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Here is a question for parents who are upset when they learn about the critical race theory sessions their children have to undergo at school this year: Did you know that you’ve been paying for all this proselytizing, and have been doing so for decades?
I’m sure that most Americans are unaware of that sorry fact, but it’s been happening for a long, long time. This Woke Revolution, of which CRT is an essential part, has erupted into American public life with astonishing speed and fervor, but the genesis of it goes back much further than the death of George Floyd, the election of Donald Trump, and the founding of Black Lives Matter a few years before.
Instead, like so many leftist ideas in their current form, it stems from the 1960s, when the civil rights movement shifted from the liberal integrationist vision of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the aggressive identity politics of Black Power and the Panthers. That story has been told many times (see, for instance, this biography of Stokely Carmichael)—though many people today forget that hard leftists denounced MLK as weak and over-compromising in the last year of his life.
It’s an easy memory to lose because the militant racial protests dissipated over the course of the 1970s, by the end of which you heard few national voices speaking in CRT-like tones. Even Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition campaign for the presidency in 1984 favored a positive message of multicultural unity over the bilious talk of white supremacy.
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“But He’s Not Doing Race!”
Here’s the thing, though: Militant identity politics didn’t go away. It took refuge in academia, where programs in Black Studies, Women’s Studies, etc. proceeded to carry out the militant vision in an academic mode.
Angela Davis ended up a distinguished professor at UC Santa Cruz, Bill Ayers at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Their ideas of systemic racism, white hegemony, “the Other,” intersectionality, and cultural imperialism were developed, refined, disseminated, and advocated in classrooms, conferences, scholarly presses, and journals. Affirmative action in the hiring of faculty and admission of students expanded into a frankly quota-like process until the Supreme Court in Bakke forced schools into the “diversity” rationale, which kept social engineering moving forward. Deans and provosts threw money at identity projects and events.
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Everyone nodded approval, assuming that such energies were the natural extension of the civil rights movement, the moral standing of which was now higher than that of the founding itself.
The success of these “studies” fields spread the word widely across campus to humanities departments, schools of education, and the “softer” social sciences. When I was a graduate student in English at UCLA in the 1980s, the big shift in the field from Dead White Males to women and minorities was in full swing, both in existing personnel policies and in the materials to be studied. The trio “race-class-gender” was on everybody’s lips (though class got little serious consideration—too many leading scholars were Ivy League).
If you wanted to get ahead, you had to talk the talk. That’s what got you hired, published, and promoted. I remember one hiring committee meeting in the mid-’90s, our job being to find a 19th-century American literature specialist. But that wasn’t enough for a few people on the committee, one of them blurting at one point as we considered a candidate, “But he’s not doing race!”
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker