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Critical Race Theory Safe Space for Conservative Snowflakes….

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https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-ll-tell-you-what-s-at-the-bottom-of-it-if-you-can-convince-the-lowest-white-man-he-lyndon-b-johnson-107-70-60.jpg In 1960.Texas just passed a law that would ban Texan President Lyndon Johnson from saying this in a public school or university. To comply we'll have:

CRT Renamed As Truth & Reconciliation History

To explain the pattern of power

LBJ understood all too well when he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and told his press secretary Bill Moyers: "'I have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for your lifetime.'" (https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/12/11/how-the-south-became-republican-it-s-about-race/)

Patterns of power have explanatory power, which is exactly what conservative snowflakes legislating history fear. Ignoring them builds a rickety house of hagiographic history with no foundation that would erase most of this:

https://theawesomer.com/photos/2009/01/012809_poster_1.jpgThe fragile narcissistic nationalism whose consequences we saw on January 6 is built on fake history by erasure. Ask Anna Morgan-Lloyd, the first insurrection defendant sentenced, how historical illiteracy led her to invade the Capitol:

"This week, Morgan-Lloyd will become the first of nearly 500 defendants arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to face sentencing. She wants a judge to know she's changed, and her book report-style filings are meant to illustrate that growth. "I've lived a sheltered life and truly haven't experienced life the way many have," Morgan-Lloyd wrote to the judge. "I've learned that even though we live in a wonderful country things still need to improve. People of all colors should feel as safe as I do to walk down the street." The remedial social studies program that Morgan-Lloyd is following was created by her D.C.-based lawyer, H. Heather Shaner….Shaner said her clients had poor educations and knew very little about the country. Her two female clients took to the task with zeal, Shaner said, and got library cards for the first time in their lives. "Both my women are like, 'I never learned this in school. Why don't I know about this?'" (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/capitol-attack-defendant-sentenced_n_60d32d5ee4b0c101fc82f552)

Here we take a page out of Attorney Shaner's playbook: a safe space for conservatives riled by the Foxified caricature of CRT. That caricature led the University of North Carolina to surrender to a big money donor and deny tenure to prize-winning 1619 Project editor Nikole-Hannah Jones. This is part of the pattern of power that has made Americans illiterate about their country's real history.

The Florida and Texas Republicans who passed laws censoring history teaching rant about free speech while legislating their own safe space for conservative snowflakes: a sanitized history to exploit CRT as a wedge issue. Their definition of CRT is as hazy as it is expansive. Their CRT resembles what Justice Potter Stewart said about pornography: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." They're quite explicit about their strategy to use CRT as a bucket into which they can dump every bit of caricatured wokeness in pursuit of a House majority in 2022:

""This is the Tea Party to the 10th power," Steve Bannon, Trump's former adviser who has zeroed in on local school board fights over critical race theory, said in an interview. "This isn't Q, this is mainstream suburban moms - and a lot of these people aren't Trump voters." (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/23/trumpworld-critical-race-theory-495712)

"Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️‏ @realchrisrufo Replying to @realchrisrufo @ConceptualJames We have successfully frozen their brand - "critical race theory" - into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category." (https://archive.fo/aXEIZ)

""Lean into the culture war" - goes on to say: "We are in a culture war … we are winning." - Congressman Jim Banks, Indiana, Republican Study Committee (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/24/culture-war-critical-race-theory-496087)

Ted Cruz has hopped on this Fox-launched culture war bandwagon (1300 mentions of CRT in three months), calling CRT "every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets", an analogy as misbegotten as MTG's masks as ghetto yellow stars.

Texas' climate asylum in Cancun snowflake puts his black Harvard Law School classmate Kimberle Crenshaw in a white sheet for coining CRT and intersectionality. For 35 years Fox and its audience were silent about teaching CRT to law school students - until they discovered its culture war potential was Dr Seuss and Mr. Potatohead on steroids. Like the earlier ban-Sharia panic, CRT panic is the perfect culture war cudgel for the Fox outrage monetization machine. Never mind that middle and high school students will never come within a country mile of comprehending, much less proselytizing, CRT law school curricula.

Denial Compounds the Crime Truth & Reconciliation Heals: South Africa's TRC vs Japan's and the USA's Lost Cause

To pull the plug on Fox's outrage money machine, rename CRT Truth and Reconciliation History (TRH). South Africa confronted its apartheid regime's legacy with Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, in which the victims testified and confronted their torturers. The TRC called thousands of witnesses, both perpetrators and victims of apartheid. They held five years of legal and amnesty hearings, which yielded a full five volume record of the terror and torture perpetrated by the apartheid regime. No Lost Cause mythology by white supremacist nostalgics here, but instead a peaceful transition to non-racial democracy.

The TRC had the power to grant amnesty to perpetrators who confessed to crimes, and to pay reparations of 30000 Rand (about $4500 at late 1990s exchange rates) to victims. The first reparations proposals were published in 1996, two years after the first post-apartheid elections brought the Mandela government to power. Three billion Rand were set aside for victims' reparations in 1997 and the first 700 victims declared eligible in May 1998. Many victims rejected the payouts. Some viewed the amounts as a pittance.

But the establishment of a formal legal process for granting amnesty to or withholding it from perpetrators called to testify, gave the process credibility. Hearings were held in cities and towns all over the country and thousands of pages of testimony recorded, a permanent vaccination mark against future mythology building.

The TRC was South Africa's Nuremberg trials - without the hangings and complaints about victors' justice. The TRC, as flawed as many of apartheid's victims viewed it, carried out the formal, moral accounting that Japan and the US never did. No apartheid era government official, soldier or policeman would ever nostalgically wave the apartheid regime's flag in public, a striking contrast with the American South's statues, stars and bars flag.

Unlike South Africa, Japan repeatedly roiled diplomatic relations with its Asian neighbors through war crimes denial and homage paid to the Yasukuni Shrine's Class A war criminals. Japanese school texts called the Rape of Nanjing, which slaughtered 300000 Chinese civilians, "an advance". The Japanese right's version of the Lost Cause claimed that Japanese war aims were a noble attempt to liberate fellow Asians from European colonialism. The atomic bombings enabled the Japanese to wrap themselves in a flag of victimhood, just as Southern Americans used Sherman's march to the sea to call the Civil War the "war of northern aggression" to repackage the Lost Cause as states' rights.

The lone Japanese professor who wrote a truthful textbook about the war years was fired and denied a pension. Japanese politicians who do not deny the Rape of Nanjing risk meeting the same fate as, Iccoh Itoh, the mayor of Nagasaki, assassinated during his reelection campaign in April 2007 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iccho_Itoh).

Stone Mountain Park, Georgia, America's Yasukuni Shrine, tells you the outcome to avoid: streets named for Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. CRT, oops, TRH tells us that southerners who defend these street names need a history lesson that asks them how a Chinese or Korean would view stopping at a light on Tojo Blvd or Yamamato Avenue. The same southerners who defend Jeff Davis Blvd might ask how an American, Brit, Russian or Jew would feel driving on Himmler Blvd and Eichmann Avenue in Berlin or Hamburg.

The Juneteenth federal holiday vote and Biden's recent trip to Tulsa is just the first step to avoid the Japanese outcome. Cruz, Rufo and Bannon are the American version of Yasukuni Class A war criminal worshippers who want American schools to resemble Japanese textbooks that deny the Rape of Nanjing. They want to airbrush the truth out of America's Yasukuni shrine, Stone Mountain Park, Georgia:

Stone Mountain, GA: the lost cause neo-confederate Mt Rushmore, also designed by Rushmore engineer Gutzon Borglum. The park has street signs named for Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.Imagine a mountain in Germany with giant carvings of and streets named for Hitler, Himmler and Guderian.

They would sanitize and censor the 1915 refounding of the KKK and DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation from Stone Mountain's history:

https://origins.osu.edu/sites/origins.osu.edu/files/kkk.jpghttps://iamthemountain.org/sundog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Thu__May_5__1921_-2.jpg.This newspaper celebration of the refounded Klan is dated 25 days before the Tulsa race massacre. This is no coincidence.

Though one of the centenarian childhood survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre has recently testified, most victims and perpetrators of America's long history of racial violence are long gone. America's Truth and Reconciliation have nowhere to go but into its textbooks and classrooms.

TRH in place of CRT will remedy the omissions that kept you ignorant of the patterns of power and racist violence that the subjects and builders of Stone Mountain have bequeathed us.

The Tulsa Race Massacre of Greenwood, the Black Wall Street

When did you first learn about it? Did you know it was the only time an American city was bombed from the air? If you were not taught this in public school, and don't know that this kind of photograph happened in 25 American cities from 1919–1921, you need TRH (CRT renamed for fragile Republican snowflakes):

Chicago's white terror, 1919. The traditional description, "race riot" is a misnomer since it implies moral symmetry between the violator and the violated.When did you first see this image of the only American city to be bombed from the air? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre#/media/File:TulsaRaceRiot-1921.png

Black Wall St burns, owners interned in camps, no insurance claims accepted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre#/media/File:Captured_Negros_on_Way_to_Convention_Hall_-_During_Tulsa_Race_Riot,_June_1st,_1921_(14412915233).jpg

The Amistad

The 1839 slave revolt on board the Amistad.In school I never heard of the slaves' seizure of the Spanish ship and the ensuing legal case in which the State Dept sided with its 1795 treaty with the Spanish government and sued to recover the ship's "property". If you learned of this case only from Anthony Hopkins, you need TRH.

Twelve Years a Slave

Did you know the story before the movie? I didn't. I was never taught about southern slave catchers capturing free black men in northern cities and abducting them. If you weren't either, you need TRH for Republican snowflakes.

The sanitized biography of Robert E. Lee I read in public school texts did not include his Gettysburg troops' kidnapping of free blacks from his army's invasion of Pennsylvania:

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2013/06/30/Confederates-slave-hunt-in-North-a-military-disgrace/stories/201306300221An Economy Built on Slavery's Profits

To understand how slavery built pre-Civil War American capitalism and labor relations that favored employers against free labor in both north and south, follow the money:

Far from being in gradual decline, an aggressive slave oligarchy that minted millionaires triggered a war to defend those profits. Its allies included New York bankers, Chicago and New Orleans commodities exchanges and London financiers as part of the global trading networks the Dutch and the British built from the early 17th century. The New York Times' 1619 Project is the narrative that matches this map:

No non-slaveholder president was ever re-elected before the Civil War.

The line that differentiated black slaves from white indentured servants was drawn gradually

Black Codes and Convict Leasing

If you don't know about the emancipatory 13th amendment's exception clause, you need CRT, excuse me, TRH. Crimes that sentenced black men to chain gangs and their children to be hired out as apprentices for no pay: loitering, not ceding the sidewalk to a white man, vagrancy, walking in white towns after curfew, no visible employment verified by a white man.…

Which president finally abolished convict leasing, slavery by another name under which involuntary black prison labor was leased to private contractors and sold between them? If you didn't know it was FDR and not until five days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, you need TRH:

"U.S. Steel is among American companies who have acknowledged using African-American leased convict labor. The practice peaked around 1880, was formally outlawed by the last state (Alabama) in 1928, and persisted in various forms until it was abolished by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via Francis Biddle's "Circular 3591" of December 12, 1941." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing#/media/File:Convict-leasing_children.jpgSally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson did not apply the declaration of independence to his mistress, declining to emancipate the mother of six of his children and those children in his will. I was never taught this in school. Were you? Here's the financial context for this decision, showing how Jefferson was embedded within a system of credit creation through slave securitization:

"When seeking loans, planters used enslaved people as collateral. Thomas Jeff erson mortgaged 150 of his enslaved workers to build Monticello. People could be sold much more easily than land, and in multiple Southern states, more than eight in 10 mortgage-secured loans used enslaved people as full or partial collateral. As the historian Bonnie Martin has written, ''slave owners worked their slaves financially, as well as physically from colonial days until emancipation'' by mortgaging people to buy more people. Access to credit grew faster than Mississippi kudzu, leading one 1836 observer to remark that in cotton country ''money, or what abolishing the African slave trade in 1807, Britain, and much of Europe along with it, was bankrolling slavery in the United States. To raise capital, state-chartered banks pooled debt generated by slave mortgages and repackaged it as bonds promising investors annual interest. During slavery's boom time, banks did swift business in bonds, finding buyers in Hamburg and Amsterdam, in Boston and Philadelphia….avenues to profit indirectly from slavery grew in popularity as the institution of slavery itself grew more unpopular." (The 1619 Project, page 37–38)

This rule-bending, risk-seeking culture of speculation built Wall St and forged the bubble-addicted DNA of American capitalism. The resultant financial bubble burst in 1837 in a crash that resembled 2008. We've seen sporadic attempts to tame the financialized capitalism beast: Teddy Roosevelt's breakup of Standard Oil, establishing the Federal Reserve in 1913 to replace J.P. Morgan as a market backstop, the New Deal's fragmentary alphabet soup of regulatory agencies (SEC, FTC, OCC,FDIC). But they've been followed by ferocious and successful rollbacks of democratic federal oversight of private economic power.

Lynching Postcards

If you've never heard of or seen the lynching postcards that white supremacists sent each other in the late 19th and early 20th century, you need TRH. See the full catalog of horror at https://without sanctuary.org. Don't flinch and look away from the historical truth mailed to your inbox by postcard.

https://withoutsanctuary.orghttps://withoutsanctuary.orgEven SS guards didn't advertise their treatment of their victims with such assumed impunity. Omission by censoring lynching postcards out of US history curricula is the American version of holocaust denial. Watch the 5 minute movie about lynching postcards here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1DB-bDXe6o

The same white supremacist southern Democrats who resisted anti-lynching laws also refused to support FDR's New Deal unless it excluded the largely black and brown parts of the labor force: agricultural workers and servants. If you didn't know this before reading it here, you need TRH.

Next we'll see how the overturning elections to preserve minority rule is nothing new. January 6 was an old movie's rerun.