President was right on divisive training

Editor: President Trump recently signed an executive order cutting off funding to institutions engaged in the teaching of critical race theory (CRT). This ignited a firestorm of criticism because this type of teaching is everywhere. The intense howling and accusations of “setting back race relations” were expected responses. According to Britannica, critical race theory is a Marxist-inspired social and philosophical movement to help understand the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed. They argue that history, law, literature, even science, are inherently racist and used as instruments of oppression. Thus, all of human life and endeavor must be observed, calculated and judged through racially tinged lenses in order to root out the source of alleged evil. Critical theorists have determined that white people are the oppressors. They say anything that white Europeans have managed to build in America has been on the backs of non-white people, and therefore, racism is woven, not only into every American institution, even into the ongoing operations of those institutions. In other words, the racism is “structural” or “systemic”. Now, if you’re the average American raised under the principle of the “Golden Rule,” in accepting you should treat everyone as you want to be treated, and never judge people on their backgrounds or who they are or what they believe, then the critical theorists have some bad news for you which they gladly share during their forums. One of those forums was recently hosted by Stockton Unified School District. The white participants in the forum found that racism is “embedded and ingrained” within them and, therefore, they’re unavoidably racist. It’s called “implicit bias” and there’s nothing they can do about it, except, as CRT experts explain, apologize before the group for their whiteness. This is part of the overall strategy of “deconstructing whiteness” and a tactic that caught the president’s attention. CRT “experts” maintain that “implicit bias exists in everyone,” but there is no evidence for this evil indictment of an entire population. Condemning one group as a pack of racists and another as a pack of victims will produce only one concrete outcome: deeper divisions and more animated hatred. President Trump was absolutely right. JOHN B HYMES Stockton