CRT – POWER, CONTROL, AND CONFLICT

 

 

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a founding critical race theorist (CRT) and law professor has written:

 

·       "Critical race theory is a practice. It's an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it.”

https://www.christianpost.com/books/owen-strachan-says-critical-race-theory-is-threat-to-the-church.html

 

CRT is an approach to analyze humanity’s quest for power and control. However, it is a limited and one-sided analysis. It leaves out any consideration of truth and evidence. How? The history of humankind is the history of the selfish and sinful exercise of power, not just of white people but of all people, not just of white slave- traders and slave-masters but also of the black kidnappers who sold their people to whites.

 

However, CRT is also a weapon used to specifically divide and denigrate whites. It has elevated those it deems as “oppressed” and aware (Woke or awake), while the white “oppressors” are regarded as ignorant, at best. Therefore, the “oppressed” are to become the leaders and teachers, while the white “oppressors” are to learn in abject silence. Forget considerations of justice and equality! It’s a racist role reversal.

 

Ibram X. Kendi, the author of the best-seller, How to Be an Anti-Racist, has written that:

 

·       “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

 

Interestingly, racism has become a key ingredient of CRT’s “anti-racism” program!

 

Marxists use CRT and Woke to destroy and replace the prevailing system. Pastor Emeritus Erwin Lutzer perceptively has written:

 

·       “What people must understand is that we're living at a time when the conflict and the racial accusations that are being made are intentional, with no hope or desire of any reconciliation or mutual understanding.”

 

Why not? According to the Marxist, it is all about the struggle for power, and they are determined to seize the power, even at the expense of their host nation.

 

In Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It, Owen Strachan wrote that CRT include the concept of “wokeness”:

 

·       "The term itself means that one is ‘awake’ to the true nature of the world when so many are asleep," the book reads. "In the most specific terms, this means one sees the comprehensive inequity of our social order and strives to highlight power structures in society that stem from racial privilege. In intellectual terms, wokeness occurs when one embraces … Critical Race Theory.”

 

According to Woke, the oppressed are those who are awake. Consequently, if we want to understand “systemic racism” and “white privilege,” the Woke are the ones who can educate the ignorant “oppressors,” even if they are shooting one another in the streets of urban America. In order for the “oppressors” to redeem themselves, they must take a knee and acknowledge that they have been the “oppressors” even if only in ignorance. Nevertheless, if white, they remain, by nature, oppressors. This is a recipe of division and continual conflict.

 

It is divisive, unbiblical, racist, an endless struggle to maintain power, and creates a new form of oppression of those “awake” against the “ignorant racists.”

 

In contrast, the Bible preaches love and peace:

 

·       Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:14-21)

 

It is these truths that had once built the West. It is the rejection of these truths that is once again plunging the world into chaos, destruction, and genocide. Why? CRT and its Marxist parent are the antithesis of wisdom and peace:

·       Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. (James 3:13–18)