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Character not color mattered.

Affirmative action policies, were becoming obsolete.

"Deciding that slavery was wrong was much easier than deciding what to do with millions of people from another continent, of another race, and without any historical preparation for living as free citizens in a society like that of the United States, where they were 20 percent of the population.

"It is clear from the private correspondence of Washington, Jefferson, and many others that their moral rejection of slavery was unambiguous, but the practical question of what to do now had them baffled. That would remain so for more than half a century.

"In 1862, a ship carrying slaves from Africa to Cuba, in violation of a ban on the international slave trade, was captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy. The crew were imprisoned and the captain was hanged in the United States – despite the fact that slavery itself was still legal at the time in Africa, Cuba, and in the United States. What does this tell us? That enslaving people was considered an abomination. But what to do with millions of people who were already enslaved was not equally clear.

"That question was finally answered by a war in which one life was lost [620,000 Civil War casualties] for every six people freed [3.9 million]. Maybe that was the only answer. But don’t pretend today that it was an easy answer – or that those who grappled with the dilemma in the 18th century were some special villains when most leaders and most people around the world saw nothing wrong with slavery.

"Incidentally, the September 2003 issue of National Geographic had an article about the millions of people still enslaved around the world right now. But where is the moral indignation about that?" The Thomas Sowell Reader, chapter “Twisted History”

"Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency." Thomas Sowell

"Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?" Thomas Sowell

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+Character not color mattered.
-== Critical Race Theory ==
+Affirmative action policies, were becoming obsolete.
-[[Critical race theory]] is a theoretical framework in the social sciences, developed out of epistemic philosophy, that uses critical theory to examine society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power.
-What is  epistemic philosophy?
-* Epistemologists study<Ref>Epistemology is considered one of the four main branches of philosophy, along with ethics, logic, and metaphysics.</Ref> the nature of knowledge, justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues.
-The key word to not is "justification".
-Critical race theory (CRT) is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing.
-If you think your social standing Is actually determined by race or the opinion of another race then, ''That is racist''.
-Thinking that racists have power takes power from the individual and  gives power to racists whether real or imagined.
-Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.
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-It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race  or ethnicity.
-It arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two decades since the Civil Rights Movement and associated legislation, racial inequality had been solved and affirmative action was no longer necessary. CRT continues to be an influential body of legal and academic literature that has made its way into more public, non-academic writing.
-"Critical race theory" first emerged as a challenge to the idea that the United States had become a color-blind society where one's racial identity no longer had an effect on one's social or economic status.
-Character not color mattered.
-Affirmative action policies, were becoming obsolete.
-Some people obtain a sense of identity and  justification from being abused and oppressed. It can be seen in abused people all the time and leads to numerous syndromes and compulsive behaviors. When that source of identity and justification was slipping away some felt a compulsion to reestablish that oppression or some sense of it in order to maintain that identity.
-Critical Race Theory was a way to claim racial oppression and inequality continued.
-Any fact  or even the "messenger" who points to the fact that contradicted that theory of racial oppression is the enemy. Like religious zealots who use their ideology to justify themselves, despite their weakness and frailties, will gather their "pitchforks and torches" and burn you at the stake even if they set the whole world on fire.
+:    "Deciding that slavery was wrong was much easier than deciding what to do with millions of people from another continent, of another race, and without any historical preparation for living as free citizens in a society like that of the United States, where they were 20 percent of the population.
-This idea was financially lucrative for many who depended on continuing racial friction or the appearance of it. Men have depended on keeping the people at odds from Caesar to  Al Sharpton.
+:    "It is clear from the private correspondence of Washington, Jefferson, and many others that their moral rejection of slavery was unambiguous, but the practical question of what to do now had them baffled. That would remain so for more than half a century.
-Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, argued that racism and white supremacy were defining elements of the American legal system and despite the actual law they conjectured  "equal protection." did not exist.
-Derrick Bell argued that Brown v. Board of Education was a result of the self-interest of “elite whites”.
+:    "In 1862, a ship carrying slaves from Africa to Cuba, in violation of a ban on the international slave trade, was captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy. The crew were imprisoned and the captain was hanged in the United States – despite the fact that slavery itself was still legal at the time in Africa, Cuba, and in the United States. What does this tell us? That enslaving people was considered an abomination. But what to do with millions of people who were already enslaved was not equally clear.
-He protested Harvard's failure to hire female faculty of color because he felt they should have jobs based on the color of their skin.
+:    "That question was finally answered by a war in which one life was lost [620,000 Civil War casualties] for every six people freed [3.9 million]. Maybe that was the only answer. But don’t pretend today that it was an easy answer – or that those who grappled with the dilemma in the 18th century were some special villains when most leaders and most people around the world saw nothing wrong with slavery.
-Drawing on ideologies, including feminism, Marxism, and postmodernism the term "intersectionality," was used to highlight the multiple and overlapping systems of oppression.
-Race as a social construct essentially means that race has no scientific basis or biological reality.
+:    "Incidentally, the September 2003 issue of National Geographic had an article about the millions of people still enslaved around the world right now. But where is the moral indignation about that?" ''The Thomas Sowell Reader'',  chapter “Twisted History”
-Race differences make up a fraction of genetic elements and tell us nothing about the content of our character, intelligence, behavior, or moral capacity. None of these are inherent to any single race.
-The Critical Race Theory “society frequently chooses to ignore these scientific truths.” Instead they are compelled by their need to be justified, to create races, endow “them with pseudo-permanent characteristics” which is racism.
+"Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency." Thomas Sowell
-#.    Critical race theory was a response to the idea that America had become a color-blind society.
-#.     While "race" or color effects economic, educational, and the legal system.
-#.      Critical race theory inspired "intersectionality" and pushed identity politics.
-== Footnotes ==
+"Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?" Thomas Sowell

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