On Aug. 23, you reported on the Heritage Action Panel that purported to inform community members (who met at the Crossroad Community Church near Georgetown) about Critical Race Theory. The panel was a farce, amounting to little more than an agitprop campaign to discourage people from investigating CRT for themselves. Its intent was to construe CRT as an un-American bogeyman that no self-respecting Christian should engage. To do that, HAP served up a combination of half-truths and outright lies. A sample of their menu included the following:
• CRT is Marxism. To be fair, CRT did borrow its analytical lens from Marxism. But, CRT is not Marxism. CRT distanced itself from that position when it realized that multifaceted inputs (including Christian ones) were necessary to rectify the shortfalls it found between what America professed and what it actually practiced. Marxism is a worldview that excises God from its perspective. CRT does not do that.
• CRT is anti-capitalism. CRT is not against capitalism, but it does remember how unaccountable capitalists became the robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also recognizes how current tax loopholes enable large American corporations and wealthy individuals to, once again, leave most Americans holding the short end of the stick.
• CRT proponents want to dismantle America. CRT does not want to dismantle America, nor does it propose an alternative model to our government. It, instead, understands that the 1964 Civil Rights Act didn’t purge racism from America any more than Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did. It wasn’t “un-American” CRT proponents who stormed our Capitol Building Jan. 6 to stop lawmakers from doing their duty as mandated by our Constitution. It wasn’t “un-American” CRT people who assaulted Capitol police. It wasn’t “un-American” CRT people parading through our Capitol building with a flag that Old Glory defeated long ago. And, it certainly wasn’t a CRT spokesperson who instigated that riot. If Crossroad Church truly wants to inform its community, then it should counterbalance that sham it hosted with a panel of real CRT experts.