Clay Bennett for June 06, 2021

Nicely done M Bennett! NICEly done!

Q-publicans seem highly critical of anything that doesn’t say that whites are superior to others and that’s all you need to know.

Well said. Ain’t it great how the white supremacists who have kidnapped the GOP are now making sure that our schools will perpetuate the Big Lies of the white supremacist denial of our nation’s tragic history of systemic and institutional racial discrimination.

Just as Qonservatives could not understand a long-range term like “global warming” so we had to use a term like “climate change” that would incorporate the short-term obvious fluctuations that even they could see, maybe instead of the term “critical race theory” that is obviously beyond the comprehension capabilities of their narrow minds, we should use a simpler term that even they can understand.

Instead of using the term “Critical Race Theory,” perhaps call it “Comprehensive Objective History” that fills in important missing gaps that are too often omitted because some overly-sensitive people don’t want to include a full, honest study of history.

Critical Theory refers to the analytical process of looking at an issue from a wide variety of perspectives, and testing the hypothesis against a full spectrum of evidence. When applied to the subject of the history of race relations, Critical RACE Theory just means examining the history through the ranges of all those affected, not just the dominant culture.

Any honest study of History is SUPPOSED to make people uncomfortable. If it doesn’t, then maybe what you’re studying is not really “history.”

My ancient ancestors came out of Africa. I tan easily. I am human. Learn to deal with the fact we ALL came from Africa. Just a fact. Some adapted to being further from sunlight and needed more vitamin D. So lighter skin pigmentation was necessary to survive. I am white, sort of, very few are really white. Most are white people are kind of pinkish, purpleish, brownish, sort of not black. So they absorb more sunlight and get more vitamin D.

What color was Jesus? Was he Germanic white? Or Anglican white? If he was he would have been a freak among his peers. He was most likely very tan to almost black.

Jews at that time were the same color. Get over yourself and get to know your neighbors. They may be a relative. No matter what color they seem to be.

Many times I have wanted to say how much I enjoy/respect Clay Bennett’s editorial cartooning, today is the day. So simple in terms of the image/text and yet spot on in expressing so much at the same time. Thank-you for your work.

For those who dont/can’t/won’t Google -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

Slavery, and all its barbarity, is the United State’s original sin. Instead of confronting it, understanding it, and moving past it,

for over a century, we’ve ignored it.

We lie about it, make excuses about it and punish those who want to teach about it.

The opportunist trump did not cause this. He only brought to the surface all those racist feelings that were simmering under the surface for years. These deluded and damaged people (trump included) could not stand that President Obama’s TWO terms were a success and the nation was prospering.

We are being offered another chance to confront and accept that this is not a perfect country and acknowledge our past and continued mistakes. However, one political party, in particular, goaded on by seditious right-wing media refuses. They would rather suspend the constitution, dissolve democracy and lead an insurrection to keep the lies in place.

The question to you, voting citizens of the United States, are we going to let them? An equally interesting question.

I recall Gov. George Wallace preaching segregation and later saying he was wrong before he died. Heard now there are some again saying segregation is the answer. I set my clock back each Fall, but not that far back. We have had alarm clocks for a long time. They are designed to wake us up at a future time . . . and hopefully will have advanced in the way we think and treat others. In the Spring . . . maybe this year.

The little girl, say her name, is Ruby Bridges.

The original Rockwell painting is The Problem We All Live With painted in 1964.

“Rockwell’s first assignment for Look magazine was an illustration of a six-year-old African-American school girl being escorted by four U.S. marshals to her first day at an all-white school in New Orleans. Ordered to proceed with school desegregation after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Louisiana lagged behind until pressure from Federal Judge Skelly Wright forced the school board to begin desegregation on November 14, 1960.”

I want to like this, but the reactionaries aren’t even reacting to Critical Race Theory. They’re just applying this scary new label to any attempt to see our past as anything other than a peppy, inspirational Frank Capra movie.

Just look at the people (e.g., Marjorie Taylor-Greene) who are telling historians how to do their job.

It is a time when rational people have said “enough” to the continuance of prejudices in the economic, social, and political realms. Reactions to these measures is hardly surprising as long-term privileges are crumbling.

I’m beginning to suspect the Black race is truly superior if only because they poor souls have had to put up, low these years, with the inferior, in so many ways, white race, the good for nothings. Most especially they speak succinctly not going on jaw boning to just hear themselves spout foolishness as doth the mountains Caucasian people, leaving a prime example me, myself and mine. Spinning the blather wheels to prevent any constructive task taking place on this Mount Elbrus aka Elbow Grease Mount the latter never conquered. Got any volunteers?

Great cartoon.

U.S. marshals, for the love of all the gods! And they’re all being relegated to the rubbish heap of “La la la history”.

So, how long before some jerkwad comes out with “Yeah, but they were nothing but Crisis Actors!!”… back in 1960?

Never forget that the evidence provided against delusion merely makes the deluded firmer in their resolution.

Today’s F1 Grand Prix in Baku might turn up to be a critical race in the season. Is that the theory?

Bloodied walls speak volumes…

Amen

I spent 20 years teaching in Title I schools using education to bring equity to at-risk students… I hope it helped the students and families I worked with. My best moment was when the grandmother of one of my highly gifted students, contacted me to let me know that he had won a Bill and Melinda full ride scholarship to the University of Virginia. I had held her hand (figuratively) through the identification process for the gifted programs, then to apply for the magnet middle school… She had custody of 7 grandchildren, he was by far the brightest!

Sweet.

Looks like the racist who thinks acknowledging America’s racist past is, in and of itself racist, is here to share his projection with us…

Well drawn Clay. A problem will never be rectified until people face up to and recognise the problem.

Comprehensive Objective History: I like that. The trolls will still object.

Comprehensive Objective History: I like that. The trolls will still object.

Please stop calling it “Critical Race Theory.” “Critical Theory” can be applied to any subject.

Putting “Race” into the middle of it just keeps the ignorant fired up.

Beautiful work, sir.