Jonathan Carone wrote: ↑May 10th, 2021, 9:43 am
One of my biggest issues with CRT is how it eliminates the gradients of racial bias, racial insensitivity, and racism. It lumps everything under the title of racism. CRT’s proponents redefined the word racist and hold everyone to that new definition.
While I fully believe there has been systemic racism in the past, I believe most people today hold racial biases or insensitivities and aren’t actively believing one race is better than another. When you call someone a racist who isn’t racist, they ball their fists and are ready to fight. When you point out unconscious biases due to the culture they grew up in, they’re more willing to listen and try to understand.
There’s no getting around the fact that white people held (and still hold) the hegemonic power in many places in our country. That’s an issue we have to confront and talk about how it negatively influenced those without power, especially in systems designed to oppress minorities without power. But that doesn’t mean that every white person is part of the oppressor group. None of us were around during the passing of Jim Crow laws so we were not active in that oppression against black people. If we argue for those laws today, then we can be classified as the oppressor, but that’s an unfair classification if based solely on skin color.
All out embrace of CRT is dangerous and should be rejected by every Christian. At its root is the idea that society must be blown up and started over - that it is beyond redemption. That is anti-Gospel.
All out rejection of CRT is dangerous as well. It turns a blind eye to the systemic issues we have in our country and positions the Christian as someone who cares more about protecting their culture than working to redeem places the sin of racism has impacted it both in the past and presently today.
We have to educate ourselves, find the areas that can be redeemed, and reject the ones that are anti-Christ. That should lead us to rarely ever fully embracing any man made economic or social theory because they will all come from sinful people. At the same time, there will likely always be pieces of these theories God can use for good.
Can someone please give me an example of "systems designed to oppress minorities"? Is it the Great Society and Civil Rights, is it affirmative action, is is the integration of schools and colleges, is it the integration of professional sports, is it the first black president, the black mayor of a many major cities who has a black chief of police and black city council members, and a black school board, aren't they the one's who run the "systems" ? In the 50's there were exponentially more intact black families than there are now, children born out of wedlock was exponentially lower than it is now, education for blacks exponentially better than it is now, drug, alcohol, and incarcerations were a lot less than they are now, and certainly blacks killing blacks was rare. It's racism to tell minorities they can never achieve without white people admitting their privilege. What does that communicate to blacks or to whites. You are all falling into a very obvious and Satanical trap. I for one am not getting all caught up in this CRT hype. Nobody benefits from this, nobody, the least of which are minorities. Equal opportunity not equity which is Marxism. Whereas classic Marxism 's focus is on class envy CRT is on race envy. Regardless what flavor Marxism, institutions that connect the culture, faith/God, family, marriage, education, language, and even sports has to be attacked and eventually dismantled. That is what you see in the last 10 years and on steroids today. Minorities have more opportunity to achieve and succeed than any time in our history. Do you blame systems, people, and the like (passive/victim) or do you take responsibility for personal choices/behaviors (active/conqueror). Don't fall into this Satanic trap - Love God with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself. It's worked for me.