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I am much more concerned than most regarding certain ideas/dogma rooted in critical social theory being embraced by society & the Church. BUT a RIGHT concern regarding CST will NOT lead to being soft on racism or any form of bigotry. In fact, it will do the opposite. Why? 1/
Because to truly understand CST will take some significant understanding of history. And it is not possible to take an honest look at US history, if one is a person of good faith, and not be both appalled & heart-wrenched over what has happened to African Americans, not to... 2/
...mention Native Americans and Mexicans. As an example: If one is going to truly understand critical race theory (CRT), one must also understand its epistemological underpinnings that includes, among other things, a rich heritage of Black thought and perspective, reaching...3/
...at least as far back as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Carter G. Woodson, among others. When you study this history you will be introduced to passages like this: "I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for...4/
...the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to be again reduced...5/
..to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest...6/
...and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others". - Frederick Douglass (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, p. 72-73). This little snippet, among tens of thousands of other snippets against the backdrop of its larger context of...7/
...centuries of de jure and de facto systemic racism has great implications as to how we are to understand the "why" and the "what" behind the genesis and development of CRT. If you will seriously engage this history of Black thought, you will not only better understand CRT,...8/
...you will also have a clearer view of the abject evil that is racism. If you are a person of good faith, and especially if you name the name of Christ, this should move you to challenge & repudiate racism whenever and wherever it persists. May we all have such a resolve. 9/End.
