To borrow from Romans 6:23 [“The wages of sin is (spiritual) death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”], I contend that the wages of critical race theory is cultural death, but the gift of God is the understanding that all people are created in His image and entitled to the same unalienable rights including equal justice under the law in an equal opportunity society.
Critical race theory is an expressly divisive ideology that was originally conceived in the late 1980s by the controversial “legal scholar” Derrick Bell, an admirer of the notorious racist Louis Farrakhan. Since then, CRT has largely succeeded in its goal of promoting racial bigotry, polarization, suspicion, animosity, and social conflict throughout American society and culture.
A recent example of the effect of CRT on the American public is an article that appeared in The Marietta Daily Journal under the headline, “Elections board to reconsider polling place at police station,” that began with these comments:
The Cobb County Board of Elections will reconsider its July decision to move a polling place from Cooper Middle School to the Cobb County Police Academy after receiving messages opposing the move from concerned citizens and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Opponent argue that using the police academy… would create an intimidating environment for voters of color who may be distrustful of police. Of the approximately 5,200 voters registered in the precinct, 58.2% are Black.
“As a black male living in this county, seeing all the voter suppressions issues around the country, that to me is a sign of intimidation,” Cobb resident Baron Doss told the board on Monday. “The board voted 4-1 at its Monday meeting to place an item on next month’s agenda to formally reconsider the polling place change and hold a public hearing on the matter. Elections board member Pat Gartland, a Republican Party appointee, voted against the reconsideration, while the rest of the board voted in favor….” [“Elections board to reconsider polling place at police station” by Hunter Riggall. The Marietta Daily Journal (Sep. 14, 2021) A1]
The ignorance that has been exposed and the hysterical fear that has been generated simply by moving a polling place to a more spacious and accommodating facility such as the Cobb County Police Academy exemplifies the bitter fruit of years of racist indoctrination propagated in our schools, the media, popular culture – and more recently in corporate America and even the U.S. military – under the pseudo-scholarly ideology of “critical race theory.” In reality, CRT should more accurately be labeled “critical racist theory” as it is merely the racial component of a far broader and comprehensively insidious neo-Marxist agenda that is not only anti-American but explicitly anti-Christian. Like racism itself, the distinctive precepts of critical race theory will always infect the hearts and minds of certain individuals, but it has no place in public life. CRT should be purged from all public institutions – everything from federal, state and local governments to the U.S. military, the media, corporations, professional sports, and all the way down to public schools. CRT is based on radical historical revisionism, and its singular objective is to exacerbate unmitigated racial bigotry and hatred throughout American society.
For a brief but informative review and critique of the history, the agenda, and the social and cultural consequences of CRT, see Jefrey D. Breshears, Critical Race Theory: A Critical Analysis, available at Amazon.com. For a comprehensive analysis of cultural Marxism and America’s culture war, see Jefrey D. Breshears, American Crisis, also available at Amazon.com.
