Critical Race Theory: Say Something Good About White People, Or Else

Mark Rego Monteiro Now, if you´re going to bring up the much ignored Christianity, you´re not going to hide behind that kind of bait and switch, as if MLK, Dorothy Day, and Fannie Lou Hamer were so conveniently lumped with racists and Christianity smeared in the mud. Surprise, it´s not just racist Christians, but the log in one´s own eye that it refers to, meaning Critical Race Theory supporters. And so for me, it´s not my Christianity it threatens. It´s the way some or many, and perhaps all, of CRT´s followers fail to discuss criticisms honestly and openly. Instead, they respond with, well, that very kind of discriminatory colorcentric type of anti-feedback comment in this meme. "Are you criticizing CRT? You are racist!" If critical race theory can´t think of anything good to say about being "white," it is discriminatory, pure and simple. That´s how Christian integrity works, actually. To be clear, that´s because "racism" is itself a form of violence, not an independent causal variable like socioeconomic inequality and psychocultural resources. Thus, not all whites are in the top 1% or top 20%, nor are those money- and powergrubbers "good" racist ideologues helping all whites to make "all whites in a 1000 year Reich paradise" at the top of inequality and injustice. Similarly, not all blacks are in the bottom 80%, nor helping the blacks in the bottom 80%. Morgan Freeman has said he "doesn´t think there is racism," no less, for example. Critical Race Theory was created by legal students or scholars, and shows crassly skewed legalistic attitudes and inadequately balanced multidisciplinarity. Are CRT bad attitudes a little unclear that mass murder in America is not strictly a racist trend? And other forms of violence like domestic and child abuse? BLM´s own original context was POLICE BRUTALITY, of which 1/3 was non-black. Have those facts not been totally submerged in the anti-white racist witchhunt, or is it just discriminatory since it just sounds racist? As for bringing BLM and CRT into the progressive activist fold, Gordon Allport´s "Contact Theory", for example, is one worthwhile resource. Even more importantly is the problem of something like economist M Friedman´s classic article titled, "The Social Responsibility of Business is Profit." It was at that time that Angela Davis said, "I don´t want to be exploited by a black man or a white man." Exploitation is fundamentally a socioeconomic dynamic, not colorcentric. Racism in exploitation "had its peak" in Afro-Am slavery, but UK factories started a new level, making it a complex phenomenon for further discussion. Offshored US jobs now play a part, and US consumer culture. If white supremacist non-rich are venting the squeeze by US pro-rich anti-labor ideology and venting as racists and fundamentalists, then CRT legalistic witchhunting is even less effective and self-defeating in basic ways. Meanwhile, UK workingpeople developed the pro-social co-op biz model in the 1840s, the international ICA for co-op biz in 1895, US NCBA for co-op biz in 1920 and ICA member, US Afro-Am Federation of Southern Co-ops and NCBA member was set up in 1967, and Solidarity Economics has been embraced by Jackson Rising with NCBA-member US FWC and SEN. Food co-ops are helping low income areas. SUN co-op solar has spread to some fifteen states and has a low income project. Equal Exchange co-op organic and Fair Trade foods has an Interfaith Partnership. And so the noose tightens and the question is begged, "Who among us worships God through Jesus Christ, with Freud, Jung, Buddha, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Coltrane, etc, to understand that modern UN human rights honor differences and similarities, and that not "whiteness" or "blackness", but education, sustainability, and human rights need to be addressed for the 80% ("99%"), that Occupy Wall St. was talking about.