All Men (even white) are Created Equal

U.S Senator Tom Cotton (AR)

by Dr. Kathleen Brush: Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is proposing a bill called Combatting Racist Training in the Military Act. He begins by citing that in America all men are created equal. He goes on to talk about equal dignity and protection for all people under the law. He calls for bans on teaching that some races are inherently inferior and that America is an inherently racist nation. If this was 1865 or even 1964 you might think this was written by and for black people. But Tom is white, and he is addressing training in the military that teaches whites and America are fundamentally flawed racists.

The training is based on Critical Race Theory (CRT) as are most government decisions today. Introduced in 1989, CRT is anti-American and anti-white. It is a conspiracy theory advancing that whites are obsessed with maintaining a superior position in society to ensure the inferiority of non-whites. It has strong ties to Marxism. As a conspiracy theory, it makes QAnon look like a featherweight.

CRT is used to predict and explain racism. Explaining and predicting is something all tested theories can do. The problem with CRT is that it is not tested. The validation of CRT is done by telling selected stories of white oppression. We are a nation that believes in science, but not when it comes to this extremely important subject. But the uber stories in America disprove CRT.

If whites are ensuring the inferiority of non-whites, why are Asian-Americans the most educated and prosperous ethnic group in America? How could Latino GDP be higher than every Latino nation, including Brazil with three times the population? How could blacks be the most educated and prosperous black population in the world? How could there be a black and Asian female vice president, 137 current people of color in Congress, and blacks disproportionately running America’s 100 largest American cities? Why are there more impoverished white people than blacks, Latinos, or Asians? Because CRT is a canard. In history, it may have explained some behaviors much as analog theories for Chinese, Russian, Muslim, Arab, and the Ashanti would.

These analog theories may still have applicability because most nations don’t even pretend to see equality as a goal. Discrimination is seen as a useful way to order society. America is at the other extreme. American military power (87% white) was essential to ending white supremacy in the world after 1945 and to secure commitments from all nations to end discrimination. White Americans in 1964 uniquely voluntarily gave up their lock on power and supported the rise of a diverse equality-oriented leading anti-racist nation.

It seems improbable that Cotton’s bill could be necessary. But American politics are engaged in a dangerous duplicitous game. There is a pretension of an obsession with ending racism, while it stokes it every day against white Americans. Can you imagine a fighting force of disunited soldiers? The Chinese, Russians, and Iranians are lapping this up. The world no longer sees America as a superpower. They see a racist pariah. In discussions with China last week in Alaska, Blinken tried to chastise China for human rights abuses. The Chinese scoffed, pointing to an epidemic of gunning down black Americans in the street and violence against Asians. They must watch CNN and MSNBC too.

Cotton’s proposal should be something all Americans, left, right and center should agree on, and not just in the military.
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Kathleen Brush, Ph.D.

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