In recent years, Democrats have taken issue with a number of harmless things (math and advanced academic classes, for example), deeming them racist and demanding their removal. We’ve seen progressive outrage over historic statues, holidays, and a seemingly endless number of topics.
Their most recent targets are farmers markets and food charities.
Washington State University is now reinforcing claims that farmers markets and food charities are examples of “white dominant culture” and “white supremacy.”
WSU’s agriculture program coordinator promoted an event called “Examining Whiteness in Food Systems,” which taught attendees that “white supremacy culture” creates food insecurity by “center[ing] whiteness across the food system.”
During another summit sponsored by WSU, speaker Jennifer Zuckerman claimed offering food free-of-charge is racist because it presumes “that low-income and or BIPOC communities and individuals cannot provide or make decisions for themselves.”
This deranged line of thinking is what happens when people adopt the Critical Race Theory lens, and it has gotten out of hand.
These pro-CRT activists are not just having discussions about history and race in America, although that’s what they want you to believe. There are certainly stains on America’s history with slavery and segregation that need to be discussed and remembered, but, sadly, few people today have an accurate understanding of the history of racism in America. That’s a failure of our public education system.
Most people don’t realize that it was Republicans, led by President Lincoln, who fought and died by the hundreds of thousands to end slavery in the Civil War. Later, a bipartisan Democrat and Republican partnership and a diverse black and white coalition of activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for true equality and passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which brought true legal equality in America. The only congressional opposition came from the Democratic Party in both struggles.
These facts are what we should be teaching during lessons on America’s history.
Modern radical Marxists, however, are unconcerned with history and facts, and are more focused on counterproductively decrying some new thing is racist every week to divide and destroy our nation.
It’s clear that their efforts are centered in promoting racism.
Many conservative pundits and organizations – and sadly most Republican elected leaders – don’t cover or even mention these battles and events because they are more worried about whether social media companies, the press, etc. perceive them as a nice person.
To fight back successfully, we must recognize that.
Mark Miloscia is the director of the Family Policy Institute of Washington. Email him at info@fpiw.org.
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