Rich Lowry, formerly editor of National Review, has championed the battle against critical race theory. Perhaps his is an effort to make NR relevant again after he disastrously transformed the publication into the Never Trump Review.On Tues, @JessAnderson2 called out @NEAToday for erasing the web page of detailed agenda items outlining their nationwide campaign to push CRT action plan to pursue anti-CRT organizations, like @Heritage_Action & @Heritage.
— Heritage Action (@Heritage_Action) July 9, 2021
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More likely, he sees the problem of portraying America as being founded on slavery instead of freedom. While it is true that slaves arrived before Pilgrims, the 1619 projectors ignore that they were delivered to a colony that was established a dozen years earlier.
The fact is the settlers of the first successful English settlement in what is now the United States did so in 1607 without a single slave. The settlers came to America for freedom. They began a new life as Englishmen, naming their town after their kin and their colony after Queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen.
CRT's goal is to de-legitimize the Constitution. This religion holds that the Constitution (which bans slavery) is based on slavery. CRT wants to replace it with some Marxist document that will give you the right to a free abortion at the expense of the right to free speech.
4 years of free college will cost you your right to own a gun, a knife, or even to make a fist.
And the list goes on.
In fighting CRT, Lowry made a remarkable recommendation today: "The Point of the Anti-CRT Fight Should Be to Take Over the Schools."
He sees it as the Tea Party of 2021. The aim should not be Congress this time but the local boards of education.
Lowry wrote, "We obviously aren’t taking back the universities, the philanthropies, the media, and all the rest.
"The schools, it turns out, are much more achievable. All it requires to make enormous progress is winning school-board seats in low-budget, low turnout (at least for now) elections in communities around the country.
"Because education is still largely a local affair, much of the fight for schools can be carried out on markedly more favorable terrain than is found at the federal level. There are red areas in every state in the union, and the hyper-localism of school-board races gives angry parents a lot of sway.
"The beauty of this moment, of course, is that there are many such angry parents.
"The anti-CRT campaign is the most potent grassroots movement since the Tea Party, and has many of the same trappings — activists are showing up in droves at public meetings, the anger and passion are genuine and deeply felt, and spontaneous organizing has led to a mushrooming of national, state, and local groups."
I concur.
School boards are small and numerous. California alone has 1,000 school boards. They are run by part-timers. For years, unions have been able to manipulate them by setting the agenda. School board elections are lost in the mix. No one pays much attention to them.
CRT put the spotlight on BOEs. Members don't like the spotlight. CRT is easy to jettison because they are unpopular. No one in their right mind believes the CRT baloney, especially its proponents.
Naturally, the National Education Association supports CRT, which it tried to repackage as anti-racism education. Liberals fight battles won long ago. They pushed anti-lynching laws even though the last lynching was 40 years ago.
The New York Post reported, "The National Education Association, which boasts 2.3 millions members, recently passed a resolution claiming it is reasonable and appropriate to include CRT in curriculum — and pledged to create a team of staffers to help teachers fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric, according to Fox News.
"To boost the effort, the NEA will work to publicize 'an already-created, in-depth study that critiques white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy … capitalism … and other forms of power and oppression,' according to the NEA site."
The big winner if the NEA succeeds is the New York Times, which will peddle its 1619 products, for the NEA resolution said, "We oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or the 1619 Project."
The anti-CRT movement can learn from the Tea Party of 2010, which was the most successful grassroots movement in America since civil rights. Republicans gained 63 seats in the House and 7 in the Senate in 2010, their best haul in 64 years.
The problem was, once in power, Republicans ignored the Tea Party and even dissed the movement.
Lesson learned.
To be certain, in 2022, conservatives must primary all RINOs they can.
But Congress is a separate movement that while it may overlap this movement, it should not eclipse it.
Fighting CRT is a non-partisan issue. I expect thousands of anti-CRT candidates to win school board races across the country. I expect the national media to ridicule the movement as racist, but local TV stations may be more objective.
Donald Trump, redistricting, and a Democrat White House should take care of Congress.
But the real battlefield for our children is in the school board races. I cannot name a single person on the Putnam County BOE. I usually skip that race.
I will know them all and all the other candidates by Election Day 2022. They are elected in the primary.
Lowry offered good advice. I trust pissed-off parents will take it.
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