CRT AND IBRAM X. KENDI

 

 

Consistent with Critical Race Theory (CRT), there is no forgiveness for whites. Whatever their heroic or caring act, it will be interpreted disparagingly.

 

·       [Ibram] Kendi [a leading CRT voice] provoked controversy when he tweeted about the relationship between Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's third Supreme Court nominee, and two of her seven children, who had been adopted from an orphanage in Haiti. Kendi said:

 

o   Some White colonizers 'adopted' Black children. They 'civilized' these 'savage' children in the 'superior' ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity. And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can't be racist. (Wikipedia)

 

While it must be admitted that all of us are vulnerable to self-serving, virtue signaling impulses, we also have praiseworthy impulses. However, without being able to look into the hearts of white people, Kendi has condemned them as self-serving racists. By doing so, he is bearing false witness:

 

·       Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? (James 4:11–12)

Kendi and other CRT theorists not only demonstrate that they are racists, they are illegitimately judging others and God. To defend racism anywhere is to open the door to it everywhere.

 

I would suggest that Kendi do a study of the children raised by white parents and ask them if their parents gave indication of being racists. However, I do not think he will bother with this. He is already committed to racism:

 

·       “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” (How to Be an Anti-Racist)

 

Ironically, Kendi believes that being an “Anti-Racist” commits you to being a racist discrimination. And yet, he is given a free-pass. Should we not call him out on this if we are against racism?

Meanwhile, many CRT advocates claim that CRT is not being taught in our institutions. However, investigative reporter, Christopher F. Rufo, has documented many instances of how CRT has entered into our institutions:

 

·       What does critical race theory look like in practice? Last year, I authored a series of reports focused on critical race theory in the federal government. The FBI was holding workshops on intersectionality theory. The Department of Homeland Security was telling white employees that they were committing “microinequities” and had been “socialized into oppressor roles.” The Treasury Department held a training session telling staff members that “virtually all white people contribute to racism” and that they must convert “everyone in the federal government” to the ideology of “antiracism.” And the Sandia National Laboratories, which design America’s nuclear arsenal, sent white male executives to a three-day re-education camp where they were told that “white male culture” was analogous to the “KKK,” “white supremacists” and “mass killings.” The executives were then forced to renounce their “white male privilege” and to write letters of apology to fictitious women and people of color.

 

·       In Cupertino, Calif., an elementary school forced first-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” In Springfield, Mo., a middle school forced teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” based on the idea that straight, white, English-speaking, Christian males are members of the oppressor class and must atone for their privilege and “covert white supremacy.”

 

·       In Philadelphia, an elementary school forced fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally to free 1960s radical Angela Davis from prison, where she had once been held on charges of murder. And in Seattle, the school district told white teachers that they are guilty of “spirit murder” against black children and must “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgment of [their] thieved inheritance.”

·       I’m just one investigative journalist, but I’ve developed a database of more than 1,000 of these stories. https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/what-critical-race-theory-is-really-about/

THE PATTERN OF PROPHECY

 

 

As Moses was about to transfer leadership to Joshua, the Lord instructed Moses to teach Israel a prophetic song:

 

·       “…Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel. For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant. And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.” (Deuteronomy 31:19–21)

 

The song prophetically laid out Israel’s future unfaithfulness and its consequences. It also served as a pattern of prophecy. It contained four central elements characteristic of almost all of Israel’s prophets:

 

1.     The Faithfulness of God

2.     The Unfaithfulness of Israel

3.     The Consequences

4.     The (Messianic) Hope of God’s Mercy

 

Easy, right! It is, but often the language of Prophecy is not as plain as we would like it to be. However, it might be helpful for the Bible student to look for these four elements.

 

After witnesses are invoked as a jury, God’s song begins with the faithfulness of God:

·       “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:4)

 

In this song, God is often referred to as a “Rock.” It is not because He is hard but that He is merciful. It refers to the rock from which God brought forth a river to water to give drink to thirsty and rebellious Israel (Exodus 17:1-7). Paul refers to this event and Rock as “Christ”:

 

·       and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. (1 Corinthians 10:4)

 

There is also a suggestion that God would continue to be merciful in the most unlikely ways:

 

·       “Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” (Psalm 81:13–16)

 

From the most unlikely places, God would administer His blessings.

 

Immediately after the declaration of God’s complete righteousness and faithfulness, the song turns to Israel’s unfaithfulness:

 

·       “They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation. Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?” (Deuteronomy 32:5-6)

 

These verses not only serve as a warning but also as an indictment of Israel’s future sins to remind Israel that they are at fault, not God. Instead, God had nurtured Israel:

 

·       “He found him [Israel] in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, the Lord alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.” (Deuteronomy 32:10-12)

 

However, the more He nurtured His people, the more they turned away from Him:

 

·       “But Jeshurun [Israel] grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation. They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded. You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.” (Deuteronomy 32:15-18)

 

If there are never consequences for rebellion, then there will never be repentance:

 

·       “The Lord saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.” (Deuteronomy 32:19-20)

 

Almost the rest of the song is so dismal that it is no surprise that the Scriptures contain no indication that Israel ever sang it after Moses’ departure. However, the song ends hopefully:

 

·       “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people [Israel]; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.” (Deuteronomy 32:43, NKJV)

 

It is God who will provide the atonement, the payment for the sins of His people, not the Levites! No wonder that our Lord declared to His enemies that the Scriptures were about Him:

 

“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.” (John 5:39-40)