CRT: Won’t unite America

I participated in a recent telephone survey on the economy, immigration, growth and race relations in Idaho. My thoughts on the latter have changed dramatically from the 1990s.

White clergy marched with their black friends during the civil rights movement in Alabama and the white community accepted affirmative action and quotas for hiring and school admissions.

What changed?

The 1619 movement criticizes our nation’s white founders for owning slaves but they fail to acknowledge that these learned men mortgaged all of their wealth and put their lives on the line to establish our Union.

The Black Lives Matter organization has become a radical leftist organization. Their leader, Shaun King, called for the tearing down of all churches, destroying all of the statues and art of Jesus because they are “symbols of white supremacy” (excerpts: Faith and Freedom Coalition Letter). George Floyd’s death was a tragedy but all lives matter.

The Critical Race Theory places all racial sins on white America. How will this radical theory unite the nation? Race should not be an issue in America, but if apologists keep picking at our racial scars, they will begin to bleed and I certainly don’t look forward to that era.

The white community must address some racial issues and the black community must respect our laws. Young Mr. Brown would be alive today had he not flaunted his theft with the store owner and taunted the police on the streets of Ferguson, Mo.

LEONARD BRANT

Post Falls