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Critical Race Theory. Oh Gosh.

  • Writer: Hexael of We The Few
    Hexael of We The Few
  • Sep 28, 2021
  • 4 min read

Hey guys this is Hexael again but this time with a much touchier subject. Critical Race Theory. Yep, jumping pretty quickly from gas prices to this but considering it is a pretty big topic out in our nation these days, it would be irresponsible not to talk about it.




Where oh where to begin. You see the problem with talking of these subjects is the thin yet undefined and regularly moved line of what is and isn’t “acceptable” to speak about, that only making it even more important to talk about.


I am a fond believer in people who have good intentions and end up creating something bad at the end of it, and giving it the benefit of the doubt, perhaps Critical Race Theory was this same situation. What sounds somewhat important and certainly teachable to children is actually more of a divider than a unifier, something many of its supporters claim.


To make short of Critical Race Theory, it is a concept developed a little over 40 years ago, with intentions of becoming widespread yet many understood its implications back then or perhaps it simply never picked up steam. According to the New York times, “The theory argues that historical patterns of racism are ingrained in law and other modern institutions, and that the legacies of slavery, segregation and Jim Crow still create an uneven playing field for Black people and other people of color.”


Does that sound somewhat fishy? Yeah it certainly does but that’s not all, the newspaper business continued to say, “The idea is that racism is not a matter of individual bigotry but is systemic in America.”


Without that last sentence CRT is already bad enough considering it states that the United States of America was founded with racist principles engrained into the very fabric of the nation’s ideas, as well as states that there are many of these racist sections in modern day US, which anyone who does their research knows, there is not. You doubt it? Go search up right now any laws that target people of color, specifically American citizens who are black, I guarantee you will not find any.


Now this is when the theory’s supporters go and change their definition stating that the system itself does not have any direct and written racist laws but the workers and people in it are the ones who cause the systemic racism but that begs the question. If the system itself has not one racist law, decree, regulation, ordinance, whatever you want to call it, is it really systemic racism? Or does it sound more like individual problems, problems with certain people and not the nation itself? As I said before, though almost the entirety of this theory is nothing but nonsense, the worst part of it is saying that the USA, the best country in history, most generous, most free, and certainly most focused on the masses instead of the elites, is racist from the ground up.


CNN goes to say, “Critical race theory is a practice. It's an approach to grappling with a history of White supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it,- racism is an everyday experience for most people of color, and that a large part of society has no interest in doing away with it because it benefits White elites.”


Now that is shocking. See I can understand some people’s personal experiences with racism, because surely it is never entirely gone, not in the USA and not in any other part of the world, but to state that every single day, every single person belonging to a minority or different race experiences racism due to the naturally sadistic and racist make up of the US is simply lazy. It is wanting to get attention without much work to be honest.


I myself, a fluent in Spanish, 100% Puerto Rican, have never in my life experienced the least bit of racism. Again, I cannot say no one is racist but the problem is the laziness and outright lies both the media and many people leaning more to the left are saying. They are not disguising it anymore, for the most part it isn’t subtleties or implicit statements but straightforward lies about America, deteriorating patriotism and respect for one’s country.


Of course, just like any other nation, America has had its dark spots times of weakness and wrongdoing, but what stood apart in America is that most of its citizens stood up eventually and realized what was going on was wrong. That is the beauty of the civil rights movement, that though there was some struggle, America pushed back and eventually succeeded in most part against its injustices. The point is to slowly get closer to the ideal country and teaching our young generations to hate their country because of past sins, which are almost non-existent is the worst of the worst.




Instead, I do believe we should be teaching our young generations of the good the US has done and how it has battled racism, amongst hundreds of other issues, and never stops combating it, painting a good light for our young citizens, because eventually they will be in charge of this country, and heaven help us if we are run by a group of people that absolutely hate their nation due to past media bias and lies.


Yeah basically I’m saying, “Shhhh go to bed CNN, you’re saying stupid things again."


To leave you with some last few words of encouragement for the progress our nation has made and is still working on, something I personally was never taught in school:


The United States was one of the first ten countries in the world to ban slavery, both owning and buying.


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