Every American history class should be taught about the Cornerstone Speech delivered by the vice-president of the traitors Alexander Stephens on March 21, 1861:
The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.” (cont’d)
(cont’d) Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science. It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well, that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. Those at the North, who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics. All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind from a defect in reasoning. It is a species of insanity. One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the anti-slavery fanatics. Their conclusions are right if their premises were. They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man. If their premises were correct, their conclusions would be logical and just but their premise being wrong, their whole argument fails. I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and ability, announce in the House of Representatives, with imposing effect, that we of the South would be compelled, ultimately, to yield upon this subject of slavery, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics, as it was in physics or mechanics. That the principle would ultimately prevail. (cont’d)
(cont’d) That we, in maintaining slavery as it exists with us, were warring against a principle, a principle founded in nature, the principle of the equality of men. The reply I made to him was, that upon his own grounds, we should, ultimately, succeed, and that he and his associates, in this crusade against our institutions, would ultimately fail. The truth announced, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics as it was in physics and mechanics, I admitted; but told him that it was he, and those acting with him, who were warring against a principle. They were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal.
Yes, just close your eyes and it will disappear like magic. It’s not the individual, it’s the society. Nice opinion piece here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/22/republicans-just-proved-critical-race-theory-correct
This from the alt-Reich cartoonist who believes that the Jan. 6 insurgency was just tourists visiting D.C. and the Q’s in Congress haven’t abrogated all morals and ethics supporting the former president’s fantasies.
I taught college US survey courses for over 40 years and always included the theme that race has been a pervasive problem throughout history. I did have one student—one in all those years—comment in an evaluation that I was too hard on white people.
Critical Race Theory is not what you teach, it’s how you teach it.
I can teach that there was legal slavery in America from 1621 to 1865. Simple fact. Students get an answer right on a standardized test but have ZERO understanding of the material. Monkey learning.
Or, students can learn exactly what the life of a slave was like. How slavery became part of the Southern economy. How the North failed to stand up to halt the spread of slavery. How slavery created the racist system we have in America today. How slavery and racism harmed both black and white. How the Christian religion was perverted and used to support racism.
Students have to master knowledge and skills in order to draw conclusions, defend them and, most importantly, find ways to use knowledge to make our world a better place than we found it.
The image of a white-skinned man, wearing a uniform that reads “To Protect With Courage, To Serve With Compassion”, kneeling on the neck of a dark-skinned man evokes the worst of America’s past so strongly that there seems little doubt what killed Mr Floyd. Police violence was part of it, as was poverty. But the real culprit was racism. The jury that on April 21st, after a short deliberation, convicted Mr Chauvin of murder seemed to agree.
American Indians were brought to the brink of extinction. Blacks were enslaved for centuries, Mexicans were removed. Japanese were placed in concentration camps, but we are to be careful to not make White people feel bad.
Critical Race Theory is not taught in any school system, nor was it ever planned to be. That has not stopped people like Lisa and GOP politicos from lying about it. Have these people no honor?
Lisa-the-Shill promotes division by being divisive rather than constructive. She is a bought-and-paid-for GOP Leadershit Shill and doesn’t have the intelligence, education, or experience to strike out on her own by championing integrity rather than duplicity. Her tools of choice are venality and mendacity.
This could all be solved in a single stroke, you know. All we need to do is admit that what the Founding Fathers meant to say in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Where Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal,” what he really meant was that “all white men are created equal.” Where the framers of the Constitution wrote in the Preamble “We the People,” they really mean “We the White People.” We learned from the previous president that it’s not what you actually say that matters; it’s what you meant when you said it (or didn’t say it; it was hard to tell at times). /s
Even when the original idea was developed by conservative judges as a way to balance rulings. Today’s conservatives just love to gin up the base by seeing boogie men in every corner.
You know you are right when the snowflakes can’t accept your point of view because you aren’t pandering to their delicate world view and accepting who they want you to hate.
“We must never substitute a doctrine of Black supremacy for white supremacy. For the doctrine of Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers” Martin Luther King, Jr.Please explain how CRT will accomplish his dream? What exactly are the steps to rid “white supremacy” while avoiding supremacy of any race?
From an article by Raoul Wieland: Change will most likely not be fast or be the result of grand actions or policies. As Angela Davis says, change will most probably take the form of multiple small everyday acts of courage and compassion that may often remain unseen. They are and will be, however, absolutely necessary and invaluable.CRT stereotypes which is exactly the basic complaint of CRT proponents.
Lisa, is that you up at the board? A self portrait of an older white person, stuck in the past glories of division caused by segregation and slavery? And a blackboard no less. Here in Australia, these have mostly given way to white boards, which I’m sure the right would love.
The concept of “Critical Theory” goes back to 1937, when the second director of Germany’s Frankfurt School of Marxism, Max Horkheimer, published the school’s manifesto, “Traditional and Critical Theory.” Traditional theory, Horkheimer claimed, obsessed over knowledge and objectivity. Critical theory as Horkheimer defined it was that there were no universal truths and man could not be objective. Instead of truths, there were competing narratives, and it was the job of the Left to impose its own. Back then it was primarily a class struggle in which the Jews wound up getting the short end of the stick. Critical Race Theory takes that Critical Theory Marxist concept, and simply replaces class with race. I can remember when envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins ….before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new names of: Critical Race Theory, Identity politics, and Social Justice.
Trump’s wall divides truth, history and science from white supremacist ideology. Lisa is just a logger turning a buck. She doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Just another sean hannity looking for clicks.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Lisa has dived fact from fiction.
RAGs almost 3 years ago
Q-publicans already know division", it’s their “go-to” policy for ruining this Country.
hermit48 almost 3 years ago
She would rather live a lie just as she lies to live.
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
The split is between realists and folks who believe in Qwazy dream-stuff.
catmom1360 almost 3 years ago
One of the worst programs in history. No wonder parents are up in arms about it.
BE THIS GUY almost 3 years ago
Every American history class should be taught about the Cornerstone Speech delivered by the vice-president of the traitors Alexander Stephens on March 21, 1861:
The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.” (cont’d)
BE THIS GUY almost 3 years ago
(cont’d) Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science. It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well, that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. Those at the North, who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics. All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind from a defect in reasoning. It is a species of insanity. One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the anti-slavery fanatics. Their conclusions are right if their premises were. They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man. If their premises were correct, their conclusions would be logical and just but their premise being wrong, their whole argument fails. I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and ability, announce in the House of Representatives, with imposing effect, that we of the South would be compelled, ultimately, to yield upon this subject of slavery, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics, as it was in physics or mechanics. That the principle would ultimately prevail. (cont’d)
BE THIS GUY almost 3 years ago
(cont’d) That we, in maintaining slavery as it exists with us, were warring against a principle, a principle founded in nature, the principle of the equality of men. The reply I made to him was, that upon his own grounds, we should, ultimately, succeed, and that he and his associates, in this crusade against our institutions, would ultimately fail. The truth announced, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics as it was in physics and mechanics, I admitted; but told him that it was he, and those acting with him, who were warring against a principle. They were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal.
The complete speech here:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech
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feverjr Premium Member almost 3 years ago
… is it time to start burning the history books?… any controversial books? … the Quran?….Where’s my copy of Fahrenheit 451?
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
Those are very young graduate students.
tbarry718 almost 3 years ago
How to say you don’t know what Critical Race Theory is without saying you don’t know what Critical Race Theory is.
kilioopu almost 3 years ago
Yes, just close your eyes and it will disappear like magic. It’s not the individual, it’s the society. Nice opinion piece here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/22/republicans-just-proved-critical-race-theory-correct
mourdac Premium Member almost 3 years ago
This from the alt-Reich cartoonist who believes that the Jan. 6 insurgency was just tourists visiting D.C. and the Q’s in Congress haven’t abrogated all morals and ethics supporting the former president’s fantasies.
JoeBabbs almost 3 years ago
Critical thinking is not something the GOP wants, so they call it “divisive.”
William Bednar Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I’m guessing that Liza thinks of herself as one of the “favored” ones?
The Nodding Head almost 3 years ago
I taught college US survey courses for over 40 years and always included the theme that race has been a pervasive problem throughout history. I did have one student—one in all those years—comment in an evaluation that I was too hard on white people.
Durak Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Critical Race Theory is not what you teach, it’s how you teach it.
I can teach that there was legal slavery in America from 1621 to 1865. Simple fact. Students get an answer right on a standardized test but have ZERO understanding of the material. Monkey learning.
Or, students can learn exactly what the life of a slave was like. How slavery became part of the Southern economy. How the North failed to stand up to halt the spread of slavery. How slavery created the racist system we have in America today. How slavery and racism harmed both black and white. How the Christian religion was perverted and used to support racism.
Students have to master knowledge and skills in order to draw conclusions, defend them and, most importantly, find ways to use knowledge to make our world a better place than we found it.
superposition almost 3 years ago
Lisa, this is how the world sees the USA.
✂
The image of a white-skinned man, wearing a uniform that reads “To Protect With Courage, To Serve With Compassion”, kneeling on the neck of a dark-skinned man evokes the worst of America’s past so strongly that there seems little doubt what killed Mr Floyd. Police violence was part of it, as was poverty. But the real culprit was racism. The jury that on April 21st, after a short deliberation, convicted Mr Chauvin of murder seemed to agree.
✂
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/05/14/what-it-means-to-be-an-american
Gen.Flashman almost 3 years ago
How about a German school with an Aryan and Jewish boy and the teacher is writing Final Solution/Holocaust on the board?
piper_gilbert almost 3 years ago
American Indians were brought to the brink of extinction. Blacks were enslaved for centuries, Mexicans were removed. Japanese were placed in concentration camps, but we are to be careful to not make White people feel bad.
tamrich59 almost 3 years ago
Truth!!!
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Poor Lisa. STILL getting it wrong 100% of the time.
thelordthygod666 almost 3 years ago
Critical Race Theory is not taught in any school system, nor was it ever planned to be. That has not stopped people like Lisa and GOP politicos from lying about it. Have these people no honor?
RonnieAThompson Premium Member almost 3 years ago
One example of Critical Race Theory definition. https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory
cocavan11 almost 3 years ago
Lisa-the-Shill promotes division by being divisive rather than constructive. She is a bought-and-paid-for GOP Leadershit Shill and doesn’t have the intelligence, education, or experience to strike out on her own by championing integrity rather than duplicity. Her tools of choice are venality and mendacity.
Vidrinath Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Lisa, your colleague does a better job of explaining why CRT needs to be taught:
https://www.gocomics.com/johndeering/2021/06/23
dafydd liam almost 3 years ago
Another good one, Lisa. This one goes in my collection. Thanks
MuddyUSA Premium Member almost 3 years ago
That indeed is division!
Patjade almost 3 years ago
Poor Lissa, she thinks teaching actual history is divisive. If ignorance is bliss, Lisa is in nirvana.
dandye almost 3 years ago
Teach our kids that EVERYONE is a racist and hater! What a way to bring us all together! :-)
DrDon1 almost 3 years ago
Benson demonstrating that she doesn’t recognize Reality in America’s past and present!
Bookworm almost 3 years ago
This could all be solved in a single stroke, you know. All we need to do is admit that what the Founding Fathers meant to say in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Where Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal,” what he really meant was that “all white men are created equal.” Where the framers of the Constitution wrote in the Preamble “We the People,” they really mean “We the White People.” We learned from the previous president that it’s not what you actually say that matters; it’s what you meant when you said it (or didn’t say it; it was hard to tell at times). /s
Valiant1943 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Got to feed the live stock
ferddo almost 3 years ago
For GQPs, it’s never the right time to talk about race relations… makes them feel divided…
Tempus Fugit Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Even when the original idea was developed by conservative judges as a way to balance rulings. Today’s conservatives just love to gin up the base by seeing boogie men in every corner.
Aliquid almost 3 years ago
Alt-Right people like Benson: “People tearing down statues want to erase history!”
Schools: “How about we actually teach people what happened”
Benson: “No! That will create division”
Sounds to me like Benson and her ilk are the ones that want to erase history, or at least sweep it under the rug.
Bill.Franklin almost 3 years ago
You know you are right when the snowflakes can’t accept your point of view because you aren’t pandering to their delicate world view and accepting who they want you to hate.
apfelzra Premium Member almost 3 years ago
It’s pathetic how many political cartoonists and politicians continue to criticize something they evidently know nothing about.
cdbro almost 3 years ago
“We must never substitute a doctrine of Black supremacy for white supremacy. For the doctrine of Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers” Martin Luther King, Jr.Please explain how CRT will accomplish his dream? What exactly are the steps to rid “white supremacy” while avoiding supremacy of any race?
cdbro almost 3 years ago
From an article by Raoul Wieland: Change will most likely not be fast or be the result of grand actions or policies. As Angela Davis says, change will most probably take the form of multiple small everyday acts of courage and compassion that may often remain unseen. They are and will be, however, absolutely necessary and invaluable.CRT stereotypes which is exactly the basic complaint of CRT proponents.
jhayesd31 almost 3 years ago
I still can’t figure why Critical Race theory is controversial.
Did Slavery Exist?
Was it Race based?
Were they laws that made people unequal based on race?
Did white people benefit from racial injustice?
Are the institutions that benefited white people at the expense of other races still in existence?
dnie1951 almost 3 years ago
Why Johnnie can’t read. (or write, or ’rithmetic)
grumpypophobart almost 3 years ago
Lisa, is that you up at the board? A self portrait of an older white person, stuck in the past glories of division caused by segregation and slavery? And a blackboard no less. Here in Australia, these have mostly given way to white boards, which I’m sure the right would love.
Scoutmaster77 almost 3 years ago
We wouldn’t want anyone to learn any real history, would we?
mysterysciencefreezer almost 3 years ago
And another member of Team No Idea What CRT Actually Is chimes in.
wsedrel Premium Member almost 3 years ago
WHAT????!!!!!
mikeaht almost 3 years ago
The concept of “Critical Theory” goes back to 1937, when the second director of Germany’s Frankfurt School of Marxism, Max Horkheimer, published the school’s manifesto, “Traditional and Critical Theory.” Traditional theory, Horkheimer claimed, obsessed over knowledge and objectivity. Critical theory as Horkheimer defined it was that there were no universal truths and man could not be objective. Instead of truths, there were competing narratives, and it was the job of the Left to impose its own. Back then it was primarily a class struggle in which the Jews wound up getting the short end of the stick. Critical Race Theory takes that Critical Theory Marxist concept, and simply replaces class with race. I can remember when envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins ….before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new names of: Critical Race Theory, Identity politics, and Social Justice.
kratos1963 almost 3 years ago
Trump’s wall divides truth, history and science from white supremacist ideology. Lisa is just a logger turning a buck. She doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Just another sean hannity looking for clicks.