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CRT: This year’s boogeyman

| August 6, 2021 1:00 AM

First it’s BLM, then Antifa, now CRT, and if that isn’t bad enough, Nelly is coming to town! Civilization in North Idaho is coming to an end! And it’s being brought about by those liberal, socialist, communist and child-sex traffickers — the DEMOCRATS.

Democrats have become not just the other party who you don’t agree with, but THE ENEMY.

Well, I’m a Democrat and I’m not really any of those things (well, maybe I’m a liberal depending on your definition). I don’t know anything about Nelly and I don’t understand rap, but my grandkids do and they’re good young people.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is this year’s hot issue. As Leonard Pitts wrote in a recent column in another newspaper, CRT is this year’s Sharia Law and the Stealing of Christmas. Those big problems have apparently been solved, so we need a new hot problem like CRT which will be replaced by something else next year.

Some of the spokesmen on the right think it is their job to raise the fears of their followers and keep it at a high pitch. That means they need to come up with new issues constantly. It’s not as if we don’t have real things to worry about like the resurging virus and forest fires. But those things are hard to blame on The Enemy.

In the meantime, quit attacking the public schools. They’re not the enemy either.

RICHARD CRIPE

Coeur d’Alene