PRAY WITH US about criticizing critical race theory: Father God, You created us in love. You say Your two main commands are to love You and love our neighbors as ourselves. We sin whenever we fail to do so, and our sin caused this world to fall. Yet You so loved the world, that You gave Your only Son. Now we can all become equally-loved members of Your family, regardless of race or any other difference.
So we repent of the sins of our fathers whenever they were racist. Convict us when we fall into the same sin. Help us make all the more effort to heal and reconcile instead of divide. Thank You for the progress the US and other nations have made to overcome this sin. And help us to enforce our anti-racist laws whenever they are broken. Instead of more racism, lead us teach our children these laws, and Your law of love. For Your love never fails. In Jesus’ name, amen.
PRAYER ALERT: Criticizing Critical Race Theory as Another Form of Racism
U.S. parents of all races are rising up against school boards that insist on teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT). One Virginia parent, Xi Van Fleet, compared CRT to the Chinese communist indoctrination she once endured. Maoist China used “the same critical theories to divide people,” she said.
Contrary to CRT and the 1619 Project, a Center for Education Policy study found that only 17% of school board members and 25% of parents nationally believe that schools should teach that the founding ideals of equality and liberty were false when written, and that history of the US must thus be reframed. Yet thousands of US schools teach CRT.
CRT holds that the most important thing about you is your race, not your behavior or your values. If you belong to a minority race, it says systemic racism will not allow you to succeed, no matter your behavior or values. If you are white, you are an exploiter, no matter your behavior or values.
No matter what you do, CRT criticizes it as racist one way or another. Therefore, CRT proponents practice the racism they denounce. And they also contradict themselves by allowing no criticism of critical race theory. A teacher who criticizes it will risk being fired by a pro-CRT school board.
Martin Luther King would denounce CRT. He famously said that we should judge others not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Schools should build character, not build animosity by race-baiting. So let’s oppose racism in all its forms. And teach kids to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev. 19:18).
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