In last Sunday’s edition we began an explanation of Critical Race Theory, the new leftist scheme to overthrow the U.S. Constitution and the free enterprise system which has brought such benefits to all persons living in America.

The explanation was contained in a lecture Christopher F. Rufo, founder and director of Battlefront, a public policy and research center, gave at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich., and was printed in the college’s publication, Imprimis.

We have used items from Imprimis several times in the past because their articles are logical and support basic American values which have built the fairest and most exceptional government in the history of the world.

As Herschel Walker, the great running back for the Georgia University football team a couple of decades or more ago has pointed out, you don’t see people crashing American borders to get out of the U.S. Rather, they try to crash in – any way they can.

If you missed the first part of Rufo’s comments, we’ll condense them a little more and then add the last part of his talk, which we didn’t have room for in the Sunday edition.

Rufo said:

“Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. It’s time for this to change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.”

He pointed out that it is Marxism with some added twists to attempt to make it more palatable to today’s people because of the abject failures of communism in the past, resulting in the unwarranted deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century.

Rufo added:

Critical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s, built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism. Relegated for many years to universities and obscure academic journals, over the past decade it has increasingly become the default ideology in our public institutions. It has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher training programs, and corporate human resources departments in the form of diversity training programs, human resources modules, public policy frameworks, and school curricula.

Concerning the insidiousness of CRT, he pointed out that federal agencies are holding workshops to tell white employees they were committing “microinequities.”

He says efforts to combat the ideology have been futile for a number of reasons. The first is that too many Americans have developed a fear of speaking up about social and political issues, especially those involving race.

(A personal observation: America is in the midst of a revolution in which class warfare has been supplanted by race warfare. The goal is to overthrow the free market system and Judeo Christian values.)

Political engagement is necessary to stop CRT, Rufo says adding:

“Critical race theorists must be confronted with and forced to speak to the facts. Do they support public schools separating first-graders into groups of “oppressors” and “oppressed”? Do they support mandatory curricula teaching that “all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism?” Do they support public schools instructing white parents to become “white traitors” and advocate for “white abolition?” Do they want those who work in government to be required to undergo this kind of re-education?

He points out that a multi-racial and bipartisan coalition is developing to do battle against Critical Race Theory.

He says:

“Parents are mobilizing against racially divisive curricula in public schools and employees are increasingly speaking out against Orwellian re-education in the workplace. When they see what is happening, Americans are naturally outraged that critical race theory promotes three ideas—race essentialism, collective guilt, and neo-segregation—which violate the basic principles of equality and justice.”

Then he adds:

“Anecdotally, many Chinese-Americans have told me that having survived the Cultural Revolution in their former country, they refuse to let the same thing happen here.

“In terms of principles, we need to employ our own moral language rather than allow ourselves to be confined by the categories of critical race theory. For example, we often find ourselves debating ‘diversity.’ Diversity as most of us understand it is generally good, all things being equal, but it is of secondary value. We should be talking about and aiming at excellence, a common standard that challenges people of all backgrounds to achieve their potential. On the scale of desirable ends, excellence beats diversity every time.

“Similarly, in addition to pointing out the dishonesty of the historical narrative on which critical race theory is predicated, we must promote the true story of America–a story that is honest about injustices in American history, but that places them in the context of our nation’s high ideals and the progress we have made towards realizing them. Genuine American history is rich with stories of achievements and sacrifices that will move the hearts of Americans—in stark contrast to the grim and pessimistic narrative pressed by critical race theorists.

“Above all, we must have courage–the fundamental virtue required in our time. Courage to stand and speak the truth. Courage to withstand epithets. Courage to face the mob. Courage to shrug off the scorn of the elites. When enough of us overcome the fear that currently prevents so many from speaking out, the hold of critical race theory will begin to slip. And courage begets courage. It’s easy to stop a lone dissenter; it’s much harder to stop 10, 20, 100, 1,000, 1,000,000, or more who stand up together for the principles of America.”