Whatever your political leanings, there can be little dispute that Condoleeza Rice is one formidable person: concert pianist, academic, politician and diplomat. Rice is nobody’s fool.
Nor is she about to accept that, solely by virtue of her skin colour, that she is anyone’s “victim”.
Naturally, Rice is fiercely critical of Critical Race Theory.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice debunked critical race theory during a recent appearance on ABC’s The View […]
On the topic of race, Rice rejected the notion that students are victims or oppressors due to their skin color.
Unlike today’s competitors in the Victim Olympics, Rice knows what actual oppression looks like. Despite the fact that her family were a comfortably middle-class family of accomplished educators, they lived in the then-segregated, Jim Crow South.
“And let me be very clear; I grew up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I couldn’t go to a movie theater, or to a restaurant with my parents. I went to segregated schools till we moved to Denver,” Rice continued.
“My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice, but they also told me, ‘That’s somebody else’s problem, not yours. You’re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be.’ And that’s the message that I think we ought to be sending to kids.”
In complete opposition to the message of self-empowerment that Rice grew up with, CRT is an infantilising, divisive, and hateful doctrine. It teaches black children that they needn’t take responsibility for their lives, because they are inescapably victims, and damns all white children as inescapably racist.
Rather than conquering racism, CRT entrenches it.
In complete contrast to King’s stirring dream of “a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character,” CRT judges everyone by the colour of their skin. All white people are racist. All black people are victims.
Instead, Rice says:
“I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white. So somehow, this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction.”
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In contrast to the unsuccessful Democrat candidate in the recent Virginia gubernatorial election, Rice disagrees that “parents should be telling schools what they should teach”, Rice argues that “Parents ought to be involved in their children’s education”. She points out that homeschooling is on the rise, especially among black families: “And I think that’s a signal”.
A signal, in her argument, that teaching, especially of history, is going very wrong in the United States.
We teach the good, and we teach the bad history. But what we don’t do is make seven and 10 year olds feel that they are somehow bad people because of the color of their skin. We’ve been through that, and we don’t need to do that again.
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Naturally, The View hosts tried to push the lie that CRT isn’t really being taught in schools and that there’s no “plan” to make children feel guilty about the colour of their skin.
Rice is having none of that: “It is part of the plan. I’m sorry”.
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