CNN’s United Shades of America‘s W. Kamau Bell demonstrably proved those vilifying CRT are scared of being truthfully informed about our history.
CRT is just the excuse.
This segment of a recent W. Kamau Bell interview with several women points out that the Critical Race Theory faux uproar on the right is nothing but a desire for many to remain willfully ignorant of the real American History. And it worked well with these women.
W. Kamau Bell asked three women if kids should learn accurate American History. One woman asked if he meant “race theory” as Critical Race Theory. Bell asked them for their thoughts on it.
“If a teacher was without having an opinion,” one woman replied.
“Is it okay for teachers to say, ‘I think slavery was bad.'” Bell asked. “Is that okay?
One woman replied, “No, no, no.”
In other words, she does not want teachers criticizing our past inhumane, and brutal behavior towards enslaved Africans forced to work in America.
Bell went as far as to ask if Nazis were bad. One of the women replied, “Nothing is bad.” We always knew many had these beliefs, but it is only recently that some are bold enough to express their racist thoughts. I call it the Trump effect because Trump gave them license to be evil.
It was the last interview with one of these disturbed women that proved probative. Her reply to CRT was astounding.
“It’s totally manipulation,” the woman said. “And manufacturing a crisis.”
She said it was Democrats that were manufacturing a crisis.
“Sick of it,” the woman continued. “We need to teach children to compete when the Chinese probably know more about American history than we do.”
She is right about the Chinese knowing more about American History than most Americans. That applies to most foreign countries. In Panama, we had to take Panamanian, World, and American History. I am sure we still do not do that here. So it is generally a shock to learn our true beginnings.
Bell asked the woman if we should teach better American History. She said yes. But then came the coup de grace.
“The history of America?” Bell asked. “Slavery, genocide, Native Americans.”
“Well, no,” the woman replied quickly. “Not the whole thing.”
And that is what it is all about, telling the American myth and not the American History. A country can atone and grow if its entire history is accounted for by its entire population. W. Kamau Bell’s approach completely disarmed these women’s inhibitions.