[QUOTE=JerryLBell;1958374]From what I've read, critical race theory is really two ideas... During World War II, people of Japanese heritage were robbed of their properties and imprisoned while people of German heritage were not...

Germans were imprisoned also. Having escaped from Nazi Germany, my German father in law, who was an engineer, was taken away with no warning and imprisoned. He had a pregnant wife at the time and she did not know where he was or if he was even alive. Fortunately, she had friends in the Cincinnati area who took care of her.

Were you aware at all of what was going on with the pandemic ?

Were you aware of legislatures mandated how votes are counted ?

Any of this sounds familiar at all ?

Your premise, direct from the bastion of truth was dispelled and threw from our courts with extreme prejudice.

Then allow them.

You are speaking and endorsing an elected officials idea of changing history, and telling them to teach it tge way that or those elected officials want it taught.

Nobody has been teaching "off the cuff" for the last 40 years, but you are endorsing that exact thing.

Well written - EVERYONE should read this and LEARN!!!! Why did so many people die for this beautiful country with all of its faults? Were they "suckers" or were they fighting for what is described above - to preserve what we have built - not to have it torn down!!! We trust they did NOT die in vein!!!!! I've lost five members of my family in the last four wars - WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. Was it all for nought? Democracy is at best "messy" but its alternative "authoritarianism" [a rule of one] is worse! America resulted from a rebellion against the king [a rule of one] and now it is at risk of slipping back into those destructive chains of authoritarianism. Why? Because of the deep divisions and resultant anger [as so accurately described above] being played upon by political malfeasance.

The definitions of "equality" and "equity" are twisted around to define the moment which can result in a hazardous, slippery slope as defined in another response above - annihilation of capitalism is an extreme as is Marxism resulting in the eradication of the rule of law replaced by temporary "people power" which is self destructive and, in the long run, ends in authoritaranism such as exists in Russia. China's evolution of family dynasties till they were overthrown in the guise of "people power" again resulted in authoritarianism as we witness today.

Are we next? Are we going to tear each other apart until the rule of law is no longer? That gangsters - in the guise of preserving our country - will run rampant, as did the brown shirts before Hitler took control, suppressing and killing all those deemed in opposition to the new rule? Or ruler?

I for one, hope not! I pray that my, and everyone else's, ancestors did not die in vein defending this democracy. I pray that we ALL wake up in America, put down our frenzied differences, stop yelling at each other and LISTEN! There's the good, the bad and the ugly on all sides that need to be addressed so that we and democracy [no matter how messy] can survive!

And Detroit or Birmingham might be the blackest home town. So what is your point???
Who cares

Go count skin colors and try to feed division someplace else

All races live and are welcome in TV and never have riots in the streets

Lets keep it a great place

Well said..teach the truth and do not allow elected officials to run the curriculum

I think, but he can speak for himself, that Grumpy was being sarcastic at the yelling and screaming about those who wish to protect our history and allow our children to learn truth.

Can someone show me where teaching people to judge others by the color of their skin, disparage our founding principals and waging a campaign to demonize police has improved the conditions of the inner city?

How did it work out in Minneapolis, Baltimore or Ferguson?

How about we try some other ideas like pressuring Nike and the like to build their factories in cities with chronic unemployment where kids are spending everything they have for their shoes.

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assuming educators have no agendas

"Who cares" pretty much says it all.

I care that elected officials do not determine our teaching of history.

I care that one group can decide on a whim, because it fits their message, to try and hi jack the schools with such odd lies.

I care that for P reasons, the word Marxist is now added to the discussion to totally and completely mislead.

I care that kids know truth and respect it.

CRT and WOKE are working hand in hand.
They teach "white privilege" and also teach that if you are white, that you automatically are racist because of your birth.

Those idiots should be eliminated.

Inadvertently or not, you have made an excellent point. What are the values of those kids that spend everything they have for a pair of "special" shoes? And maybe(?) the reason that Nike and the "like" do not build in those "cities" as well as other businesses not opening in those "cities" is because they fear being burnt down, broken into and vandalized, etc. Do you know of any of those inner cities that have had businesses with success in the inner cities? Does that sound racist on the surface? Notice that I did not mention any race. And I am just using your supposition, when using Nike ( a favorite of those kids in the inner city) when I figure you are speaking of predominately cities with a black majority in the inner city. Maybe Detroit should reopen their auto plants? Doubt if that will ever happen. Perhaps some excuse this as part of CRT? I just call it cause and effect.

You are as learned man Jerry!

To be clear...relative to Florida....

CRT IS NOT....REPEAT NOT TAUGHT IN THE SCHOOLS.

Read the law it is specific and pretty much says....

Instruction must be factual and also false

The country IS ALREADY divided as most people are aware. And it is NOT being "PUSHED"! It is an attempt at TRUTHTELLING to correctly and objectively present an unvarnished version of History to the young, next generation. Why are SO MANY states such COWARDS that a little truthtelling makes them anxious to pass laws quickly before the TRUTH leaks out. Early European settlers accepted gifts of NEEDED food and called it Thanksgiving and then proceeded to extinguish NATIVE American civilization. That was whitewashed from History - and the Tulsa massacre - and who knows what more History is committed and LIED about? When you PREVENT the truth from being told - you replace it with PROPAGANDA - and enough propaganda and America WILL find itself in a DICTATORSHIP. I would believe that those living in states that have passed laws against CRT (or suppress the TRUTH laws) are NOW as we speak REALLY in said dictatorship.

Critical Race Theory is designed to teach students that not all of America’s past is “pretty”. Germany mandates that their students learn about the Holocaust, ugly parts and all. Why do Americans want to hide the ugly parts of our past?

You are a learned man Jerry!

No, the didn’t want to hear it, they got what they intended and that was end of it. There has to be cutoff for mailing voting when you have months to vote. You can’t be bring in truck loads of votes during Election Day especially after poles close and the count known. But it’s ok as long as 99% voted with you’re party right.

Yes, the truth as my party drilled it.

First, because you brought it up. I am an Independent, after not only being registered in the party you seem to espouse for over 60 years, but being a paid employee. I changed, but not to what you refer.

Second, CRT is something BOTH groups wanted. It is not, in any way a subject to be taught. The changes that are being made and solicited are now a party movement to erase history as it happened. Really you should read the law. Full of platitudes, nothing of substance and was only even brought up to have it worked out as a party issue, adding a few words like Marxism to really generate those who are not really concerned with the country, but the party.

So, you have completely and totally flipped the truth.

Erasing history to serve a party is a very scary thing to endorse.

After 40 years of no problem in the schools, you now suggest that you want every party change in legislature to generate a new history. That CRT was done to keep this from happening.

But, again....you don't care and that is your right

I had Native America studies at Earl Wooster HS (Reno, Nevada) in 1975-1976 or thereabouts. We went over a lot of battles in which the Native Americans won and we had three or four field trips to movies that featured the point-of-view of various Native American tribes like Little Big Man, A Man Called Horse and some others. Our teacher did favor the Native Americans but then again many of the kids in the class were Paiutes. This one too probably as it is about a Paiute-- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here - Wikipedia

Pennsylvania permits no-excuse absentee voting.
It implemented online voter registration system in 2015.
The voter ID law was rejected in 2014, though anyone who shows up at the polling place for the very first time must present an ID. An ID can be a drivers license or passport, or it could even be a current utility bill. It's basically proof of residency, not proof of identification.
Pennsylvania does NOT require proof of citizenship for voter registration.
All PA voters can cast absentee votes, up to 50 days prior to any special, primary, or general election. They can also request to be provided absentee ballots permanently, for each election.
PA also allows early voting.

So really, there's nothing in your post that is correct. I've never lived in Pennsylvania, and I was able to look up this state laws without any effort at all. One would think that someone making a claim about the state they are actually from, would know the information better.

None of what you said has been proven, 60 some court cases, and only 1 agreed with any of your assumptions. And hundreds of millions donated to prove the election fraud, and 6 months in and no proof yet forth coming. Keep donating, keep searching, I hope for your sake you actually find some proof. Otherwise, it will be a sad waste of time and a serious detriment to democracy.

There ARE reasons why CRT is "suddenly a big deal". Of course, it should NOT be. As you mentioned, it should just normally ease into schools and society as the US moves FORWARD to improve itself by the exorcism of the skeletons left behind in its History. But, we are at a critical time for the US as we are teetering on a knife's edge between Democracy and Dictatorship. This has created a horrendous social TENSION exacerbated by foreign actors (Russia) that have successfully driven wedges between US citizens - Whites vs Black and Browns - agnostics vs Evangelicals - coastal states vs midwestern states - the haves vs the want-to-have - blue collar vs white collar - vaccinated vs unvaccinated.

And our enemies reap the rewards of this chaos.

And if those "truckloads" of votes are legitimate votes of legal voters? You seem to be saying sucks to be them, their votes should not be counted, because of some law. Refusing to count American Citizens votes sure sounds like voter suppression to me.

If those truckloads were from non-citizens (no proof) or covered in Chinese bamboo fibers (no proof) or dead people (no to very little proof) or people voting in multiple elections (no proof). Hmm, there seems to be a trend here. All the things claimed to be done and that laws need to be passed to prevent, and there is NO proof after hundreds of millions of dollars were donated to investigate them.

Nobody has been hiding our history, although there are plenty that wish to hide it or destroy it by renaming, destroying statues, burning the flag, etc. CRT is theory NOT fact. And theory is someone's opinion, NOT fact. How many times do these children need to be told about slavery? How many times is MLK taught to a student throughout his travels from one grade to another. Black history MONTH gives teaching and lecturing for a dedicated month. Explain why a theory that divides is good for children. It's not about teaching history. It's about demeaning both white and children of color. Anyone that thinks that is good for children, either does not have any children or they hate their own lives and wish to make every child miserable. Like I said before, if you want theory, then teach it in a college philosophy course. CRT sounds great to the naive, but is mentally dangerous for ALL children. Like the man said on Drag Net "just the facts ma'am, just the facts."

I also feel that the topic is not appropriate for elementary school children. A basic understanding of "why being different is OKAY" is important for them. But once it gets into socio-political studies, it needs to be learned in the higher grades. 11th and 12th grade perhaps.

But it absolutely does need to be presented as a subject to High Schoolers, because SOMEONE has to take an interest in it in college. Politics is a social science. Do we want our country to be led by an idiot who never learned anything about how our country came to exist? Or do we want our country to be led by someone who at the very least - read something about in a Senior Social Studies class?

Personally I'd rather my elected officials be as educated as possible on every subject that affects the citizenry. Telling them they're not ALLOWED to learn certain aspects of history is just shooting ourselves in the foot.

They could even say "hey there's this thing called CRT. Here's what THESE people think about it. Here's what THOSE people think about it. Here's a list of things that define what it IS. Now you can make your own decisions about it because you have learned."

That's really the least that should be expected, and accepted. Knowledge is power. If you want to take power away from people, then take away their knowledge.

Our true enemies are the proponents of CRT which is simply Marxist propaganda camouflaged by using race as leverage. They want to use its false narrative to brainwash our children and tear apart our country, the freest and best country on earth.

Anyone prepared to be introspective will see that hiding our history is not a good idea. I am a ‘Brit’ and the first to admit the building of the biggest empire in History was not carried out without a lot of evil actions on our behalf and suffering for many in the British Empire. Knowing this and understanding the suffering of those who were ‘conquered’ is vitally important to becoming an active and sympathetic member of society today.

I assume this is opinion or have you got any examples?

It IS a "big deal" because murders are up. The US is adjusting to coming out of a Pandemic and those adjustments are hard - like many businesses have gone bankrupt - workers have had time to take a good look at themselves and their not-so-bright future and are reluctant to RETURN to the same low paying, futureless job that they left. In this environment, people are more polarized and upset, and aggressive than usual. That partially explains WHY Critical Race Theory has BECOME enough of a wedge idea that people are willing to argue and fight about!

Exactly! They do.

There is a huge difference between absentee ballots and early voting! There are no polling locations you can go to before Election Day! You can go to your local courthouse and request an absentee ballot, I did that if I wasn’t going to be in the state on Election Day, but there were never any polling locations available to vote early. Sorry to burst your robust Google search results…