Critical Race Theory

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Critical Race Theory is a liberal Democrat educational approach, historical revisionism that seeks to cynically engender White Guilt by emphasizing wrongs done to African Americans in exclusion of all other history, while pursuing racial favoritism towards blacks specifically, policies such as Reparations and Affirmative Action, with the ultimate effect of black supremacism.

In the process, judicial mistreatment of blacks is overemphasized while mistreatment of other minorities (like hispanics, who are a larger percentage of the U.S. population) is deemphasized). The reason for the bias is that blacks are overwhelmingly liberal, voting 93% Democrat, whereas Hispanics vote only 67% Democrat, a steadily shrinking percentage.

Blacks are treated as victims of an unfair culture, rather than a corrupted culture which, having embraced moreso than any other demographic the Democrat agenda, are more violent and immoral than any other, accounting for 54% of all U.S. murders in 2018 and 52% of all robberies, despite being only 13% of the U.S. population. Nor can poverty rates explain the degree of crime, since Hispanics also have high poverty rates but nowhere near the crime rates.

Wrongs done to groups other than blacks go unmentioned and untaught, most notably the enslavement of millions of white Americans and Europeans for the Barbary slave trade in Africa by black Muslims hijacking U.S. ships. U.S. attempts to broker peace with the African nations were unsuccessful as the nations broke the treaties, culminating in the Barbary Wars from 1801-1805 and 1815, the first major conflict after the Revolutionary War. Other history deemphasized includes mistreatment of hispanics (Mexican Repatriation and Mexican American War), Jews (refused refuge during WWII), Filipinos, and Puerto Ricans (who are still denied statehood).

Crime Statistics

Racial Crime Statistics

Even though there are similar levels of poverty among hispanics as among blacks, and there are more hispanics than blacks, hispanics do not commit nearly as much violent crime or murders as blacks.[1] For example, blacks make up 13.4% of the U.S. population yet account for 53.3% of all murders. Hispanics account for 18.5% of the U.S. population yet account for just 20.9% of all murders and non-negligent manslaughter.[2]

Yes, to a degree the racial distinctions are just indicative of racial differences in poverty. Poorer people tend to commit more crime because of their environments and circumstances (and richer people tend to get off the hook even when caught for crimes like embezzlement because they can afford to post bail and hire expert attorneys whereas the poor can be confined months or years awaiting trial until they are forced into pleading guilty).

However, hispanics have nearly comparable poverty levels to blacks yet do not commit even half as much crime as blacks do. Since many illegal immigrants are hispanics, the statistics suggest they are much less likely to commit crime than black U.S.-born citizens.

2018 Crime Rates, by Race[notes 1]
Race Population % Poverty % Murder % Rape % Robbery % Aggravated Assault % Burglary % Larceny-Theft % Motor-Vehicle Theft %
White 60.7% 8.0% 44.1% 68.1% 43.5% 61.9% 68.1% 66.9% 64.5%
Black 13.4% 20.0% 53.3% 28.6% 54.2% 33.7% 29.4% 30.0% 32.3%
Hispanic 18.5% 16.0% 20.9 26.7% 22.5% 25.6% 20.3% 14.5% 25.6%
Sources: "2018 Crime in the United States: Table 21-Arrests by Race and Ethnicity." FBI.[2]
"QuickFacts." U.S. Census Bureau.[3]
"Poverty Rate by Race/Ethnicity." Kaiser Family Foundation.[4]
2016 Crime Rates, by Race[notes 2]
Race Population % Poverty % Murder % Rape % Robbery % Aggravated Assault % Burglary % Larceny-Theft % Motor-Vehicle Theft %
White 60.7% 8.0% 44.7% 67.6% 43.4% 62.8% 68.4% 69.0% 66.0%
Black 13.4% 20.0% 52.6% 29.1% 54.5% 33.3% 29.1% 27.7% 30.7%
Hispanic 18.1% 16.0% 20.0% 27.0% 21.1% 24.4% 20.8% 14.6% 26.8%
Sources: "2016 Crime in the United States: Table 21-Arrests by Race and Ethnicity." FBI.[5]
"QuickFacts." U.S. Census Bureau.[3]
"Poverty Rate by Race/Ethnicity." Kaiser Family Foundation.[4]

The following table shows how much crime each race commits in proportion to the percentage of the population they make up. For example, blacks commit 52.6% of all murders but are just 13.4% of the population, so they are 3.93 times as likely to commit murder as their percentage of the population (52.6% / 13.4%), whereas hispanics commit 20.0% of all murders but are 18.1% of the population, so they are 1.11 times as likely to commit murder as their percentage of the population. This allows for easy comparison between races when it comes to crime. For example, blacks are 3.55 times more likely to commit murder than hispanics are (3.925 / 1.105).

2016 Crime Rates, by Race, In Proportion to Population Percentage
Race Population % Poverty % Murder % Rape % Robbery % Aggravated Assault % Burglary % Larceny-Theft % Motor-Vehicle Theft %
White 60.7% 8.0% 73.6% 111.4% 71.5% 103.5% 112.7% 113.7% 108.7%
Black 13.4% 20.0% 392.5% 217.2% 406.7% 248.5% 217.2% 206.7% 229.1%
Hispanic 18.1% 16.0% 110.5% 149.2% 116.6% 134.8% 114.9% 80.7% 148.1%
Sources: "2016 Crime in the United States: Table 21-Arrests by Race and Ethnicity." FBI.[5]
"QuickFacts." U.S. Census Bureau.[3]
"Poverty Rate by Race/Ethnicity." Kaiser Family Foundation.[4]

Ironically, Democrats are advocating reparations solely to benefit African-Americans while ignoring Hispanics, Native Americans, and other groups; even as a number of leading African-Americans demonize Hispanics as criminals, even though African-Americans commit far more crime than Hispanics despite being fewer in number.

Immigrant Crime Statistics

It is commonly and falsely claimed that illegal immigrants, particularly hispanics, commit a substantial amount of crime. Actual crime statistics show otherwise. Immigrants in general commit less crime, likely due to more conservative upbringings.[6]

No, immigrants are not freeloaders. On any construction site, warehouse, or factory they are over-represented relative to their 18.1% population percentage, doing the hardest, most undesirable jobs. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, adult male hispanics are easily the most likely group to be employed, as measured by the employment-population ratio, at 77.1%. They are over-represented in:[7]

  • Painters, construction and maintenance, comprising 53% of all workers.
  • Miscellaneous agricultural workers, comprising 51% of all workers.
  • Maids and housekeeping cleaners, comprising 49% of all workers.
  • Natural resources, construction and maintenance, comprising 28% of all workers.

They are paid low wages for doing the hardest work to make American society operate, and are constantly mistreated, exploited, and underpaid by unscrupulous employers. They get charged billions of dollars for benefits like Social Security through payroll and excise taxes which they will never have access to, to the extent that they are a main reason Social Security isn't even more bankrupt than it is.[8]

History

The major omission by supporters of Critical Race Theory involves the Barbary Slave Trade and the fact that millions of white Americans and Europeans were enslaved by black Africans for the Barbary Slave Trade.[9] Attempts by the United States to broker peace with the Barbary nations of Africa (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Morocco) were unsuccessful, as all but Morocco broke the treaties, culminating in the first major American conflict after the Revolutionary War, the Barbary Wars from 1801-1805 and 1815.[10]

Mexican Abolition, Mexican-American War

It is little-known that the Mexican-American War occurred because Mexico outlawed slavery. As Frederick Douglass pointed out in his address at Belfast Ireland, Mexico originally opened its borders to modern-day Texas (then part of Mexico) because it had too much land and not enough settlers. Numerous Americans came in, many of them bringing their slaves. However, Mexico then outlawed slavery in 1829. The ex-American slaveholders attempted to circumvent this by declaring slaves indentured servants, but this too was outlawed by Mexico. Furious, the settlers, led by Sam Austin, petitioned the U.S. government, claiming that Texas wanted to cede from Mexico. U.S. President James Polk, along with the Democratic Party, acceded to the request, knowing that more slave states were needed to protect the institution of slavery at a time when free states were beginning to outnumber the slave states. Thus the U.S. started a war with Mexico to create more slave states out of the captured territory (Texas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Colorado).

Polk sent U.S. troops to the border between the U.S. and Texas to start a war, and then falsely claimed that Mexican troops attacked first. As a result, three U.S. Presidents all condemned the Mexican-American War because of Democrats' dishonesty in starting a war on false pretenses in the name of slavery, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and John Quincy Adams.[11] Ulysses S. Grant even expressed the view that the Civil War was God's divine punishment upon America for its unjust actions in the Mexican-American War, stating, "Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times."[12]

To quote Frederick Douglass:

Opposition by U.S. Presidents and Republican Party

Mexican Repatriation

Millions of illegal immigrants may actually be descended from former U.S. citizens, because up to 2 million U.S. citizens of hispanic descent were wrongfully deported during the Great Depression to free up jobs.

During the Great Depression the U.S. government "repatriated," i.e. deported to Mexico, up to 2 million Mexican-Americans, approximately 50-60% of whom were U.S. citizens.[17] This began under President Herbert Hoover and continued under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, although much of the deportation was done by states such as California. To quote Arthur G. Arnoll, "The slogan has gone over the city and is being adhered to—‘employ no Mexican while a white man is unemployed; get the Mexican back into Mexico regardless by what means.’ All this without taking into consideration the legality of the Mexican’s status of being here. It is a question of pigment, not a question of citizenship or right…"[18]

According to FactCheck.org, 5.6 million were deported during the presidencies of Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower-FDR's presidency is not addressed.[19] Given how many generations have passed since the 1930s, it is possible that 10 million or more of the so-called "illegals" are actually descended from former U.S. citizens. As such, Mexican-Americans have thrice over had their land taken from them by the U.S. government, firstly because most are descended from Native Americans, secondly because of the Mexican-American War, and thirdly because of the Mexican Repatriation.[20]

Annexation of the Phillipines

Spanish-American War

The U.S. actions towards the Philippines were the result of the U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War. The Spanish-American War occurred because Cuba, previously a holding of the Spanish government, rebelled against Spain in a 3-year war for independence. Following the mysterious explosion and sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine off the coast of Havana, the U.S. declared war against Spain. The 4-month war, instigated in part by future President Teddy Roosevelt, who led the 'Rough Riders' into combat, resulted in the Treaty of Paris as Spain ceded Guam and the Puerto Rico to the U.S., and sold the Philippines for $20 million.[21]

Filipino Revolution

However, the Spanish sale of the Philippines did not guarantee Filipino cooperation. On February 4, 1899, two days before the U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris, armed conflict broke out between U.S. forces and Filipino rebels led by Emilio Aguinaldo seeking independence. By the time the three-year war concluded, 4,200 American soldiers, 20,000 Filipino militants, and 200,000 Filipino civilians had died, the latter as the result of "violence, famine, and disease."[22]

Atrocities were perpetrated by both sides during the war:

After the Filipinos adopted guerilla warfare tactics against the vastly superior U.S. military, the U.S. resorted to a strategy called the 'policy of attraction' to defeat the rebels through cultural means.

Jews Turned Away During Holocaust

In 1939 the U.S. government turned away a ship with over 900 Jews seeking asylum during World War II. Most died as the result of the U.S. government's refusal to help them.[23] In addition, the U.S. government rejected visa applications from tens of thousands of Jews fleeing Europe.[24]


Black Supremacist Preferentialism

Reparations

The Democrat answer to slavery of blacks over 150 years ago is reparations, monetary payments exclusively to blacks, in contravention of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

Affirmative Action

Hiring preference is likewise encouraged by Democrats, or what is known as Affirmative Action, but specifically of blacks, not other minorities, which is why Democrats continually emphasize wrongs done to blacks, not other groups.

Notes

  1. These statistics include both hispanic and non-hispanic whites in the White category and both hispanic and non-hispanic blacks in the Black category because of the way the FBI did their methodology. They should have separated non-hispanic whites and non-hispanic blacks into individual categories but did not.
  2. These statistics include both hispanic and non-hispanic whites in the White category and both hispanic and non-hispanic blacks in the Black category because of the way the FBI did their methodology. They should have separated non-hispanic whites and non-hispanic blacks into individual categories but did not.


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