Annie Reneau 06.30.21
This morning, the Texas Public Policy Foundation shared—then deleted—a graphic with a list of terms they claim are indicative of critical race theory (CRT) being taught in children’s classrooms. The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s stated mission is “to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation,” so of course it would advocate banning an entire academic field of study, including any words that liberty-loving lawmakers deem even slightly related to it.
Texas is a state founded on racism.
“We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.” — The state of Texas describing why it wanted to secede from the Union, 1861
Texas’s self-stated reasons for secession include the non-slaveholding states having “an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color—a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law.”
Texas also explains, “That in this free government *all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights* [emphasis in the original]; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations…”
Oh, and there’s also this little tidbit: “She [Texas] was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery—the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits—a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.“
So to sum up, Texas stated in no uncertain terms that it 1) was founded for white people to be able to enslave Black people because that’s what God wanted, 2) that slavery was not a “necessary evil” but was actually good, 3) that racial equality was against nature and Divine law, and 4) that’s the way it was intended to be for all time.
Read the article HERE.