Here's The Tweet Of The Day For Me, Friends....

[The Magistrate]

Link to tweet

Every once in a while, there is a perfect word to describe a phenomenon. Here it is for the attempt to crush discussion of the history and reality of race in America, via a war on "critical race theory." The word, of course, is whitewash.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is the perfect word for what's happening, my dear Magistrate.

White wash.

It's a vain attempt to crush discussion on history and reality of race in America.

I showed the word separated into its two parts to make clear what we're dealing with.

We will prevail! This is my fervent hope.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Much of US History as we learn it in schools has been whitewashed...

literally and figuratively.

[lunatica]

21. I've known that all my life

I hated the way schools teach American History. I dropped that course a lot of times until a counselor talked me into taking women’s history. It turned out to be the best class I ever took on many levels! I loved it! And at the same time I learned a lot about our country’s history. I also acquired a whole slew of new American heroes. Er, heroines!

[George McGovern]

3. As in Alamo whitewash for example?

I was raised on the Leave it to Beaver version of US history. Finding, realizing the Truth has been an experience.

[ShazzieB]

6. Alamo is a very good example.

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I didn't learn the whole truth about that one myself until very recently.

Some other stuff I did figure out sooner, though. In an early American history class in college, we were studying the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and much was made in the readings about how well John Winthrop, the governor of that colony, treated the Indians. I smelled b.s., did some research, and ended up writing my term paper about how Winthrop may not have been QUITE as shitty to them as the founders of some other colonial settlements, but a lesser degree of shitty is still shitty. Of course, I used rather different language, but that was the gist. Got a good grade on it, too!

There is an appalling amount of stuff like that buried in our history, and a lot of it is easy to miss unless one makes a point of seeking it out.

[wnylib]

15. I didn't discover the realities

of the John Winthrop colony (and its offshoots) until well into adulthood, through genealogy. Genealogy has been a huge history course for me.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Tweet of the week, your Honour. . . . nt

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

5. Y'know why?

Y'know why they call it Critical Race Theory?

Because it's critical... of whites. Can't have that now, can we?

[KS Toronado]

7. WOW, excellent thought!

Will use that if any right winger brings the subject up.

[lunatica]

22. You're exactly right!

[DallasNE]

8. Critical Race Theory

Shows examples of disparity of treatment of blacks and whites at the non-personal level. For example: here in Omaha the City recently made major repairs to "Q" Street between 90th and 130th Streets. Before the repair work the street was in much better shape than Ames Ave between 30th and 72nd Street, which is still in bad shape. The stretch of "Q" Street is in a nearly all white part of Omaha and the stretch of Ames Ave. is in a nearly all black part of Omaha. This structural racism is what critical race theory points out. At least this is my understanding of the extra dimension provided by critical race theory.

[lunatica]

23. You're right

This is what Black people have been saying when they talk about institutional racism.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Republican Delusion

I think that's a good pairing. Always.

[lamp_shade]

10. Perfect.

[bringthePaine]

11. ha! am thinking "whites-only-wash"...

[Native]

12. So much love for this!

[Hekate]

13. Indeed it is, good Sir

[SunSeeker]

14. K & R & Retweeted!

[niyad]

16. KNR

[Nevilledog]

17. Perfect.

I've also started calling it Critical Race Conspiracy Theory.

[Joinfortmill]

18. Perfect

[lsewpershad]

19. Stress the

WHITE.

[msfiddlestix]

20. It appears the term is the trigger and is being exploited, I'm referring to CRT.

Too often is the case, our much highly valued and praised progressive intellectuals do us no favors by introducing unnecessary terminology which turn into memes which then tend to confuse an extremely uneducated population, which then completely distracts the point of the meme in the first place. This is done with the aid of an extremely racist and wealthy segment of the population with extremely well funded "think tanks" controlling thought aimed at the uneducated white and poor class.

It's completely predictable and avoidable.

I think it's high time we hold our own to account in this regard. The question for me is how to accomplish this.