Point of Clarification here.
The issue that is truly dividing Dems and GOPers is not critical race theory. The controversy is not about CRT.
Everybody has learned about slavery—the defeat of it, and the difficult adjustments that had to be worked out during and after Reconstruction. . . progress made through Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the setbacks of injustice revealed in the death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Freddie Gray, et al, and our need for reform in inner city law enforcements.
This current American split is not about CRT; It’s about LGB.
And it is not really about LGB as much as it is about EDU, which is to say it is about Education, specifically the elementary kind, and what is being taught to children about gender fluidity.
We have had men and women and children in this world for a very long time . . . thousands of years. It is not an issue the opinions of which can be rearranged in one generation, or even two. And to further complicate the problem, public perception and opinion about these issues is all bound up in the Net, or the Web.
You see . . . in this country,
we have seven ways from Sunday for finding fault with the other side. We are consensus-less . . . with the Left blinded in fairy dust while the Right is all caught up in a Rebumlican shitstorm.
We can’t even get real News anymore.
Walter Cronkite is dead. Huntley and Brinkley have gone to that great newscast in the sky. Dan Rather must have found some place he would rather be, not being assaulted on the floor of a convention center in Chicago.
Morley Safer is in an undisclosed location that is no doubt safer than this world. Mike Wallace is still reporting from the other side of the rainbow. Worst of all, JFK disappeared, just when we needed him most, on the other side of that great grassy knoll in the sky.
“News” has retracted into a vast musky twit-hole in The Cloud . . .while political and cultural identity groups have faced off with each other making matters worse with every confrontation.
Meanwhile, back at the push coming to shove, Public opinion slipstreams inscrutably as billions of zinging devices go zanging through molten-sand fibers of electronified energy. . . all the while, Time is tik-tocking across the universe searching for any sign of the latest thing, the sexiest thing, or the most popular thing.
Meanwhile, the Deity went down to Georgia, looking for some souls to Save. At about that time, a very special preacher stepped onto the Ebenezer pulpit and did what the Lord and his People had called him to do. After establishing a firm base, he moved on up to a seat in the US Senate.
This man, Raphael, the preaching Senator, has a divine mission: Find a way where there is no way!
This preacher will find that way between the Religious Right and the Enlightened Left.
The so-called Christian Right people will listen to him because he is in fact a preacher of the Gospel and he knows the Book from cover to cover.
The Democrats will listen to him because he stopped one of the greatest running backs of all time, and because he has been, like his predecessor, Dr. King, to the mountaintop. And if that aint enough, , , John Lewis (the John Henry of color folk) was one his parishoners.
Rev Warnock will function in Congress as a Peacemaker. As Jesus had indicated; he will be called a son of God. . . which is (relax) just a way of saying: appointed by God, and tasked with a certain duty to perform.
Rev Warnock, has been, like his predecessor, Dr. King, to the Mountaintop
Having descended back down to the world of politics, the Rev has a divinely appointed task to perform. Make way for him.
And forget about CRT. Just convince the LGBs not to push their program on our kids in school and . . . with a little civil tolerance, we’ll get through this.
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