Rice is Wrong!

To a friend who supports Condoleezza Rice's take on #CRT ...

It's all about the truth [name] ... kids can handle the truth; it's the adults who can't. 

Good teachers, graded lessons, everything taught with care ... but the Whites in charge are scared to death of the truth, and they don't want their children exposed to it. Claiming that children are too vulnerable. But they're not concerned about the kids; they're concerned about protecting their "innocence," their position in society. 

Meanwhile, Black kids suffer every day, and so do their parents and grandparents. 

And we [privileged whites] grew up with the lies: cowboys and Indians, minstrels, opium-smoking Chinese, and Gone with the Wind. 

Truth works, and, yes, kids can handle the truth, and if there's some guilt, what's wrong with guilt? A strong and sensitive conscience should be able to feel guilt; not the neurotic kind, but the honest kind, a corporate guilt, "the sins of the parents visited upon the children" - and the children should be given half a chance to see and hear what those sins are. 

In this case, as in most, Rice is wrong. I've followed her for years because she's a Presbyterian - but somewhere along the line, truth-telling never made it to home plate with her. Argh. She's badly mistaken, and it's not the first time.