Posted on Sep 11, 2021
Should we be teaching Critical Race Theory in our military universities and perhaps in our leadership courses?
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Should we teach CRT to our leader. To catch you up on current events. The United States was publicly embarrassed and humiliated in Afghanistan. We needed the Taliban to protect us, left American behind and got soldiers killed. Maybe we should teach tactics and common sense to our leaders Which would eliminate Gen Mileys and an instructor we have seen his definition of success
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We are all in this together. CRT is to me a remedial class for those who have no idea what the military is about cooperate and graduate.RLTW
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TSgt Melvin Mitchell
So, you think that people should be taught how to be a racist and that the military is all about racism? Because that is what CRT is.
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SGT Damaso Santana
TSgt Melvin Mitchell - CRT is much more than that, it is a device to divide and destroy our country from within, can you imagine what it would do to kids? That is the main reason they fight so hard for it, education has been infiltrated here for years.
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Absolutely! If America does not own up to the past, it cannot create a just/humain beginning for all
living beings on this planet.
living beings on this planet.
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LTC David Howard
Some seem to think (incorrectly I might add) that the alternative to CRT is to ignore the history of slavery and racism in America. This is a very false choice. Of course there was slavery in America prior to the Civil War, as there was in almost every country on Earth at some time in human history. In fact slavery was the norm, the absence of slavery was a rare exception among humans. But America was not founded on the basis of having a place to practice slavery. Slavery was just a fact of life in the world that was utilized in parts of the "New World". Those that believe, as CRT teaches, that slavery was responsible for the economic success of the new nation of America conveniently ignore the reality that the non-slave North was the economic success, while the slave using South was relatively impoverished. CRT preaches racial responsibility, which is an absurd concept. As a White second generation American I am no more responsible for slavery than are the descendants of slaves themselves, and I refuse to ignorantly accept such responsibility. Do we hold little Japanese children today responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Of course not. While racism still exists, and probably always will, America is as close to a racism-free nation as anywhere on Earth. The law protects all, regardless of race, so "institutional racism" is a corrected problem of the past. CRT is just another Marxist type effort to control people by treating them not as individuals but as members of a group, and is as useless as was Marx's attempt to separate people into the groups of proletariats and capitalist masters. Marx could not even explain how a farmer that employed farm hands (as a capitalist) was also one of the oppressed by being subject to the power of the aristocracy.
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Absolutely not we should be teaching our kids to read and write not to think and feel.
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Absolutely! If America does not own up to the past, it cannot create a more just/humain beginning for all on this earth/planet. Let's get busy!
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SGT Lenise Hamilton
SGT Baptist!
Any and all has an opinion or theory about CRT. Opinions/theory is what "spins feelings and truth". As long as that's present maybe we can fuse the goodness out of it and omit the hatred, then we can become to break ground and move forward, until then everyone needs to check realistic views/physical actions from the beginning of time.
Any and all has an opinion or theory about CRT. Opinions/theory is what "spins feelings and truth". As long as that's present maybe we can fuse the goodness out of it and omit the hatred, then we can become to break ground and move forward, until then everyone needs to check realistic views/physical actions from the beginning of time.
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SPC Darren Coffenberry
Reverse racism is just plain racism. people like the gentleman who wrote CRT are racist to their core. The only reason to write such a farce is to incite hatred towards white people. In the Military there is one color.....GREEN. We defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and Domestic. There is a difference between an enemy and a Patriot.
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After reading these comments, I realize that very have answered the question that was asked. Should CRT be taught in Military Universities and leadership courses? I will admit I have never read the whole content of a CRT course, just synopsis that are available online. The content are a disturbing to say the least. Why would we want to teach a course that instructs a certain race to feel guilty about their race, the actions of people that lived more than 200 years ago? We should not. The problem is not teaching CRT, the problem is that racism is perpetuated by those that are profiting from the continued discontent that constantly pushes racism to the forefront of media articles. I've spoken to many friends in and out of the military about racism they have experienced. Not one has said they have been treated differently because of the color of their skin. They say they have experienced the same advantages most white people have. They got an education, got good jobs and lived crime free. My friends also said all you had to do to find the ones screaming racism is look to the those that refused to get educated, refused to get jobs, and spend their days planning the next crime spree. So once again No We Should Not.
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We learn it with our fellow brother and sisters while serving with each other.
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NO, Nyet, Nein
What is ?CRT? suppose to teach; because if you're going to teach ?CRT? 'Afro-American, then we need ?CRT? Asian American Mainland, ?CRT? Polynesian American, Ad-nauseum... All ?CRT? is creating is an increase in the divide that the early civil-rights movement wished to bridge
What is ?CRT? suppose to teach; because if you're going to teach ?CRT? 'Afro-American, then we need ?CRT? Asian American Mainland, ?CRT? Polynesian American, Ad-nauseum... All ?CRT? is creating is an increase in the divide that the early civil-rights movement wished to bridge
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